Lunch and other things.

Kind of an ugly picture. Our well broke again. Not the well but the line into it. This is the fourth time. Always in the nearly same place. The last time our son the plumber fixed it. Well he fixed it again. The picture is my picture of the day - DARK. The wet dirt certainly was dark and Bob's mood having to dig it up again was dark too. Double meaning for the word.

Had lunch with a friend today. That is always nice. She was down in the dumps because she had to have her kitty put down this morning. I would have probably cancelled lunch.

Sage and I had quite a day. I realized that I have been so anxious to get on and ride her I have bypassed some ground things that are really important so we are back tracking a little and doing the ground things. Today we worked with a flag on a stick. She about wigged out at first but not too long and I was laying it on her. That is not what spooked her the most. Just having it wiggle around on the ground is what made her spook. She levitates remember when she gets scared. Finally when she stopped and looked at it and reached out and smelled it we went for another little walk around the place and she ate some grass. Tomorrow we will go back to the white sack.

Have spaghetti sauce brewing. I will get it in the freezer tomorrow.

Our weekend got messed up. Bob needs to leave Thursday to go to a doctor appointement on Friday with his brother. I will leave Friday with Raselle and Arawyn. Arawyn is Carmen and Nikki's grandaughter and Raselle is her mother. Saturday is Carmen's 60th. birthday party. (Remember Katie you are house sitting) We will all be home Sunday. Have the rest of the week to get stuff organized and ready to leave. I will be glad when the tomatoes are all taken care of.

Blessings

More Blessings - you can bet I will make 1000

446, New back porch

447. My grandmother Foremans pink depresseion glasses. I have an entire service.

448. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (a movie)

449. A week away

450 Steens Mountains

451. Kiger Gorge

452. Golden Aspen Trees

453. Antelopes - lots of them

454. Big Horn sheep

455. Our kids remembering our anniversary.

456 Leaves that crunch when you walk thru them.

457. nearing the end of all the election broohaha

458 53 years with Bob

459 home made bread

460 Raspberry jam

461Cool crisp nignts with bright sunny days

462Visiting with Andi

463 A visit with Wendy at the corrals

464 A car that regularly get over 35 mpg

465We live in a country we can really vote

466Foaming hand sanitizer

467 Lunch with friends.

468 Blogs I find that give me courage and some times with laughs

469 A walk with Sagew

470 Being at the stop of Steens moutain 10,004 on Bob's GPS

471 Clean Rest Areas

472 Taking flowers to Tom's grave.

Indian Summer

My picture for yesterday - Framed - Mt. Rainer framed in my windshield as I was driving to Ellensburbg. Yes, I took it while I was driving.

A couple of pictures left from our trip. Then that is all. Yesterday I drove to Ellensburg to a Washington State Horsemen meeting, left there at 3:30 and got home at 6 and at 6:15 I left with Bob to a Back Country Horsemen meeting. Today I did not get up until 10. I was very tuckered out. I got the tomato sauce in the freezer and started a batch of spaghetti sauce. I baked some cookies, mowed the lawn and worked with Sage. I will tell you about that on down here. No pictures though.
This is a set of Rommel Reins. They cost $95.00 and I want to sell them for 50.00. They have never been used. Let me know if you are interested. I am going to put them on Craigslist tomorrow.

A wagon at OxBow wagon shop in Canyon City, Oregon. I don't know what kind of a wagon it was. I have bought harness from this man.

A bluff out in southern Oregon. On the way to Paisley as I recall. I think that the terrain is so beautiful and unusual there.

After I finished mowing the front and back lawn with a mower that needs power steering, I hope its the last time this year, I got Sage out. She accepts the halter so easily. I am so proud of her. I took her over to the lawn to eat a bit and then we went for a walk. I brushed her and curried her while she was eating. She is really getting her winter coat and where she is black, it is shiny black. I looked at her and laughed. My oh my she is going to be big. She is quite butt high. A growth spurt. If you don't know, horses do not grow both ends at the same time. The rear end grows and then the front end catches up with it. I can not see over her hips. I took her for a walk after she had eaten grass for a bit. We went over by where Bob was unloading some hay and he had to move the truck. She was not scared at all. We walked on by there and over by the goat. Oliver came over and they touched noses and then we just walked on. Even the chickens squawking didn't spook her today. Then just around the barn and back to her pen. I was so proud of her. She tolerated Bob rubbing on her but comes back to me. I have said it before but oh do I love that horse.

Blessings.

What A Day

Another day - probably the last day - of trip pictures.

Another one of the Big Horn sheep. They did not seem to mind us taking their pictures. Not much place to get the car off of the road though.

A fire watch tower. I dared Andi to climb to the top with me. She would not, and I was very glad. I was just teasing her. I didn't want to either. I had to tease her a little bit. Well a lot actually.

Andi's grandpas cabin. It now has owl nests in it and it stinks. It is made of concrete. The roof is giving out some.

An old truck at Frenchglenn.

A cabin between Christmas Valley and Paisley, Oregon.

Bob and Andi working in her tack room. She was putting stuff back in.

Bob got home this evening with the cattle he bought. They were all tired. That is a long haul with critters. I have always worried about horses when we haul that far. The cow/calves are in an isolation pen until tomorrow. Then they can go out. Bob saw a lot of deer and a big bobcat. I am glad the weather was good for him to make that drive again.

I had an eye exam today because I have noticed a change in my vision. Its back to glasses. The doctor thought that whack on the head a while back that I poo pood jarred the implant in my eye cockeyed. I don't mind wearing glasses but it surprised me when he asked if I had had a blow on the head. It is a wonder it did not knock me out I guess. Probably had a concussion.

Have to drive to Ellensburg tomorrow for a meeting. I am not looking foreward to it but oh well, I can do it.

Blessings.

Good Report

More trip pictures. Crossing from WA into Oregon on 395.

I went to the cardiologist today and he gave me a thumbs up. He kept me on most of the meds that Dr. Alexander gave me at the hospital except one. Because I am coughing and one of the side effects of one of them is a cough, he changed that. I hope it works. Of course he wants me to lose weight but I knew that was coming. I go back in 6 months. My cold is gone except this cough. For that I am grateful.
I am wondering if this little boy was the one born the day we got to Burns in February. I will have to sort through my pictures and see.

I disturbed her nap. Sorry.

Resting in the midday sunshine.

This is a very sweet little store. I didn't think it was open any more but it was.

A waterhole by a little old cabin where Andi's Grandpa used to catch the mustangs each year for the wranglers remudas. Lots of horse sign all over but no horses.

Up on the mountain somewhere. The Steens are so beautiful. Not like the mountains here. We had such a good day and the weather was exquisite but when we got down and on our way back to Burns it was pouring down rain.

Down into Kiger Gorge. Andi about had a coronary with me standing so close. I offered to sit on the edge and dangle my feet over so she could take my picture but she said she would throw up if I did it so I didn't. She and heights have a thing I guess and not a good thing. It was so pretty though.

If you look at this Tracey this picture is for you. Snow in the Steens. I think it was left over from last winter but we are just around 10,000 feet so I am not surprised. I know the elevation gave me a headache.

All that remains of the original ranch house of Pete French at the P Ranch. There is a newer house where he was murdered that still stands. We did not walk back to the barns. Nor did we go to the round barn he built. We have been there 5/6 times through the years. I read a book Andi loaned me about Pete French and it makes him out a pretty good guy and then I read the Ochoco series of books and they made him out not so good. Who is right? I don't know but he was an interesting guy in that part of Oregon's history.

Bob is back in Burns picking up a load of cattle that he bought while we were down there. We did not take the trailer so we wouldn't be tempted to get another horse and what does he do. Buy cow calf pairs. He took Andi to dinner this evening and ran into Tom who is the head guy at the corrals and that we missed when we were there last Thursday. They had a good visit too.

I was just contemplating putting some Celtic music on the cd player and crawling into bed with a good book BUT before I do that I have 3 dogs wanting to go out and I have to go out with Pistol. Heaven knows what she would do out there by herself. So that's what is on my currant agenda and then the music and book.

Blessings.

HOME AGAIN HOME AGAIN

This past week Bob and I have been in Burns, Oregon staying with our friend Andi. She has a lovely trailer she uses as a guest house and we availed ourselves to it. We got to visit with her and on her days off we did fun things for the most part. Her husband committed suicide a month ago and we were glad to be able to stay with her and lend her a hand with some things. Her nephew, BiL and Bob cleaned out three sheds and did some building for her. On Saturday we helped her with a yard sale. Enjoyed out stay so much. Other than a nasty cold that I seemed to not be able to ride myself of we had a nice visit.

One day while she had to work, Bob and I went by the BLM office and saw Ramona and Tara. Ramona is such a precious friend also. Then we went out to the corrals and visited with Wendy who had delivered Sage to me. Tom was off hunting so we missed him. We spent a long time looking at the horses in the corrals. The baby in the picture above was just stunning. I loved him (or her). Isn't that a cute face.
What you doing huh? Almost came up to the fence but couldn't quite bring himself to do that.

This mare and foal were so sweet. I think they are getting ready to wean soon.

These two youngsters were playing king of the mountain.

Isn't she pretty. Looks a lot like a filly we used to have - Lily.

I loved his markings.

A sunrise picture out of Andi's yard across the road to the Rattlesnakes.

This was on the side of a wagon in Frenchglen.

In the South Steens. This youngster was with a mare with a sorrel baby too. I don't know if this was a yearling (pretty small if that's so) and the other was this years but they were close together.

Isn't that a beautiful mare?

We thought that was Honor but somehow I am not sure. The white baby was trailing along behind. There were a lot of hunters up there and they had had tons of people up there and a lot of shooting going on so they were a little leery. Not so usually. We saw a couple of other groups far off with binoculars.

Big Indian Gorge. It was really beautiful. Did not want to hike to the bottom however.

Bob and Andi conferring on something.

Doesn't that look like a volcano smoking. It wasn't though, just a cloud.

Kiger Gorge. The horses are at the other end though. It was so beautiful.

Another day we went down to see if we could get in to see Paisley Horses. I wanted to see where Sage was from. My Toyota Camry would not do those roads so we did not see horses there. I was disappointed. We did see a gazillion antelope however. Well maybe that is an exaggeration but a lot of them

And this guy basking in the sun. Not far off the road. He was posing for us.

Aspen trees in the Steens.

Andi's foundation QH stallion Skipper. He is so cute.

We had a great time. I will try to post more pictures tomorrow. This is quite a group of pictures I know.

I am making more tomato sauce today. Will finish it tomorrow and get it in the freezer. I still have a ton of tomatoes to do something with. I may make spaghetti sauce

My cold is much better, still coughing some but not like I was. Tomorrow is my check up with the cardiologist. I am dreading that. He is going to lecture me about my weight. Gained a couple of pounds last week and no time to walk it off before tomorrow. Oh well, such is life.

Bob is going back to Burns tomorrow. He bought some cattle and has to go after him. I am not going. I do not feel like sitting for that far and quick ride. He will be back on Friday.

I played with Sage some today. She acted glad to see me. She is shedding her summer coat like mad.

I did a bunch of laundry today. Now that is caught up I can relax some. Hope you all have a great tomorrow. Blessings

Two Roads

TWO ROADS

The road we live on is Christensen but Brooks ends up at an intersection and then goes on
as Christensen. Same road, different name. Make sense, of course not, not to us either.

Sage was so wonderful today. She loves me and wants my attention. That makes me very very happy. I scratched her neck, rubbed her all over and down her legs clear to her hoof. On both sides. I took her out and let her eat grass. Steve was pounding at the new back porch and Bob had the tractor running and she just kept eating. Calm and quiet. She is going to make me a great horse.

I made tomatoe sauce yesterday and today. I put it in the freezer rather than can it. Ten pounds of tomatoes don't make too much though.

We are leaving tomorrow morning as soon as the chores are done. I wish I had a lap top but I don't so I won't be posting a blog until after next Tuesday. We will be in Burns, Oregon looking at wild horses, visiting with Andi, going to the corrals and who knows what else. I hope to meet up with Face Book friend Maggie who is going to be down there ambling around too.

See you later,
Blessings