A Garden Harvest

This was the harvest today from our garden. We had that for dinner tonight, green beans cooked with a little bacon, sliced tomatoes, steamed broccoli and fried zucchini. The lettuce is over when we eat this. Loved all of it. The broccoli will be gone soon but not tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. I can eat my weight in them.

Me by the tomato patch

Me by the sunflowers. The seeds were several years old and I did not think they would come up. But they did.

The word from the Photo Challenge I am doing was texture. This is my picture.

Hope you all had a good day. Lots accomplished today but nothing with horses. I will be gone tomorrow but back Saturday evening.

Blessings

Hard Things

Today Bob and I spent the better part of the day next door taking pictures of things for sale and cleaning his garage. He is failing pretty rapidly. I hate it. He does not hook himself up to his food more than once or twice a day and he is supposed to be taking 6 to 8. He calls us his Food Police. Its awful. We pulled his 5Th Wheel trailer over here so I can clean it and we can advertise it for sale. Its really nice but needs a good cleaning. He has so much to sell, tools, welding stuff, old trucks, etc. I hope we can get a sale organized for him next week.

It was hot again and too hot to do much with horses. When I had time, Cameron was here working with Liberty and Katie was bathing Abby so I did not get to work Sage. She was so glad to have me come out and just love on her. And that is all we did. Then I put her back out in to the pasture.

Hope you are all enjoying our summer weather, if you live in the western half of the country anyway. We could use some water but I am certainly not complaining. All I really worry about is fire. There is a red flag warning all over eastern WA.

Blessings

Bad bad bee sting

This is Maggie. We took her with us and it was a disaster. First of all almost all of our group of friends had brought their dogs. Maggie was not at all hospitable and started fights so we had to keep her on her cable. Bad girl. Then the worst ever that she has done. We went on a ride Saturday afternoon. The ice chest was where she could reach it but she had never done bad things like that. She got into the ice chest and ate 2 1/2 pounds of polish sausage which was the foundation for our dinner Sunday dinner and also ate 2 pounds of summer sausage. The only guy left in camp took the other stuff away from her and put it back in the ice chest and moved it. She was really sick all night and all day Sunday. She is OK now.
Raven and Wrangler. Best pals. I was on Raven.

A log jam on the creek.

The butterfly is on Raven's hip0.

The trees are awesome.

A gate into into the St. Claire Ranch. Both of the swinging gates had the horses on them.

I have been laying around all day. My arm is swelled up the size of a cantaloupe where the dratted bee stung me. I have been laying around all day feeling crappy. My arm burns from arm pit to almost my fingers and is bright red and hot. Hate it. I said I hate it.

Was not up too playing with Sage today. Maybe tomorrow but its supposed to be close to 100 degrees and I don't know.

Blessings.

A Wonderful Weekend

This is how our weekend started, just as we started up over Lookout Pass. The lug nuts came out and sent the tire sailing over 3 lanes of highway and onto a side road. Later we had another flat tire too. Kind of made us wish we had stayed home.Got everything fixed though and it was OK.
At the top of Lookout Pass.

A fire lookout on the way into Clearwater Crossing trail head.

Some folks having trouble getting their horses across the river. I am so glad our horses went right through.

A creek up by the trail. I think its Fish Creek.

Ravens pretty ears

Some fellows fishing in Fish Creek as we came out today.

I will probably share a few more tomorrow but I am having trouble staying awake. I got stung putting Raven out when we got home and the Benedryl makes me groggy. We got home very easily with no mishaps.

Blessings

Not so good ride 7

Katie working with Liberty which she bought for Cameron for a wedding present. I am so glad Liberty belongs to someone again. She is coming along nicely.

I am doing a Photo Challenge for the month of September and the picture for today was supplies. These are our supplies to go horse camping. At least for the horses. We are leaving early in the morning for Clearwater Canyon in Montana. It is about 50 miles this side of Missoula. I love going there and riding out of there. So......another weekend away. We are going with about 4 other couples and their horses.

I did ride today but it was the least successful. I am not sure why. She was spooky and tense. We rode for a while but I did not want her to buck and I was not too sure that is not what she had in mind. I rode about 10 minutes and got off. I took the tack off and petted her and rubbed her down. We went out to the trailer before Bob put the hay in and I expected her to act scared of it. But, she surprised me and hopped right in and stood there. She looked at me like, OK what now. We got out and I put her away. At least something successful for the day. I can not expect her never to have a day not really to good at riding. Well, I can hope but dont think it will happen. She was so tense, I was afraid she was going to make me tense and I didn't want that to happen. So it ended good anyway.

Blessings,

Ride 6

Ride 6 and it was better than the last one. She finally got to moving around the round pen without Bob having to go in front of her.

Flexing her neck. That is not her best side.

She was so good.

After we rode for a little while I put her in her pen to rest for about 15 minutes and then we worked on loading in the trailer. She did not want to be sent in but walked right in when I went with her. We put Pepper in first. I was so proud of her. As usual of course.

We had quite a storm this afternoon. The thunder boomed and the lightening wasn't far behind it. Even though I don't like thunder and lightening I love how the air smells. It went on a couple of hours.

Happy last day of August.

Blessings

Another Weekend Away

This is a group of pictures for sure. We went to Nikki's on Friday and came home today (Monday). We went to attend a picnic lunch for my other uncles 95Th. birthday. He is not quite as frail as my other 95 year old uncle. He lives on his own and drives a little. More pictures on down.

This picture is at Banks Lake. We have had family camp outs there and one of thing that has brought us there is the wonderful beach. For some reason, unknown to us, the have sucked the lake half dry and the swimming beach is dry. I am glad we did not plan one this year.

Going through Seattle on I5. One view of the Space Needle.

Uncle George in front of his house. He was born in the very bedroom he sleeps in now.

He and I. He is who walked me down the aisle when Bob and I got married almost 54 years ago. My father died when I was 17. He is my father's youngest brother.

That evening we went to Bob's cousin Tim's for a BBQ. We had a great time. This is Isaac on the tire swing.

And Lane fishing for catfish. He brings them home and puts them into a little plastic pool that he has in the backyard.

This actually pumps their water. When the wind does not blow it has a motor. Loved it.


A friend of Tim and Theresa's young daughter Kelly. She and Isaac are eating smores. She was so much neater than him. But I did not see her when she had finished.

Lane and his giant smore.

Nikki and her lap of puppies.

Making ice cream

Nathaniel. Isn't that a sweet smile.

Lili

A big pile of wheat outside the elevator in Creston. That is a small town about 45 minutes from here. They pile the wheat up like that when the elevator gets full.

When we got home we found 4 kittens. Actually Katie had found them. We put them in the tack room. They sure are cute.

My first tomato. I will eat it tomorrow.

That pretty much is our weekend. I am tired. I have to have blood work done in the morning. I am tired of this every 6 weeks, they never find much and I guess that is a good thing.

Blessings