Progress and the joke is on Bob

My wonderful Sage. She gets sweeter every day
I dropped the apple I had for Sage and the hens and Napoleon bombarded me.

So she didn't get her apple half

AND THIS IS OUR PROGRESS. Isn't it wonderful.

She could have cared less. I had it cinched up tight enough to get on her. In fact, I thought about it for a brief second. She was so relaxed I know she would have not done anything but I know I am not agile enough to jump if I needed too. I was SO PROUD of her. I let her stand there for a while and then I took her over to the lawn and to go back eating. That is what she was more concerned about. Wahooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

This is Marco. He is going to be the second calf on Candy and that is the joke on Bob. He just thought her calf was Otis. Bob told me he was a he. BUT when he went to give the calf his baby shot, guess what HER name is Jazzy, not Otis. We are still laughing. So we don't have an Otis, we have a Jazzy. LOL

Bob turned those four out onto grass this evening and they had to run and buck

and then settle down to eat.

Who knows what will happen with Sage next?

Blessings

I am back among the living

I have been really sick with a souper douper sinus infection. I did not get up for 3 days. Today I felt like taking a shower and getting dressed. Bob asked me if I fell well enough to go out for a while and we went for a ride around our area on the back roads. These are a lot of pictures. I was so happy to be out in the fresh air and moving around.
This is the metropolis of Canby. I did not know we had one of those in Washington.

This is in Blueleaf. Didn't know we had one of those either.

Not too thriving I would say.

I just loved this picture.

This old mule had lots of food in his pasture. We think he is just old. He looked old anyway.

This donkey was pretty good sized. He was an intact Jack running with a pasture with several mares. You know I have a soft place for donks.

This is the Columbia River. They have drawn the river way down so when the snow melt hits there it won't flood. Last year there was a slide across the river that caused some damage.

She was waiting to cross the road.

And we had dinner at the Red Rooster Cafe in Reardan. It has been closed for a while. It was good food and we had a good day.

Missed you all

Happy Mothers day to all the moms, aunts, grandmas and anyone who has held, comforted or loved a child,

Blessings

Ups and Downs

Rocky. Isn't he a doll. I am going to enter him in a horse show in June. Stella is doing well too. We wormed them today. I should have groomed them but just didn't feel up to it. Don't know if this is a cold or allergies.
Our lake is almost gone, and now the mud needs to dry out.

My precious old Ditto. She is 31 this month. She was bucking around their field the other day and I told her I might want to ride her if she kept that up. Love her so much. Have had her for 29 years.

Otis and Patrick.

We got word today that our dear friend Joe Mertens died last Friday. I feel so bad that no one let us know before now. He and his dear wife Elaine have been good friends for the last 35 years. RIP dear friend, we love you.

That is all for today.

Blessings.

We beat the rain

This is who we woke up to this morning. His name is Otis and he is healthy and as good as can be. We need to find another calf for his mom. She always raises two or three.

He looks small next to Patrick and Brady but he isn't really. We ran them off because they were tryng to play with him and he wasn't old enough to play yet. Maybe tomorrow.

Sage got let loose in the arena today. She was so happy to be loose but I put her in when we left to go for a ride.

My one daffodil perked up. Isn't it pretty>

On our trail ride close by at a state park that's about 15 minutes away. I guess its a state park or a water fowl preserve. These Johnny Jump Ups were all over the place and so pretty.

I never can remember what these are called but they always look so pretty every spring.

A pretty little inlet on the lake.

Bob

Katie

On our way back from up on a high against the hill.

The Birch trees looked so pretty over against the hill.

A pair of mallards on a pond. The males are such a beautiful color.

I was walking around taking pictures of the ducks and a mama Killdeer came bombing out in front of me and her baby running along. She did her best to get me to leave. When I walked around the rock looking for the baby, it was laying there playing dead but was breathing. Only about the size of my thumb. When we walked away mom came scurrying back, baby jumped up and they ran off into the weeds.

It was very pretty this morning and Katie is off on Monday and she came out. We decided to go for a trail ride and that's what we did. It was so fun. Something set the horses off, not a clue what but Pepper put his head down and was going to do a rodeo buck. I got his head up and around but he was naughty for quite a few minutes before he settled down. Wrangler didn't buck with Bob but he was doing a tippy toe jig and Abby took off fast down the trail away from where we were. Finally got them all settled down and it was a relaxing ride the rest of the time. There was a lot of boggy ground and none of them liked that. I am a little nervous about crossing water on Pepper after last years catastrophe of him laying down. I do ride with spurs since then.

The rest of the week we will be getting ready to go camping this next weekend with our horses. We are going with three or four other couples and their kids. I sure do pray for nice weather.

Blessings.

A Busy Day

Rocky. He leads well and was not too hard to catch. We have separated the ponies though because he definitely is head honcho. Very sweet.
Stella. I think she is going to grow to about 12 hands if measuring their legs is correct and it has been before. When we got her caught and a halter on her she lead well too. She is going to be grey I think, she has grey coming in around her eyes and nose. That is where most grey horses start changing.

We went down to Shannon's to take some things down to her and she just was coming out from helping this mama have triplets. The one closest to me is a girl, the other two are boys. They are not even dry yet. Less than an hour old.

I just thought this little one was so cute. I just love baby goats but I don't want another one. Shannon keeps trying to give one to me. I think Shannon's goats have produced about 20 babies.

We worked with the ponies, and both of us worked with Emma. She likes Bob best, took him a couple of minutes to be rubbing her shoulder. We have got to get a halter on her but that just wigs her out. We will be working with her. I just can't send her back to her owner because he will just shoot her. So she is tough but we will keep at her.

We worked on fences around the Arena today so I can turn Sage out. The fence on the border with the neighbor is not as secure for her than I would like. We may put panels down that side. I did put her out there for a while when I was out there. She needs to be able to get more exercise and move around. Her pen is not too small but she needs to be able to run and buck if she doesn't try to get through the fence.

Had a marvelous service this morning at church. Next Thursday - May 5th. - is the National Day of Prayer. Our church is having three services.

Blessings

Stella and Rocky

Today we decided to go to the horse auction in Davenport. I don't know why, we just go for entertainment and end up feeling bad. Horses were better priced today and some went for well over a thousand dollars but some went for 10 and 25 too. Most of them were on the thin side and obviously needed forming and better food. There was a pen of ponies. I mean Shetland size or a little smaller. There was a very pregnant mare I wanted but I thought 50.00 was my top bid. She went for 200.00. A pair of black and white pinto ponies went for 200.00 a piece. Those were my favorites. Then came Rocky - the little bay and white gelding. Bob told me to go to 75.00 and I got him for 60.00. Then came the black filly. She is out of a full size mare and a Shetland stud so she should be about Rosie size - 13 hands. I thought Rocky was the mare and Stella was the gelding but its the other way around. She is only about 15 months old. They have been running in a big pasture so they are not too friendly yet but we will work on that. I paid 10.00 for her. Did I need another project - of course not but I have always made money on ponies and donkeys. No donkeys there so I will try to get these ready to do as soon as I can. I want to work on Stella first, get her fattened up some and get her coat shiny and then I will advertise her. Every month when we go we look for ponies and this is the first time in a long time that there have been any. Rocky is as cute as a bug and is halter trained. Am not sure how to break him to ride but first, make him friendly.

They sold three mini horses that were about 8 months old and were the scroungiest looking things, wormy, scrawney and they sold for 200.00 a piece. I thought they would go for 10 bucks but whew was I wrong. I did not want the stud nor one of the fillys, her feet and legs were awful but the other would have been nice. Someone saw something I certainly didn't.

So, that was my day. I am watching Dr. Zhivago on PBS. I loved that movie. Don't know if I will be able to stay awake until the end but I want to see Lara and Zhivago in the sleigh.

Blessings

Sage is MINE

Our "lakes" were almost gone and they are back. The small one should be gone this weekend if we don't get more rain.

Sage having a snack before going to work. I sat in the sun and read while she crunched away. Then I brushed and brushed her. Think I got most of the mud balls off.

Pepper's eyes. See the white in the middle of his eyes. That is glaucoma. He can only see in the daylight. We really can't do anything about it.

Chemmy's ear. I love the donkeys ears.

My one daffodil. It had just broken into full bloom and got beat to this state by wind and hard rain.

This was in the mail today. Sage belongs to me now and not the BLM. I was pretty excited to get it.

After Sage had eaten a while, we took her to the hitch rail. She was a little jumpy about her other front foot but we got it trimmed. I had to hold it while Bob trimmed and rasped it. Sage finally just stood like a lady after the first. Then I got a saddle pad out. She acted a little snorty at first but by the time I was done she was letting me flap it all over and put it on her from either side. I could wave it all over and she just stood there. I was/am so proud of her.

I stayed up most of the night last night watching "THE" wedding. I went to bed about 5 I think. Slept until 11. I had a real chuckle at the hats. Some were beautiful and some were hysterical. I love hats but some of them were beyond me.

This evening I was going to go out and check the cows. They are all due soon. One of the cows has a history of twins so we are watching her very closely. I was trying to avoid the mud and stepped on a board and went flying flat on my back. I called Bob on my phone and he came and helped me up then we went on to check on the cows. Candy will probably have her baby by tomorrow this time. Falling is one of my fears. I will probably be sore in the morning but really was not hurt.

Blessings,