Saturday

What does a husband get his wife when he has bought another horse. I asked him for a bike well over a year ago - just a plain old bike, no gears, no hand brakes, just a bike that I can ride down the road and try to build up my leg strength. It came home with him yesterday with a matching helmet. I rode it a little today but this has not been a great day. I love it. It won't take me away from loving to ride the horses but need something to help built up my stamina.

I got stung on the back of my neck this morning and of course Bob is gone working on fence where our cows are. I can have a pretty allergic reaction to a bee sting. I took two Benadryl and lay down for a while. Then my stomach started reacting so have spent most of the day laying on my bed and running to the bathroom. Hate that. Don 't get sick to my stomach very often but when I do its awful.

Remember: The meaning of things liesnot in the things themselves, but in our attitude toward them. Anoine de Saint Exupery

Friday

Today I made applesauce and froze some apple slices for pie or cobbler later. I can't remember the name of the kind of apples but they are HUGE. Giant something or other.

This deviced was my mothers. I hurries things up. I don't peel or core, just quarter and cook.

This was the finished product. I put 9 quarts into the freezer besides the slices. We will enjoy it this winter. Our apple tree is heavy with apples. We have the branches propped up so they don't break. So even though Nikki did not send me over but a small box, I will have lots and lots of apples later.

Boy oh boy, did we ever have a storm last night. I hate thunder and lightening and it woke us up. Me first. Then even Bob woke up. I thought he could sleep thru anything but that woke him up last night.

We will get Wrangler Sunday afternoon. Bob is really quite anxious to get him home.

Remember: To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. Clement Stone

Thinking Thursday

These pictures are in the opposite order that I wanted them in but don't know how to change them. This is Bob and our "baby boy" Tom. I was thinking today how sick he had been since March. He was under terrific stress over something he did when he was 16. Kids need to remember their actions will follow them thru their life even when they are grown. He just got sicker and sicker and then the doctor told him they were thinking leukemia. They did all the tests. No, it wasn't leukemia, it was a severe ulcer. He is on some pretty p0tent meds and they are working. He had lost almost 50 pounds but has gained a little back.

While I have been thinking of Tom and the fear we all went through, I thought of his daughter Sheya. She looks (and acts) so much like her daddy at that age. I tell him he deserved her and Christy - her mother - says but what did I do to deserve her. She is a character.

Does she not look like Tom"? He was 4 in this picture. I wish I had kept that little outfit. He looked adorable in it.

So that is my thinking Thursday.

Carmen - Nikki's husband - came to do some taping of the drywall we had to put up around where we put the new door. I was surprised he brought her mother with her. I thought he would be going home since he brought her home but it was wrong assumption. My house is a fright because the kitchen is torn up. Oh well, thats just the way it is.

I had quite a time getting the horses in tonight. They decided to stop in the lane and eat. I was behind them on the four wheeler. Nothing I could do short of running into the last horse which was not an option, they would not move. I reved the motor up, yelled and waved. They just went on eating. I finally got off and threw rocks at the front horses. That did not hurry them too fast but at least they moved.

Bob made a big decision tonight. He bought back a big buckskin gelding. Wrangler is wild bred and was born about 2 weeks on our place. His mother was a buttermilk buckskin. We sold Wrangler when he was 5 months old to a friend. She had some real physical problems and we bought him back when he was 3. When he was 4 we sold him to another friend Perry. Now Perry has some problems and he can't ride. So Wrangler is now 9 and he is coming home. He is big, probably close to 16 hands. He is definately a man's horse and full of energy. Bob just could not stand for him to go to anyone else. I will get some pictures on Saturday when we go get him.

Remember: Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all. Carlos Castaneda

Wednesday

Not a very exciting day. I tried to get the stuff back in all the bottom cupboards. Am trying to be very organized (LOL) and put stuff in a garbage bag for Salvation Army as I go. If I have not used it and its just been sitting there away it goes. I threw about half the stuff from under the sink into the garbage. Probably could have thrown away more. I am going to downsize the STUFF that is around here if it kills me. When you are a pack rat and married to a worse one you are in deep doodoo. I am on a mission though. Get rid of it.

We went over to our Back Country Horsemen meeting this evening. It is always nice to get together with your horsey friends even though there were not too many there. We stopped for a burger after the meeting. I choked and choked catsup up my nose. Don't laugh, I did it and it felt awful and I don't think I will like catsup too much for a while. That was a new one on me.

Bob is off till next Wednesday now. Maybe we can do something interesting. I want to go some place to ride over Labor Day. Hope that will work out, hope so.

Remember: For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Thankful Tuesday

Today I am thankful for our grandaughter Nikki and her friend Lenna. They came out today and cleaned out all my bottom cupboards, washed them good and painted them for me.

With my knee going on and on just would not allow me to get down on my knees to do those cupboards. I really appreciated it so much. I think they had fun painting. Nikki's comment was "I am better cleaning."

Lenna got as much on her as Nikki I think. They had alot of laughs and done alot for me. The worst was under the sink. I did not have them paint that because it needs some repair work but it is clean and organized again. Bless those two 15 year olds. They did not expect to get paid but I did. Tomorrow I can start putting stuff back in them. I am so greatful for them.

I went in to town today, paid bills and had my yearly (well almost yearly) mammogram. I hate them but did it. Now those nagging me can quit.

My knee was hurting alot this morning when I went to put the horses in. Pepper and Rosie were up in a little pasture by the arena. I tied them to the back of the four wheeler and took them back to the pasture that way. I didn't know if it would work or not but they just followed it along. I was quite pleased with myself.

Remember: What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? George Elliot

Monday

Ever had just a "blue" day with no particular reason. Thats what I am having. Nothing much going on, we had our first acorn squash from our garden for supper. The salad was all from our garden too. That makes me feel good. I also ground more zuchinne for the freezer. Who knew what one plant could produce.

Remember: Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same. Author Unknown