Friday, November 25, 2011
Black Friday shopping *HOOT*
For the first time in my life I went shopping on Black Friday, even though I have heard about it before, my mother didn't have a clue what it was and she has never gone shopping on Black Friday. And the reason we went shopping today was because Auntie Barbara ( Moms friend from 15 years ago before I was born) came to our house all charged up to go shopping, she knew exactly what to get and exactly where to go. So Mom and I tagged along with her. We had so much fun! I got to learn more about Moms friend and their sweet friendship. After finishing shopping Mom and I got our nails done. We met Auntie Barbara's husband, Dad, and Nellie, at Del Taco and had our favorite meal, this has been our Del Taco tradition that we have had for ever with them since we lived in San Diego, CA from 10 years ago. They are a very sweet couple. They just moved recently to Phoenix and we have a great time. Besides Mr. John is a great kitchen carpenter and he has been redoing our kitchen cupboards and counters, I can't wait for it to get done. It's going to look so good! So my post was about Black Friday. Am I going to go shopping on Black Friday again? Maybe! But the main fun was being able to spend time with my Mom and Auntie Barbara. I did manage to work with DeeKay, and take a bareback ride with my Mom's horse Virgil while my Dad and Nellie and Mom followed me walking around the block.
Thanksgiving 2011
We got to spend Thanksgiving at our house, we did all the cooking and invited our good friends Miss Barbara and Uncle John. The turkey came out very moist and delicious, the mashed potatoes were great, But the biggest hit from what everybody said was the green bean casserole that I made. I was so humbled by their praise and encouragement, in fact! I liked my bean casserole too! I think I'm going to have to save this recipe for future Thanksgiving meals *God willing*.
Auntie Barbara brought no-bake cookies. They were delicious! the weird thing that we bought was Eggnog ice cream (ugg!) It was a waste of money. We did take a walk around the block with me and Nellie riding our horses. Then Mr. John insisted on taking a ride and looking at houses (he loves the area where we live) and wanted to see if there was any property for sale. And Nellie and I got to sit in the bed of his DODGE RAM pick up truck!!!!!!!!! *SWEET* we even laid down a looked at the sky, the sunset was so beautiful.
After we came back we had ice cream and pumpkin pie, and chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies. Overall, we had a sweet time of friendship and a wonderful Thanksgiving day!
I am so thankful for all the blessings in my life.
Auntie Barbara brought no-bake cookies. They were delicious! the weird thing that we bought was Eggnog ice cream (ugg!) It was a waste of money. We did take a walk around the block with me and Nellie riding our horses. Then Mr. John insisted on taking a ride and looking at houses (he loves the area where we live) and wanted to see if there was any property for sale. And Nellie and I got to sit in the bed of his DODGE RAM pick up truck!!!!!!!!! *SWEET* we even laid down a looked at the sky, the sunset was so beautiful.
After we came back we had ice cream and pumpkin pie, and chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies. Overall, we had a sweet time of friendship and a wonderful Thanksgiving day!
I am so thankful for all the blessings in my life.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
I'm sorry!
I'm so sorry it has taken me so long to post. I have been very busy!
Anyway, I have faithfully been taking DeeKay on a 3/4 mile ride everyday for the past week or so. He has been doing very well, and I am very pleased.
Today, I almost had a heart attack! It was our lazy Saturday afternoon when my Dad said "Your horse is laying down" I thought "Surely he must just be rolling....right?......please" but nope, he was just laying down thrashing around. So I mad dashed to him and as soon as he saw me coming he put his head/neck on the ground and his eyeballs kinda rolled, and that did me in. Almost crying I asked him to stand up, which he did after a considerable amount of begging on my part.
The reason it scared me so much is because this past week my friend almost lost her horse due to colic, $540 later the vet says he will be okay. But it was very close, and my horse was showing very similar symptoms.
I got DeeKay some medicine and gave it to him, hopefully I caught the colic in it's early stages.
We got church tomorrow, and we are having a church wide potluck, everyone has to bring something....harvesty (is that a word?? oh well!). I made a ButterNut Squash Cobbler. My very first cobbler and I must say it came out wonderful!
Anyway, I got a blueberry cobbler in the oven now, so I'd better go grab it before I have a burned blueberry cobbler:)
Thanks for reading!
Cya later
Iris
Anyway, I have faithfully been taking DeeKay on a 3/4 mile ride everyday for the past week or so. He has been doing very well, and I am very pleased.
Today, I almost had a heart attack! It was our lazy Saturday afternoon when my Dad said "Your horse is laying down" I thought "Surely he must just be rolling....right?......please" but nope, he was just laying down thrashing around. So I mad dashed to him and as soon as he saw me coming he put his head/neck on the ground and his eyeballs kinda rolled, and that did me in. Almost crying I asked him to stand up, which he did after a considerable amount of begging on my part.
The reason it scared me so much is because this past week my friend almost lost her horse due to colic, $540 later the vet says he will be okay. But it was very close, and my horse was showing very similar symptoms.
I got DeeKay some medicine and gave it to him, hopefully I caught the colic in it's early stages.
We got church tomorrow, and we are having a church wide potluck, everyone has to bring something....harvesty (is that a word?? oh well!). I made a ButterNut Squash Cobbler. My very first cobbler and I must say it came out wonderful!
Anyway, I got a blueberry cobbler in the oven now, so I'd better go grab it before I have a burned blueberry cobbler:)
Thanks for reading!
Cya later
Iris
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
It's been a long time...
It has been a very long time since I have posted in my blog. So this is going to be the official first post of my blogging. I am not an avid writer, but I thought it would be fun to document my process with DeeKay, I will try to write (even if it's like a few sentences) every couple days. So please be patient with me!
I will tell you the story of DeeKay..............
I bought him about 4-5 months ago, I liked his personality and color....and price! He has very good breeding and one very trusted horse friend of mine told me that he would be excellent at barrel racing (which is what I was looking for). So I bought him and very soon realized that he is very, very green broke, okay, he's past the bucking (I think! hope..) but he is still slow on his commands. For instance, I tell him to walk and he sloooowly steps out, I ask him to turn and it seems as if he was constantly asking "why?" "where are we going?". Me being very new at horses (DeeKay is my 2nd horse) was getting quite frustrated. It then dawned on me when my friend pointed out that my gelding was trained to be a roping horse, more specifically a head horse. She said that ropers usually use their seat and their legs to control the horse rather than reins and bit. She taught me some certain leg pressures that I can do while riding that make him quicker to respond to my cues.
Well, about a month or so went by and I waited too long to get his hooves trimmed. My trimmer was sick at the time and I don't usually like to use anyone but her because I have had too many farriers mess up my horses feet. So when I finally did call the farrier out my horses were way past due, and unknown to me, certain things on the inside of the foot happen when the hoof grows out long. So the farrier came over and trimmed DeeKay too short, in turn? my horse could barely walk, my horse was getting laminitis. I called a vet did the whole ex-ray thing and $350 later I learn that he will be okay with some meds, special feet trimming and an expensive pair of boots.
It's been a little over a month and I'm happy to say that DeeKay is doing great! He is walking alot better, and with the boots I can take him for small rides......two weeks ago that was un-thinkable!
Today I took him out bareback, it seems as if I am more comfortable bareback than with a saddle, don't get me wrong, I can ride with a saddle and be totally fine with it, but saddle or no saddle it's no big deal unless I'm doing sharp turns, loping and things along that line, but for a ride around the block? ditch the saddle. So, back to the ride, it went great! DeeKay is a very focused horse, he was concentrated on walking and doing good at it, he is not easily distracted which will come in handy when I start him on barrels. The only thing I am not comfortable with is that he is unpredictable, don't get me wrong, he doesn't just start out bucking or spooking at who-knows-what. It's usually the tiny, tinsy, small things. The big green garbage truck is cool to him, but a plastic bag, or a dog food bag will EAT him.
I think it's going to be great fun working with him and learning a whole different world of riding a rope horse. But hopefully we will learn each other and it'll all work out.
Thank's for reading.
Cya!
♥Iris♥
I will tell you the story of DeeKay..............
I bought him about 4-5 months ago, I liked his personality and color....and price! He has very good breeding and one very trusted horse friend of mine told me that he would be excellent at barrel racing (which is what I was looking for). So I bought him and very soon realized that he is very, very green broke, okay, he's past the bucking (I think! hope..) but he is still slow on his commands. For instance, I tell him to walk and he sloooowly steps out, I ask him to turn and it seems as if he was constantly asking "why?" "where are we going?". Me being very new at horses (DeeKay is my 2nd horse) was getting quite frustrated. It then dawned on me when my friend pointed out that my gelding was trained to be a roping horse, more specifically a head horse. She said that ropers usually use their seat and their legs to control the horse rather than reins and bit. She taught me some certain leg pressures that I can do while riding that make him quicker to respond to my cues.
Well, about a month or so went by and I waited too long to get his hooves trimmed. My trimmer was sick at the time and I don't usually like to use anyone but her because I have had too many farriers mess up my horses feet. So when I finally did call the farrier out my horses were way past due, and unknown to me, certain things on the inside of the foot happen when the hoof grows out long. So the farrier came over and trimmed DeeKay too short, in turn? my horse could barely walk, my horse was getting laminitis. I called a vet did the whole ex-ray thing and $350 later I learn that he will be okay with some meds, special feet trimming and an expensive pair of boots.
It's been a little over a month and I'm happy to say that DeeKay is doing great! He is walking alot better, and with the boots I can take him for small rides......two weeks ago that was un-thinkable!
Today I took him out bareback, it seems as if I am more comfortable bareback than with a saddle, don't get me wrong, I can ride with a saddle and be totally fine with it, but saddle or no saddle it's no big deal unless I'm doing sharp turns, loping and things along that line, but for a ride around the block? ditch the saddle. So, back to the ride, it went great! DeeKay is a very focused horse, he was concentrated on walking and doing good at it, he is not easily distracted which will come in handy when I start him on barrels. The only thing I am not comfortable with is that he is unpredictable, don't get me wrong, he doesn't just start out bucking or spooking at who-knows-what. It's usually the tiny, tinsy, small things. The big green garbage truck is cool to him, but a plastic bag, or a dog food bag will EAT him.
I think it's going to be great fun working with him and learning a whole different world of riding a rope horse. But hopefully we will learn each other and it'll all work out.
Thank's for reading.
Cya!
♥Iris♥
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