I thought that it was suppose to be SPRING! Tomorrow by evening it will be 30 degrees and snowing. Today the wind is BLOWING like CRAZY!
I went to feed tonight and felt like the wind was going to blow the 4-wheeler – who I named Ralph – up into the sky. Hubs put the cover on Ralph and it makes the weirdest sound when driving it in the wind!
We need moisture but I want Spring.
My little lady has become really into music. Her favorite for the last 6 months (or since the album came out) Miranda Lambert, “This Ain’t My Mamas Broken Heart!” Even before it was on the radio I played it from my iPhone multiple times a day! Now my little lady thinks the radio plays her favorite song for her!
So Miranda’s song was her favorite song until Hubs played, “How Bout Them Cowgirls” by George Strait. My little lady LOVES IT! After it was over she asked Hubs, “I know he (George Strait) is singing that song for me, but why isn’t he using my name instead of cowgirl?” Hubs and I are still laughing about this! Hubs said to our little lady, “He is singing that song to you and calling you COWGIRL!”
I love the things my little lady says! She is my little cowgirl!
All this snow has been GREAT as we really needed it. It adds lots of animals related work! I actually LOVE when the horses are in the barn in their stalls-it seems like I get more one on one time with each of them as they aren’t all in a group. I have gotten to pet them more, brush them more, talk to them more and just be around them more (yes the snow day helped)! One other thing I do more is clean the stalls. This morning I spent well over and hour-which I really enjoyed-cleaning stalls-AND subsequently getting a work out. Mucking out stalls, hauling hay and wood shavings gets my heart pumping! I joke with my friends that doing all that is FREE (well maybe not since I am paying for the horses, hay, etc!) cross fit as it is life and it is EXERCISE-EVEN IF IT IS NOT AT THE GYM!
I cleaned my main mares stall and had to share a pic as she is “stall trained” and a very “clean” horse. She poops and pees in one area and it is super easy to clean her stall. Not so much for other four of them!
The cats were soaking up the hot sun as I cleaned the stalls and fed everyone.
This morning the boys stayed home from school (I thought it was going to be worse than yesterday – WHICH IT WASN’T) so they helped me with the horsies after they fed their 4-H piggies and goats.
After chores (and I went to the office) the boys sledded and sledded and built jumps and sledded some more! HUBS said they had a FREAKING blast outside-which made me feel slightly better that they didn’t play video games all day, but did some sort of exercise! LOL!
The sun is HOT so now we can bring on the MUD!!!!!!!
On Monday I joked with many people that I hoped school was cancelled and we had a snow day on Tuesday! Well when I woke up this morning I sent the peepettes to school and had my own snow day. My little lady’s school was cancelled, but the peepeete’s school was in session. Actually, hind sight is 20/20 as I really should have just kept them home. The roads were ridiculous! School should have been cancelled and if I was guessing I would say that tomorrow they will cancel school and it will stop snowing and be a semi-nice day-the school district got a lot of sh*t today on facebook (which they deleted-but some of us saw) for not closing school.
I did work some from home. I DO ADMIT that I didn’t do as much as I told myself I would do. This morning when I fed, I got to take my time. Usually I am rushing around like a fast walking, fast hay throwing, water flinging wild woman of the west! This morning all the horses got a curry combing and some petting time. It was fantastic. Even though it was cold outside this morning, in the stall barn I was in HEAVEN. It wasn’t that cold inside and it was so nice taking my time! Tonight I dawdled a little, but it was colder! And much snowier! We have over 20 inches and it is still snowing. I have been THANKING GOD that we are getting this much snow (and that I got a snow day)!
The peepettes have talked me into letting them stay home tomorrow if the roads are still this bad and it is still snowing (if a snow day is not called). I may not win the best mom of the year but I will be the most popular MOMMY-O in my household (WHICH I LOVE)!
When the peepettes got home and after they fed their 4-H animals, they went sledding in their cowboy boots (as they had left their snow boots outside and they got COVERED AND LOST by the snow). They had a blast as you can see! AND…I had so much fun watching them from the warm house with a brewski in hand!
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Hope all of your are soaking up the sun somewhere warm OR AT LEAST staying warm in all this snow.
I leave you tonight saying SNOW ON! HEHEHEH!
Alisha (AKA Wild Woman of the West)
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Is your HUBS a pessimist or an optimist? My HUBS is a diehard optimist to the freaking core! He is so optimistic sometimes I get annoyed at him. I however am a complete pessimist (I do try to hide this fact as much as possible as it is NOT something I am proud of). This is something I consistently fight now to be. I actually joke that a pessimist is an educated optimist!
The fact that hubs is an optimist is what really grounds me and evens me out. If you hadn’t figured out by now I am VERY HIGH STRUNG and ENERGENIC. HUBS is WAY more CALM! He reminds me a lot NOT to go negative but look on the positive side. Sometimes I make myself find one positive thing out of a situation I see is negative-mostly due to him reminding me to do so (LOL)!
One of my most favorite things about HUBS beside him being a FANTASTIC DADDYO, is how much he loves the horses. He completely understands my obsession and supports me in it. OUR horses LOVE him and can feel his patience (as they know I don’t have a lot) and calmness (another thing I lack-LOL).
I found this picture/saying and thought, “THAT IS EXACTLY HOW MY HUBS IS!” I might even take a pic like this (if I can coax HUBS into it AND it stops snowing in the near future!).
He does whatever he has to do to help and take care of the horses. He gets worried when a foal is about to be born and taking too long like me or when one seems to have a belly ache, etc and just has a genuine interest in them partly because I do…I am one lucky Wild Woman of the West!
My little lady is my horse girl! She would rather ride her quarter/pony Sage them to play with her dolls. Any opportunity to ride she is there!
Earlier this week she had an opportunity to ride. Some other little girls were at our house while their dads were riding. I was just going to take turns leading the girlies on Sage.
The two older little ladies (mine and another one) wanted to ride by themselves. They both know how so I let those two ride by themselves. In between their rides I would lead the smaller little lady around the arena. After about an hour and a half my little lady rode for the last time-she rode to the other side of the arena.
She was having a blast I turn around the corner on my eye I see the 19-year-old pony/quarter horse bucking…with my little lady on her. I was running toward them yelling: oh sh*t, oh sh*t…
(Side note here her horse riding teacher trains her to ride two-handed on the rains and not use the horn so she didn’t grab the horn).
SO A RECAP: One buck, two buck, three buck THEN my little lady is on the ground. That pony bucked 3 times and my little lady stayed on without holding the horn. WHAT!
My little lady landed on her belly-dirt all over her body! She was fine; just a little rattled. As she was crying and I was hugging her very tight! I told her she had to get back on—-
There were other people in the arena that helped me coax her back on.
After a prayer that she wouldn’t be fearful she got back on—then I RAN inside with her—and gave her a warm bath!!
The part that is so amazing is she didn’t have fear—-she wanted to get back on HER horse! And she didn’t want her trainer to be mad at her horse…
Another proud mama moment!
As she lay next to me about that night–I couldn’t let her sleep in her own bed after the bucking incident–she said, “Mommy are you disappointed in me?” I asked her why she thought that??? I was amazed that she was thinking that!
My little lady thought that since she didn’t stay on, I would be disappointed. How does a four-year-old grasp that concept?
I explained her over and over again that night that I was so proud of her that she was such a big girl!
And I also told her the next time if it ever happens that she needs to grab the saddle horn!
A couple days later when it was time for her training lesson I was even more proud that she got back up on that horse and had no problems the entire lesson.
When she was done with her lesson I had a toy zebra waiting for her she fell asleep with her arm around that hard zebra last night.
Ever since then the zebra now goes everywhere with her—Walmart, the barn, kitchen table, bathroom…
What a GREAT little lady I have. She amazes me daily!
Thanks for reading!
Alisha (AKA Wild Woman of the West)
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