Love taking this to ranch sortings. I set up my “portable office” on the bar and get to word. Especially on a cold Saturday morning that I wake up at 5 am!!!??

But all this early time to think has got me counting my blessings.

Going to get saddled up!

I am so thankful that my little lady loves horses like I do.  At her age all I wanted was a horse-didn’t get one until my early teenage years.  There is something so motivating and enchanting about a little girl on her horse.  You have all heard me rave about Bullseye, but I just can’t say enough good about him.  He somehow knows that his duty in life is to carry my little lady around.  He does dang near everything she asks!  He waited for 6 months before he loped with her-when she finally asked him, he was ready.  He LOVE to chase a cow and when I ride him he is completely different than when he had the little lady on his back.  If she wants to circle the cows that is what they do.  She kicks him to go after that cow then he goes.  Watching them in action in the sorting pen is one of my favorite things to do.  My little lady has a favorite partner-one of my friends husbands-this guy is so patient and instructs and teaches her so well.

Little Lady and her favorite ranch sorting Partner!!!!

My little lady doesn’t always have to be riding bullseye to enjoy him.  She likes to drop his lead and watch him trail behind her as she walks forward.  She LOVE to hug and kiss him-he drops his head into her arms to get a moochie!

It took us three horses to find the one that was my little lady’s match.  We would do it all again to find Bullseye!

Little lady and Bullseye decked out in PINK-her favorite color. I think he loves it too!

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Alisha

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What a week we had last week!  My main sorting mare got stuck under a panel and thrashed around and cut the heck out of her right knee and right tendon-the left was scraped up but nothing too deep like the right.

I was surprised how sad I was-I am a very anxious person but I usually can handle situations like this with energy (and stress), but I was so sad I just cried.  I bought this filly as a 2 year old so she hadn’t been ridden much.  I never really had the connection when I started riding her.  She was super hyper-she calmed down with a change of diet and age.  But it still took me years to get that connection with her that I have with my other mare Zoey.  Snazzy and I had become a team in the sorting pen.  We had even started to win some money-but the partnership I had formed with her is now amazing!

So I finished my two days of sadness and decided to suck it up and take the best care of her I could (of course I did that in the beginning too)!  Snaz is on 4 weeks of stall rest which she is not too keen on.  After two weeks she can have two 5 minute walks per day.

This morning I changed the bandage-and was reminded how bad it is.  Snaz is super sore when I put the gauze (with some triple antibiotic ointment) on the affected area.  The knee area looked better-but the tendon area did not.  I am saying prayers and trying not to worry about my girl!  I haven’t wrapped a horses leg in a while so I took my time and hopefully it stays on for 4 days!  LOL!

So here’s to a better week, healing leg wounds and just healthy kids, horses, family members, dogs, etc!

Ride on my friends!

Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)

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Little lady saying goodbye to one of her favorites!

Oh and poor Holly is missing her buddy – here is them a couple weekends ago.  Holly is confirmed in foal to Feature Good (Frosty Feature/Pacific Bailey bloodlines)!  We are excited for this baby as well!

Hugs to a great rest of the week!

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I just started sorting a couple times per month and Snazzy has been my sorting partner.  We have had so much fun.  Snazzy ends up SO TIRED so we have been doing some round pen work during the week.  Today I took my little lady and her cow dog Princess to play outside the round pen while I working Snaz.  Princess would run around the outside of the round pen as Snazzy ran on the inside. Every once in a while Princess would jump up the put her paws on the side of the round pen to see what was going on.  It was hilarious-took me a couple times of trying to video it to catch it.  To catch the dog jumping up on the round pen you will have to watch to the end of the video.

What a great dog PRINCESS IS!

WATCH THE VIDEO AT IMG_8290

Have a wild western life!

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My little lady and I will keep you posted!

(My little lady was RIGHT in the middle of the fence building and the property clean up!  So proud of her!!)

We had to finish a pen to move my Snazzy to-since she is back from the trainer!  We have two of our brood mares in a pasture that we want to  get them off of.  Holly is a nightmare to catch-so I caught Fresca and at the last second I just thought I should just lead Fresca and maybe Holly will follow.

Hubs was putting up fence and tells our oldest boyzee – “this should be interesting-this had better work or mom is going to have to saddle another horse just to get Holly back in a fence.”  I am pretty sure they were laughing and have a heck of a time thinking I was CRAZY!

I wish I could have videoed this.  It was BEAUTIFUL!  I had grabbed some hay on my way out of the other pasture.  Holly followed us down the fence line and RIGHT into the gate to the new run.  I have to admit I was shocked myself that it worked.  However I didn’t have to catch her!

Heres to…sometimes our plans working out perfectly!  Sometimes we just have to go with our GUT!

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Hubs was trying to help me before his surgery by getting all the horses in the barn.  One lone pregnant mare, Holly, would not let him catch her.  He called me to complain about how naughty she was.  I thought no prob I will catch her when I get home-I am always able to catch her if I take my time! (well I have to admit that I thought it may take me five times as long as he let Holly WIN-but I didn’t tell him that)!!!

So with HUBS watching from outside the fence I try to shut the gate at the end of her run to limit her area of running from me.  The pen had a huge snow drifts throughout one side so I couldn’t close the end gate-so I am becoming less sure of myself.  Holly has never kicked at me but with a drift blocking her from running from me I didn’t know what she would do.  Hubs is still watching from outside of the pen thinking that there is no way I am going to catch her-which I love to tell you that I proved him wrong. I just took my time!  After I get a hand on her shoulder the game is over and then she becomes a different horse.  She has the most amazing ground manners when she being led, tied up, trailered, etc.  She has been ridden before but it has been over 9 years since she was ridden (we bought her strictly for a brood mare).  When she is loose-she can be a snotty little thing!

Got me thinking about it being part of their game!  Zoey, my main riding mare, likes to run around me for about  5 minutes and then just “lets” me catch her.  SERIOUSLY it is very annoying sometimes.

Every other mare is FANTASTIC to catch and can’t wait to be with me or Hubs when catching them-RIGHT in your business even if you aren’t catching them but are near them.  I love each and every one of their different personalities, there little quirks-some great and some that need to be worked on (but we all have that whether we are humans or horses)!!

Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)

P.S.  I wrote this mid December.  Sadly Holly lost her foal.  She is now at her “boyfriends” house for another try!  Her first baby at our place was Frosty (now named Little man at his new home).  We are excited for a full sibling to Frosty hopefully next year!!!!!

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Diamond, our 7 month old filly is now full time in a pasture-we never stall her because of what we thought was muscle probs.  We now think maybe she just needs to be in a large run/pasture always!  We have been hauling water by bucket fulls for a while as she is in a large run with a shelter that is no where near water or electricity.  So tonight we moved a large water trough and started hooking hoses together.  Four VERY LONG hoses later we had the hose long enough to reach from the water spigot to the water trough.  Little side note:  HUBS had to fix a hose and he thinks this past summer he had a great reason to put two female ends on one hose. So the boys and I are in moonlight only (we finally broke down and used the flashlight on the cell phone) to put the hoses together.  After a long laugh we figured it out and got the hoses organized.

I do think the horses were all wondering what the he** we were doing laughing, hollering and carrying  on.  That Go Pro would have come in handy tonight just because it was all funny to the boyzees and I!!!

We also moved had to all the pastures to make feeding (especially in the mornings) a little easier on HUBS!

Boyzees and Hubs think I am a bad driver.  EVERYTIME the snow (currently from the night before last) drifts I seem to get stuck in a snow drift in my one ton truck.  All the males in my household think it is me.  So driving back up to the house from the barn took  three tries-which gave the boyzees a good laugh when they told hubs!

Tonight I am thankful for the laughs and memories I made tonight night with my boyzees.  It was the absolute highlight of my day!  It just doesn’t get any better!

So horses are watered and fed and we all are sleepy…Have a GREAT evening!

Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)

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Before the little filly was born I couldn’t for the life of me think of a name. I got out the AQHA papers of the mare and stud and still couldn’t figure out.  Hubs and I brainstormed name ideas the night she was born.

When I walked into the stall at 2:30 am and saw the lopsided diamond on her forehead I instantly knew her name had to be Diamond.  And you know what they say, Diamonds are a girls best friend!  My little lady already says they are best friends!!!

My little lady and little Diamond have the most adorable relationship with the panel fence between them!  There is sniffing and petting and talking to each other!  All of that stops when they are face to face!  It is hilarious!  They are both terrified of the other when the panel is not between them.

I love getting close to Diamond.  She follows me around the field and their round pen.  She loves her neck petted but NOT HER EARS!  It is relaxing to watch her run and buck around!

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Wild Woman of the West!

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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.