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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!

Here we go again!

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Me in Ralph

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.

I call it BARN CROSS FIT!

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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!!!!!!!

A SNOW DAY IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL!

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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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