Friday Happenings

Can't wait to start planting! It's going to be another month but I can dream!

Dad, Hubby and I just got back from our evening walk. Hubby is doing really well with the injections that he is having in his knee to try to prevent having the knee replacement. He walked the mile that we do twice a day and part of it is a really steep hill. I was going to take the little red wagon to put him in if he couldn't make it........just one push and he would go down over that hill lickitysplit! Speaking of wagons back in the olden days when I was a kid we used to look for pop bottles on the side of the road to take back to the store and get 3 cents apiece for the regular size and 5 cents apiece for the bigger ones. People thought nothing of tossing their empty bottles out their car window when they had finished their soda. They didn't think much about littering in those days and it was a great source of income for us as kids. You could buy lots of penny candy on a good day!



We used to be so excited if we found the 5 cent bottles. It was a gold mine for us!


I loved the wax lips filled with syrup which was just water, sugar and red dye probably! It's fun that you can get the Retro Candy packs now. We received one at one at one of our conventions as they were having a 50's night. Sure brought back memories. Remember Needled Mom?????

Got some pictures from one of my nieces that lives in northern Maine. She and her hubby took some shots of the flooding around their house. They haven't had to evacuate yet and hopefully won't have to. The water looks like it's getting a little too close for comfort though! It's the worst flooding in northern Maine in 100 years. We have part of one road closed but it's at least 25 miles from here.

I rode Buddy down to the river this afternoon and the water was extremely high and the current very swift. We didn't step one foot into it, he must have sensed that something was wrong as he was quite antsy while we were near the boat landing where we usually go in for a drink and some play time. This guy is extremely laid back and just never antsy over anything, well, other then his supper......or any other food that he can beg off you. He can't have carbs so his treats are pretty boring, usually just carrots, but he loves those and is happy.

Dad got the water turned on in the barn for the automatic waterers today and my yard man got the 2X6 floor boards put back down in the stalls. I need to get the rubber mats hauled in them, will do that tomorrow and put down nice deep shavings in anticipation of the boys coming home. Have to make Buddy his own little pasture where there isn't thick lush grass due to his tendency to get laminitis. Poor guy, he loves to eat, just doesn't know when to stop. I sure don't want another summer like last summer with him grass foundering.

Saturday afternoon.

Funsize and I went riding this morning. It was chilly but warmed up as the morning wore on. The river had gone down about 14 feet from where it was yesterday. You can see where the dried leaves are and that's where it was yesterday.

We let them go in for a quick drink but not out far at all. The current was still extremely strong.

I snapped some pictures of Lil' Bud and Funsize. They are quite a pair and can almost read each other's minds. He goes better for her then for anyone!

Now these two horses have been together for years and years but they still snap at each other once in awhile. Look at those ears! When they are away from each other they whinny and bellow for each other, just the nature of the beast.

Guess I should have split this up into two posts as it is rather long but with my memory if I don't write it down when I think of it I forget. Oh how I miss my memory. Now what was it I was trying to remember?