Monday Morning Musings

This is going to be a long one so get your tea or coffee or what ever you like to drink in the morning and have a seat. Sometimes there doesn't seem be be anything to write about and sometimes like today I could prattle on forever. What a nice weekend we had here in beautiful Maine USA! I think I have said that before lately but we have been lucking out with the nice weather on the weekends. We've had thunder storms occasionally during the week which brought some much needed rain to our gardens but weekends have been lovely. I wish Barngoddess would send us some of her rain! :0)

Saturday morning I went trail riding with my friend Ann and I rode Lil' Bud as Funsize was out of town for the weekend. We had a great ride, I wish I'd had my camera with me but my riding pants don't have pockets and I didn't need a jacket so didn't have any place to stash it. A beautiful bald eagle flew over us when we were down by the river.

After lunch T called and wanted to come ride Kipper. D was having a nap so he busy cutting some zzzzzzzz's. Son brought her over then he headed out to play some golf and DIL was home doing all the things Mom's do when the house is quiet.

Kipper wasn't being cooperative, he's fat and lazy and doesn't like to work so Grampie was helping out.

I don't know who was getting the most out of this work out! heehee! Well, enough of that, T decided she wanted to go out in the cart with Skipper so Grampie harnessed him up for us and off we went.

Skipper was much more cooperative and we went around the neighborhood numerous times picking up kids on the way to have a ride. He loves to pull the cart and is excellent for a pony that had rough beginnings and less then stellar treatment before we got him out of it.

Finally it was time to come in and do Buddy's feet. I'm becoming quite adept at this procedure. Guess that's better then the fanny thermometer usage that I got really good at last winter with the strangles outbreak. Do you suppose he's embarrassed with the colors that I use???

T LOVES Buddy. He's the one that the kids can climb all over and he just stands there enjoying every minute of it. In this picture he has his ears back but he wouldn't bite a biscuit he's just playing with her.
He goes in Thursday for his next vet appointment so think of us on Thursday at 1:00 EST. We think we see some improvement but the x-rays will tell the story. Hopefully that cannon bone hasn't rotated any more in his left hoof. We are very hopeful. :0)

Yesterday we went to the coast to our favorite restaurant The Lobster Pound in Lincolnville Maine. dcrmom will agree with me I'm sure that they serve the best seafood ANYWHERE! It is a family tradition when all our southern relatives are here for vacation that we all meet at this restaurant and have a wonderful time. Oh, BTW HAPPY BIRTHDAY DCRMOM!!!!!!!!!!

It was beautiful there as usual and T and D like to play on the beach a while hunting for treasures of shells and the such. The food was yummy, we all ate too much as usual.

D decided he wasn't ready to try steamers quite yet. He couldn't be talked into it!

We were feeding the sea gulls crackers and they were gobbling them right up.

I was trying to get a good shot of my kids and Husband was taking pictures of me taking pictures. The sky was beautiful against the green hills and of course the little shops were enticing too......

We had a good ride home, I thought D and T would sleep all the way home but they didn't sleep a wink. Good thing we had the dvd player going as DIL and I were sleeping! I think I was the one snoring...