Sweet

A couple years ago, Levi and I were inseparable. We played together, ate together, got in fixes together, and once in a while, fought together. Then when Tabby got old enough, she got in on all we did too. Whether it was playing in mud puddles in the Spring, riding bike and building forts in the Summer, raking the yard and playing in the leaves in the Autumn, or sledding in the Winter, we were always together!

Now that I'm have other interests and don't do as much with them, they still go on without me. I’ve noticed that over the past few days, they’ve done more together than they have in a long time! But now they have Zack in their gang.

It’s been so cute to watch them having the time of their lives over they’re own small version of football, or playing farm with their little toy farm animals.

I’ve managed to get a few snapshots of them but usually they see me in time to make a run for cover. ;o)

Words of Wisdom

I got this in a forward from a friend. So cute.

Happenings

Yesterday, Levi, Tabby and I saddled up and went out to the clover pasture where we had set up some barrels for racing. Dad came out and timed us. We did okay but it wouldn’t be a record for a real barrel-racing contest!

There are a couple gopher holes on the track so my horse won’t run fast till we get past the last barrel.

Shivohn and I getting ready to take off

Amigo did pretty well. He is the fastest of the bunch but hopefully not for long! ;oD

Levi and Amigo

We have been putting Maggie in a pen behind our garden so she can eat what little grass there is. Today I went out there to check on her and she wasn’t in there! I started calling for her but she wasn’t around. I was just going to go get Levi when I saw something on the road. There she was trotting along like she had every right in the world to be out and running away! She wasn’t turning in to the yard, but kept right on going, heading down the hill towards the highway! I ran as fast as I could to get in front of her before she started going down. We both were running pretty fast and almost crashed into each other but Maggie stopped right before she would have hit me. I got her turned around and into the yard all the while calling for someone to help get her put away, but everyone was in the house and couldn’t hear me! Finally Levi came out when the cow was in the middle of the yard and he helped get her put in a pen she couldn’t get out of. She must have gone through the fence because we forgot to turn it on after we had been working on it. Never a dull moment!

Uh, except for Maggie

I'm Still Around...

...I'm just having a hard time finding something to post. So this is just to let you know I haven't left the planet ;) :P Here is a picture of one of the kittens from our latest batch. His name is Boots--can you tell why?

And here's a picture of Tabby and Archie. The way I got the dog to look at the camera was by saying "Archie, do you want some liver?" (I got him some liver treats and he LOVES them)

Riding in the Rain

Levi and I went for a ride last night on our horses. There were some storm clouds coming our way but it looked like they were going to go around us.

Well right after we got on and were riding down the road it started raining. Since they were big drops we thought they wouldn’t last very long but it just kept raining more and more. So we turned around and headed home. We put the horses in a shed and waited for the rain to stop. Well it didn’t. It kept getting worse and worse (we were kind of glad it was raining cuz we’ve had a drought for a long time!). I saw this greenish-bluish cloud coming and thought “Wow, that thing is interesting!” then when it was almost over us it started hailing. The shed we were in had a metal roof so it was very loud! Amigo and our two-year-old filly (named Filly) both got scared and went out but I kept Shivohn inside even though she was scared to death of the noise.

Pretty soon Filly came running back in because of getting pounded by the hail and then Shivohn settled down a little more.

The storm wasn’t getting any better and so I decided to just unsaddle right there. Levi had Amigo unsaddled after he got scared and ran out into the rain and he came and helped keep Shivohn quiet.

So the moral of the story is: Do not ride when there is a thunderstorm coming!