Snowey Sunday

Is this never going to be over. Spring will be here in 13 days. Do you think it will bring the weather?

Not much news. Bob is home. It snowed, then the sun shone then it got icky again. Chrissy came out for a while. She looks good and am glad she felt up to coming out. Its been about 2 weeks since her surgery. A little on the depressed side maybe but her hormones are all shook up.

Some how, some way Pepper got his stall open last night and had fun in the barn. He did get into the grain. I don't think he ate too much though. Scared me though. He did get into the hay and into the can with the bread in it and scattered it all over. Naughty boy. I was afraid he would colic so I kept him in arena where I could watch him. He is OK. He is mad at me though. Oh Well, so sad Mr. Pepper.

Have a good tomorrow.

Grey, wind, snow, sun all in a day.

If the weather ever cooperates. Would have turned into a popsicle had I tried to ride today and, or we would have wound up in Kansas. Nasty wind.

Nothing really horsey today. Too cold to go out much. My friend Shanon can not go to Oregon like she had hoped so I am looking again. Am beginning to feel like I have something catchey. No one can go. Boo Hoo.

My Internet friend Barbara put something on her blog. I am going to put it here. Cut and Paste to the comments, or however you want to do it. Just put down the first thing that pops into your mind.

1. Author
2. Movie
3. Reality Show
4. Book
5. Game
6. Actor
7. Actress
8. Holiday
9. Dessert
10. Animal
11. Weather
12. Childhood

Daylight Savings Time starts tonight. I don't mind once my body adjusts but the next few days will be difficult. This old body has its own timetable.

Will be glad to see Bob tomorrow evening. It makes a long weekend with him gone and the weather so nasty I don't feel like going out. Have a good tomorrow.

SUNSHINE

What a beautiful day. Not warm but beautiful. I had to go to Reardan to the bank and on the way there is a large pond - actually runoff - full of snow geese. They were so pretty. I almost always take my camera with me but you guessed it, today I did not. I may run back down there in the AM and see if they are still there. Probably not but its in my memory photo album.

I groomed on Dixie today. My word but she is shedding. I see that all of them are but I curried and curried and curried her. We got alot of mud off and a ton of hair. She seemed to enjoy it but kept looking in my pockets for her treat. She is much lighter bay when she is all shed out. I was really tempted to saddle her up and ride but she would be like riding a rocket and I was here all by myself. So I just loved on her and curried her some more.

THEN I decided to work with Rusty. She was a real brat. I know she does not like me but she needs to learn to accept me anyway. It took me 2 hrs. to touch her. She was hot and sweaty and I was cold and tired. I thought I had walked 10 miles keeping her moving. I tried standing with my back to her and she stopped and looked at me but would not even let me take a step toward her. She knows better. I finally, my feet were about to fall off from cold, I put her back in her pen. She will let me walk up to her in there. She needs to know I can touch her even if she is in the round pen. Tomorrow, if it is not raining or the s word, we will try it again. Bob has always caught her in the same place. All in a nice voice I told her I was going to shoot her, beat her up, tell Bob on her and anything else I could think of. We are both going to be sore tomorrow.

Bob left this evening to go to his nieces. So me and the dogs and Trouble the cat are holding down things. Have a nice Saturday.

Thursday

I was so thankful that the predicted snow did not happen today. Well, it came and it went. I was very happy about that. But yesterday I had my rant about the weather.

I left the barn horses in the barn today. The others were happy in their shelter and Pepper would have stirred them all up and chased them out so he got left in today. He was unhappy but the pasture horses were happy. Dixie doesn't care and Ditto wants in when its nasty like it was. I could have put them out this afternoon but didn't.

Bob is leaving when he gets off work tomorrow for Puyallup to go help his niece. He will be home on Sunday. So horses, cows, goat, chickens dogs and cats will all be my responsibility.That is OK however, I get very lonesome when he is gone overnight. I suppose its the 51 1/2 years we have been married.

Our Northeast Zone meeting was this evening. I keep plugging mustangs and our mustang events. Sometimes some of the people looked bored but others listen politely any way. I am going to keep plugging away though.

Bless you all.

Wednesday Half/half

Barbara at The Serenity Gate tagged me to take the 6th. folder on my computer and then the 6th. picture. Then blog about it. This was the winter of 2007/2008. We fed the quail all that winter and that is what the picture is of. We fed them this winter too. I am supposed to tag 6 more BUT I don't have 6 people that have not been tagged already that I know. This is what I have:

Nikki at Life With Boys
Joy at Backroad Chronicles
and anyone else that wants to do it. It was kind of fun.

I about had a hissy when I woke up to snow. When I was up about midninght it was pouring and the roof in the kitchen was leaking AGAIN. Also in the laundry room. GRRRRRRRRRR. I was glad I was awake and decided to get up and wander around. It filled a frying pan in the kitchen and a good deal in the coffee can in the laundry. Now we are supposed to get 5" tonight. I am sick of it, I am tired of it, I don't like it - I know I said I wouldn't whine any more, I am not whining, I am grumping.

Enough of that.

My funny story today is not about the horses but of Spot the cow. Their feeder was empty so Bob had to put more hay out. He decided to move the feeder out into the field where it was not so muddy. We had opened the gate out there but cows being cows had not gone thru a new gate. Especially when you want them too. If you don't want them out then of course they would be out the gate quickly. Spot and Candy our cows were standing by the feeder when he brought the big bale in on the tractor. When he went on by the feeder to take the bale out before he came back and hooked onto the feeder, Spot looked at him and you could almost see her wrinkle her forehead up and say where you taking out dinner. She went Moo then louder MOO. It was funny.

Rosie got her bread tonight. Also Yuma. Abby will eat it too but she isn't as excited about it as Rosie and Yuma, especially Rosie. Candy the cow will about come thru the fence to get hers. She eats it out of my hand. I wonder if she would bite. I have never hear of being bitten by a cow.

Have a blessed tomorrow.

Tuesday and Sunshine

Isn't she a long haired dirty mess. She is full of it though the warmer it gets. She is so muddy but Rusty is a happy girl. With it staying light longer and the switch to daylight savings time, Bob will have more time to work with her. If its nice Saturday I will probably give her a workout. Dixie too.

I was cleaning out the livingquarters part of our horse trailer this afternoon and found all kinds of stuff left over from last year. Amongst them some summer clothes that smell very musty. Not mildewy, just musty smell. I brought them in to launder. Bob is going down to Escure Ranch on the 14th. and 15th. I am not going this time because I want to go to the tack swap. I don't need anything but have some things to sell and its fun to look around. I might find something I really need (LOL).

Had lunch today with my friend Helen at Chaps today. I wish you could only buy half a sandwhich. I never could have eaten the entire thing. We had a good visit. We try to do it every 2/3 months. She is a show steward too.

We got a bunch of bread from the day old store for the chickens and cows. I gave some to Rosie one day to see if she still like it and now she whinnies at me when I am doling it out for some too. She stole a hamburger out of a friends hand one day at a horse show. The donkey and goat like it too. The other horses will eat a slice or two but Rosie would eat the entire loaf. We get an entire shopping cart full heaping up for 3.00. Some of it is not appropriate for the animals - like chocolate covered donuts but most of it is great.

Have a great tomorrow.

Rainy Days and Mondays

Wasn't that a song? Even if it wasn't thats what we had today. Rain and then light rain and then heavy rain and then regular rain. Rain, rain. That means mud city.

I hated to put the inside horses out this morning. The five in the pasture were content under the shed all standing peacfully together. I knew that as soon as I put Pepper out, things would get all stirred up. And, they did. He ran all of the peaceful looking group out and stood in there himself. I threw a rock at him. Did it help - of course not but I felt better. Dixie was anxious to get out and run and buck and Ditto just ambled out and gave me a dirty look as only Ditto can.

I maybe found someone to go to Albany with me. I will know this weekend. Our neighbor Shanon. She will go if she can get Thursday and Friday off. If not, I have found a couple of people willing to let this old granny stay with them. I am willing to spend a few dollars more and have a microwave, frig, and a good breakfast.

A long dreary Monday. Bed and a good book are calling.