Weeds and airlplanes

The Thunderbirds practice right overhead. I love watching them. The air show is tomorrow and Sunday. We have family and friends coming to watch from out back yard. You can't see the on the ground stuff but anything in the air we can.

Loved to watch these planes. You might get tired of hearing about them before the weekend is over.

Besides watching airplanes today I got all of the garden area weeded and the weeds fed to the chickens. They thought they were in chickie heaven. Also got most of the raspberries weeded too. It was not so hot today but sunny so I could do it and not melt away.

I worked with Sage a while but had a headache and didn't work too long. She did awesome so I didn't worry about it. I have the rattlely containers tied to her gate and she doesn't like to go past them but she did better today. I had a two step stool that I use for a mounting block and I thought her eyes would bug out when she looked at it the first time but it did not move so she got mostly used to it. I got her up by it and then I got up on it. She snorted a little but did not leave. I was above her and she let me rub her head and her neck. I tried to pick up the stool and move it but that made her jump away. We worked on that a while and will get back to it in the AM. It is going to be really hot this weekend will need to work with her early.

Sunday is going to be around 100 degrees. Summer is upon us with a vengeance. I am not complaining though. We have a cool house for respite.

Blessings.

Wind and Dust

Have you ever seen a chicken egg that size. It is the size of a robin's egg. I could hardly believe it when I was gathering the eggs.

Still in the midst of our house renovation. The hole in the floor is repaired, just the wall to finish. The next major thing is the spot in the ceiling where it leaked. Then they can finish the painting. I was going to work on it this evening but Bob does not like me to paint. He is a perfectionist about painting but he does not like to do it. LOL. I hung the curtains on 2 of the windows in our bedroom. I am washing the blinds before I hang the curtains.

I got new curtains for the living room too but won't hang them until all the mess is done in the kitchen. Don't want them to get dirty in the first week up.

I did not work with horses today because the wind was blowing so hard and dust. An old fashioned dust storm. Roads were closed out by Moses Lake and Soap Lake in Central Washington. I think that it all blew through here. Sage has been doing pretty well. She doesn't like the rattely jugs. I touched her shoulder with one of them and she levitated 3' straight up in the air. I went oh my goodness. I would not want her to do that with me on her back. Still working on the spooks. Emma is about as stubborn a horse as I have seen. Bob was going to get a rope on her this evening but when you can't keep your eyes open because of the dust that did not happen.

Maybe tomorrow. There is an air show at Fairchild AFB this weekend and the Thunderbirds got here today and come zooming low right over us. I don't know how the horses will respond to the noise. I was going to have a yard sale but I don't have help so its all going to Salvation Army. Just don't have the oomph to do it all along. Bob has to work and traffic won't be coming this way.

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Just a day

Trying to calm Sage down after she had a hissy fit about something that moved somewhere outside the round pen. I am holding my glove, that is why the fingers are sticking up that way. She was mad at me for working with the other horse first. She is very possessive of me but still wants me to think she is stand offish. She loves having her face rubbed.

Emma still has not been touched. She goes around the round pen, changes directions, stops, gives me both eyes but won't let me get close enough to touch her. I worked over an hour this morning and the sweat was running off both of us. She is quite calm but keep your hands off. Just have to keep at it. Need a halter on her, but all in due time I guess.

Worked in the house most of the time I was not out with the horses. Getting stuff ready for a yard sale. Want to clear out this stuff. So much stuff.

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Sunday Still - Summer

Summer Stills - a family gathering. Grandkids and great grandkids.
Great granddaughter Lilianna. She hates to have her picture taken.

Nikki and Nathaniel. Look at her knee. It has been a month since she fell and it still is not healed. She was so glad to see two of her grandchildren.

We picked the first of our raspberries. Oh are they good. I should have a bowl full tomorrow to put on my cereal. Nothing better than fresh raspberries.

Nikki and I sent some time with Sage. If Nikki did not live in town she would be wonderful with horses and she loves the mustangs. I will never forget when we saw the South Steens horses in the wild the first time. I thought she might jump out of a moving car to get a picture. Sage was very responsive to her. Loved it.

I love that picture. Nikki helped me pick Sage out in February and I believe she thinks she has a little ownership in her. If Nikki did not live in town, she would have a mustang for sure.

It was good to see her and have her little boys around. She brought Lane's best friend Alfredo with her. They seemed to have fun around the farm.

I am very tired this evening. Did not sleep well last night and need to crawl in earlier tonight. Love to you all

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Ouch

Please tell me why we needed another tractor? Bob explained it to me but I still do not understand why.

Lane has been practicing driving it.

Bob is out trying to figure out where he can unload it. I guess we must have needed it, he said so anyway.

I did nothing with horses today. My back really has hurt today. I could hardly get anything done even in the house. Made such progress with Sage yesterday, I was going to try but if she had pulled on the rope at all, I would have been done for so didn't.

I am going to go lay back down with ice on my back, must be better tomorrow OR ELSE.

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Good progress

The sweet soft eye of my much loved Sage.
Sunday Stills word was shadow. I am only half a week behind but I saw this, this afternoon when I was working with her. One of the other ones that was not so good looked like I was sitting on her. I can guarantee that I was not.

I did rub her clear down her back and earlier today I brushed her tail. She did not think too much of it but let me. From the one side it was not a big deal but the other side was a little more difficult but we did it. I need to remember to take a better brush out there. There is a big knot in it. I have some spray on stuff but I would imagine that spraying is not something that she would appreciate.

I did get her so I could rub clear down her leg. I did lift up her foot but it was hard on my back so I used the rope mostly to pick it up. That works but I want to be able to do it with my hand. Party of the problem was me bending over so I really spent quite a time just bending over and letting her smell me when I was bent over.

I found her "sweet spot" on her withers and she made the funniest faces. That is when she bit me a some weeks ago. She did not offer to this time. I watched her though.

Today I started with bleach bottles with rocks in them. I rattled them. She took off like a shot. We worked about 20 minutes and she finally just stood there and looked at them. I held one of them out to her without rattling it and she smelled it. Good job Sage. I put them in the middle of the round pen and later we walked around them all different ways but I did not rattle them. Tomorrow is another day.

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Cooler Day

She was saying to me, I don't want to work today. I said too bad Sage. We did and she did OK but had moments when I told her she knew better. She forgot how to lead at first but we continued to work on it. I did eventually pick up both front feet for a few seconds. I was very proud of that.
The wind was still blowing some today but nothing like yesterday. We did work on lunging some. I don't do mindless going round and round until I can work on something in particular. She needed to learn to do what I asked whether she wants to or not. She is giving her rear end and stepping over both directions. She moves her front shoulders to the left stepping over pretty good but the other way, not so much. Patience Lea.

Shannon came down and helped Bob unload these 100# bales. My back just was not up to it today. She did it so Bob would go riding with her down at Riverside. She is putting her fourth ride on her young mule Davon. No going alone at this stage. I would have gone if Lane had not been here but that was more important. He and I had fun.

I worked with Emma today and then Bob worked with her. A mustang that is her age and has been coddled but never tamed is a different ball of wax. You can't treat her like a new mustang but she is wild as one when you try to touch her. Bob accomplished some things but no touch. We are aiming for her shoulder, not her head. She bolts when you get close to her at all. She will turn and give you both eyes and let you get about 3' from her and then away she goes. I will try tomorrow again. Bob has to work.

Our bedroom floor is about done. Yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh00000000000000. Now I am emptying out closet. I did not know we had so much stuff. STUFF. Better get back to it.

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