Monday

No pictures. Just wanted you all to know I have been sick and will be back when I can. I was up part time today so maybe tomorrow is going to be better yet. I did keep down food today. That was a good thing.

Thoughtful Thursday

That is the extent of our snow. Not enough to really worry much about it. It spit all late morning and early afternoon but it did not stick. For that I am grateful.

I was thinking - I made a raspberry/apple pipe today. It has probably been 20 years since I baked a pie. It is not my talent but I wanted a pie so did it. Bob thinks it is too sour. I thought it was good. I bought the crust. I just don't do pies. Guess I will have to wait 20 more.

I was thinking - we had a great Mustang Club meeting this evening. I am so glad there was such a good turn out. There was a good discussion of things to come. I think Mustang Days is back on. Andrea will help me get things organized. Our next meeting will be December 12th. and a Christmas Party. Love that group of people. They are all friends.

I was thinking - life is good for me. Not everything is great, but I would not trade it. I love my family, I love my horses, I love the outside.

Joy to you all.

Wednesday

My blgs recently have had little or nothing to do with our mustangs. I find myself whining and complaining. Today I kicked myself in the posterior and told me to shut up. Even though grey days really affect me. Andrea and I need help. If you read her blog today - Mustang Saga - you will understand.

This picture is our beautiful Wrangler surveying things. He, Amelia who is right beside him being him, Ditto and Pepper are in this field. He does not go in at night and he and Amelia talk off and on all night. He is such a pretty big boy. l decided to do portraits of the barn horses before I put them out. Ditto is the last out and she was irritated with me. She is my sweet old friend. At 28 she has lots of energy especially when its time to eat.

Somehow I got two pictures of Amelia and I am not sure how to get one of them off. So please pretend there is only one. I am not too computer savy as you all can figure out. I usually call Nikki and ask her to do it for me. Don't feel like it tonight. So you get duplicate pictures. She wanted out, right now. Her friend Wrangler was calling her, couldn't I hear it. She is fat and sassy. Quite a change from last summer when we brought her home and she was skinny and uninterested in anything.

And then of course there is Pepper. He's the one who stranded me on his back bareback. Bob is still laughing at me. He is such a great horse, everyone loves him. His eyes are a little worse but he still sees well.

So here I am, and snow is predicted for tomorrow but not sticking. Hope not. It was a beautiful day today but quite chilly. I got the stalls done. That always makes me feel good.

Had my flu shot today so am all set. Had to call around. Several places had run out so I went into Safeway in Cheney where I have gotten it for the past few years. I am getting several different opinions on the pneumonia vaccine. I had one about 3 years ago and the nurse said I should not need another but some have told me I need one every 2 or 3 years. I had the pneumonia in the next few months after I had been hospitalized with it.

Please keep praying for out grandaughter.

Thankful Tuesday

Today I have much to be thankful for. Primarily on my list today was NO snow. Not one snowflake. Hallelujah. Its cold tonight though but the stars are out. That always makes me feel like a small pea in a large pond when the stars are so bright.

Now for the not so thankful thing today. Our 15 year old grandaughter found a lump in her breast. She is scheduled for a mammogram next week. She has large breasts for her age (like her mother did) and the doctor was not too worried about the smaller one Nikki found but there is a large one closer to under her arm that she is worried about. Please pray, Nikki is terrified and her mother is not too much better off.

Mucked stalls today. The horses were glad to get out today and in the crispy sunshine and ran and bucked. But they were glad to be back in this evening. I always enjoy that part of the chores. Amelia has got the routine down pat now.

Take care and have a wonderful Wednesday.

Monday

I took this picture yesterday. It poured down rain today so nothing would have been out in the field unless it was a duck. They looked so peaceful. There are 5 there. The one on the far left is a big buck. I think they can read the no hunting signs.

An awful weather day but not as awful as it is going to be. We had over an inch of rain today. And it is supposed to snow tonight. The snow level is 2,000" and we are at about 2,500'. I am not, I repeat NOT looking foreward to it at all. They are predicting a wet and pretty much snowless winter and that would be good after the last two years. I did have to shut the overhead barn door because it was blowing rain halfway down the aisle. The barn horses did not get out today.

We have got to figure out what to do with the donkeys. They have no shelter. And Bob is going elk hunting this weekend. I will figure something out. They looked pathetic when I fed them this evening. It did not quiet their voices though. They talk to me when I go out to feed until I get there with their hay.

I will get my flu shot tomorrow now that I am well. They think the older generation doesn't need the H1N1 shot. I hope they are right.

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.