Real Life

So apparently I been to caught up in the Equestrian Challenge on her to talk about my real life.  Well I got another horse here (she is not mine, just boarding for a while so her foal could get weaned) and she is a sweetheart.  She does everything...cuts, jumps, trail rides, raises babies, just everything you can think of and is safe for beginners.  She is the one my friend is gonna ride this winter on and jump with me and Kali.

And about a week after she come I took Jessie over to the barn!  I rode her last Friday, Sat, missed Sunday cause of our Christmas Party and rode Monday   It has been a while since I been on a horse I guess (i know its about 2 months) but my legs were really sore Mon so yesterday I didn't go either.  But today and most days from now on I am going cause I wanna get some lessons in before Christmas and she is kinda fat and out of shape. (like me)

(Im sure it was the coldest day that I took Jessie over but I went anyways :)

I got all my Christmas decorations up except my Christmas lights cause I got solar ones this year and had no idea what I was doing when I went out to put them up and I don't know where to put the solar panel so it faces south and isn't covered in snow.  But hopefully before Christmas I will get them up.

(been having some pretty sunsets this month)

Oh and speakin of Christmas sounds like my family is comin Christmas Eve to stay overnight and we are gonna have stockings and presents and then dinner.  And later Christmas Day I am gonna go to Calgary with my sister so we can go boxing day shopping :)  I am real glad this is the plan cause then Neil's family can come out that day as well and we don't have to travel all holidays.

 (We got new phones and Telus sent us Purdy's chocolates, kinda a surprise to open that package!)

( Jam I made this week, Rhubarb raspberry, and Raspberry Cordial)

Made and Broken

You know when you have one of those days, where you shoulda just gone back to bed and got up the next day???  Well that's how today went.  Actually started last night.  I got this really pretty candle holder from a friend last year and haven't used it a lot but thought I would yesterday.

About an hour after I lit the candles I heard this weird pop.  Didn't know what it was so just ignored it and then about 15 minutes later another pop and glass comes flying out.  I guess the glass they used was not good enough for candles or something, but suffice it to say 3 of 5 glasses broke.

Then I was gonna make jam yesterday but of course forgot to thaw the fruit overnight so I pulled it out in the morning only to find I never picked up the raspberries from my moms.  Ack, so I pulled out plums and made a batch of prune perogies and chokecherry juice and made 10 jars jelly.  Not what I was looking for to make for Christmas gifts, but at least it worked.

But I went to wash the dishes and had kinda big pile drying and one of the casserole dishes fell off the counter and broke, of course as it was falling I tried to rescue it and smashed my finger.  That's when I thought of going to bed and starting the day over again tomorrow.  But I continues on and even got the silverware moved to a better place with a nicer holder.  I am gonna move all the coffee and stuff to the other counter and hopefully i have more room to cook without getting in the way of making coffee.

Then the horses were almost out of hay and Neil had to curl at 9 so he said he would feed them when he got home.  All day they were looking hungry (they got that down pat, lol) so I thought they were out and he ended up curling again till after dark so he says tomorrow   I was feeling bad for them, dont want them to be out of food for a whole day so I got my truck and picked a square bale and went to take it to them.  I go in the pen and find they still have lots of hay they just cant reach it!  So I move it around and go put the bale back, that will certainly hold them till tomorrow 

And hopefully it will be a better day tomorrow.

Okay so I'm still working on the photo thingy.  I have started a flickr account, but haven't figured out how to get them from there to here so I will keep trying to fix that since it doesn't want to upload from my computer, so maybe it will work from there.

I have been feeling kinda bad that I haven't done much with my colts, but yesterday when I was out there, both Jazz and Jamaica walked right up to me and stood there the whole time I was out there, so I guess just being out there semi regularily is helping.  I'm pretty sure if my hands weren't full Jamaica woulda let me scatch him.  He has always stayed just far enough away but he right beside me, so maybe today I will be more prepared for that.

I rode Razz on the flag again and Charlene asked Jardi to ride Ricky on it the last time and Ricky was being bad, so I wondered about Razz and she got on her and said she was doing really well!  I was pretty happy about that, since I don't really know much about cutting and neither did Razz.  Afterwards Jardi made us ride her horses and I rode Twister who was a lot of fun, she turns with the flag and it is so different holding her away from it rather than holding Razz towards it.  She turns so quick and hardly needs any direction at all, now I know what me and Razz are aiming towards.

Today we are heading up to Ponoka again and will practice tonight and then tomorrow is the show and Jardi is competing with Avril and Maddie with Bailey, so Im hoping to get pics of them and then we are gonna practice again with the used cattle.  Should be fun and will be kinda nice to watch a cutting show before competing in one I guess, lol.