Monday Morning Musings

It's really not Monday but it probably will be by the time I get this written and I couldn't think of a good Sunday title. Sometimes the ole' brain is on leave for the moment. Just got home from church and a nice lunch out with Funsize. Husband is sick with allergies so had to stay home today. Poor thing has them really bad all year round but they seem to be particularly bad today.

D was with us this weekend as Son and DIL had a wedding to go to in Portland. T was with her other grandparents Mimi and Bampie out at the lake so I'm sure she has been having a great time. One of her other girl cousins was going to be there too so it was a girls only weekend! heehee! They probably have kept Bampie busy pulling them on the tube and the knee board all weekend.

Last night we took D out to a little farm that has an apple orchard, goats, donkey, horses, lama, chickens and an ice cream stand. They have little dispensers with grain in them that you can put a quarter in and get a handful to feed the animals. I had a pretty good handful of quarters and we went through all of them quite quickly!

D thought this was great fun and liked how it tickled his hand when the goats ate the grain. The animals were immaculate as was the farm itself. Nice to see animals so lovingly taken care of.


The lama is the grand dame of the place and just kind of kept watch over everything, didn't seem to be interested in the grain. I've heard that they spit at you so I really didn't encourage a close encounter with her highness. :0)

After petting all of the animals and the hand washing with LOTS of soap we had an ice cream and headed back home to put the boys to bed. Haven't seen much change in Buddy since our visit to the vet on Thursday other then some swelling which isn't good so we had to take him off the Nitro. It made him rather lethargic also so he wasn't moving around a lot which also adds to his legs stocking up. I'm anxious to see how he is after a few days being off it.

My niece L was here this weekend too with my SIL and their dog Nugget. L is a good horseback rider so always rides Nick when she is here. The ring was a bit soggy due to the terrific hail and rain storm that we had the day before so she kept to a trot and did lots of patterns and ring work. Nick went really well for her until he got sick of working and then started acting a bit like a naughty little boy, bucking and kicking at the fence but L stayed with him. He doesn't get worked much as he is too small for me so I wish she lived here so she could ride him regularly.

We had a terrible hail storm Friday. I was out working with the horses and heard rumblings so thought we were going to get a thunder storm which we did but it also had heavy, heavy rain and big hail stones! My poor gardens which have been barely surviving the deer attacks now were being pummeled by huge hail! The one in my hand is about the size of a large marble that we used to call a bunker when I was a kid.

There's not much left to my petunias, it really beat them right to the ground and my poor tomato plants broke right off. Hopefully things will come back but this sure hasn't been the year of the gardens! I just think about the farmers that are growing corn and such and to be hit by hail like this would be devastating to their crops. I certainly can live without a few petunias but I sure would hate to see my crops hit if I were a farmer.

Guess I'll head out and soak Buddy's feet and all. He sure is getting lots of TLC and loving every minute of it. The vet says he is one of the very best horses to work on as he is so quiet and patient with everything that has to be done. Thank you all for the kind comments you left on my 'vet report' post. Our gentle giant is a good boy and we will fight the good fight to the best of our abilities to get him through this.

D has gone home so it seems kind of quiet here. He was excited to see his Mom and Dad and to show them the things he and Grampie had bought at Toys * Us yesterday. He picked out some things for T too, what a good little brother! :0)

I tackled the Dreaded Walk In Closet yesterday. I thought I would do just a few things each day but when I got going I just couldn't seem to stop. Thankfully Snowbird came up to help me sort through things. I was really on a tear, my niece dcrmom had talked about her closets and how she purges them regularly and got me all excited to tackle mine! I threw away, gave away and kept only what I felt I would wear and didn't keep anything that I thought I might be able to wear when I lose some weight. If I lose some weight I will want to buy new stuff anyway!!! Now I am going to go through it again and organize everything so that I know what I have for certain occasions, casual, dressy etc etc... What a great feeling to see those trash bags full of stuff going out the door to their new homes!