Life Gets Better!!

YAY!!! I am now 29!!! Oh, BTW, I will be 29 for a long time.... :) Anyhow, Jeff surprised me with 2 wonderful gifts last night!! He got me a really nice leather with cowhide frame and a really cool candle holder! Yup, he is a keeper! I also got to order my trophy saddle!!!!! Anyhow, I just found out that I am getting a colt to break here next week. That will be good. We need it...... I might need to take that cash and put an AC on the trailer. Looks like i will get to haul a lot this year thanks to Bobby!!!! :) Thanks Bobby!!!

TODAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Today was my 29th birthday!! I really had a pretty good day! I was planning on utilizing my comp time that I will accumulate on Friday, but, I ended up working through lunch and only getting out of the office by 3:15 meaning that I accumulated 15 more comp minutes! i managed to figure out my new blackberry pearl. I also added pictures, video and music to the phone!!! I went home to some eye gouging wind and decided to unload the feed in the back of my truck.....Well, got a little stuck, but, I got out before Jeff came home, LOL. Then, when he got home, we went and ate Mexican food and came home. Jeff got me several great presents!!! For one, he paid for my upgrade for my saddle ($460). I was not expecting anything else. But, he knows me well! He got me a really cool candle holder that looks like a log with a cut out that shows a barrel racer! He also got an awesome leather frame with hair on it!!! I will take some pictures and post them! I was soooooooo Excited!!!!

Ah, Sunday

Well, its Sunday. The weekend is over and I have a busy week ahead. Too bad I am running fever....Sigh. The sun is finally coming out!!! I have plans for the day which include riding the horses and roaching Hick's mane. That turd pulled his mane out!!! It stands straight up on his neck!!! YUCK! Oh, and I am thinking that the boys~ Hick, Gabe, Joe, Ellis, Colt and Ruger all need baths. I may leave the Dogs alone, but, the horses are really BAD!!!! Mud everywhere!!!! Oh, and their stalls are NASTY!!!!!
Anyhow, right now I am enjoying my coffee, making apple bread, and trying to decide if I need more sleep or to get off my butt. I HATE being sick!!!!

My Hubby and the Calf.....

Jeff decided to play Cowboy today and took off on Gabe with a rope..... I guess I should first mention that my hubby can handle a horse, but, it does not look very pretty.....He kinda sits stiff and only knows how to ride with one hand.....Anyhow, our neighbor had a calf get snared in the trap he set for a bobcat that was eating his chickens... Still not sure why he did that knowing there was not a fence between the chickens and the cows.....But, the poor calf was running around with a snare on his leg. So, Jeff came in, while I was laying down with fever, and asked me if I still wanted Gabe worked to day.... I was like, WHY? Well, I told him he could ride Gabe over there if he would let me saddle him and would think about how "special" Gabe is.....Now, Gabe is a jam up cow horse. He likes to bite them to make them run FASTER!!! " border="0"> Add that and a novice rider and you get disaster..... Gabe can also split hard when the calf does....Good news is that Jeff never got close enough to the calf for Gabe to leave him in the mud. IDK what they did about the calf...But, Gabe is OK....

YAWN.....

OK, I am not sure what the hell the deal is, but, I have woken up again at 6am on a freakin Saturday!!!!!! GRRRRR!!!!!! I was all comfy in the bed when I heard Colt trying to scratch his way out of the kennel. Well, I just had to get up and let him out!!!! Now, I am awake and started a pot of coffee....What is wrong with me??? Right now I am thinking about taking a shower, hooking up to the horse trailer and being the first one at the vet clinic that opens at 8am. Might be a good idea!!! But, did I have to wake up at 6am to do this??? Maybe!!!

Anyhow, I am sure there is a reason for me to get up this early. I slept really good last night too. But, now i am yawning....Hmmmmmmm.....

You Can Count Me as a Friend ~ LOL

How about this for a friendship vow...


1.When you are sad -- I will help you get drunk and plot revenge against the sorry bas@#$% who made you sad.

2. When you are blue -- I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.

3. When you smile -- I will know you are plotting something that I must be involved in.

4. When you are scared -- I will rag on you about it every chance I get.

5. When you are worried -- I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining.

6. When you are confused -- I will use little words (…oookkkaaayyy???) " border="0">

7. When you are sick -- Stay the hell away from me until you are well!!! I don't want no part of whatever nasty germ you have.

8. When you fall -- I will help you get up, but first I will point and laugh at your clumsy a$$.

Update and My (shelly too) Theory on What is Going On

Its Not Cancer!!!! OK, here is what my theory is on Ruger. For one, he has a hole in his mouth that extends to his jaw bone and up to where his eye used to be So, when he eats, the food or horse manure or anything he eats goes into that hole. Well, arent there ducts involved that would lead to his sinuses and drain/ filter through his lymph node? So, the sample they took showed brain, plant and an unknown cell type. Hm, could that be food, mucous, blood, horse poop, cat poop, you name it, he has been eating it...So, that stuff packs into that hole, causes a festering continuous infection. This is why the antibiotics knock it back and then it comes back...

Oh, My

Well, it has been a nasty week in the barn...Sigh. All i have wanted to do all week is ride. I had to work till dark Mon, Tues, and Wed. So, that pretty much too care of that. Then, Thurs I was going to ride and I got home to a MUDDY riding area and MUDDY horses along with bone chilling cold and wind. My ears hurt just walking out to the barn to let Joe out. OMG, today it was even nastier. I went and got a massage this morning with plans to take Gabe, Joe and Day in for Coggins and pick up vaccinations for everyone. NOPE, did not happen. As soon as I stepped foot out of the massage office, it started to rain.....BRRRRRRR!!!!!! I called all my plans off for the day and came home to the couch. I got some major rest, which I think my body needed anyway, and fed the horses. I did manage to let the boys into the front paddock to munch on the round bale for several hours. Bad thing is that it started raining before I could get them all up. Grrr! That means that i now get to look for snotty noses by the weekend. Anyhow, i am snug as a bug in a rug in the house right now!!!
:)

Life and its Road Bumps....

OK, this month has been busy and fun!!! I am barrel racing my butt off!!! Gabe is in the best shape of his life and now life is here.....The weather sucks, working later than normal cause of the first week of school, friends are at each others throats and I just found out that Ruger might have cancer.
First off, it drives me nuts when people fight over petty bull shit. Sorry for the harsh term for all my g-rated friends, but, I am totally getting too old to deal with people who try to kill each other over stupid shit. Do I need to give an example??? I mean, if someone rubs you the wrong way....WALK AWAY!!! I mean, is there any reason to get all hyped up about something that is so frivolous as a Christmas present??? Or even a little bit of money...or both??? I dont think so. Anyhow, some how this "fight" has gotten way out of hand and now it has turned into an all out battle. Geez, am I gonna have to get the water hose out??? I mean really. Now that I have offended two of my friends I am gonna move on.
My beloved Dog, Ruger might not have just an infection. Now we are looking at the possibility of cancer. He was in great pain after we returned from our barrel race. I took him to the vet to get him some pain meds. I just took him to the local vet because the other vet said that there was nothing else that could be done. Sorry, I am not driving that far to be told that he has lost all hope in saving my dog. Not that that vet wont be my first choice for anything serious again, but, I am just not able to drive that far for nothing. So, I took him to the local vet that pulls coggins and gives out heartworm meds. He stuck a needle into Ruger's swollen lymph node and sucked out some of the black stuff that i can only describe as snot mixed with wet coffee grounds. Basically its cells with black pigment which is a characteristic of cancer cells. YEAH, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I HAVE MORE THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT.... Anyhow, so, we sent off a histopth for further research. Anyhow, the vet gave me some good pain meds that were injectable and some awesome antibiotics too. All are injectable cause Ruger is having a hard time eating. Today, after one day of pain meds, he is back on his feet and happy. He actually was able to yawn for the first time in a long time. I think we might only do the pain meds as needed.

Next would be the whole whining about being BROKE!!! Yup, it happens. Happens more often to me than most others, but, I will live.

Oh, everything else is fine!!! I dont get to ride that much this week due to the weather and the fact that the sun is GONE before I get home right now. It will change next week, but, for now, it sucks!!!

I Have 2 Blogs Now!!

Well, I went out and decided that I needed a blog for my website!!! So, i have created a blog that will allow me to post youtube videos of my runs and critique them, add daily routine logs for Gabe, Hick and Joe and keep you guys updated on how our Barrel racing is going!!! YAY!

Life in General

Well, sorry I have been dragging on my blog. But, it seems that I have some things to say that some peeps really dont want to hear and this blog is my online diary and I dont want to say what is really on my mind!!! Anyhow, I dont like it when my friends dont get along. I dont like it when someone is mad at a friend who is honestly not trying to do anything wrong, she is just having a hard time...both of these friends are having a hard time and they are now focused on each other..........ouch.....that one hurts. Anyhow, I am also one that trys to keep peace and dont like to have people fighting around me. There enough said about that.

Now, back to the ponies. Gabe did OK this week at our barrel race. I did do my 2 exhibitions, one at a trot for him to see the arena and the other at a slow lope so I can pop his ass to get him around the barrel. After that, we had our run about 4 hours later. he was DRAGGING ASS to the first barrel. No, the dirt was perfect so he was not getting "hung up", and Yes I pushed him all the way to the barrel.......He was jsut dragging Ass!!!! Well, we ended up with a 16.680 and I thought it was gonna be an 18 second run by the way he went to the first. But, he actually had a decent time. Too fast for the 5D and too slow for the 4D, but, a decent time. A 15.1 was winning it then it dropped to a 14.8...WOW...Blew us out of the water!!! Well, I just cannot figure out what the hell happened. Everyone reemed my run and I am very hesitant to even put it on youtube cause I was not happy. But, it was just a barrel race. However, this year we have an angel who is sponsoring Gabe the Babe and I want to show him that we are worthy of the sponsorship!!!

Advice I have gotten so far is to NOT exhibition him, remove the back girth.... push harder, use my whip...yada yada...I will not run with out the back girth cause it really messes me up when the saddle hits me in the ass. Whiping to the first in this small ass arena was not a thought that crossed my mind cause Gabe has been blowing to the first and scaring the crap outta me. I worry that he will blow past. BUT, I did kick all theway!!! And, I kept my ass out of the saddle!!! Not exhibitioning??? WTF!! Gabe will be 7 in April and has been hauled, but, never to this pen! We always do an exhibition to show him the ground, scary horse eating monsters, and all that jazz.....The free for all is coming up and we will have two runs in the same race. I will go ahead and not exhibition him cause that might just be it...maybe I am wearing him out or something even though we are jsut going slow on the exhibitions. IDK...

As far as the rest of life goes, Jeff and I are doing great. He is sick still and I pulled a muscle or something in my hip, so, the love life has been a little short, but, thats OK, we will be back at it soon. I know, TMI, but, i had to say it!!! Also, I ahve to get back to riding the piss out of Gabe and Hick TODAY!!! I dont care how cold it is, we are gonna get back to our program TODAY!!! OK, thats all for now!!!