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Go Pros, Snow and Horses!

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!

THE GREAT HUBS!

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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!

I NEED A BIG TRUCK

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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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Hillbilly Returns

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We were almost to our stopping place for the night and needed gas. So hubs gets gas and then backs up; then pulls forward and turns-CRUNCH and the sound of glass breaking. Hubs turned too much and the fifth wheel ran into my beautiful red truck (okay dented my cab and broke out one of the back windows)…OMGOSH. Maybe there were some stronger, worse words used, but my beautiful red truck…

And really POOR HUBS. He feels terrible. I sat in the truck and let him cool down why he cleaned up the mess. The little lady was a lot shaken up since the window was right behind her car seat. Thank GOD she didn’t get hurt! She kept talking about how the crunchy glass was very scary (I think if the Chihuahua could talk she would have said the same thing-as she was worked up too!).

Hubs taped up the window with a piece of cardboard and duck tape. Hubs gets in the truck and says, “Now our truck looks like we are hillbillies too.” I forgot to mention the duck tape is bright a** red. Hubs initially thought this would blend in with the truck. Seriously, I think the standby grey duck tape would have looked better instead of looking like we tried to match the truck and HELLO there is a piece of cardboard where glass goes. LOL!

As we drove on in our journey toward home I thought three things about what happened:
1). Thank GOD my little lady is okay and just a little worked up.
2). Thank GOD Hubs and I are okay
3). Thankfully there is NO damage to the 5th wheel as we are trading it in on a living quarters horse trailer TOMORROW!
AND A BONUS: Someday Hubs and I will laugh our a**es off about this trip and how he dented the cab of my truck blah, blah, blah…or maybe I will just tease him about it. I will let you all know when we start laughing about it-or teasing-I am sure it will be a while!

Alisha (aka Wild Woman of the West)

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