Grey Days

Rather than struggle with trying to get more pictures loaded, I am just going to load this one so you will know Sage is still around.  I seem to not have been so adept at getting pictures of the horses, let alone, our mustangs.  I had just let Sage out this morning and she usually drops and rolls but not today when I had the camera ready.

I hate this time of the year when day after day is grey and dismal and drippy.  We did have a little snow but now its raining again.  .  Every winter I go on about the grey days. 

When I slipped and fell last week I didn't think I hurt myself other than my knee but man oh man has my back hurt.  It much better today.  It gets really bad in the evenings.  Not so bad today though.

I am working on my quilt.  I have about 25 blocks done, it takes 70.  Maybe next year by this time I will be done.  LOL.  When it is though, I will really let out a whoop because it is all hand done.

Bob got 10 tons of hay today for the cows.  We have enough horse hay and now we have enough for the cows. 

So, it is time to get ready to get ready to go to the Back Country Horsemen meeting this evening.    I had Justin for a while today and I have not really gotten dressed, pj bottoms and a T shirt.  I don't think Bob wants me to go dressed like this.  Hope your Sunday is blessed.

Happy Birthday Bob

Happy Birthday Bob

Today is Bob's birthday.  He is 74.  He went to Marysville yesterday and delivered some meat and got home today  just in time to have dinner and I baked him a cake.  Katie and Justin came and joined us.  Not much of a birthday party but its what it was.  He was at Nikki's last night and the kids were all there.  Lilianna (great granddaughter) who is 5 baked her Papa cookies.  No one could have given him a better present.  He and I have been hanging out together since we were 16 years old.

I fell in the snow on the way to get the paper this morning.  My knee is a little sore.  Didn't get hurt, just pulled my knee in a little bit odd and its telling me about it this evening.

I got so mad at Ditto this evening doing chores.  I have not put a rope on her to bring her in for years, just open the gate and she ambles to her stall.  Tonight she tried Rosie's stall, then Sages and then out the end of the barn.  I finished feeding and told her to go to bed.  I guess she didn't find anything interesting because she went in. 

Blessings,

More Snow

It was snowing hard when I took this but it doesn't seem to show.   The horse in the pen is Murphy, Dave and Marilyn's horse.  Sammy, their other horse had the good sense to be under the shelter.  Murphy is a mustang from the Murphy, Idaho area, hence his name. 

Bob and Pistol went to our daughters today delivering meat to our cousin and a couple who Nikki works for.  They got there fine.  Pistol loves going with Bob and gets her feelings hurt when he doesn't take her.  However, Skeeter and Maggie are very jealous that they didn't get to go.  I don't think River cares. 

We changed the kittens name to Tazzy.  Short for The Tasmanian Devil.  She has been harassing me all day.  Particularly when I sat down to work on my quilting project.  She and Skeeter are asleep on the couch.  I had a picture but it wouldn't load. 

I heard a song last week and I am singing it over and over in my mind -

Sometimes it feels like I'm watching from the outside,

Sometimes it feels like I'm breathing but am I alive

I won't keep searching for answers that aren't here to find,

All I know is I'm not home yet

This is not where I belong

Take this world and give me Jesus

This is not where I belong.

This is how I have been feeling recently.  It has more verses but these are the words that have been pressing on my spirit today.

So much for that, not depressed just thinking - 

Blessings

This and That

Well, struggling with pictures again.  Got three of four to down load but can't get them apart to write under each of them, so will just do it this way.

The top picture is the sunset this evening.  I stopped in the middle of doing chores to to get my camera and take it.    The second one is out my bedroom window this morning.  We received a couple of inches.  Our temperature at the moment is 30 and that is what it has been all day.  Not much wind thank goodness. 

The bottom picture was taken in Nikki's front yard while I was over there.  I did not see the night crawler until I looked at the picture.  A big sucker for sure.  Loved the colors in the leaf.

This evening I put all three of the horses that are going to be stalled in.  Ditto just goes when you open the gate and I think Sage might have but I did halter her.  She was happy to get in.  Rosie too.  They all got a bit of grain and they think they are really all it and some more besides. 

I did the chores tonight because a neighbor's horse had a heart attack and died this morning.  Bob went to bury it for them.

Not an old horse, not sick, just fell over dead.  It certainly made me thankful for my coming 31 year old horse. 

I wasn't ready for winter but no one asked me. 

Blessings

Snow

Still no pictures.  My camera didn't seem to work to get a picture of our first snow of the season.  Boy it was cold on my face when I went to put Ditto in.  Sage doesn't need to go in the barn but she thought she did.  She has shelter.  Ditto is so old I put her in the barn in the winter when the weather gets nasty.

Very good news today.  Tracey got Flirt caught and home.  Two from the BLM in Burns, Oregon came to help.  They located her yesterday late afternoon and saw her but it was nearly dark and she had obviously been in the same area for a while.  They had a dart gun and this morning Wendy darted her.  Then got a rope on her and she "led" very wobbly footed out to the trailer and got right in.  So Flirt is home and was hungry and seems to be secure.  She allowed them to touch her and rub her neck and head.  Time will tell when she is not under sedation whether she will be so willing.  9 days is a long time to be looking for a young horse.  It appears she has lost about 100 pounds but otherwise not the worse for wear. 

I will surely try to have pictures tomorrow but no promise. 

Blessings to you all.

Recovering

No pictures, they are still in the camera.  I don't think I took too many other than Halloween.  Had a nice visit with Nikki and her family, got to see Chrissy and Wendy's apartment and spend some time with them.  I also went to Seattle to attend the Washington State Horseman's convention.  I don't think it was as largely attentended as past years.  I would have thought so, I heard so many complaints about it always being in Central or Eastern Washington but they still didn't come so I guess we need to have it where ever we can get the best deal.  Next year in Yakima and that really is most handy for me.  Not that it matters much to the others I would imagine.

My friend Tracey who lives in Bellingham had a terrible thing happen.  She adopted a nice yearling from Burns.  She got away from her by crashing through a fence and running away.  They live across the road from lots of hills, timber, logging roads and such.  They have been looking for over a week now.  She has been sighted but unless they got her this afternoon, they have not gotten her to come to hay and other horses penned up where they saw her last.  Please pray.  The BLM is there now trying to help her.  I have been afraid of that every time we have adopted a horse and let it out of the trailer. 

Snow is in the forecast for tomorrow.  It is just about the time we get the first snowfall.  Hope it is just for a few days and not the start of it staying until March.  That has happened.

I am glad to be home.  I have laid around all day not accomplishing much of anything.  I have to tomorrow though.  Laundry does accumulate when you travel and Bob didn't do any while I was gone.  So, I have a weeks worth to do tomorrow. 

Blessings,

Another Day

 I was so thrilled to see our daughter Chrissy and her three kiddos on Sunday.  They made a quick dash over.  From the left, Jadeyn is 15, Nikki is almost 19 and goes to school in Sacramento, CA.  She is so tiny.  Skylor is 16 and one handsome dude. 

Our little cowboy.  He will need to grow into it all though.  I want another picture with the same stuff but I needed to put a different lens on.  He is such a sweet baby.

Yesterday I caught Sage and she really hurt my feelings.  She was naughty and did not want to do anything I wanted her to do.  It was disappointed in her.  I am glad I had not intended to ride her.  She was stinky to catch too.  When I get back from Seattle next week she is going to come in to the stall at night and I will handle her a lot more.  Its as much my fault as hers I guess.  I have not done too much with her.

I am leaving in the morning for Nikki's.  On Thursday down to Seattle for the Washington State Horsemen convention.  Sunday back to Nikki's and Tuesday home again.  I may get time to write something but who knows, I might not either. 

Blessings,