Well, once again,its been a while since I've posted anything on here and I have no 'good' excuse. I have lots of good pictures to share but just haven't put them on here yet.
Since the weather got cold, Lee has decided that he is a house dog. I honestly couldn't ask for a better to dog to have in the house. He likes to come in and either lay in front of the wood stove or, as you can see, he is certain that the bean-bag was meant for him. If it wasn't for the fact that he weighs around 85lbs and has the body for it, I wouldn't even notice him inside. There have actually been a few times that he went into one of the bedrooms and i didn't know he was in-he's getting sneaky and smarter in his 'old' age. He's also getting 'selective' in his hearing abilities but that's another topic.
Today, we've had clouds, clouds, a little rain, clouds and the mountains have clouds or if you were up in them, you would say fog. The temperature has warmed up quite a bit too from a week ago; we're in the 40's now and all of the snow has melted to leave us with mud! Not just a little bit either. Oh well, the moisture is good and its not below O-think positive!
The poor snowgirls. They haven't handled the warmer temps well at all.
The new pens in the mud. The panels have proven to be worth their weight in gold as far as I'm concerned. With chain attachments on the gates, I've been able to open them just fine even when they were covered in ice; no more going out there with a lighter to melt the ice off of the latches-that's hard to do when you have gloves on! A few of my gloves started to get a little 'warm' a few times. They have also proven themselves when it comes to the weight of a tangled up horse. Last night, one of the horses decided that she needed to kick one of the others-this is perfectly normal for horses; they can't stand to be apart but when they are together, they can't stand to be to close to each other.(makes no sense, I know). Anyhow, her kick went through the fence but one leg didn't come out, it was stuck. This particular horse has done this quite a few times and thankfully she is one that doesn't panic. On the other hand, she completely relaxes! She decided that she one hind leg was off the ground, the other one should be too and the way to accomplish this is to sit on the fence! Thankfully, after a lot of pushing on my part and coaxing, yelling, poking, etc......I finally got her to 'get-up' on 3 legs long enough that the tension was off the panel so that I could get the chain's unhooked and then let the panel down so she could walk out. Oh, I love her!! (sarcasm!) On the upside, the panel has a little ding in it, her leg has a little dent in it and was a bit swollen this morning and sore but all things considering, it could of been worse-my fence could of been 'pretzeled!'
To make you smile! A promise of warmer days to come and even more than that, one of God's promises to us that He will never destroy the earth by flood again, so while your out there wading in the water and mud, remember it could be worse.
We got snow! a few inches and all before Thanksgiving; kind of odd, therefore, its completely normal for Nevada. Home sweet home! These two are definitely 'snowgirls' when there is snow to be had-even in their pj's!(note Jessie's pants)
The pump house looks almost haunting with the juniper bushes all draping down under the snow and ice.
The driveway-things look so desolate and yet peaceful.
Up a sleeping tree
Out back and beyond its a winter wonderland.
Jessie, now in a snowsuit, is playing Lee's favorite game in the snow-'catch and crush the snowballs'. A couple things come to mind: do dogs gets 'brain freezes' like people do or maybe he doesn't have a brain to freeze therefore he can play this game forever, hmmmm.........
They are each holding a snowball, plotting.......
Ta-da! "Can't get a brain-freeze with a hat"
They were kind enough to 'pose' for the picture and show me some sort of support for my idea, but as soon as I was back in the house.........
off came the antlers...........
and 'it' developed hair, a bouquet of flowers and a friend, who also has long, flowing, burnett hair............Snowgirls!
