Redo and Horses

Part of my paint crew. Bob and Jade supervising.

Chrissy, the other part of the paint crew. They are doing such a good job and I love it.

Last week I had a hole in my floor, this week it is in my laundry room in the ceiling. He should sheet rock it though tomorrow.

This is where the hole in the floor was. Just has to be mudded and painted. Its coming.

Steve getting ready to make a second hole in the ceiling. This one in the kitchen. Both places are where there was a leak. Made a big mess.

Wrangler when I went out to put them in off the grass this morning. He came right away. He is a reall good boy.

I haven't posted any pictures of Rusty in a while. She was not going to go in for me until I yelled at her. She is such a pretty girl. I wish someone had her with the patience to get her going good.

I wish I had pictures of Sage this morning. I took her out of any kind of pen to eat grass. She was nervous at first but then did fine and lead back in like she had been doing it forever. Three cheers for my sweet girl. She gets better all the time.

More Airplanes, No Horses

The airshow is over and it was wonderful.

Too hot to do much outside except take a few pictures. My kitchen is nearly completed. I can say hurrah.

Blessings

More Airplanes

It is hard to get the camera to focus. They move so fast.
There were six planes in all. F6 - can't remember his name but he graduated from high school here in Spokane. They just are so awesome.

I called the little plane the bumble bee. The two planes flew around like that for several minutes and then another older plane but in between in size joined them. It was pretty cool.

This plane carried the paratroopers but we could not see them from here. I have seen them come tumbling out before though.

Our "granddaughter" Katie and her fiance Cameron. They came to watch the planes from here. They got off work at 1:30 so just made it.

This is Ike our oreo steer. I love how he looks. Did not see the quail when I took the picture.

Raven contemplating on whether she was going to go to shade or stand there for her nap. She is such a good girl.

Emma watching the dog play. She is the best trained untouched horse. She does whatever I tell her with body language but she won't let us touch her.

Sage. She has shade and was enjoying it.

They were hanging out in the yard today. Probably because we had sprinklers going. Poor little birds get so hot. Love the quail. We call them suicide birds because they run instead of flying and I hate hitting them with the car.

Hope your weekend is blessed.

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.

Blessings

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.

Blessings

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

Blessings