Sunday

Wish I had my longer lens. These were geese. Floating along the river enjoying the Sunday morning sunshine. They looked so pretty and relaxed along a pretty section of the river.

Bob went hunting but didn't get anything. I think he really enjoys being out there but he likes venison. I don't. I would rather he waited until elk season and hunted them. I like elk meat. He will hunt that too. He lives for this season of the year. I would rather have him home but won't argue about it. He does very little just for him.

The horses were not so anxious to come in this evening. It had been sunny and they enjoyed it. Wrangler was at the gate but he doesn't come in. Had to go call the other 3. Then they came and went into the barn. Both Amelia and Pepper had to be reminded to go to their stalls and not stop and eat grass along the way. Ditto never has to be reminded. I did not clean stalls today. I will strip them tomorrow.

Rusty is very funny when its feeding time. She starts pawing from the minute I go out until the minute she gets her hay. I ask her if she is counting. Wham wham wham. She is a funny mare. But so beautiful.

Saturday Smile

Let me introduce you to Miss Fancy Kitty. She is one of the barn kitties. Her sister has long hair and is much more timid than Fancy. I can pet her gently when she is eating. I don't know where she and Fluffy came from. Two white kittens appeared in the barn and they have grown up to be beautiful cats.
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Bob has been hunting today. He called a little bit ago and said they were in Chewelah on their way home. No deer. I think he expected me to be sad but I wasn't. I don't like venison so I am not sad.

The barn horses were glad to get out this morning in the sunshine even though it was chilly. It was windy and I wished I had put on a hat and gloves. They ran and bucked after not getting out yesterday. Later in the afternoon I cleaned the stalls. Two days and anymore it would have been really hard again. Ditto and Peppers stalls were not too bad but Amelia really can mess a stall up good. She is getting good about going in though. I just turned her loose with the other two to go in and she was the first to get there. Pepper as usual had to have a pop on the rear to remind him. I had intended to ride this afternoon but it was too windy. So, I took a nap instead.

Friday.

I figured out why my camera was on strike. Duh, the battery was dead and I then could not find the charger. I found it this evening in the car. Its one that you can plug in the car or in the house. Well, it was in the car so its charging up. I don't know what I would have taken a picture of today. It poured rain all day long. I didn't even put the barn horses out. I imagine they are mad but I could not bear it because there is no shelter in their pasture.

I have some bruises today but was not as sore as I thought I would be. The worst one is on my left wrist. Didn't know I hit it. I will survive though. I did have to give Amelia a treat today though and tell her I knew she didn't so it on purpose.

On the blog The Serenity Room, Barbara is giving away a beautiful Pashima shawl. I would love to win it. I will have to think of something one of these days to give away. I keep my horse books usually. Will have to think about it.

Thoughtful Thursday

I was thinking I was glad no one had a camera today when I was doing chores. I would have been embarrassed, humiliated and anything else you can think of. Poor Amelia had a run in with first the goat, then Pepper and then me. The goat head butted her in the rear, Pepper wouldn't let her by and she knocked me head over tea kettle, splat on the ground on my back looking up. She looked at me like oops, I am sorry. Do you have any idea how big a 13 hand horse looks when you are laying on the ground. She looked like a Belgian Draft horse. She just trotted over and went into her stall. I lay there groaning. I am fine, just some sore spots.

Then on a more serious note, I was thinking of families and how important they are. And I was thinking about our DIL Debbie and her sister Donna. Now Donna can be abrasive and has a past of drugs and who knows what but they are all each other have. When their dad died this past weekend, Debbie did not call Donna and Donna heard about from a 3rd party on Monday. Debbie can't understand why Donna was so mad. I told Debbie that should have been her second telephone call. She told me she could not deal with her. I have been thinking about that and praising God that our family is relatively close. Not that they don't have their disagreements about life styles, and other junk but God help anyone who said anything about siblings. My sister and I are very close even though we live far apart. I just don't get this disfunction.

Then I was thinking that this was a beautiful day. I should have gone riding.

Thankful Tuesday

No pictures. My camera went on strike for some reason. Darn.

I am thankful tonight for the garden I had. I have tons of squash in the freezer, a lot of zucchini ground and in the freezer. A lot of applesauce and apple pie filling in the freezer and today I made tomato sauce. I will have to figure out how to add what spices because the recipes I have found all have stuff in it that I don't want. Five pounds of tomatoes don't make a lot of sauce however and that is about what I had left. Five pounds. Still have carrots in the ground. I did not thin them too well and they are odd shaped but still good.

I need to tell a joke on myself. Well, it will be a joke to you but not so much to me at the time. I cleaned stalls, worked in the barn and decided it was such a nice day I would ride Pepper for a little bit bareback. I thought, everyone rides him with just a halter and I would. Well, I got on him. I have to be high enough just to swing my leg over and that is what i did. However, Pepper did not want to go for a ride anywhere, he wanted to eat grass. He put his head down and eat he did. The rope I had tied on to his halter so it was like a bridle came untied and I had one rope and he was determined to put his head down and eat. I had to sit on him until Bob got home because I can't get off without being able to step on to something and in the middle of the lawn, nothing. I thought Bob was going to have a seizure laughing at me. He got Pepper over so I could get off and I had a loud conversation with a horse that knows he is king of the universe. Next time I get a bug to ride bareback, and I do love to ride bareback, he will have a bridle on his little black head.

Now that you all have had a good laugh, talk to you tomorrow.

Monday

A busy day and no pictures. I worked in the house alot of the day. The maid didn't show up. Oh, I don't have one? Darn, I keep waiting.

Bob and my project this week is cleaning the barn. He has filled it with so much stuff that there is not room to get thru there hardly. Its dodge and dart around sprayers and such. We made a good start today. I found some horse blankets that I knew I had but could not locate. Now they need to be washed and Amelia will have a warm blanket when the weather makes it prudent to put one on her. I still need to buy Ditto one. Bob got several things put up on the loft.

I picked the stalls and it was so much easier on my back. Now to be disciplined enough to do it every day. I know that the horses appreciate it too.

Our daughter in law lost her father yesterday. I wish I could say something to help her. She is strong but not as strong as she is making out to be. She has been his primary caregiver for years. Rest in peace Ray and Debbie our prayers are with you.

Sunday

This is my Saturday Smile picture on Sunday. We stopped on our way to church this morning so I could take this picture. The sun was shining thru the fog. It was so peaceful and beautiful.

Today Fast Eddie went to a new home. A lady showed up right after we got home from church with her trailer. Her 10 year old daughter officially bought him. I put him on Craigslist for $200.00 and got $160.00 for him. (I paid $40.00) A good profit huh? Bob said I could go look for another buy like that anytime. Most importantly though, I am sure he went to a loving home.

THEN, I went back to the job I knew I needed to do today and that was to clean stalls. Oh my aching back but they have nice fresh clean stalls all newly beded. Its a big job but if I did it every day it wouldn't be such a chore.

Amelia was much better about being caught this evening but Pepper was a brat. He thought he was a mighty black stallion. When Bob caught him he told him off and Pepper just looked at him like Oh well, it felt good to run;.