Some things coming up

My two girls resting in the sun. This was my only venture outside today. Still have a sore throat and stayed in trying to get rid of it. It is much better this evening but not gone. It better get out of here. I am tired of it.

Last night our Mustang Club met. We planned a ride and camp out on April 14/15. We talked about planning a trip to the ocean beach somewhere to ride. I think Mary is going to research places to go camp and ride on the beaches. We also talked about instead of having a Mustang Days on our own, having a booth and maybe could have some of our horses there for people to see at Ride the West. We won't make money but might serve the same purposes. It will cost about $150.00 to do that. We have the money to do that. I also mentioned remembering to pay our $10.00 to keep track of hours rode. The more that do it, the better chance we have of winning a really nice gift this weekend. So far, only Bob and I have done it and we have rode 0 miles so........................

We had a fun telephone call this morning inviting us to ride into the Bob Marshall on June 24 for a week. We said a big yes. We will ride to Pretty Prairie. I want Sage to be ready to ride. I am going to push her to do that.

I am still working on old pictures. I got over 100 uploaded today. I better get them onto my external modem though. On the computer is not good enough.

Tomorrow we are celebrating Chrissy's 40th. birthday. I had a turkey in the freezer and that is what we are having. Ought to have something special for turning 40.

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Looking Back

This picture of my mother was taken in Moniter (near Wenatchee) in l929. I don't remember seeing it before but found it in some pictures I was going through.
My mother and step dad taken in l963 in their front yard in Phoenix, AZ. They had such a lovely place.

Taken in Key West when my sister and I went there on the very best vacation I have ever ever had.

Not any horse activity today except laughing at my mares out the window. I have been putting them in about noon every day and right on time they were standing at the gate waiting for me. We had to go to the doctors office and get our medical records because she is leaving. I think we may have found a doctor but am a little leery after thinking we had found who we wanted and to have her leave after six months and we have to do it all over again. Such is life anyway.

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Slush

Sweet Raven, my trusty ride until Sage is ready. She is a great horse.

And Pepper, what else could I say about him that I have not said before.

Then Yuma wanting a treat.

My girls standing out of the wind. I went through the gate with a halter in hand and Sage came to me and Ditto followed her and followed us into the barn. What a good girl she is. Well what a good girl they both are.

My computer had a belch this evening and Cameron had to come. I communicate with my sister and oldest daughter on ICQ and it will not connect. It did and then dumped me off and will not reload it. Darn. And me trying to fix it messed things up good. (sad face).

So that is how my evening went.

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A beautiful Day in Our Neighborhood

Our two little dogs on the run. They are BFF.

My rail fence (LOL)

The snow was sliding off of the garage roof. Tried to get a drip in mid air but missed.

The nose I love to smooch on and she loves me to do it.

The big girls came in for lunch and did great. Ditto of course just gets to eat but Sage has a despooking lesson when she is done eating. I had a cardboard box that was going to eat her. Yesterday I put her treat in the box and she wouldn't come near so today I put her grain in it and now its OK. I had a big red hunk of something and I was waving it around and she looked at me like is that a saddle pad because they don't scare me. Bob parks the tractor at the end of the aisle way in the barn (not my choosing but his) and there is a quite narrow space to walk by it. We practiced that yesterday and she didn't think much of it but today she just walked through like oh heck. We are working on her head down and she does wonderful and flexing and she does that great too. Just something every day.

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Just What We Need - More Snow

Chemmy, Yuma and Rosie do not think we need any more snow and they were not happy that I did not bring them treats. Besides it wasn't supper time and they wanted to eat then. Oh well, I guess. I laughed at them.
Think we have a few barn kitties? They are all chubby. They get cat food and a pan of goat milk every day.

Bob drove the tractor into the other end of the barn and Sage was not so happy about it. I banged on things in the barn and waved things around working on despooking. She thought I was tormenting her and I guess I was.

One of the more demanding kitties.

And my old buddy, Ditto. She wanted a treat every time I walked by. She did not like all the stuff I was doing earlier. She doesn't need despooked. She hates stalls and couldn't wait to get out.

Last night at the Back Country Horse meeting that we were at, we found out our old mare May died last week. We gave her to a guy down by Worley, ID for a pasture buddy a few years ago. She was a good old horse. She ate her breakfast and when he went out to open the stall she was gone. And then her pasture mate died a few days later. Sad huh? They were both old and had great lives there. Pampered and loved. I feel bad but not sad for her.

Tom and Christy are both OK. Just sore from the wreck. Tomorrow they should get a rental car and start the process of getting what they have coming. Darn drunk drivers.

Thank you all for your comments. I was so down when I wrote the last time. Life is tough sometimes and this period of time is one of them. I will make it though. Thanks so much for your comments.

We are getting more snow this evening. Not what we needed but it is winter in eastern Washington and not unexpected.

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Lord, if this is a test, I flunked

Just a couple of snow pictures. About l5" of snow and at the moment it is freezing rain and the wind is starting to blow. Just what we needed. I am SO glad they cancelled our Washington State Horsemen Board meeting scheduled tomorrow in Ellensburg. I would not try to drive in that skating rink.

Boy, oh, boy, when it comes, it comes in bunches. Not only does my brother in law have cancer. He is holding his own at this moment, our niece has cancer in her hip bone. She just started chemo, our daughter in law was diagnosed with ovarian and uterine cancer. She has surgery on February l. Today our oldest granddaughter who lives in Maryland called and she has ovarian cancer. She has her first oncologist appointment on Monday. Then Bob had just a check up with our doctor who has only been our doctor since last May when our doctor of 30 years retired. Now she is leaving the area so we have to find another doctor again. Its not easy when you are both past 70. That about wigged me out and then the phone rang this evening and a drunk hit our son Tom's pickup. He and his wife were not hurt but pretty shaken up. They were driving down the road and a drunk driver came across 2 lanes of traffic and hit them in the drivers door. Then he tried to leave but Tom got to him and took his keys away from him. I feel like I have been caught in a whirlwind.

The horses are doing well. I was going to take some pictures of them today but Bob called me to do something and then I forgot. They all look like furry bears. They are all fat.

So, I am done whining. Sorry.

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Snow? Where?

We were supposed to get a big dump of snow today. Well we got NONE until about 3 and we got a skiff. The wind did blow like a hurricane and it was cold but no snow. I really don't mind, they have predicted snow all weekend and what we got was cold and sunshine. Love it.

We got groceries today and were really lazy the rest of the time. The wind was awful. Was good for both of us to have a lazy day together. We had more conversation than in ages.

The horses didn't seem to mind at all. They were just happy out in their respective pastures.

Take care,

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