A Beautiful Day

I wish I had made time to go riding today, it was perfect. But other things got in the way. With 2 families coming for dinner tomorrow and 38 eggs to peel for salad and deviled eggs and potatoes to cook for potato salad and with Bob gone to Ellensburg to meet Kathy with her half a beef she ordered, life got busy. We try to get eggs every 2 hrs. Then if the magpies come, hopefully we will get them first. I think I got 23 today.

I put Pepper out on his rope to eat. You could tie him up with a hay string and he would stay there. I let Sage out to eat while I was doing the rest of the chores. She drags her rope but doesn't go anywhere. She is way more interested in the grass and the fact she knows that I have put her grain out. She just eats and eats and when I pick the rope up she comes with me like a lady horse should.

I am going to hide ten plastic eggs with money in them. The kids are too old for real egg hunts but they will like getting money.

Back to peeling the eggs. I thought Bob would be here to help but he drives like a put put driver and he isn't here yet. It takes me 2 1/2 hrs. to get to Ellensburg but he figures on 3 1/2. He probably gets better gas mileage but I still get over 30 on that drive.

Have a blessed Easter Sunday. Remember why we celebrate. Its not the eggs or the chocolate rabbits, howbeit they are run but the reason we have Easter is Jesus rose from the grave on that day to give us everlasting life.

Blessings

A lovely day but sad too

This morning we went to the funeral of a great old lady. Ruth Southwick was a real character and loved the Lord with all her heart. She wore a big floppy hat, played the piano wonderfully Loved everyone with an open and totally unpretentious heart. You could not go to her home without having to have coffee or juice and home made cookies. One of her daughters lives in California now but I knew her years ago. It was good to hug her and tell her we knew her mom was rejoicing in heaven.
Bob took a picture of this at a yard sale we went to today. He wants to make some himself.

A black hen sitting in the horse feeder. She had several eggs under her when she got up. Several other hens had used the nest before her. I think we got 22 eggs today.

Where Bob got stuck so bad with the tractor. Its still muddy but most of the water has gone.

What is left of out lake. It was from the top of the picture to the edge of the lawn and you can see sideways where it was and behind me about 5'. Now its just a mud hold.

Bob working on Yuma's foot. I was scratching behind his ears and he through up his head up and squashed my hand between his head and the hitch rail. It is swollen and turning purple but it isn't hurting so much now. He didn't mean to do it.

Someone chewed half his tail off. It was clear to the ground. He and one other horse but I am not going to name her because her "mom" will be upset. Don't know who did it.

Patrick and Brady. I could have walked up to them if Brady's mom had not told him no. They are doing very well. Candy looks ready to calve pretty soon. We have to watch her with her history of twining.

So that's my day, Sage got out to eat a little grass and for some grooming. Bob had to fix fence because Abby decided to go through it again. She is a real twit. So Sage did not get worked but she enjoyed the eating out.

Blessings

Snow and a record at that

Our Easter eggs from gathering today. The magpies got away with some but we got a good amount anyway. Isn't that a colorful carton full. That wasn't quite all but almost.

All that and snow off and on all day long. I heard on the news that we got 1/4 inch which does not sound like much but a record for this day in all time. Frankly, I want winter to leave and let us have some nice weather. They are saying tomorrow and Sunday should be OK. That will be good. All the little girls in their fancy dresses and white shoes should do OK.

Sage got the day off. Snow does something to my willingness to go out and play. Bob did work with Emma. She either has to give in or go home and he will put her down so we just are not giving up on her. Winter did not help and Bob's back put a crimp in her training. Now he is back at it.

Yesterday I mentioned that this is the beginning of four years of blogging. I am a bit puzzled however. 24,038 people have looked at it, that is 31 since this morning, it was that count at 4 this afternoon but only 2 people commented. I LOVE having comments. Thank you two who are faithful commenter's.There are a few others who are faithful too and it is such an encouragement.

Bob is off to a Back Country Horsemen meeting in Deer Park, not the group he is president of, but I just did not feel like going out this evening. We have a funeral to go to in the morning and I will have to get up earlier than usual to get ready and be in to the church in time. We have known her for a long time and it makes me sad.

Blessings

Sun until this afternoon late

We thought we had Emma in a place where we could get a halter back on her. She is the toughest nut to crack we have ever had. She broke out and then out into a pasture. Bob thought she was off to parts unknown but she just stopped and looked at us. I opened a gate and she went back into the round pen. I guess she had not been out in so long it was safer there.

Sage got her first pedicure today. She has been tough about her feet but with that foot especially she was very good. It has taken a while to get her to that point though. Now to get to her hind feet. They are terrible. Her feet are very tough but as long as I fed her she would stand there. We put alfalfa stuff from the floor of the loft in a bucket and she though she was in heaven.

Then I took her up on the lawn to eat. I just dropped the rope and she stayed right there and ate to her hearts content.

Rowdy. He has a brother that looks very much like him. His name is Rafee.

Don't know what kind this chicken is but we have 7. I think they lay green eggs. We have several black and some brown and a black and white checkered one. Also three small hens. None lay white eggs.

Oh the grass was so good. I used to let Sierra just go eat and she stuck around good. Sage just stayed really close but watched me when I was putting the feed in their stalls. When I picked up her rope, she knew where we were going.

Had the funniest thing ever this evening. I tossed the leftover stuff from making the salad for dinner - such as an avocado skin and the end of a small zucchini. Two hens were after the zucchini end. They were having a stare down, another hen ran up and grabbed it while the two others were staring at each other.

This is the start of my fourth year of blogging. Am flabbergasted with the amount of people who have logged on. Thank you all who are faithful and have been a real encouragement to me.

Blessings

Busy weekend, shopping and snow

This past weekend I worked at a horse show out in the Spokane Valley called the Fat and Fuzzy Show. This little guy was both. It was a good show but very cold and windy.
My friend Mary on her draft mare Gigi. She (the horse, not Mary) was a rescue from the premerin horses in Canada.

Another friend Sandy driving her pony. He won everything.

I don't know who this little girl was but she looked cute sitting on her dad's feet.

Gigi again with Sandy aboard in the beginning English Pleasure class. She did very well.

I almost called Taylor a little girl but at 16 she might no like it. I started giving her riding lessons when she was 5. She got so scared, I told her mother to wait. Her mother passed away about a year or two ago from breast cancer. Taylor is a sweet young woman.

This is Shanna and she won the 10 and under high point. Isn't she cute.

Yesterday I shopped ALL day for a new dress for Easter and one I can put away and have for Katie's wedding. I think I went to every store in town that I could afford to shop in. They all looked alike and one I could have lived with was too short for a 72 year old great grandmother. I was totally frustrated. Then I thought of a dress I had that I have not worn for a while. It won't work for Katie's wedding because it is solid white but it will for Easter. It is going to be a little big but it will work.

Yesterday it snowed almost all day. Did not stick much but it came down. At the place they keep measurements, it was an inch and a record. Enough of the records, I want WARM. Today wasn't much better.

I worked with Sage for a while today. Her feet are awful and we must get them done. I could have gotten one front foot worked today, she was very good and then Bob started the tractor close by and enough of the feet business. I did get her to go both ways of the pen without bucking and kicking up and having a jolly good time. She just stands around until I go and try to work her and then the action starts for a few minutes. Then she settles down and does what I ask of her.

Yesterday Bob drove our next door neighbor to Seattle to the Veterans Hospital. He had cancer surgery today. They had to remove part of his tongue and inside of his mouth. He has two dippy brothers that would rob him blind and no other living relatives. Please pray for him. He is a nice man who unfortunately drinks too much.

Blessings

Snuffy nose but better

Made a trip in to see the doctor today. I must be better by the weekend when I have to work at the Fat and Fuzzy Horseshow at Valley Mission Arena. The weather does not seem too promising. He put me on an antibiotic for a sinus infection which is what I really thought it was. Sage is such a character. We worked with her feet again today and she was much better. I imagine if we keep at this Bob will be able to work on at least her front feet by next week. When she does good and we pet her and tell her she flaps her lips looking for a treat. I really have spoiled her I think. I didn't feel like standing out in the wind for her to eat grass for 45 minutes today and she was really put out with me. When Bob put her in this evening Pepper was aggrevated because she went first and ran at the fence and she reared up some. She does not kick or bite but that front end is light and that gives me a little concern. No other news really, kind of a dull place around here. I want to get outside and work but this weather is not cooperating. Blessings

Yuck

That is how I feel, yuck. This cold has attacked with a vengeance today. I am tired of it already. I did go out and work with Sage a while. Groomed half a ton of hair off of her and we worked on picking up feet. Bob came and helped me. She got it pretty easily. Especially when I fed her treats. She is really a character. And that was my day. My head is gigantic and my eyes feel like they are popping out. Blessings.