February Here I Come

I did not take a picture today. Had a tummy ache for some reason. Its OK this evening. I worked with Rusty though belly hurting or not. She was rotten the first time this morning. I wanted to call her bad names but didn't. Only when she bit me. She got my coat, not actually me but it would have hurt. I smacked her nose and told her NO loud. Then this afternoon I caught her and we tried again. Much more successful.

We went to a Mounted Patrol Meeting this evening. I have avoided them but am getting talked into going. Oh well, as long as I don't have a bunch of meetings to go to or classes. Bob goes to stuff a lot. BUT, he is in the Search and Rescue and I do not want to do that. We will see.

Take care - Thankful Tuesday is coming.

And the winner is.................................

No need to wait until 10 because the number Bob gave me is far enough down. And drum roll please....................Phaedra 96. Please e mail me with your mailing address and I will get it off to you. Thank you all.

Sunday "S" Goodby January

"S"

SPURS

These are Bob's spurs that he bought when he was about 12. He bought them in a feed store. The brand is Hercules. They were appraised once for about 500.00. Bob does not wear them to ride anymore, they hang on the wall.

This is our last picture of the challenge. Thank you each one of you who entered into the challenge and had fun with it. If anyone else wants to head one up, let me know. My little box is empty of words. I would be happy to do one with someone else choosing the words. Thank you so much. It was fun wasn't it?

Also, you must comment on this blog by 10.00 Pacific Time February 1, which is tomorrow. I will have a number chosen by Bob, he is clueless what we have done so it will truly be unbiased. Then I will get the pretty little candle holder off to who ever wins.

I did not do anything with Rusty today. It was drizzley and windy. Bob did though. He caught her and went on a little walk and took her into the barn and into Peppers stall. He left her there about five minutes and then led her out. She was a little heads up today but with the wind I was not surprised. Tomorrow rain or shine she and I will do some things.

Have a good Monday.

FORWARD

FORWARD march.

Chemmy is off to somewhere marching forward.

I am doing this early today because we are going to a Mule Club dinner and auction this early evening and I don't know how late we will be. The last word in this challenge is anything that starts with an S.

And, to make a comment on this blog and to be in the drawing for the cardinal candle holder, you must comment tonight or tomorrow. I will pick a number Monday at noon. Good luck all. I will post it when I have the winner. There are about 50 entries and Bob will give me a number before he goes to work on Monday.

I worked with Rusty this morning for a little while. Today we went for a nice walk. All around the house, around the barn, through the barn an out by the road. I was so proud of her. I picked up both front feet. She has made such good progress this week. Bob has been working on making the pen a 6' high pen instead of 5 so if I do get a horse in Burns, the pen will be legal.

Sunday - hope yours is blessed.

Forward, Not foreword

Sharon and I collaberated tonight and I put an e in forward and spell check gave me foreword. I want FORWARD which is the opposite of backward. Not foreword which is the first part of a book. So FORWARD IS THE WORD FOR TOMORROW

A TEXTURE of a Friday

TEXTURE

I took this out of the windshield of the car a couple of weeks ago. I was sitting in the car at Safeway after church. Bob was in buying us each a maple bar like we do every Sunday. This just looked interesting to me. It seemed appropriate today.

The word tomorrow is FOREWORD.

Today was kind of grey but not too cold. Not as warm as some days have been but it was OK. I went out to mess with Rusty first thing. I changed her halter and put a different lead on her. We worked on several things and she is just about back to where I stopped working last August and September when I really felt crappy for a month or six weeks. I did her near side front foot lifted up and she let me hold it. The off side not so much but she finally did let me rub her shoulder and that was progress. Tomorrow is another day. The second time I worked with her later this afternoon I put a long rope on her to work with her. She will yield her rear end on both sides. Yield her shoulder on the near side and kind of on the other. When I put her hips toward the fence she will side pass beautiful away from me but not at all the other way. So we have made progress but lots more to make. Tomorrow I am going to try to get the surcingle on her. She bucked really hard when we saddled her last summer, I want to get that out of the way before we try to saddle her again.

The other horses are fine and dandy. I hope Katie will come tomorrow to clean stalls. Or, I will have to work at them. She is supposed to.

That was my day, have a great Saturday.

A GREEN Thursday

GREEN

I had a hard time finding what I wanted to take a green picture of. So when I found Rusty laying down with her green halter on in a round pen of green panels, I thought Yes this is it.

Tomorrow word is TEXTURE.

It did not take long at all to get the halter on Rusty. We ran off some spook off her doing a few laps changing directions and so forth. The I got her to stand and rubbed her neck. Put the lead rope around her neck and the first time she left. So, we did a few more directions and then she stopped and let me put the rope around her neck and then the halter on her. Well, then she just did what I wanted. She knew she had lost control. I petted her a big and then went up to the house to accomplish something inside. When I went back she let me walk right up to her. We did some despooking things and she did good. When she didn't spook and did what I asked she got a hunk of apple. Good girl. When Bob got home he went down and rubbed her neck and talked to her. She was glad to see him.

Then we went to the Mustang Horse Club meeting. We are going to have a ride on April 10th. Hope the weather is good. We are planning Mustang Days. We need to get going on it. A few different people are going to get some solid prices on arenas. Either of the first two weekends in June will be what we are aiming at.

Friday is a coming.