A NICE DRIVE

I took this yesterday coming home from the doctor. It was snowing hard.
Today we took a drive down to take a peak at Heyburn State Park, how it would be to ride there. It won't work this year. They are putting in a sewer system and I don't know what else but Bob and I went to the Headquarters office and talked with them. It won't be a place we can ride this year.
This is the end of Chatcolet Lake. A gazillion geese. They were very noisy but we could only see a few that we could photograph. Several hundred there. Maybe even a thousand.

A deer hiding. She had a this years baby with her but it kept hiding when I tried to take a picture.

She looked at us momentarily.

a view of the lake from the north end of the lake.

A pretty barn near Rockford we thought. When we got up beside the building, it had been turned into a home. It is so pretty.

Some really pretty turkeys along side the road.

We had a really good day just ambling around. It was a fun day. First we went to Couer d'Alene and took my Christmas coat to the Monogram Shop to get the Back Country Horsemen emblem embroidered on the back of it. It will be ready this next week. We got some other bids for some T shirts and patches for the BCH group while we were there.
Have a good Saturday - we have plans.

Blessings

Snow/gropple/rain

Just a nasty grey day. I did not take a picture. Bob and I spent the day at the doctors office. His leg is still bad and it has gravitated to his low back. He has an MRI scheduled for Sunday afternoon. I was surprised that they would schedule an appointment on a Sunday. Back to some more powerful pain killers.

We took ourselves to lunch afterwards and then went to Big R to get some horse grain. Their baby chicks are in. They are so cute but I just don't buy baby chicks like that. They die so easily and that makes me so sad.

We also went by to look at a mustang a lady wants to give away. She is broke to ride but has not been ridden in a while. A pretty little bay mare. HOWEVER, she has no paperwork on her. She claims the lady who had her deserted her however she knows how to contact her. We could do nothing to find her a home with no paperwork on her. The lady who has her is in a very sad place, she has terminal cancer and a 9 year old daughter and no family. I told Bob we could not get involved with the drama that is going on. I feel awful for her but nothing we can do. We told her what we could do after she got in touch with whoever owns her.

Friday is almost here - Blessings.

A Day At the Dentist and She Did It

Amelia got her shot to help her settle down and let Dr. McKinley take care of her teeth. It almost put her clear down. Her teeth were a mess.
Jed and his helper looking at her front teeth. Do you know where the expression "Long in the tooth" comes from. I do.

Her incisors were so long her molars could not come together to chew. What looks like a strip of something between her top and bottom teeth actually is what he had cut off but had not removed yet. I saved her cut off teeth.

Down her throat. It doesn't show her teeth too much. She has lost some because of age. They were really pointed and had old hay impacted in her back teeth.

He is filing off the the molars. She kept talking to us when he was doing that. Softly but the whinny was there. She was saying "I don't like this much". Can't say I blame her.

Sage standing tied the first time this spring (I use the term loosely-spring I mean). She stood for a while and then pulled back and pulled the tie thing off the trailer. So, I took her down to the hitch rail which would hold an elephant and put her on the blocker tie ring which is what I should have done in the first place. I think Bob is not happy with me. I did groom her as much as I could. She won't let me brush her legs yet but we are working on it. She did let me brush out her tail. She is stepping on it. Its so full and pretty. I may braid it so she does not pull it out.

She did it. Just walked right in behind Bob. She was nervous but stood there.

She stood there several minutes. Bob went to turn her around and she bolted out. She jumped straight out about 15'. Quite a broad jumper. I caught her and we walked her back up and she put her front feet in and then we just called it a day. She will have to get over that for sure. So many things to teach her. It would not be so intimidating if she wasn't so large.

Tomorrow will be a busy day. Hope its a good one for you. Blessings.

Snow - Ick

This was a grey dismal day. I mucked stalls and put Sage and Amelia right back. I cleaned Amelia's and then put Sage in hers and cleaned Sages. Then put Sage back and went and got Amelia from her pen and put her back. Sage did not particularly like Amelias stall. She was glad to get back "home".
Amelia was glad to get back in where her friend was. She got her feet trimmed today. The only way we can do her feet without her laying down is to feed her treats of as in today, I filled a small bucket with oats and she ate them while Bob was doing her feet. Tomorrow she goes to have her teeth done and checked over. I measured her today - 13h3, and measured her weight also - 780 pounds. A little old lady for sure.

This was what it was like when I got up this morning. The ground was white for a while and then it turned to drizzle which is what it did alternately with snow all day.

Papa and his puppy. She was sleeping on his chest until I walked in with the camera. She is just plain nuts over the man. He will go be with his brother when he has a heart cath on March 8th. She and her crate. She grieves when he leaves even for the day.

Didn't do much else today. It was the kind of day I like to stay in bed and read.

Blessings.

Pogress

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

My special valentine since we were both 16.
This is a series of pictures in our loading process today. When we got to the point she would put her front feet in we called it a day. We did the same thing this evening and only asked her to put her front feet in. I think she thinks its a stall and she will go in and out of stalls and does not mind being in one.

She wondered why I was back there instead of leading her. She goes well for Bob though. Tomorrow I will have an apple for her when she does so well.

Mostly just did laundry, folded it all and got it put away, mucked stalls and took a little nap. We did such a romantic thing this evening - we went and bought groceries.

Blessings to you all.

Sunny Sunday

Bob took some pictures the other day. Got the printer/scanner working. Just needed to unplug it and plug it in again. How silly but it worked.

Sage just stood there and let him take pictures. This afternoon Bob had the horse trailer out and was working in the tack room. I took Sage out and we started in trailer loading lessons. All I did was walk her over to it and let her smell and let me step in. At one point the thing that fastens the trailer door closedmade a noise when I leaned on it. It made her jump a little but I talked to her and she walked right up and smelled it and snorted at it. Good girl. She really would have gotten in the trailer I think but all I wanted her to do was smell it and to see that it wasn't going to eat her. I think going in and out of the stall all winter will help. Our trailer is large - three horse.

This was a sunrise a few days ago. It was so beautiful.

Bob leading Sage out the other morning. She is such a lady as long as you don't pull on her rope. She likes it loose and then she comes right along.

Bob was trying to get our eyes but didn't get quite close enough. That's OK.

When I left for Ellensburg yesterday and went the back way through the hospital grounds there were about 100 of these critters marching across the road one by one. I just had to sit there and let them march. The pictures through the windshield and this is the best and the tail end of the flock. They were pretty good sized turkeys.

A good day. We went to church and then when we got home I put the horses out and mucked stalls. It takes longer when I can't do it every day. Yesterday they didn't get done.

Have a good Monday, Blessings.

The Wind Doth Blow

I was in Ellensburg all day to a Washington State Horsemen state board meeting. A good meeting. I enjoy that group. A friend from the board found she had stage four ovarian cancer and had surgery. To top it off she had a cardiac arrest when she was getting ready to come home. She is home now but not in good shape. Patty is a fine lady. Please pray for her or at least send good thoughts her way.

On the way home the wind started to blow and boy oh boy did it blow. The tumble weeds were very frequent and when I got up out of the Vantage Canyon there was dust. A lot of dust 20 mph at times. I thought when I got to Moses Lake that if it was still blowing that hard at the next rest area I was going to stop and sit it out but amazingly when I got through Moses Lake, the wind died down and I just came on home. It is getting here now and the little dogs think something is attacking. I am so glad the horses are shut in the barn and I am home.

How do you get a husband to do what he is supposed to. He says his back hurts since he built fence today and moved panels around. I am so upset with him. He is supposed to be resting his back and his leg. I told him my feeling bad about him hurting was running out when he did stupid things like that. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Maybe by tomorrow I will get the printer/scanner working again. I will have to crawl under the computer desk and unplug it and replug it it. I just am too tuckered this evening to do it. I am about to crawl in bed and watch the Gonzaga basketball game. Love those boys. Love WSU too, that is my alum but they don't play like the Gonzaga boys. You probably don't care about that.

Hope your Saturday was just fine and dandy. Blessings.