Thursday's Thoughts

This is going to be a kind of random catch up post. I have been cleaning my garages and attics that are over them all day so my mind is rather like mush so I don't think I will have any witty and comical tidbits to keep you on your edge of your seats. I took some pictures off my camera so I think I will start with those.

Last Saturday was hay delivery day. I love hay day. I love the smell of the new hay in the barn. I love the fact that we have lots of hay in case of emergency at the other barn and I need to bring the boys home prematurely. I love the memories it brings back of haying on my grandparents farm when I was a kid. Of jumping in the loose hay which was a big no-no, of driving the truck while the men threw the hay on back from the field. It didn't matter that I was only going about 5 mph in first gear, I was DRIVING and only 12 years old! What a rush! Anywho, I digress.......

This first picture is when I ran outside to catch them driving the first load in. No, as I look at this picture it is the second load but who's counting?? :o)

This is Hubby and Son loading the bales of shavings and hay onto the conveyor.

This is Bobby our number one, right hand man around here. He helps me with the heavy part of the yard work, prunes the trees and shrubs, puts up my Christmas decorations on the outside of the house, pulls the boards out of the stalls in the fall and washes them so that we start out clean in the spring, he does all the plowing and shovelling in the wintertime and even today has been helping me clean the garages, just about anything we need. We would be lost without him.

Hay is all in! Yippee!

Dad and I usually take a camera on our morning walks and quite often see some turkeys. This group had been eating under one of my bird feeders and in the second picture if you look really hard you can see two of them flying. Don't let anyone tell you that turkeys can't fly!


These two imps quite often go with us on our walks too.

My friend Ann and I rode yesterday and I wanted her to get a picture of me on Buddy with my NEW HELMET on. We tried and tried to get him to put his ears up which is a cardinal rule in horse photography but he wasn't paying any attention to us or else he was thinking 'why is this crazy woman with three jackets on waving her arms???'

These are some of the other guys at the stable. The one on the far left is 33 years old! He's got a little swayback thing going but other then that is in great health. Funsize's Morgan, Lil' Bud is in the middle.

Kipper had to get in the act. I was trying to take a picture of him and he kept coming towards me. Notice he has on his hunter orange halter for safety purposes.

On Sunday after church we most always go to one of our favorite restaurants The Muddy Rudder for lunch. It sits right on the banks of the Penobscot River. This is one of the three bridges that take us over to all the shopping, husband's office etc... In the summertime there are always people sitting on the deck but now that it's cold we all eat inside.

Guess that catches me up on my pictures.

Hundreds of you were asking the big question (well five of you) did I wear the gauchos to the fundraiser or play it safe with the dress pants? Now I could use this as a cliffhanger but I don't think anyone would lose any sleep over it so I guess I won't. I did wear the gauchos and tights. I did not wear Mary Janes even though the young sales girls said that was the IN thing to do. Mary Janes and midriff bulge just don't seem to go together!!! :o)