Time Flies Part Two + Celebrated 50th Birthday!!!! YIKES

Took some walks with Dave and the dogs we took Shadow to the red barn to look for the cats, he didn’t see any…   we did! lol

Shiner walks away from Shadow in disgust after he marked the spot she just marked. They get real competitive that way, Shiner has even started to lift her leg to cover Shadows spots on trees! Dave and I crack up every time. It is like the dog who can hold it the longest wins!

We went to see the horses that were born when we were here last year, I was amazed on how big they were! They sold the horse I named FF and his mother, Memory, but all the others were still in the    mare-ternity barn! Here is Lottie and Classy (He does have a few spots, but not many! Nothing like his momma!

Then we have CD (Standing) and her colt now named Cody ( I called him Tall Paul!) Cody (white face)  is almost as tall as CD and he isn’t even a year old yet!

Then we have Tiffany (standing) and her filly, Connie  Then my favorite and first born last year on our wedding anniversary, FF now named Cory with his mom DC.

See the yearlings from last year, this is Power, isn’t he a handsome guy?!?!!

The previous year (before we came to Deer Lake Cabins, the mares had 0ne colt and four filly’s, our first year here 4 colts and one filly! I can’t wait to see what this year brings!

Time still flying by…

I made Dave promise to keep my Thanksgiving Day secret and we celebrated my 50th birthday alone  with a fire side steak dinner.

               

                                                                It was awesome! 

The kids celebrated with me before we left. I got a talking Chicken from my daughter that says, “YOUR NO SPRING CHICKEN” It is a springy type of stuffed animal, then a book called “OLD IS THE NEW YOUNG” and a deck of cards with trivia from 1962, played cribbage with Dave on the road and learned all sorts of interesting Tibet's of information! It was fun, I got a gift card from the boys and my first ever birthday card from my granddaughter!

The weeks continue to fly by, we took shelter from a storm in the Log Cabin, I beat Dave at a game of checkers while waiting for it to pass. I brought rugs along so Shadow could walk around. (Floors are very slippery for some old dogs to walk on), Shiner enjoyed the rugs too!

    

Now it is the middle of December and I still haven’t gone metal detecting or horseback riding, now more Trees are down so no metal detecting until trails are cleaned up again!

Sally and Stan approved new tools for cutting the trees and vines! I have a Kantana Boy, Yoki,  IBUKI 390 and a HAYAUCHI 390 Pole saw (21-Feet) coming soon!!!! I love working outside and I know I will love it more with tools that are sharp enough to cut! Even though the tools stay with the ranch, it will really be like Christmas when they start showing up in the mail!

 

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Where Does Time Go When It Flies So Fast?

We go back home in about five weeks, I haven’t even gotten settled yet and we will be packing up to go home!

I haven’t had time to blog and have a lot of pictures doing nothing if I don’t blog!

When we got here the next day we were invited to a Thanksgiving Dinner at Stan and Sally’s main cabin. It  was very good and nice to see all the people we met last year and meet some of the new employee’s.

  

Stan and Sally out did themselves with a fantastic meal!

We later went to see the riding horses that we hadn’t seen since last winter. When we got close enough

I yelled, Hi Cody, Kodiac, Hollywood, Bill, and Buttercup and they must have recognized my voice as they all came running!                   

It was really great to see all of them again. Actually when we got there I yelled, “ who wants a carrot?” that is how I got them all running, but this is my delusion and I am sticking with they all remembered us! LOL

  

                                 

They are great big dogs as far as I am concerned! Some night Dave will come back to the RV only to find I let some of them in because it was cold outside!

               Dave would turn the horse into horse power if I brought a horse home to the RV…

                                 

                                                  Anything to save on fuel!

 

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Dogs are Great

Shadow and Shiner, wait around until I leave the camper, if I don’t do anything but edit pictures or work on the blog, they just lay around. Shadow usually under the RV and Shiner finds a spot in the sunshine.

When I step outside, they both come to life bouncing around and all happy! They don’t even eat their lunch until I stay outside!

No matter if we are going for a walk or I am spending hours cutting trees, these two are usually not too far from my side.

When I rake leaves, they are right there to help, Shadow keeps the tarp warm for me, and Shiner protects leaves by laying where I am trying to rake!

   I wondered what Shadow would do if I started raking leaves on to the tarp…    he just looked at me as if to say, you better not get any of that stuff on me!        

   That was it , I decided to take control of the situation and I told him to get off the tarp, you know what he did… he laughed at me!   

When I was working on the trails they are both  right there to help me do that as well. If I am raking in fresh sand, they are both all too eager to lay in it, if I am working with cement, they can’t wait to run through it and if I am trimming trees with my Silky Saw, they want to stand under the limb I am cutting!

 

Some might ask me how much easier it would be for me to get stuff done if they weren’t around. My answer would be that it wouldn’t be easier at all, without them I would need to be taking happy pills and then I would still be too depressed to put my shoes on each day!

                                Like I said in the beginning, DOGS ARE GREAT!

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Shadow ask your parents if I can sleep over tonight.

   

PSST… Shadow ask your momma if I can sleep inside tonight.

               

Are You Crazy…  I’ve been having flashbacks about you in the RV from last year!

                         

Come on Buddy, think about the good times we had;                                                                          Plus I promise to be good and I will even wear my halo.

 

                       

                                          

 

We were here for about a month and I did really good to not let Shiner in, but now the temps are dropping below freezing so now is the time. Even though she hates the bath, she is a good girl and takes it like a champ! 

              

                

Shiner came in and claimed the spot under the table, She was  so relived to be inside, she was snoring almost before she laid down!

Shadow cracked us right up, he looks under the table and sees her, his tail between his legs and up the stairs he went.

                                  

                                 I think he was thinking, “here we go again!”

I coaxed him back downstairs and he laid down on the other bed we had down for the dogs. Later when we were getting ready for  bed, we were going to let the dogs out one more time. It was Shiner’s turn to crack us up,  she didn’t just refused to  go outside she wouldn’t even stand up! I think she was afraid she wouldn’t be able to come back in! I thought I had the solution so I put a collar on her and grabbed a leash and I expected her to get up, but instead she just laid there,    I almost pulled the collar right over her head! Dave and I got a good laugh out of that!

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Other Paint like Horses on the Ranch

This is in regards to a comment I received about a similar looking horse at the ranch.

Just to help those that have been at Deer Lake Cabins before, last year up until February 6th, Precious was in the paddock right across from Cedar Loft and Log Cabin.

She was in with DC. The reason I remember the date is because DC gave birth on Dave’s and my wedding anniversary!

February 5th 2012 to a foal I called F.F. for Feb. 5, the Foal, now a yearlings name is Corry.

                      

I couldn’t believe how much they grew in 9 months!

Here are some other colorful paint like horses on the ranch:

Bandit was right next to the red barn where the cutting horses are kept. This beautiful guy was sold so he is no longer on the ranch.  

MR. T is a retired POA he is in the paddock right next to where Precious and DC were (across from Log Cabin).   

Then the riding horses would be Cody and Mister

   

Then there are three paints by Honey Moon Hill, one black and white  

So I guess Mister and the one by Honey Moon Hill look the closest to Precious.

As far as Precious goes, they buried her next to her Mother. I had to keep the curtains pulled down all morning because I didn’t want to see it. When Dave got home, I had asked him if it was done and he said yes, I asked him if Johnny was around and if he said a few words over her grave. He told me Johnny wasn’t around and that he and Pablo buried her.

So I went to her grave and shared a few things about her and her unborn and cried some more. I will remember her like this eyeballing horse presents with her blue eye. It is hard to tell in this photo,

but her other eye was brown.  

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