Nice ride today

Melissa bought the most wonderful mare today from Jennifer. Since it was so close she came to the house and I grabbed Trick and we went for a 2 hour ride on her new mare. Heathen was perfect. Thanks to Kerwin Performance Horses for the training done on Heathen. There were gun shot where we rode and Trick got jittery but not Heathen. She was calm like they weren't even happening. Crossed water as did Trick, no issues. The ride was fantastic and beautiful.  Couldn't have been a nicer day for it. Here are some pics. We were mostly in remote areas but with gunshots we came back via the road. Perfect day.

Today's Pics

Took some new pics this morning.

Pistol and Bo

Bo with Pistol in tow, headed out to graze.

Wait for me.

Well come on!

Nice butt on one so young. Royal isn't even 3 months old yet. 

Is she gone yet?

All the fat kids

My sweet Trick

My pest Peaches. Hard to take pics when she is up my butt

WHAT???

Mother and daughter 

Royal loves to hide around mom

We are almost done shedding baby coat

Filling out nicely

Bo. He is now about 2 inches taller than Pistol. They are 16 months old and over 14 hands.

MOM!!! 

I can't wait to get this girl finished. I just love her. 

Love that butt

No go away

Looking over Belle's back

Pick which one is lacy, kai and bella. My point being, kai is as big and wide as lacy and belle. 

Sweet babies

Love my Belle

Bad Start to the Day

Ok so it was nice and cool this morning. I walk out to see Wes off to work as usual and notice that Clyde ( as in my cockatiels Bonnie and Clyde) is laying in the bottom of the cage. There is blood, a lot of blood. There are feathers on the outside of the cage. I am going to take an educated guess that the DOGS went on a run (instead of being on the porch) and a raccoon came up on the porch, I have seen many lately, and got ahold of Clyde. Bonnie is ok, she survived an attack about 5 years ago and only has one wing. I am actually surprised she is ok. Now I have to move her over to Pretty Boy Floyd's cage so she won't be lonely. She has always had a mate. The birds will be moved back into the house this evening. They have never been bothered before.
So let this serve as notice that I am in a very foul mood and anyone wishing to add to that will more than likely be promptly removed from my life at this point. I am sick of bullshit. Poke the bear and the bear will poke back.

What a Beautiful Morning

Ahhh..........cool crisp morning. I actually think we can shut off the air conditioner for tonight as well. It is so nice this morning despite the cloud cover. It just feels good. The horses are feeling really good with it being so cool as well. I wish I had gotten pictures this morning, they were down in the pasture and looked so comfortable and content, but then they always do except for when the bugs start bothering them. Looks like for the next couple days they will be bug free for the most part. YAY!

Royal is coming around a lot since I pulled she and Belle up from the pasture. I scratched her butt this morning. She has almost turned all blue roan. (just in time for her to put on her winter coat)

Its a good day to go play with horses.

Morning Munching

Royal

Long weekend at the lake

We went to the lake for the weekend. It was a long weekend as I took the day off Friday so we could go out Thursday night. I love to go to the lake. We had lots of family out there, some friends of mine came out for dinner one night, lots of fishing, swimming and laying around. It was great. The lake water was as warm as a bath which didn't make for real refreshing until you got out. Then it was nice and cool. Nights were nice and cool and made for some very good sleeping weather. We never did put the top tent flap on so each night I went to sleep looking up at the stars. We even got to see some of the meteor showers. We watched the international space station fly over two of our nights out there.

Thursday night fishing was great. We fished until a little after 1 a.m. After that fishing sucked. There was way to much activity on the lake not to mention they let some water out so that messed everything up. We still had a good time though. Our campsite was right by the water which was really nice. Where we usually camp we have to walk a bit but this was like our own private little beach area (there was no sand just rocks). Nightly campfires were nice, card games and just general relaxing and sitting outside.

We got home on Sunday morning, everyone at home was fantastic and Wes and I were exhausted. Its pretty bad when you are more tired from a mini vacation than you were before you left for said vacation. I was asleep by 7:30 p.m. (very unlike me) but it was well worth it. The dogs were super happy to see us home. The horses I don't think even knew we were gone. No one did anything stupid but then I had a good friend come check on and take care of things as well. My guinea keets grew so much in 3 days. They are doing great. Can't wait till they are all grown up. I want more.

Well that's it for now. It was a great weekend.