Just a day

Day 7 of Photo Challenge

What's in your purse. Not to exciting, just normal things I guess.

We lost our battle with Licorice this evening. Makes me so sad. He tried so hard to live.

I went up to Colville to help at the adoption but the horses did not get there until about 3:30. I had a good talk with Angela, Ramona and Tom. I don't know if we are going to take horses tomorrow or not. Bob is really upset about the calf. We will see. I told Ramona we would be up there about 8:30. That is quite a facility.

I did a little with Sage today. I used a rubber curry on her and she liked that. She still has not let me on that other side except with a long stick scratching. I was not home long enough without chores, losing the calf ect. to spend a lot of time with her. She is getting pretty demanding when its meal time. Makes me laugh.

I needed something to make me laugh.

A Troubling Day

Bump

The photo challenge picture of the day.

It's at the Brooks Rd. bridge . The bridge is paved and the road on both sides is not paved and this big bump occurs every winter it seems.

That is all the pictures today. Have spent all day working trying to keep a calf alive. Poor Licorice. He almost died a couple of times but our neighbor Shannon who is a vet tech came and we put a big bag of stuff into him - warm water, electrolytes, a spectrum, and a pectate solution. I would not have liked a tube down my throat and a gallon of stuff poured in me. We will put another gallon down him in about an hour. Pectin, warm water, pectate. I need to find some BioPec to replace hers that she gave him this afternoon when his nose and the inside of his mouth was really cold. I was sure he would die but he is warm and is holding his head up this evening. I have him wrapped up in a horse cooler. I hate buying day old dairy calves. They always get sick because they take them right away and they don't get enough colostrum.

I did work about an hour with Sage. She will let me reach over her back and rub her with the short stick and she will let me reach under he neck and let me rub that other side but she will not let me stand over there. We did 3 steps back yesterday and I was discouraged last night. She did OK today. I moved her halter around and tried to take a hold of the little piece of rope left but she absolutely panicked when I did that. So that is going to be a work in progress. I did get to check her poll though and she has some hair rubbed off but no damage.

I am sorry my blog was so abrupt last night. Wanted to put my picture up and then my computer was acting up and it closed up shop so I just turned it off. I think I hit a wrong key somewhere and then it went berserk on me. All is well at this point this evening.

Blessings

No wind Hallelujah

Photo Challenge May 5th. - Landscape.

This is down the road aways. When I got back from lunch with my friend Helen I just ambled around looking for just the right picture. I took several but this caught my eye. There were deer there on the right out of the picture but could not get the pond and the deer and wanted the pond.

When will the wind go away

Day 4 of the May Photo Challenge - I ate this was the theme of the day.
See where the rope is broken. I could have easily lost her last night. Made me sick to my stomach. Some time early this morning she got her rope around the pole in the middle of her pen. It is holding up the roof. Her rope was not so long that I had worried about that. She had panicked with her head low and struggled until the rope broke. When Bob went down there about 5:30 this AM. She was standing there shaking. Her neck seems a little sore and she was touchy about it. I wanted to check her poll where the halter was but she would not have that today. I scratched her good side and she let me pet her but she was leery of it and was wanting to leave all the time. She did let me scratch her bad side more today but when I got too close she had to leave. I tried to take the the snap off her halter but that was a no no too today. The scratch marks on her shoulder were from the stick and me scratching. It was still pretty windy today and that makes her spooky too. I feel so bad about her hurting herself even a little bit.

A baby face. They are getting cuter. Never can get a picture when mom's aren't there. I don't think they know whose are whose.

The wind today was better than yesterday but blew today consistently about 24 mph. It is supposed to go down to 29 tonight. This morning when I went down to water the critters it had frozen and the hoses were all froze. Sage needed water and the chickens needed water too. It took me a while to get the hoses running. There was a quarter of an inch on the tubs that had automatic waterers on them and the waterers were frozen. Everything got watered this evening so I won't run into that tomorrow. Its May, why?

Am beginning to get my suitcase packed. A week from now I will be in Mississippi. Two weeks from now I will be in Tennessee with my sister. 3 weeks from tomorrow I will be back home. I hope all their storms are over and its really warm. I am ready.

My bed is calling.

Blessings.

65 mph Wind

The picture of the day was Down Low. The first picture that came to my mind was the picture of Sages large feet. So that's my picture of the day.

No other pictures today. The wind blew today. Did it blow. I seems to be dieing down some now but it blew up to 65 MPH. Tomorrow we will have to go out and see what damage happened today on the farm and pick up all the stuff the blew in. Things are a mess out there.

A tarp blew in from somewhere, not ours. I know the cow shed roof is half off.

Bob started a new shift today. Noon until 9. I don't like it much. I don't know what he will do about chores or the dogs while I am in Mississippi and Tennessee. He will figure it out I am sure. I leave a week from tomorrow.

Most of today was spent wrapped in a blanket reading. A perfect day for that.

Blessings

Quite a relaxing Sunday

May 2nd Photo Challenge picture - Broken. It is isn't it. The snow took it down winter before last when we had 82 inches of snow.
The wind was pretty brisk this afternoon and it made Sage pretty jittery. I was blowing things around and shaking the roof. In the picture I am rubbing the stick on her "bad" side. She likes it once I got her to let me over there. I could have touched her on that side if the wind had not been blowing and causing a commotion. She gets better every day when I go in with her. She went a little nutsy at first but now she just looks at me. Bob is still the one working with her and the rope. She gets pretty belligerent sometimes with the rope.

Lindy is doing a little better I think. She still is pretty lame. She really likes attention. The round pen is much more pleasing to her than the stall.

A puddle of baby kitties. Neither mom was there when I went to take the picture but as soon as she hear me she was there in seconds and telling me to keep hands off.

I went to church this morning and then took myself to breakfast at the European Breakfast Hause. There were a lot of people waiting ahead of me but because I was along they asked if I would like to sit at the coffee bar. I told the man if I could eat there and he said I could so I got right in.

When I got home I took a nap and lazed around the rest of the day. Bob got home and he came down to take some pictures of me with Sage. We did chores and then he went to pick up a couple of steers.

Have a good day tomorrow

Blessings.

Lots of babies

This is my picture for May 1 photo challenge. The word was sign.

This is our new baby born about 4 this afternoon. Is nameless yet because I don't know if its a he or a she. The white is its tail. Everything else is black. Very cute. Bob also bough a black and white steer calf to put on Candy along with Snickers. I named him Licorice. Now if she just will take him along with Snickers we will all be happy. For some reason the picture of him would not upload to the blog. Oh well.

The kitty babies and mom. Fluffy gets mad when we look in there at them. There is a little white one crawling up Fancy's back.

Our weather was goofy today. Rain hail and sun. Sometimes all in a five minute period. It even thundered this afternoon late. I love rainbows. They remind me of God's love for us.

For those in the mustang club, I got ahold of George today and he will come do the two hour demo on the 26th. I think that's the date of the demo's anyway. His horse was done in 6 weeks I asked him several times and he said he swore it was. And the horse is from South Steens and is 15 hands tall. For all who don't know what I am talking about this guy is up in Colville. He sent me a dvd of his horse. It is utterly amazing the things he did in that amount of time with that horse. He will do the demo at Mustang Days which is the last weekend in June at Busy Bee Equestrian Center. Put it on your calendars.

I hope you all saw that Andrea from Mustang Saga won the April giveaway. I haven't quite got the box ready but will have it ready soon.

Have a blessed Sunday