The slacker ! “me”

Wow, it’s been over a year and a half, since I posted anything on my blog. I have been the world’s biggest slacker.

As my Mother is always pointing out my middle name should have been “busy”, I think it should be attention span of a gnat.

I now have new carpet and flooring for my kitchen and living room also new furniture, and I have repainted the kitchen and bathrooms and the rooms turned out rather well. Here are before and after pics. Almost Spring must get ready for Horse 4H.

Fall Is Here.

Fall is such a pretty time of year, the last blast of color before the snow flies. I can here the elk bugle in the early cold mornings.

Well thats about all I can say about Fall, Hurry up spring and summer get here.

I’ve either found a rope, or lost my horse !

Well it has been an eventful summer. I’ve been so busy I’ve either found a rope, or lost my horse.

Where to begin I went to Oregon with my daughter Trisha and grandson Mikey, Mikey seen the ocean for the first time he is 11 yr . He was just amazed he couldn’t see the other side like you can at the lake, found lots of seashells and had an amazing time, only had one adventure getting lost, and of all places it was Pendleton, Oregon. Which has maybe 20 streets.

Then onto Norwalk, Ct. I went and had a really big adventure and got lost big time drove back and forth between New York and Ct., it was comparable to being lost on the back roads between Utah and Idaho, I can laugh now that I’m back home on my mountain. And Thanks to the 3 gentlemen at McDonald’s whom gave me directions, to find Norwalk, CT. Just stay left they said. that is another story for another time this winter.

Horse 4 H has been so fun this year, I had about 10 kids in my group, most were beginners, but now are riding like pros, I am so proud of them and they did so well at Fair time and Showdeo.

Here are some pic’s, enjoy and I probably will be better at posting stuff now that summer is almost over. JW bathed and ready for Fair day.

 The kids did clean up nice the next day for the fair.

Marissa

Fair Day Marissa  and below Mikey

  Maddy

Jerek

Afton

Sayge

Rainbows then there are Rainbows

Rinbows are a whole subject into themselves, like how do you describe an event that took your breath away, that made you smile , that made you feel special to just witness just such an event.

Words just can’t do that, nor can a picture, but I will post some pics that I took of a rainbow that, a whole valley seen from different aspects and views.

This rainbow was a special rainbow, was so large a person had to take at least 5 photos  just to fit all of the colors, and still not manage to photo the majestic moment. I have seen several rainbows in my lifetime but only 3 made an impression to make me feel special that I was previlaged to witness. 2 were when I was a child and everything was new and wonderous, and that I still can pull out of my moment vault to review, this rainbow was one of those moments, and now resides in my moment vault.

Vacation blues

Sunday night, and my vacation is over rained most of the time, the sun did come out for 2 days, just as my vacation is over. Tommorow night I have horse 4h this should be lots of fun as long as the rain stays away. Will get pics of the kids having fun. Enjoy the summer people.

One of my many windchimes, that lets me know when the wind is a blowing.

Deer in the backyard. And last of all I finally got a picture of Patches. Have fun this summer dog days will be here soon enough.

Spring Madness

Well we took my mare Sandy down to have her bred for a mule , well that didn’t work  out to great, caught our john mule boinking her, will have to take her back to the breeder’s next Monday, as that is when she will go back in heat. The Evil one didn’t get a bear, but my son Danny did, Mike got lots of great shots of the grouse that are struttin for spring, here are some pic’s of the bear hunt. 4H starts this Monday, Summer is here.

Danny and his bear.

Horses & Kids

Yes,  I know I have been really lazy, and have not kept up on this blog, some of the craziness is over for a while. I now have new carpet, the grandmonster’s came over and rolled all over it like it was new grass, or snow making angels in my new carpet, lately it is making racetracks with the hot wheel cars.

Took my horse Sandy to be bred to a jackass so that we can get another mule MULES ARE FOREVER, so the evil one says. She was horsing so bad and kicking and biting the other horses and mules, we had to do something. We will be getting her back this week-end hopefully. And the evil one and my son go bear hunting in another week that is if it warms up.

I haven’t been out with my trusty camera so I have no pictures to show maybe next week, if the wind ever stops blowing and raining/snowing.

Horse 4-H starts in about 4 weeks so I will be busy again. Mom should have named me Lora Busy instead of Lora Jean. See you next week.

Salmon River and Spring, Mules.

well we went to the annual Salmon Mule and Horse Sale last week-end and have to say we probably won’t be going back again any time soon. What a disappointment this sale was, lots of junk poor mules with only 30 days training on them and they were selling them for outrageous prices the new owner’s will get a very unpleasant  surprise thinking they have a well-trained mule, I just hope nobody gets hurt.

The rest of the trip was nice Mike went steelhead fishing again and caught a nice fish, seen Rocky Mtn. sheep, and some elk and deer, here are some pictures of our trip. talk at you later, I get new carpet this friday.

Salmon river, just before the sun comes up.

fishing for steelhead at 7:00am in the morning, just a tad cold.

ragged looking rocky mtn. sheep these are ewes, couldn’t spot any rams.

Spring and Flowers

Spring is slowly coming, we had about 8 inches of snow early this week, I think it was Tuesday, anyway it has now melted and it was 62 degrees today and dried all the mud, and I now have my first flowers for the year, these are my crocus’s, hope that is spelled correct, but if not here is a picture, so that you know what I’m talking about.

Just a splash of color, can’t wait for the rest of the flower’s to come up from their sleep.

Steelhead Fishing

The evil one is back with his batteries recharged. He went steelhead fishing and here are his pictures . By the time they get to Idaho from the ocean the fish almost look like snakes. The Steelhead have alot of river to swim, first up the Columbia then the Snake Rivers, then the Salmon River, where this one was caught. The steelhead are a trout fish and do not die like the salmon when they swim upstream to spawn, they then make thier way back to the ocean. Well thats my history lesson for the month, next month I get new carpet for my house, we just got done painting the whole house, and now I smoke outside and am trying to quit, wish me luck. Spring is almost here, thank you very much.