October 30, 2009 at 6:15 PM (notes and thoughts)
Exhibit A
Proud? Of this?????
Exhibit B
Proud!
Exhibit C
Definitely Proud!
Explanation A: I cleaned and organized my tupperware drawer. As Martha says, that’s a good thing. It’s been bugging me for a while, but I hadn’t bothered to do anything about it. Finally did the other day. It’s a start.
B: What can I say? She is my beautiful, sweet, smart and loveable child. Of course I am proud of her.
C: Sisters cuddling, watching tv together. A rare moment of peace and quiet, when they are truly being sisters, just hanging out! They fight like cats and dogs but there are times when you know these two love each other. Makes me glad that they have each other. As the saying goes, You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family.
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October 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM (Bailey...the wonder horse, notes and thoughts)
Yes, I still love AC/DC. Always.
But just letting you know my laptop and photo capabilities are back! The keyboard finally came today, so my resident genius computer guy was able to fix it!
Just to prove it, here is
The Sorcerer
' Hobbo Village '
Bailey
So far so good! Seems to work.
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October 23, 2009 at 7:48 PM (Bailey...the wonder horse)
Well, we’d all be riding! So far so good with the wonder horse. You’ll have to forgive me if for the next little while this becomes more of a horse blog than anything else. I’m tempted to start another one, dedicated to Bailey and his training progress and just basically how fracking awesome all this new horse ownership stuff is, but I’m afraid it would eventually decline as did my tomato blog. Or else I would write very little here, and spend what little writing time on Bailey’s Blog. Hmm, Sarah, you even gave me a good name for it. I’ll have to see if it’s taken….Well, what do you know? New blog, Backing Bailey. I’ll write all my horsey stuff there, and save this for the rest of life.
So, ….here I go again. TGIF. Really. I’m so looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow. It’s been a long week, sleep deprivation wise. I’ve been reading till way too late at night, and waking up so tired and very reluctantly, but new books+new horse= must read as much as possible to train this baby right. Really liking the clicker book, it’s funny cause I’ve already been doing that kind of thing, but not with a clicker, rather with my voice and carrots. It really does work, I gotta say. But back to sleep. I need more of it. I really need to make myself go to bed on time. If I don’t get at least 7 1/2 to 8 hours, I’m just not a fully functional human being.
As much as I love my husband, I’m so glad I have the bed to myself this weekend! His semi-annual-gaming-weekend-with-buddies-in-Hamilton is taking place. So it’s girls weekend at my house. The girls both have parties tomorrow, I have a feeling I won’t be getting as much done as I was hoping to on Tornado-hit-my-house-oh-wait-we-are-just-messy-people Street. But we’ll see.
We’ve planned a chinese food pig out for tomorrow night. Eggrolls, fried rice, chicken balls, shrimp and noodles, yum! The girls are gonna help me make dinner (or so is the plan) and we are gonna watch a chick flick under cozy blankets, complete with popcorn and chocolate. Doesn’t it sound fun? Reminds me of ‘Treat Night’ as a child, when we would walk to the corner store with Mom and spend our dollar on whatever candy we wanted, come home and watch ‘The Love Boat’ and ‘Fantasy Island’. Dad was playing in the band, so it was girls’ night almost every Friday and Saturday night. Dating myself with those tv shows, but I loved it!
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October 19, 2009 at 10:22 PM (Bailey...the wonder horse, Horses)
sore in places that I didn’t know were muscles!
I had my first riding lesson in almost 20 years, with Tracey Casselman tonight, riding Mr. North (who is probably thinking the same damn thing!!!—tired and sore—but happy)
When you ride alone all the time, you tend to pick up bad habits as well as get lazy. I figured if I’m going to ride Bailey anytime in the near future, I should probably do some work on myself first, so I signed up for lessons, riding with two other women around my age. North was an amazing old boy, I had a blast and worked my butt off (compared to what I usually do). Tracey is a very positive coach, who knows her stuff, and is, at the same time, fun. She rode in Grand Prix’, and trained with Jill Henselwood. She reminds me of Cathy Inch in a lot of ways.
So onwards with lessons!!
A quick addition to the previous post….the Brrr… was a reference to our chilly temperatures of late. I realized later that I hadn’t actually complained about the frost and the -5’s and -8’s we were getting.
And finally, Amazon sent me a couple of really cool books today. Were they actually for me? Or was I bad opening the parcel? One I had actually looked at buying, cause I’d been to the author’s website before and liked what she had to say. Unless Todd is planning on buying a young horse to train….oh wait….he kinda did, didn’t he? But the training is up to me. Anyhow, a big thank you to my sweet sister. You are too thoughtful sometimes (even if you wanted them for yourself, at least I get to read them first!) You never did let me know about backing Bailey with me at Xmas time. Are you willing if he’s ready?
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October 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM (Bailey...the wonder horse, notes and thoughts)
Thanksgiving is still one of my favorite times of year. This year, as usual, we drove to Monica’s in North Bay. Mom and Dad drove from the Sault, and brought the bird with them. I baked the pumpkin and pecan/cranberrry pies. We ate a lot of turkey and pie!
I did some serious thrift shopping (my North Bay tradition) and also scored some great shoes/jacket/boots at Mark’s Workwearhouse. It’s my favorite M.WWH store ever!
We all had a pretty great time.
Unfortunately, my laptop is still out of commission, so is my easy access to my pictures.
Bailey is still my wonder horse! We are slowly learning how to lunge. So far just he is just walking on a small circle, we’ve done that a few times now. He’s been a pretty good boy. I’ve been watching Chris Irwin videos online, he’s all about the body language, and I’m trying to incorporate what I know, what I’m learning, and what Bailey has to tell me into the whole process. So far it is working well. I’m going to ask him to trot on the lunge within the next week or so, but I want to put a saddle on him first, so that he will associate the saddle, bridle, and the lunge with serious work (not hard work, but just so he knows it’s not goofy time.) I’ve had a bridle on him a few times, just in his stall, and he was good about it.
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October 3, 2009 at 9:42 PM (Bailey...the wonder horse, Horses)
All I can say is I love my horse. He is the cutest, smartest, handsomest, friendliest, bestest, ….I think you get where I am going here. He is totally completely AWESOME!!! He is mine! My own, very very own, coolest horse in the fracking world, mine. I own a horse. I am a horse owner. I have a horse. I belong to a horse. A horse belongs to me. Wow.
Didja hear? I have a horse. His name is Bailey. He is the fracking cutest thing. The smartest guy. The calmest 2 year old ever. Born to race. Mine. Mine. Mine. My horse. I bought a horse.
You have to put up with me, just for a bit. I’m still honeymooning.
I HAVE A HORSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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