Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

The girls and I got to spend this past week in Rawlins, WY for a much needed, relaxing break with some of my best friends ever. In someways, the area is similar to Northern Nevada but its a higher elevation and the amount of wildlife that is supports is amazing. There are antelope everywhere you look and a lot of deer-even in the neighborhood.

These does and fawns where right across the rode from where we were staying. They eventually all bedded own in the front yard not to concerned about anything.

We took a drive to go see some of the country and of course lots of pronghorns.

Aspen trees-it was pouring down rain! but we had lots of fun anyways.

Just Chicky

The chickens are getting bigger and bigger and here soon will be laying eggs-all kinds of eggs; white eggs, brown eggs, green eggs, little eggs and big eggs. I have started letting them run loose, out of their pen, and really, they are quite entertaining and relaxing to watch; that or I am really easily entertained.

They really are quite curious especially when they have "food" in mind, which is about all the time.

"What are you looking at?"

This is one of our roosters. i say "one of" because I'm not sure how many we have yet-3 for sure. This little guy, so far is turning out to be one of the smallest chickens I've ever seen.

This BIG girl is the biggest of the bunch and she seems to know it-not much phases her.

Here is the "boss" rooster, "Spark". I'm sure him and Hank are having some sort of conversation going and I'm sure that it has something to do with dominating, territory, chicken nuggets, fast food, and i wish she wasn't watching so that I could bite your little head off", etc......

Actually the dogs are quite good with the chickens-we've had only one attempt that was a fail do to my intervention and that seemed to be a lessoned learned because there hasn't been any more attempts.

Roaming, looking for bugs, seeds, anything..

Oh, I think I found something.

This one may end up being a rooster but if not "its" supposed to lay green eggs.

Another version of the one before.

The 3rd little rooster.

Mr. Spark

My favorite!! The top hats! The poor things can only see out to the side and down.

Bad hair day every day.

And this would be the total freak of the flock-a Turken. Yes, this is the way its supposed to be. This particular bird happens to be Jessie's favorite too-she has named it Neck-less.

Horse Show Sept. 09

Well, once again its been a while since I've updated anything on the blog and there are a lot of things that have been going on so I'm going to try to get caught up but no deadlines.
This year I had the opportunity to attend my first horse show-4 of them actually; one in June, July, Aug. and Sept. These shows were in Elko and are put on by the NENHA club(Northeastern Nevada Horseman's Association). At each show you accumulate points for each event that you enter and , of course, depending on how you place. I showed in 4 classes each show; showmanship, trail, horsemanship and pleasure. With a lot of support from Bryan, family and friends plus a lot of help from the Chapin's we won this years Novice Division in the western performance classes.

Here she is all clipped and cleaned for our last show.

Just took her braid out.

Ready for showmanship-yes she is quite relaxed at shows now.

Jessie given her some TLC before we show

Waiting for our class

Waiting for the "okay" from the judge(yes, I was nervous)

Honky-tonk-badonkadonk! Can you spot the "false" tail?

I think she had the best "one" out there.

All done with that-now to get ready for the rest of show. We got 3rd!

All saddled up and no were to go.

Next class-Western Pleasure

lopin' around

Waiting on the judges decision-we got 3rd!

Trail class-closing the gate that we just came through.

Over the poles and onto the bridge

Ta-Da!

Serpentine around cones and over poles. We got 2nd!!

Waiting patiently for out last class-horsemanship.

Lope left lead around the cone.

Trotting around to the right

and then back to where we started.

All done-now to wait for the rest of the class.

drum role please........................

Woo-hooo! We got 2nd!!

A very good ending to our first year!! Yes, we were both tired but very content.