It was probably 20 degrees cooler today, than I would normally expect for this time of year. Plus, it was cloudy. Gorgeous weather. We took advantage of it by riding Junior: H rode in the yard, then on the road some, S took a small turn controlling Junior around the yard, C let me hold Junior while he sat on his back for a while, and I even got a ( Read more... )

It's a little muddy in the horse pen tonight. Last night we got hit with a doozy of a summer rainstorm. The sort where the rain seems to be falling sideways, the wind is blowing so hard. It looked like flood day, the day before flood day. The road resembled a river ( Read more... )

This morning, C and I woke up a couple of hours before I got the girls up. We had a very pleasant time together - I felt very grateful to be homeschooling, getting to spend extra time with my sweet little boy instead of having to rush him and his sisters off to school and not see them all day ( Read more... )

I awoke yesterday with the solid knowledge that something (not sure what exact something, but something) new had bloomed.

*sniff*, *sniffle*, *cough*, *sneeze*, *sniff*.

This morning I am sitting in the front yard, in direct defiance of my allergies, watching Hoover (AKA Junior) graze down our weeds and grass for us. Junior is so into his food, ( Read more... )

Last year we put up an extra fence to keep the horses away from a lot of our younger trees. At first it was just the poles so the dogs and other critters could go underneath. Once we decided to replace the front yard fence, it was a simple matter to add wire fencing to the poles to keep all the critters in the back yard ( Read more... )

This morning Arrow and I worked oh hold, kennel, come, off, and go chew on Pete (that last one not being an official command, just something that lets him get some chewing out of his system on something besides humans ( Read more... )

Earlier today, H and I spent a couple of hours in the kitchen together - she cooked up some french toast and I cleaned up some of the kitchen ( Read more... )

It's been raining a lot lately. Last night, around four am, I woke to a downpour. The weather has been cooler, but stickier. The mosquitoes are too damn abundant ( Read more... )

It rained a lot last night and earlier today. The trees are happy, the mosquitoes are likely to be even more abundant than lately (I vacuumed several dozen off the ceilings and walls the other night), and the horses are muddy ( Read more... )

Friday - Pool. C rode, then led Junior.

Saturday - Pool. S got to dive a lot. C and H led Junior. C learned, the hard way, why I kept warning him to not walk directly in front of Junior.

Sunday - Flood Day. French toast for breakfast/lunch, I cleaned a bazillion duck eggs, I spent way too much time outside picking up dog and horse poop.