Oh, Sweet Lil' Lucifer!

Please disregard the thermometer...it wasn't nearly this warm.  Its broken and I need to remove it and send it to the broken thermometer grave yard.  It was more like 60 or so.

WOW!  What a day for such a sweet little kitty!  ( :

Hahaa!  I just called Lucifer sweet!  LMAO!  He's a brat!

This Sunday We Did This....

We started with a little of this...

Then we moved on to this...

....and this!

Kage found this to do.

Then he and Abbi did some of this.

Much to my chagrin, my Eagle friend hasn't bumped off all of the goslings yet!

M-Kitty offered some assistance in the goose issue.

Tony got riled up for no good reason.  Tari even told him so!

Her less than impressed face...or maybe her begging face.

And a little closer.

Horse Girl wasn't impressed that we interrupted her nap.

....But she managed to get up for a little lovin'!

And that's what we did today!  Oh, I rode too, but Chad didn't manage to get a picture of that.... Darn it!  ( :

Leo Buscaglia Said....

Not really he didn't say that...but it makes me laugh every time I read/see it...so I HAD to post it!!  Giggling right now as I type.  He did say the following however :

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.

Just thought I'd share...as today, I am sure I am risking my sanity yet again.

Being self employed rocks....

Some Of The Current Happenings 'Round Here...

Well its been fairly busy, but not the kind of buys that you get to take fun pictures of!  Bummer!

So here's the rundown...my first two weeks of May:

Monday I made an appointment for Tari to go to the vet...or was it Tuesday?  Oh, which ever it was I got Tari's palpation scheduled.  Somewhere in there we had a home inspection for our prospective new home...  The home inspectors came in and said....oh, we need to have the radiant heat turned on and charged for this.  She gave us a place to call to get that handled...  Well the radiant heating system wasn't emptied when the former owners vacated the place, so it froze and we have damage at the valve from the boiler to the lines.  So it was a no can do.  That sucks.

We rescheduled the home inspection for Friday the 7th of the same week and let them know that it was impossible at this time to get the radiant heat up and running.  She said that they'd go a head with out it.  Our inspection was finished by Noon on Friday. 

Our appraisal was finished on Saturday.  We got every ones paperwork back and sent it on to the lending agent.  The mold remediation company finally made it out to the house to do our quote for that this morning.  We will have their quote tomorrow morning...
Yes, I said mold.  We made an offer on the house, and the next day...the power was turned on and the house proceeded to be flooded.  Being bank owned, nothing happened to get the house dried.  So nature took its course, but its really not as bad as it could have been...we have the cold weather to thank for that!!   Its been a long and crappy road with this.  I am sure that in the end it will all be worth it.  Just getting to the end seems painful right now!  ( :  Crossing our fingers that the lenders just say, what the hell!  LOL!! 

I am not sure how long it will take with the lenders, I know that everything with or without the remediation quote is headed to the underwriters tomorrow.  There is always a chance that the lenders will expect the other bank to make some sort of efforts for repair before they lend...and there is always the chance that the owning bank will say kiss off....  They had better not though...I am soooo ready to get a move on!

Thursday the 6th was Tari's appointment.  We have a pasture full of mares...so watching for signs of a heat cycle is fun!  Not!!  Especially when the Alfa Mare controls so much of that and how its acted out...  The Alfa Mare being Mave of course.  I figured Tari should be entering heat around the 10th.  Well I was a bit off...but not too much thank goodness!  Tari was just beginning her heat when we saw Dr. Peters.  So she stayed there. 

Dr. Peters had to do a counter to counter pick up of the semen rather than being able to order and schedule the insemination because of my miss calculation.  Ooops!  My bad.  This is the first time I've have a mare bred this way and am certainly learning as I go!  ( :  Tari was allowed to come home on Monday after noon.  Dr. Peters offered to take the colt at weaning time for services rendered if Mindy wanted.  I told him I'd pass it on....  Mindy said if its a colt, she'd consider selling it to him, I'll share that with him the next time I see him.

Thank goodness Dr. Peters is tolerant of me and my spasticness (God only knows what I'll nearly or totally mess up next! ).  I enjoy the lessons/information that he offers freely and often.  We will have a few more exchanges in the next couple of months before we get to just let the gestation progress.  We will see him again on the 24th for our 14 day check.  We had better see a little bean in there!  ( :  After the bean spotting, we will then have another appointment at the 45 day mark.  There we will be looking for a heart beat!  Then we will expect smooth sailing from there!

Oh, I am soooo excited for my sister!!  Of course I love the babies, but its being part of her dream to raise her own big time barrel horse that's pretty cool!!

The Land Lord has decided NOT to buy another horse trailer, rather he is going to borrow mine and the neighbors.  He announced he would use mine for short hauls and Dicks for long hauls.  Lucky for me, he runs around on the short distances far more than long distances.  Yippppeeeee for me, NOT!  I told him OK. with me, but honestly, I am not loving it.  It seems to be one of those things being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

But when I get a new house...I won't have to share anymore!!!  Except with Chad!  LOL!!

They're Not Dock Dogs....

They are POND dogs!  Hahaa!!

I know that I have freely mentioned all the things that I won't miss when we don't live here anymore...so here is one of the things we will really miss!  The dogs love the pond and will spend hours playing in it if you let them!

To All The Moms...

              Happy Mothers Day!!

Class Is In!

I had this great adventure's blog planned out in my head for about two weeks prior to our departure.

 Mindy, Wyatt, and Mindy's good friend Stacie showed up at our house Friday afternoon.  We unloaded the horses and headed out to what could be Chad and I's house some day...(another  long, long, long, and painful storey...) then hit our favorite Mexican Restaurant.  And that is where the planned adventure ended!  ( :

Long storey short, I didn't get a single picture or our trip or the horses in their new digs.  The best layed plans of mice and men I suppose!

We had the worst weather ever imagined.  Saw lots of snow, plenty of rain, and got blown around like a tumble weed.  We miss judged our time and drive and got to Mario's in the dark... ugh!

Oh, well.  The baby was great.  What a fantastic baby, glad he's going to be around at all the family gatherings!  ( :  When Mindy and I head out doing this kind of thing...well we are just in it for the adventure...good, bad, or indifferent we just want to have a good time!  And we did!!

So the few pictures I took over the weekend are scattered around this blog!!  Hope you enjoyed at least one of them!!  ( :

Oh...and Tari has an appointment with Dr. Peters for a palpation tomorrow!!  The girls are starting to cycle and we REALLY want to catch her on this heat!  collection days for our stallion are odd days this month and even days next month!!  ( :  In case you cared!!