Did you feel it?

5.6
Five dot six on the rector scale.
All my life, and I've never felt an earthquake.
Isn't this state know for tornadoes?

Anyway.
Yesterday was chilly and a little overcast. But Mamma's flower garden was in gorgeous bloom.

So after the Night Of Terror(aka, earthquake) my fence was down when I got up this morning.
Whoopiee!
After concluding the horses were not out, I lifted it up and patched it all back together.
I still haven't gotten that new fence post yet.

This morning I woke up extra early.
What's this?
Oh, that's right, Daylight Savings Time was last night. We were supposed to gain an hour of sleep. But instead, I woke up two hours early.
Thanks Biggs.

Oh well. Have a happy Sunday!

Another fulfilling day...

Picture of the day....

We went for a nice little ride this evening. We even cantered!!

It was a gorgeous evening...

This was just in front of our place, I couldn't quite see the screen of my camera what with my hair flying every which way, Poco veering toward the grass and the beautiful sun in my eyes. But I got a few good pictures.

The other day I took some good pictures but never posted them.
Here goes.

This is Mr. Wooster, by the way :)

Sick of me yet?

This is an interesting little bush/tree. I don't know what it is...

Well well, now its rather late, and I really must get back to knitting :)
"Friday nights, are always the same in this town,
I'm lookin' up, but I'm feeling kinda down,"
-NeverShoutNever

You want a day in my life? Pick any day but today...

I solemnly swear to not complain for this entire post.
Okay, maybe just a little bit.

This day has been extremely long.
Firstly(that's a word, right?), I needed to bring Sage home. 
Bright idea #1; why don't I ride Poco down there and pony Sage home?
Armed with my camera and my spry youthfulness, I mounted Poco and we cantered(Yes CANTERED!((I have a very difficult time getting Poco to ever canter!)) down there.

I caught Sage up and mounted again. It started out great....

Poco was happy...

Sage was content having Poco's behind in her face.

Until....

Poco put up a fuss, I realized that it had been at least six months since either of them had been pony-ed.
So, I resolved to leading them home.

We had a long way to go.

Needless to say, we got home and I put them away with hay and water.

All was well until I was heading toward the house, I saw an aged log that, once I did a little measuring, I figured would be just great for a new corner post on the fence!!


Well well, I got bright idea #2 in my brain and figured, "Hey, this'll take me maybe two hours, then I can kick back in my room, etc etc."
WRONG.

Absolutely wrong.

Here is said blasted log.

After a half hour of sawing away, I was beginning to question my sanity.

So this is the glorious fence I was to fix. It's supposed to be STRAIGHT.

This is in fact, NOT supposed to be like this.

After two hours(yes, two) of digging ONE hole, I put the post in.

What's THIS?
No no no no no, it needs to be like a foot and a half shorter...
After wrestling this baby out of the ground YET again, I sawed...

An additional amount of time later(I lost track and I didn't end up taking more pictures, it got dark), I began to put the post into the ground and set the fence back up.
Just when I thought I was in the clear; the entire fence fell over. No joke, ker-plunk! Right on my head.
After dusting off my pride and wincing at my head, I ended up setting up the fence in a straight line and attaching it properly, but tomorrow I will need to get another post and dig yet another hole(yippee!), just to make sure that the fence is good and sturdy!!

So now I am going to run a ridiculously hot bath and relax. My shoulders and back hurt.
But hey, I promised I wouldn't complain.

Really, I promise...

It's very cold outside. And there's a good chance that it's going to snow tonight.
I'm trying very hard to be grateful for it.
But oh its hard.
If it DOES in fact snow, then I will need to whip out the water heater for the horses, get out the blanket for Sage, since she is older and a bit thin(she needs about twenty more pounds to go into winter looking like what I want).
Last winter she dropped almost 250lbs. She got ringworm, and lost ALL of her hair.
We worked the entire winter and spring, and part of the summer, getting weight on her and getting rid of the ringworm. I am still battling with blankets and saddle pads that still have the ringworm on it.
When we bought her in October of 2010 she was already maybe 50lbs underweight and just went downhill.
We work double-time to get and keep weight on her so she is healthy. I do NOT like to see her even as she is a tad ribby.
Poco has always been an easy keeper, except for the first months when I first got him.
He was beaten up, had been traded between numerous people over a few months, and was extremely thin(150lbs underweight). He was very very toed out and had a choppy, awkward gait that didn't fit him. He was just under 14hh, and he was nearly two years old(for his lineage and breeding, he should have been around 15.2hh already.)
His mane was maybe two inches long and his tail was thin and ratty.
After getting him a good natural horsemanship farrier to fix his feet, getting some extra weight on him and giving him plenty of TLC, he made it to a good weight and finally started growing.
It took a lot of time and money, but it was totally worth it.

NOW that I have gone off on that rabbit-trail, what was I first talking about?
Oh, snow!
Right.
Nothing so far. Looking skyward.
Just rain.
I'm going to go curl up beneath some blankets and mourn the death of summer.
Goodbye.

Cooped inside...

Yesterday was beautiful weather. And then this morning we have terribly cold, dreary windy weather.
But I'm getting to that in a minute.

You know those adorable pictures that are usually featured in black and white, and its of a kitten sitting in something? A pot, a pair of shoes, etc.
I tried that.

It didn't work.

He kept getting out.

Oh well...

So then I posed him at the tree..

AND THIS PICTURE IS SIDEWAYS. Sideways I tell you.. I need to figure out how to fix that...

Furthermore, it is raining outside.
And it's 43 degree's. FOURTY THREE.
And I'm making grilled cheese. Have I mentioned that I love grilled cheese?
NO?
What kind of person am I?

Glad he's comfortable....

So I went into the office this afternoon to get a stand for my camera.



"Excuse me, Mr. Bigglesworth! What are you doing?"
*Snore*

 "I don't understand, why can't I sleep on Chris' bed?"

 "I'm going back to sleep now,"

No, you're not...
Then he took up post on his beds. Yes, that is plural. He has two he sleeps on at the same time.

Morning Madness

I will tell you now.
My two horses love each other. Sage is Poco's pacifier.
One more thing you need to know; my horses live between two pastures.
Our neighbor friends had a vacant pasture that's about two acres, and this past summer they offered it for our horses.
So, between the two horses, sometimes the pasture gets eaten down. So to fix that I have to switch them from my pasture, to the neighbors pasture(which I might add is a mile down the road!), alternating the horses between hay here at Highland and pasture down there.
So today was Poco's turn to come home, and Sage to stay down there.
Well, Poco wasn't about to be happy about it.

 This was the look he was slanting me.

But then I got a lot of this....

And some of this...

Oh the fuss he puts up.

The birds weren't amused..

And then about that time my camera went dead.
IT WENT DEAD.
And I'm making CORN FRITTERS and it went DEAD. How about that? (I got the recipe from my very favorite site, chickensintheroad.com)
I'm just going to not do anything until my batteries recharge.
Anything.
Except eat my corn fritters.