HAHAHAHA! I have been looking for another sorting horse (I did find one that was amazing but was a little out of my price range!). Hubs was laughing at me today as I found a pony we will be going to look at for the little lady. He says he can’t keep up with our little lady and I. LOL!!! Sorry Hubs (daddy) we just can’t help ourselves!
My little lady and I will keep you posted!
Sunday was an afternoon of working outside in pretty nice weather. Yep this time of year in Wyoming we are thrilled at 60 degree weather (however it has snowed off and on since then!).
(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!
Have a wild western life!
Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)
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It has been super cold here in Casper Wyoming this winter! We have been bringing the mares and our boarder boys in at least every night-trying to get them outside during the day. The wind is BRUTAL! I am pretty sure it is blowing 50 mph right now as I write this!
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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Tonight I really wish I owned a Go Pro camera. The boyzees, Princess (our cow dog aka feeding partner) and I went down to the barn to do chores. It was after dark, the moon was full and bright and we were all a little tired from the week. The boyzees each had sport practices tonight. At the barn we needed to feed, fill waterers and move hay around for the next week-we had been putting off moving bales of hay for quite a few days!
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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P.P.S.S. Does anyone own a Go Pro? How do you like it? What do you use it for? I was thinking I should get one. Lots of uses-spying on the horses when I am gone at work; wearing on my head while I feed with the boys to capture laughs and memories with them; and I am pretty sure the boyzees could think of ways to use it too!
(*Written at the beginning of June)
I am a planner. I have a plan for everything: My day, my business, a vacation, dinner, my horses, time with the kids, etc. (Which has given me three children who simply MUST know the plan at all times – kind-of makes me want to break my planning habit.)
A soon as I got pregnant, (with each of my kids), I planned what their room would be like and what their name would be depending on sex. I start planning what they would wear home, how I would situate the other kiddos to make room for the new baby. I can’t help it – I could never wait to “get past the iffy time” -12 weeks/1st trimester. My mind just started planning all of the baby things! This time I thought there is no way a miscarriage could happen (again) when I had 3 beautiful, healthy angels. (Okay maybe they aren’t always angels – but they are my little whatevers when they’re naughty. I love them good or naughty!)
For the second time in a row, my dreams were shattered today.
As I laid in the doctor’s office and heard, “There is no heartbeat,” I was in shock. “Did she really just say that?” I wondered. She continued, “The baby didn’t grow at all from last time.” On my last visit, the doc was worried the fetus was smaller than she should have been, but I was sure it would be okay. I took it easy, took prenatals and ate really good. I was just sure today would be okay.
Of course I did do my share of fretting the last couple days. I thought I hadn’t felt as sick as I had before. Hubs said I was worrying and it was the busy weekend that had me distracted. I prayed silently that he was right, but fretted anyway. This morning my blood pressure was even higher than my normal when it was taken at the doctor’s office.
I was debating whether or not to share this with you, but I know many other women have gone through this and they are sad, too. My personality is to be strong, keep it together – but today I simply can’t. I am heartbroken this happened to me and my family. We were so excited to have another little one running around. This makes me all the more thankful for the ones I have. But I can help but wonder about my two “what could have beens.” I know it is God’s plan for us…but it is a hard one to swallow today.
Many of my friends have had the same thing happen and they’ve been right there cheering me on, understanding the pain, telling me once again it will get better. I sure hope it does…
And today, I am saying prayers for any of YOU who are waiting for your first trimester to pass…and I pray that you have a healthy baby!
A very sad Wild Woman of the West.
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I knew the night that our mare, Jeny was going to have her baby! So about 10 minutes after the filly was born I got there-doesn’t that just figure. I had set my alarm for 2:30 am to go check on her and about 2:20 am I woke up startled-so I boogied down to the barn. What a cute little filly. I instantly fell in love with her (as did the rest of the fam)!
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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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.
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!!!!!!!
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!
I had a dream a week or so ago that I actually purchased a 1/2 ton pick-up truck due to the technical, computerized stuff in it. THANKFULLY I WOKE UP (and was very happy I still had my RED 1 TON). My RED TRUCK has plenying of techy, fun perks-my favorite being able to play music from my iPhone through the bluetooth!
Funny that since HUBS dented my truck cab and broke out the window (with the 5th Wheel incident) I am currently driving my dads 1/2 ton. Now no offence to any of you that drive a 1/2 ton, but I WANT MY 1 TON BACK NOW! My dads FORD 1/2 ton is VERY WHIMPY compared to my DODGE 1 TON! (side note: massive thanks to my dad for even letting me borrow his truck-especially since most of what I do daily is driving around!).
Initially when we were looking at trucks for me to haul my own horses, I had told HUBS a 1 ton was WAY too much truck for me. After driving the bigger truck for over a year, I realize BIG RED is perfect for me!
In this pic you will see my hillbilliness (yes I think I just made up a word) come out. I drove around for 4 days with a saddle and blanket holder in the back of my truck. Some of my real estate colleagues teased me about the last time when I was carting around a water trough for days. Sometimes I lack TIME!
For the next 10 days (at least) I will be sporting a 1/2 ton (hopefully the body shop can fix my BIG RED faster!) – unless I can get HUBS to trade me me the 1/2 ton for his 1 ton DODGE dually. The chance of that is fairly slim-but a girlie can dream!
Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)
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