Q is for..................

Beautiful Emma. For once I can say Bob has made headway with her. She will eat out of anyone who hands her something good. She loves carrots, green grass or horse cookies.
Red Hawks courting in the air above the house. We watched them quite a while.

Ditto

She is not doing well. She is very thin, and does not eat much. I am going to have to make a decision one of these days and I can not think about it. She is my old friend.

Q is for QUICK to defend what I think is right. Sometimes it gets me into difficulty but I can't help it. If I believe something is right, I will stand up for it.

I rode Sage for about an hour. She was better than yesterday but she was not bad yesterday. I love that horse so much. I just wish I was more brave about some things. She would never deliberately hurt me. I know all the stuff Marilyn tells me, stuff I tell students when I am giving a lesson - heels down. relax my back, one rein stop and yet I can't seem to remember them all. I did better today. I almost was in tears yesterday, I get embarrassed that I get stiff and that makes it all worse. Part of it, I have never been afraid and I get nervous when she jumps. I guess its my age and I will do it. We are not going to get to go into the Bob Marshall but I want to ride her up a mountain, that's on top of my bucket list.

Blessings

Bloomsday Sunday

Our 3 beautiful grandchildren, their mom is Christyn. Jade is in green, Skylor is in the middle and Nikki is on the other side. I love Sky's hair. He wants it long enough to braid. Jade is 14, Sky 16 and Nikki 18. How the years go by. The girls rode the horse today but Sky preferred not to.
Today was Bloomsday Run (race). This was the first place wheelchair contestant. He was a long way in front.

More coming

The elite men runners. They were mostly from Ethiopia or Kenya. Long tall guys. I did not get a decent picture of the women elite runners. They mostly are the same ethenticity.

The good runners group

Up the little hill, getting close to the walkers.

It wasn't too hot this morning and that helped.

Watching for someone special.

I went just to watch a little and to take some pictures. Watched a bit and came home.

Marilyn came and helped me with Sage. I get so tense when she jumps and Marilyn helped me with that. No pictures though. Later the kids got Raven out. They were going to ride Pepper but he has a nasty cut on his face. Missed his eye but not by far.

P is for Positive. I think I am most of the time or I would not tackle some of the things I try.

Yesterday we went to a big farm auction but the people with money came too. I didn't buy anything.

Blessings

Pictures finally

The Spokane River is flooding. This is at the Seven Mile Bridge.
The other side of the bridge.

See the yellow ball of fluff. I think maybe the river flooded her nest so she only got one this year.

Downtown under the Monroe Street Bridge.

We were at a little park. The guy wanted us to leave them alone.

Aren't they so pretty.

That is the Maple Street Bridge looking down the river.

Me. Our hair was almost as wet as if we had been in the shower from the mist.Katie

Katie leaned over and took this of the boiling water. It made me dizzy.

Water over the damn.

My sweet Katie.

Don't know why I could not get pictures for 2 or 3 days but they loaded fine this evening.

The weather has been so nasty I have done nothing with my horse. I don't know what the prediction is for tomorrow. The sun is shining right now but I fed so don't want to go out and try to ride her now. It would be asking for trouble.

O is for open minded about some things, not so much others.

Blessings

Hello May

Yesterday Katie and went looking for places to take pictures but
the only picture Blogger will load is this one. Maybe you will get one a day. I don't know. I thought it was because I was so upset yesterday evening that I could not get it to work. Well I am fine tonight and it still won't.

My sister said we could come visit and we want to see them so bad. My BIL is not doing so well and it is important for us to see them. I was trying to make plane reservations last night. We will be going the 22nd. to the 29th. of this month.

So to my alphabet description of myself -
N is for Nice.
At least I think I am, I try hard.

Maybe more pictures tomorrow.

Blessings

Looking Back

These are all pictures I took either at the adoption or out in the South Steens. It was the year I got Sage.

These are South Steens beauties. Tracey or Deb or Maggie can probably tell us who they are.
It was so fun to see the horses. It always is. I get so excited every time.

In the corrals

Nice little horse.

Love this picture.

Today we loaded up 5 horses in our 4 horse trailer and went to our Tune Up Clinic over at Red Top Stables near Post Falls. They all got their Coggin's, Health Certificates, and their shots including West Nile. Now I just have to get a Brand Inspection done on Sage and we are ready to go. Anywhere that's where I want to go. Sage did well. She did not like the blood draw but I don't either so I did not blame her.

We came home and both took good naps until Katie called and woke me up and then called Bob and woke him up. Bless her heart. Bob went back to sleep and slept a long time more. It felt good for both of us. We had to leave here about 7 so it was an early day.

Blessings,

Thank you BLM

Today in the mail, these plaques arrived. What a surprise and what a blessing. I wrote them a thank you immediately.

We are body clipping Rocky. His hair is so long and thick he has been miserable. How is that hair do - a punk rocker for sure.

He tried to smell my camera when I was trying to take his picture.

I was going to ride today but the wind was so cold and I just didn't want to do it.

Blessings

Again

This picture of Sage was just before I got on her to ride. I had lunged her some. I don't think I would need to but I still do, just in case she would get a funny idea.

Last night I worked for an hour trying to get these loaded but since the weather was so dreadful I blamed it on that and turned the computer off. Still had a little problem this morning but finally got it to work. It just kept leaving the scene and when it popped back up no pictures to behold. So now if I get this written and posted I will have accomplished a great deal.
Me riding

She is used to the cones OK and turns and weaves around them just fine.

Bob worked with Emma again yesterday. She has had the entire winter off but he made some progress with her. Still her head is the biggest issue. She will NOT let you touch it.

But he could touch her legs. He may get to do her feet yet without ever having touched her head.

It is pouring rain today and occasional rumbles of thunder in the distance. So needless to say, I won't be riding today. Drat.

Cindy got her rug and said she liked it. That makes me feel good.

This evening is our Mustang Club meeting at Denny's. Hope you will all be there.

Blessings.