Great Grandma and Aunt Julia

Bless Nikki's little heart. Here is the picture I have been trying to get here for three days. I believe it was taken around 1900. My grandmother had not married yet. Her sister Julia was, I thought the youngest of many children but I may be wrong. She was younger than Grandma. Grandma is the one on the left with the foal standing by the horses side.

To me this is an absolutely heart grabbing picture. My grandma is the one who passed on to me my horse love. It is such a treasure and I am so glad to have at least a copy of it. My sister posted it on Facebook. I had never seen it before.

Special blessings to you Nikki for helping me and special blessings to Sharon for posting it. I love you both (with or without the picture of course).

Blessings to you all

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I have the most wonderful picture of my grandmother when she was young and her younger sister riding horses in Montana. I have been trying two days to get it loaded but it will not no matter how I do it. This is ridiculous and and I really frustrated. I had some other old pictures to load but when that one would not I just gave up. My sister and daughter have both tried and we can't get it. It makes me so sad.

So that's whats happening inside the house. I have been tieing Sage to the hitch rail when I am mucking the barn. She stands there pretty well. Yesterday I took a small white bucket down with her grain in it and she wigged out the the tie ring held strong and she could not get away. I just proceeded with what I was doing and tied it to the hitch rail and walked away. Pretty soon she was eating it. Today she just wigged out the same because it was still tied there and swinging in the wind. I just tied her and left her and I did not put grain in it.

It has turned very cold here. I am so ready for spring. We had a little snow this morning but it did not stay and the wind is blowing. Not weather to work a horse in. I was going to put the saddle on her yesterday but I could not lift it up. She was not too nervous about it. The bucket was a bigger challenge.

I will try later to see if I can figure this out. So until later (maybe).

Blessings

Sunshine and a MRI

The sunset last night. We have such beautiful ones here.

It was a beautiful but cold day. After church we went to brunch and then to Inland Imaging at Holy Family hospital for Bob's MRI. He was in there a little over and hour and a half.
Our mountain taken with my long lens. Its small compared to what I grew up looking at growing up but it is beautiful to look at in the winter. I have ridden to the top but its a long ride down.

This is tonight's sunset. Not as colorful but pretty anyway.

When we went down to put the horses out so I could clean stalls and they could have a little fresh air AND we found them both standing in water. They had got to playing with the tank that automatically gives them both water and whatever they did they kept it open and it was running all over. So, they are spending time outside tonight. They have water but we don't have enough heaters for them so they will be frozen in the morning. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny so I can get some work done with Sage as well as a start on the sloggy stalls.

We won't find out until later in the week about Bob's MRI. He slept most of the time through it. I don't know how, it is so noisy.

In the mail I received Linda Laels Miller's newsletter. She is one of my favorite authors and lives around Spokane and has horses. Her books are mostly western romance stories. She has a fixation with cowboys and I love it. She included a list that I want to include. I hope she does not mind.. It is 10 qualities of a True Cowboy (how to tell the true blue from the wannabes)

1. Integrity is the fundamental virtue of the cowboy-the rock-solid determination to the right thing, no matter what.

2. Cowboys are honest, telling the truth even when it hurts them.

3. Cowboys are fearless when it comes to protecting their women, providing an irresistible combination of comforting safety - and delicious excitement.

4. Cowboys are productive; they are masculine, uncompromisingly male. No Beta males need apply.

5. Cowboys are productive, they are hard workers, digging in and getting the job done.

6. Cowboys can be trusted, with your secrets and with your heart.

7. In the face of adversity, cowboys just keep going, doing what needs to be done.

8/ Cowboys are helpful. They wouldn't thing of letting a lady to the heavy lifting.

9. Cowboys respect all critters, be they two-legged or four-legged.

10. Cowboys are quintessentially American.

My addition - I am married to one.

Blessings.

Ryans birthday party

Nothing with the horses today. Except, I got the application for title on Sage. Yahooooooo. I need someone to sign the application. Laura, I remember you said you had taken the class to inspect. Would you, could you do that for me?

This is Mount Spokane in the distance on our way to Ryan's birthday party. It was very pretty.
Ryan was 14 on Wednesday but we had his little party today. He is getting to be such a big boy. He got a really nice drum set for his birthday.

His cake. He loved it. I don't like chocolate cake but I ate a little piece.

I didn't tale a picture of Ryan's brother Seth but I must brag a bit. He is in 6th. grade. There are 60 kids that play drums. He was one of 12 that were chosen to go to Seattle and play in some kind of a contest. Great job Seth.

We will be leaving shortly for our Back Country Meeting in Couer d'Alene. Hope your day was great and you Sunday special. Please keep Bob in your prayers as he has a MRI scheduled tomorrow. Didn't know they make Sunday schedules but they do.

Blessings.

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.