Purple is for Royalty - Queen

Today was day l in her beginning to be my saddle horse. She readily ate hay from my hand off and on all day. She let me rub her nose a few seconds several time. Tomorrow I hope to get a hand on the rope but am trying to set my expectations aside and just do what we can as soon as we can.
This is her hip. Can you imagine the size she will be when she is done growing. Oh me oh me. Everyone that has come to see her comments on her size. I may have to go to my old wider saddle on her.

Yesterday I guess I only showed one side of her. This is the other. A lot more black than white. That is just fine. Have had a horse that was more white than brown and she gets to be a big mess and when I was showing her it was awful. Under a blanket and a hood she could get poop on her neck. Used to upset me.

Her big feet. Really big bones and big feet. She makes Rusty look like a pony.

Another view of this side.

We spent as half an hour at a time 4 or 5 times today. She got over being quite as nervous. A lot better in fact. She is very inquisitive. Love that.

Lindy is still lame but better and her feet are perfectly normal temp. She is sick and tired of being stalled up but she does not need to be walking around. Katie hand walked her for about 5 minutes. Don't want her stocking up on top of it. She still thinks we are trying to starve her to death but I keep assuring her that its for her own good.

Katie was here today with her Cameron and showed me how to do some things with my phone. The guy where I got it showed me how but he talked so fast and went over it so fast I didn't get much of it to stick in my brain. I appreciated her help.

Love this warm weather and love being able to get outside to do things.

Sage is home

You may get tired of the pictures and the blathering on but I am really excited. I would call this picture "Here she comes" Wendy didn't have any trouble finding us. She maneuvers that big trailer around.
Shes using the drive around the barn to get a good angle to the gate. I was dancing inside waiting.

Just out of the trailer. She is wondering where she is. That was a long trailer ride. We have done it with several horses. She is larger than I thought.

This picture got uploaded twice. I can really mess up getting things straightened out when I make a mistake so just skip over the next one. She really didn't quite know what to do. She has really large leg bones and big solid feet. I will want to be able to pick her feet ASAP so Bob can work on her feet. They have got her more upright than I would like.

She is eating at the straw. We put that down because it was so muddy. Now it is dry. Its OK though and it will get picked up as I pick out her run every day.

Right in front of me. I put my hand in and she reached out and smelled it and I touched her nose. Later she did it two or more times and let me touch her nose. Knowing that is the first step in the gentling process. Tomorrow morning I will take a chair and a book and go sit in her stall and read softly to her out loud.

She got here about 4:30. I had just about wore myself out waiting. I worked outside. Took Lindy out and ran cold water on her feet. She stood in the mud for about half an hour while I cleaned her stall and curried her good. She is so big and so fat. She walked better after standing in the mud. I will do that again in the morning. She has the same sire bloodlines as my old mare Ditto. Also I tied Rosy out to eat grass for an hour. You could tie her out with a hay string.

Bob worked with Rusty. She had a couple of lulu temper tantrums. I was glad he was the one working with her. Her worked her through them though and they ended on a good note.

So that was our day. Wait, wait wait and then hurrah, she is home at last.

Tomorrow

Bob took this picture up on Sherman Pass between Kettle Falls and Republic some time this early spring. Love the sculptures. He drives that way every day.

My new phone BUT I don't know how to do much on it yet. Katie I need you. I could text message on it but can't figure out how to send the message. He showed me at the store but I don't remember and the book tells me how to do the message but I can't get farther than that. I am not particularly electronic savvy so will have to wait until one of the grandkids come out or DIL Christy.

So TOMORROW is the day unless something happens. Her pen is ready, her water barrel is full and there is hay in the feeder. Now it just needs a horse in it.

Lindy is better. I will get her out sometime tomorrow and hand walk her and see how she is. He feet are normal temp. She does not like being on a diet though.

Thursday, Thursday hurry up.

Pictures

Yeah. I have some pictures. ]

This is Jimmy. His mom was so glad to find him. He had been lost several days. She told us him name. She brought some hay and feed over for him. He will occupy our round pen until Friday when her husband gets home to help her get a fence up that will hold him in. He has quit bellowing and trying to climb out of the pen.

This is Lindy. She was given us to us today. No she is not a mustang, she is a registered paint horse. She is well broke and has been ridden a lot. BUT the people who gave her to us tried to kill her with food and she started to founder. They did not want to stall her up and do the things we told them to do to get her over this. Not bad founder but a start. So they gave her to us. When we are sure she has recovered and is sound we will put her up for sale. I just could not stand to have them permanently damage her. So when they offered her to us, complete with her papers, we took her. She will get limited grass hay and no grain. I gave her some bute when she got here. She is not happy about being stalled where she can't see the other horses but its where she needs to be.


We went over to pay a bill and finally these Gypsy Vanner horses were close enough to get pictures of them. They are so pretty. They have such beautiful feathers on their legs.

I don't know if the sorrel or the black are Gypsy horses but the black one especially looks like it. Every time I have driven by they are away from the fence. Its an 8' fence and the gate is locked so I had to take the pictures through the chain link fence.

It sprinkled a bit today but it was warmer. It is supposed to be 60 by the end of the week. I am about to break into the hallelujah chorus. The trees are almost leafing out. If its warm a few days they will be and then I will know spring is here.

We didn't get to ride today. It was sprinkling some, Bob had to go pick up so hay, we had to go pay some bills and then we went to eat. I got a chicken burrito and it was big enough for 3 people. We both should be able to have lunch on it tomorrow.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Drawing

Remember that every time you comment gives you an entry. I know the last ones are boring but just wanted to remind you anyway.

Hurry one place to another

Still no camera but Bob brought his little one in for me to use. My camera is now in the shop to be repaired over in Couer D'Alene. No one I could find around Spokane to repair it. Huppins gave me two names and both places were closed. They were not anxious to help me any more. I stopped in a Walgreens and asked the photography area who they tell people when they get asked. He opened up the phone book and found me a couple. One guy never called me back but the other was in Idaho and I was already half way there. It will be back in time to take to MS and TN. Its expensive but so was the camera and I have more than one lens and it is worth it.

Bonnie came out and worked with Cody today. She was here for a long time. He loves her so much. Rusty was very jealous. I laughed at her.

We had a strange young steer show up today. He was in with the horses. How he got there is a puzzle but there he was. The fences are all up. He was tired and hungry. We, with Bonnie's help got him into the round pen with hay and water. Bob drove around and found the people who own him. They will leave him here this week and bring him hay. He has been gone two days. We have been hearing him but could not see him. He was just weaned so was looking for a mom. I am glad he did not get into where our cows are. Both are getting ready to calve and he would have nursed and there would have gone babies colostrum.

Today was spent on the camera. Bob is off tomorrow. We will get stuff done then. Maybe we will even sneak in a little ride. Who knows although it is supposed to rain.

Maybe I will even practice a little with Bob's camera. Two days and then it will be Thursday. I am getting so excited inside. Bob is laughing at me, I am not laughing.

May your belly never grumble

May your heart never ache

May your horse never stumble,

May your cinch never break.

Cowboy blessing.

Marie Creek

Another day with no camera. Sigh. We left home about 8 for the Marie Creek trailhead which is just east of Couer D'Alene. We were the last trailer to arrive but we were earlier than the time posted on the internet. We left in the second group out. The guys were armed with chain saws, pulaskis and stuff. I was at the tail end so I got to hold horses. We (meaning the guys, I was holding horses remember)repaired the trail as it needed and sawed trees out that had fallen on the trail. We took a while. The trail was a mess with wash outs and trees over the trail from the bad winds we have been having. At the Switch Wish intersection of 3 trails Bob and I decided to go back the way we came instead of going over the top. It was about 5 miles back and 10 over the top. After riding yesterday today was almost too much. We made it though and had a wonderful time. We had lunch by the creek.

Wendy tried to fix my camera but nothing worked. I will take it to Huppins tomorrow. They were not open today even if I had been able to get back in time to get it in there. I have a routine doctor appointment tomorrow morning and then will hit downtown.

4 days till Sage. It better be right this time. I am frustrated. Have got to have a camera by then. GOT TO GOT TO.

Have a happy Monday