Random Friday

I haven't done a Random Friday in a long time so decided today was the day to get back into the routine. Fall has arrived and I am in hog heaven! Love the cooler days and cold nights, love not having to run the air conditioner at night to be able to sleep. Love the sounds of the wind blowing through the trees as the leaves start to turn in color. Yes, fall is my favorite time of year by a landslide! :o)

Miss T has decided that Kipper pony is not as exciting to ride as Lil' Bud. She has been riding him for the last month or so and really enjoying it. We all know that ponies aren't as easy to ride and love to be naughty and stubborn sometimes so I can hardly blame her. Lil' Bud is so easy to ride, smooth and at age 22 has gotten all of the foolishness out of him. Not to say that he doesn't have get up and go as he still is frisky and ready for a good run when you want to. Taylor's riding instructor is coming here now to give her lessons so she hopped on Lil' Bud and took a few runs around the ring and commented that he still has a good engine going. :o)

One day when the Hubs and I were watching the grands we decided to take them to visit the petting zoo/farm that is nearby. They love to go there and see the animals that are so well taken care of. Everything is clean and neat, the animals all look good and are so friendly especially when you have a handful of grain in your hand. We always take a lot of quarters with us so they can buy plenty of grain.

Another favorite time of year for me is hay day. I love seeing that big hay wagon pulling into the drive way. (Do I need to get a life or what?) We also get our shavings for the year that day and put everything up in the loft on the conveyor. It always smells so sweet with that nice fresh hay and the scent of the shavings.

Nick was watching them pull into the yard.

First go the shavings.

Then the hay wagon pulls in and that is loaded into the loft. I just love looking at a hay loft just packed full!


I've been decorating for the fall season. Another reason it's my favorite time of year, l love to decorate. I'll be adding and changing things around all season. I have orange and brown little lights in the decorations over my kitchen cupboards and on the mantle. It looks so pretty at night.

With the shortage of pumpkins that we have this year I won't be putting as many around the gardens and on the steps. Waaaaaaaaaaaa! I do have the artificial ones that I use at Halloween and they are pretty realistic looking so I will just use those. The pumpkin crop was a disaster this year due to all of the rain we had in June and July. Everyone is scrambling for canned pumpkin for pies at Thanksgiving and Christmas, myself included. I think I may have an 'in' though, my brother works nights at Shop and Save and will be there if and when some comes in!!

The wind is howling here today so the horses are running through the pasture kicking up their heels. I love watching them. They will be going back to the stable around the middle of October when we go on vacation and I dread it more every year. I love having them right here so I can see them and go out and pamper them any time I want. Darned old neighborhood restrictions! Maybe some day we will take on City Hall again to see if we can have them here year round. Other then that we would have to move our house, barn, etc further out on our land and that isn't even plausible. I'm blessed to be able to have them here as much as I can!!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!