Random Recent Stuff

As always

busy beyond belief

have decided that after the wedding

which I will post

I will not write on this blog any more

and devote myself to accomplishing the goal

of finishing my book

self publishing and all that entails

I'm seeing more and more blogs close down

as people move on

and I'm sad by that

but I know how it is

life is about change and growing

Quinn is sold and that was hard for me

but I'm accepting it and happy for him

as he gets ridden much more than he did here

and also accepting that we will

sell a couple more horses

in order to get our numbers down

so we can travel more

dogs you can board

horses not so much

rest assured that we will not sell every horse

just the ones that are useable that we don't use

I always said that when I quit being so busy

living this crazy life

I'd write stories about it

and I know I'm slowing down now

to be honest

since that riding accident

my back hasn't been the same

and I can't do the things I used to

it's time to sit back

write the book I said I would

while watching, supporting and guiding

the next generation coming up (Mercy)

which leaves no time to blog

I'll still be around

and I'll post once in while maybe...

in the meantime

here's a few pictures shot recently

winter riding

looking at tracks on the ground

which we figured out to be where someone

had driven in to pick up dead trees for firewood

and dragged them out

when we came home

I thought it would be a good idea

to pull out that cowhide I started to tan

which is now just salted

because I couldn't find enough alum

to finish it

no matter

it works fine

scares the horses to pieces

Smoke is having none of that

no way

Mercy, Wade and 20 dogs

they just don't know

but it sure smells funky

Bo was the first horse to accept it

and step on and over it

Smoke took some more time

but he eventually got over it too

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random sand castle with moat picture

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so the other day

I told Grandma

I would like it if she and Mercy

would paint a

"family tree"

on the wall for me

once it's done

I'll print out copies of everyone's picture

laminate them

and put them up on the tree

so they got the paints out

and got busy

I got out of their way

I think they did a great job!

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