More Pictures

Here are some pics I took today.

Just A Few Thoughts On Love

You know, I keep hearing "You have done more than I would have to save that filly" "You dont have anything invested, perhaps its best to have her put down instead of running up the vet bill" and "you are a good mom because you sacrificed to save that foal". Then I got to thinking of what my Dad would have said about the vet bill "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING!! PUT HER DOWN!!! A 52 Cent bullet is a LOT cheaper!!" And that sums it up for pretty much anyone I know....except my husband. Jeff simply said "If that vet can save her life, its worth it". He never once said anything about hurry to pick her up so the bill wont be high or $275 for plasma is too high or anything of that sort. Folks, Our bill is around sixteen hundred bucks. He needs to buy tires for his truck and endless other things we needed to get with that money.....he never said a word like crap that is high...He simply says "I just hope she lives through all of this" then he goes out to the pasture and checks on her......we all have our differences.....but I am soooooo glad that my husband is with me on the vet bills. To save a life, its worth it. He was like that with TJ too....my first horse that we thought had "choke" but ended up that he ruptured his sphincter valve due to cancer......that was a bill that was not as high as this one but close....Same with Ruger. Both of those ended in death, so we are praying for her to make it through!!!

On another note, I know that the folks who said "you have done more than i would have" are just saying that. Because I know that if you saw this filly in person, you would have pulled out all the stops. She is so alert and so full of life.....You just cant help but want to try....

BTW, Bailey is home now. She has a 50/50 chance right now. It seems we are just waiting to see some improvement. He hock and stifles are swollen and she is still gimpy...BUT she is using the back right leg more and more. She can get up on her own now even though its just one big movement. Since she got home yesterday afternoon, her hock is 50% less swollen. She is putting weight on the hind right leg...something she has not done. I think she needs some grass, sunshine, and love. I have to give her pills twice a day and hydrotherapy her back end twice a day. She is pretty easy to handle.....Feel free to come over and give her kisses!!

April 17th.

I dont know what else to title this!!! Anyhow, Bailey is still fighting! She is getting around good, but she has a limp! She has foal heat scours now, but that is nothing near as bad as she was two days after her birth. Her Mother coliced last night, but she was over it quick. I guess I caught it early enough! I did get to ride every day this week. Except today because of the down pour, but I love the rain!

Hick, the dun horse that I repo'ed last month, well, I still hate that horse. I was going to ride him Monday (or was it Tuesday?) and when I went to bridle him, he wacked me HARD in the face and messed me up a little. I now have a shinner and my neck has been killing me. So after he got a good cussing and was drug to the round pen and I wanted to kill him, Jeff took over. He is NOW JEFF's HORSE. I refuse to mess with him other than feeding him and putting fly spray on him.....Other than that, he can have him! He wont let me sell him again...grrr..

Anyhow, I filed for my unemployment and cannot request payment until April 26th. Today I dealt with the credit card companies....one is just a credit card that is maxed out and the other is a credit card with vet bills...called care credit. Anyhow, both credit companies had awesome "financial stress counselors" My credit score has greatly improved and they had already lowered my interest rate. Well today I locked in 6.6% for 4 months with capital one and the did some other things too. I no longer need to worry with over limit or late fees. Well for 4 months. After four months, my rate goes to fixed 13% but compared to what they were going to do before I called, that is a hell of a deal!! They were fixing to bump it to 12% plus prime which is around 15% right now! SO she fixed me up really good. Now just have to pay it down!! Care credit is a no interest or fees deal for so long then after that 29.9...well they dropped me down to 10% instead. So I guess my point is, they helped me out!!! Sallie Mae, my student load handler already has me down to an affordable rate. So now I just have to get those checks in and put them to the bills!!

I bought plants. I cant grow Ivy....but I bought a handful of tomato, squash and strawberry plants. Not too many mind you, but enough to keep me busy. I plan to plant them on the east side of the house. It gets full morning sun, so I think they will be better there in that flower bed. I also bought a Hoe....LOL I have no idea what I am doing, but I have the help of CJ, the one who owns the feed store and sold me the plants, to help! She told me that I will be OK.....we shall see. Dont worry I will get pictures!! LOL

OK going to go enjoy the rain and be a housewife! Oh one more thing, can you guys please pray for me? I need a job and Lord willing, I want to teach. I want to teach so bad it hurts! I have put in an application to teach FCCLA (home ec) at a high school and I am the only applicant, but they are holding out to find someone with certification. Ugh. I however, have put in to be tested to get temporary certification. I have also shown interest in the ag teaching position at the local HS right down the road. So guys, it means a lot to me! Please say a prayer for me!

Its Been Stressful

Well this week has been tough. Bailey, the new filly that was Born on April 5th, got deathly ill. On Tuesday night I found her down. She was still able to get up and nurse, but she did not want too. I knew that she was dehydrated and if I did not act very fast, we were gonna loose her. I called the vet and he told me what to do. Well today is Saturday and we now have an active little 6day old filly! Big change from Tuesday. We tended to her round the clock to make sure that she had fluids and meds. Poor girl. But she is now full of it and wont think twice about getting away from ya!!
Monday I went to the schools to find a new job. I especially took a shine to the FCCLA teaching position at one of the high schools. Hopefully they took a shine to me!
As far as work goes, well, I was not able to go in wed but I did go in thurs and I can tell you that I was not welcome. I was basically told that they did not need me anymore and to leave. So I got the rest of my stuff and left. But I had to come home and care for Bailey anyhow, so I am over it. Next week, I will be pounding the pavement to find a new job/career. My resume is update, I have copies of my transcripts, so now all I need is someone looking to hire!!

Hm

Well sorry for those of you that had to be granted permission to read my blog, but I am now looking for jobs and prefer to have my blog semi private! Yup, I was told last Thursday that I will not have a job after April 15th. The are eliminating my position.....um.....anyhow, I know for a fact that God has a plan, so I had my pitty party on Thursday and got to work on Friday looking for jobs. I just filled out my application for teaching at a local school. I will hand deliver that and my resume on Monday. I have also heard of a few other local jobs, so I will apply for them as well. I am not going to be discouraged. However I must find something here. I cant drive over an hour for a job that pays $10 an hour. It wont pay for itself. We cannot relocated at this time. So for everyone that wants to help.....guys I am looking!! But please dont try to tell me to drive to the city that is over an hour away or relocate! It aint gonna happen! Maybe just maybe I can get the ag teaching job at the high school one town over. That would be perfect!! But I will not hold my breath. I am applying for unemployment, but I cant officially apply until my last day. OH and since i was part time for two different entities...meaning i got paid by both Angelina and the Career Center, I am not even sure I qualify. But I did work full time (39 hours a week) so I might just have to drive to the SS office and fill out something special there. Jeff said we will be OK, but I know that I need a job to pay off my bills!! If I get a teaching job, it wont start until July, so I guess if I get one of those, I will have a little vacation!!! LOL But guys, I can assure you that I will not get all depressed over this.....My life has changed a LOT since the first of the year and I am still hanging in there....I quit nic, I had surgery for endo, started on a med that puts me in menopause, my truck issues, my broken ribs, and the list goes on. This is just one more thing and I am determine to find the good in everything.....so, help me to keep my spirits up!! I need to be surrounded by positive people!

My mare is due to foal...yesterday.....still nothing!!! However she is bagged and showing all the signs....Right now she is pacing in the front pasture by herself. She is totally agitated. So we wait....Hubby is out working on the back pasture....we have thistles again and he is cutting them down by hand...we did this last year and have WAY less this year, so I guess it is working??? My sinuses are crappy today due to the 20mph wind and the yellow flowers...yuck. I still have a cracked rib that is really painful at the walk when riding, so I am still off my ponies. I will work Joe however. He loves me.....lol Hick is still not right and still skinny.....Not sure how long it will take to get him back to 100%...

Oh Yeah, My Truck...

OK, so my truck was sick. See if it was below 60 Degrees and had to sit more than 4 hours with out running the engine (like when you are sleeping) It would not start with out at least one hour of the engine block heater being plugged in. Well folks, that will leave ya stranded at a barrel race, work or even at home if you cant plug it in!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Well finally I talked hubby into putting it into the shop...UGH, it was very broke. My Lift Pump which brings the fuel from the tank to the injectors, and my injector pump were toast. Well, i cant say toast, but not good. Anyhow, they told us that changing the lift pump "MIGHT" fix it....$600 later...nope. Then they say changing the Injector pump "MIGHT" fix it....for $2500....OK, when they said that, I said DONT TOUCH IT, I AM PICKING BLACK UP!!!! Well, when I got there, they went to cranking the starter....for 10 minutes....GRRRRRRRRRR!!!! I was soooo mad! Then it did start and I was going to go to walmart....I saw might light on and I was still in the parking lot of the dealership...it was the check engine light that was NEVER on...Well he turned it off to clear the code and she did not want to start back up again...I was PISSED cause it was 80 degrees out and I did not have the issues 5 days earlier when I dropped her off!!! So I was on a mission...to either find a way to fix Black for less or to find another truck. WOW...what a stressful week!!!
After all the stress and deciding that I needed Black fixed and could not or did not want another truck, the dealership called......and said...... "Mrs. Myers, this is the service manager at Weaver Brothers. I was on vacation when your truck was in here....and I heard that you were not happy when you left.....well, I can fix your truck but the only way this will work is if you bring the truck back to ME and let me fix it...." Me.. "OK, how much?" Him... "well ma'am,we can change the injector pump and since you have not paid for the lift pump we installed already, we will only charge $500 total for both pumps and can have it ready for you tomorrow if you get it here today!"

Folks, i would be a damn fool not to jump on this! So I did and they had her fixed by lunch the next day! She now cranks right off! It got down in the 30's Saturday and she fired up with out being plugged in!!! OMG I was/am so happy!

Hello!

Hey guys! Sorry I have not posted sooner. My Wrist is just now healing. I managed to sprain my wrist correcting Gabe for biting me.....So it kinda makes it hard to type! Yesterday was a hard day. We needed to load the colts to run them over to the vet for coggins test.....Well back two years ago we aquired a stock trailer that is perfect for hauling colts...BUT hubby took out the floor and began to "work" on it.....now over a year and a half after he took it apart, I finally show him WHY I needed that stock trailer in one peice about 7 months ago....Because I needed to load mares and foals to teach the foals how to load!!! Have you ever tried to load a foal in a slant trailer with rear tack????? Anyhow, we tried to get them loaded yesterday in the slant trailer. We took the slants out, but there is no place for leverage in a slant trailer!!! So I was on the rump of Dually and he was handling the head and butt rope.....Well, Dually was just being a yearling that has never been loaded...he reared and I slipped landing at his feet..........Lucky for me Dually felt me back there and he stopped and hubby stopped pulling on his face....BUT the backside of my rib cage on the right side is SORE.....I think I was kinda "stepped on". And the way I landed hit my hip and shoulder. So I am SORE. Of course its right where my bra would sit so I cant even wear one right now unless I have too. Not sure if I actually broke/cracked my ribs, but they cant fix that anyhow. It did knock the wind out of me pretty bad. Scared the shit out of me too. Once I stood up I told hubby that I was done.....he was going to get the stock trailer fixed or he was going to figure out how to load them by himself. Since both colts are sold, I need to get the coggins pulled!! Well, i called the vet who refused to come out (5 miles down the road) to pull the coggins...Well I was crying and somehow he decided that he would drive over and pull blood for me. THANK GOD. We went ahead and pulled coggins on 5 horses. I figured that since I am sure we were gonna have to pay a farm call, may as well get everyone done!!!!

So, i slept. I slept yesterday away and this morning......When I hurt, sleep seems to come easy. I think my body wants to heal. But today I went and got stuff to make Jeff some more Chocolate Chip Cookies.....He loves them! So I made some more from scratch then I did a few loads of laundry and cleaned out the mouse terd cabinet...YUCK.....I think the mouse is DEAD so I had to pull everything out of the cabinet and clorox it all!!! YUCK!!!! Still working on that but its kinda hard when you cant really reach for anything....