Another day on the range...

I miss riding. I miss the quiet rustling of leaves, the soft thump of the horses hooves on the trail through the woods, the quiet squeaks of the leather of the saddle. The sun, sprinkled on the trail, through the leaves. The gentle breathing of the horse. The deer flashing through the woods. The quiet, quiet woods. No cell phone. No teenagers. No housework. No work. Only the spiritual communion between me, the horse and nature.

Sigh.

Just under three weeks.

I made a deal tonight with a friend for her horse that she is looking for a home for because she, sigh, has too many horses and has to sell one before she buys another one. Her over abundance is now my dream come true!

My new guy is a thoroughbred named Gus. He is between 10 and 13 years old. Only 15.2 hands. He is a quiet ride and they have used him to shoot off the back of for their cowboy mounted games! He goes out alone, he rides bareback, he gives HUGS!!!!!

Oh, I can so hardly wait!!!!

And my partner in crime, who I have been texting tonight, while growing and gathering my courage to let my wonderful, caring, loving, supportive husband (yes, I was buttering him up!!!!) said "You need a horse to ride. You are too stressed." may be going with me to pick him up.

YES!!!! YES!!!! Woooohooo!

So, in less than three weeks, Gus will come into my life. I can't wait. I've seen his pictures. He is such a sweet soul!!!

SO, now getting things ready and chomping at the bit until September 3 gets here, lol. Mike's birthday and I get a new horse!!! I'll have to convince him to ride with me now!!!

Hay, hay, hay....

The local hay guy stopped by today and left a note on my door... ?want hay?

Two phone calls later (my husband to the hay guy, my husband to me on my way home from work) we have hay showing up tonight. So much for working on the house. :(

We picked up our new stove and range hood/microwave last night and were going to install it in the new kitchen tonight. Not.

Instead, hubby got the hay elevator down from the hay loft and set everything up. Hay guy came, unloaded load of hay, got paid, went home.

At a bale a day, I now have 4 months of hay in the barn. So far. Thursday night, more hay!!!

Wonderful!

It's hell getting old...

Helped my sister, Sue and her husband, Dan, build a new porch on their house. The only casualty was my husband, Mike... who tried to catch some sliding sheets of plywood with his ankle. We iced him down and made him elevate it. This is 24 hours later. He's fine.. just left a great bruise on his ankle. It's not swollen today, even though he was on it all day long. He did listen to me and wear his boots to help with support and I had taped it with vet wrap to help support it. He's walking fine, today. He says the reason he's bruising like this is that he'll be an old man in a few months... 50 years old, lol!!!