Shaving Butts, Country Friends & BEST LIFE EVER!

Life On The Ranch

This week has been a busy week without Justin being around. Kyrna has been getting Ginger ready for Reined Cow Horse on Friday in Oak Lake! The first run of the year will be on Friday at 6:00pm. Many arrangements have been made to make sure I can get there and see her run. Let's cross our fingers that the vet tomorrow is on time... LOL! Kyrna has been busy making a dessert, doing her laundry, getting the horse trailer ready for the weekend. If the wind today had been blowing the other way we would save SOOO much fuel going there tomorrow!

How many of you have someone else's stuff in your yard! You know the blue hut that Amber used for the winter that was in that one paddock. NOPE! GONE! It blue all the way into the Hutterites field and stopped at the bush. We will have to drag it back with the quad!

Hudson went outside to grab the mineral tub that went blowing out of the pasture and down the road.... he went out clean... and came back dirty. He had to grab safety goggles to go back out and get the 5 gallon pail that was blowing away. This wind is relentless. We have quite a bit of shingles Kohen will have to fix. Even on Oceans apartment there was tons of shingles on the ground. Kohen had gone out to get something and BAM! Right in the head with a shingle. Ocean had to doctor him up as he was bleeding a bit.

It seems to be all about horses at the moment. Little Amber getting her hair cut. Hudson putting standing wraps on Summer. Every weekend is High School Rodeo... However we love it! Its fun, its exciting and it is keeping my kids out of trouble. Soon there should be some baby calves on the ground. Soon as in a month or so. Then it will be all about calves for a while. Go with the seasons I guess.

BLOGGING! It is taking some getting used to and I'm not sure all who is seeing it so there's that. However I cannot justify spending $40 a month to send the newsletter out.

SPOTLIGHT

Kyrna decided she was going to see what Ginger would do. AND that's why she's wearing a helmet. Ginger is a pretty good girl. That wasn't always the case. She had a bad habit of pushing you out of the way to get to where she was going. Now she has manners and doesn't do that anymore. Kyrna rinsed her off yesterday after her ride and rinsed her face too... she didn't like it. However maybe now she won't be so inclined to rub her head all over you when your standing there because she's itchy!

Recommendations

Make a country friend. How? Go to a rodeo, an auction sale for farm equipment. Go regularly help out. Meet people. Eventually you will get roped into doing something. Picking square bales is a good start. That's where you see what people are made of. If you can't lift you better be able to cook/bake. Ahhh that's what you can do! Make supper and bring it to the field. The farm wives would be super happy to not have to make supper that day.

Take riding lessons. It will change your life. Seriously. Just being around horses. They mirror your emotions so if you can't keep them in check you better learn real fast.

Shovel manure. A lot of it. Clean out an entire barn. You won't have to do cross fit that day. Oh and when doing it. Keep your mouth shut. That sh!t don't taste good!

Do some fencing. Pound some posts. String some wire... hit a finger, swear at the guy tightening the fence... yell down the line. The fresh air will do you good and by the time your done you will see that you accomplished something that will last quite a while.

Have a bonfire out on a farm. See all the lights, hear the crickets, frogs, coyotes and the neighbors drifting around the mile roads. Learn to love your life and figure out how to include the things in it that make it the BEST LIFE EVER. Oh and yes. Call your sister! Make time for the people you love because you just don't know how life goes sometimes.

Appreciation: As I was writing for another blog this week I realized I really need to be grateful for the mother I had. She was a very just woman. She always wanted to be fair, even if fair didn't exist she really tried to make that so. I am grateful for all of the times she pushed me to be my best, to listen to others, to watch my tone, to stand up for myself, to never quit and to love always. I missed my Mom this week with Mother's Day on Sunday and her birthday today. There is rarely a day goes by I do not think about her. I cannot believe there are people out there who do not appreciate everything their mother did/does for them. My mother was far from perfect that's for sure, however she always did her best and fought for what she thought was right. I am so very grateful for that. As I go through these years without a mother to guide me I think back to all of the lessons she taught me and the ones she tried to teach me and I was too stubborn to listen to. I assess my life and how I can improve. I am definately not short of ways to improve that's for sure, however what I do know for sure is..... I was loved and that makes up for any of her imperfections.