A wonderful Saturday morning!

It is a brisk 34 degrees, ice everywhere and looks like the beginning of a beautiful day. Hubby is still sleeping as is the princess, so I am enjoying my morning coffee in peaceful silence.

Agenda for the day, locate my heavy sweaters as it is supposed to snow tomorrow, find several things in the boxes in the garage, get our insurance application completed and signed by hubby and just chill out with hubby as much as possible.

YAY! For relaxing wonderful day like this!

Thanksgiving ... what a day!

Thanksgiving day was filled with friends, family and FOOD! We had so much food it was impossible to make a dent in it with one meal. We baked a turkey, a pot roast, green bean casserole, Broccoli cheese casserole, a pecan pumpkin dish, a squash dish, a cold pasta salad, mashed potatoes, vegetarian gravy, turkey gravy, herb stuffing, cornbread stuffing and the desserts were countless. We had 12 people here and it was a great day.

Steven came up from Portland, Oregon and spent the night and day with us. His wufe, Summer, was back home in Missouri so we invited him to join us. Jaime, Jim and DJ came over and spent the day as well. The normal clan was there, our family of three, Sherry, Lecion, Aaron and Chris and a couple of folks stopping by just to say hello and grab some munchies too. We all watched a movie, the kids played on the PlayStation and everyone ate and ate. There were naps in the afternoon between courses and tons of laughter.

Hubby and I have not really had a chance to sit and talk but we have plans to do just that this evening once everything quiets down again. Cheyenne and I may go to Oregon with him for a couple of weeks rather than be up here without him. Meanwhile, hubby has found a beatiful piece of property in Oregon that he wants to look closer at and possible make an offer on. So, we could be moving down to Oregon. Another good reason for Chy and I to go down, to check out the area and make sure it where we would like to be.

So onward and upward, plans to make and trips to take. :)

The week in summation....

This week has been eventful, unfortunately not all events were pleasant.

The energy around the house leading up to Thanksgiving has been odd to say the least. Hubby has been in Oregon for the past week and that always makes me out of sorts when he is not around. One of the cat's injured his paw and tracked blood in the kitchen and took some time to locate the source of the blood. The cat was none to pleased to have me wiping the wound and cleaning it. Thankfully Sherry was handy to hold him while I worked on him.
Cheyenne's little pet and friend, Kittsipimi passed away and it was difficult watching her trying to take care of him as he was going. She was patient and trying to feed him high protein food with a syringe as well as making sure he got down water. She talked to him all night and held him so she was with him when he passed. I was very proud of her in the way she handled the situation and him. She picked a lovely spot on the property near a beautiful tree and buried him there. Her project this weekend is to make a paving stone with his name and etc. on it to place over his grave. It makes me very proud of the young lady she is becoming when she shows such maturity and compassion in instances of this nature. She understood that for him being 3 years old was equivalent to a human being 90 years old...so she could spend quality time with him and understand his passing.

Meanwhile, the workouts have been so-so as the weather has been very rainy, windy and cold. Not the type of weather you want to get out in and get heated up. But, this is winter and I have plenty of time to get with the program and make my goal of the Emerald Cup in 2008. So I am not worrying too much over it right now.

Husband has located a wonderful piece of property in Cave Junction, Oregon, that we are going to take a look at. It is perfect for our needs and provides everything that 'Doc' (my new horse) could need. A nice barn area with hay storage, paddock and turn out area and a great fenced pasture area for him. So, we will be checking into the property and such in the next week.

Meanwhile, the Thanksgiving cooking begins today and carries on through the night. :)

The weekend in my news....

Ah the husband came in on Thursday night and it was amazing how much I missed him over the past 12 days...we had to sit and chat for an hour or so and get caught up on the happenings.

I needed to hear about his trip and he needed to tell me about a surprise he has found for me. Which of course led to another discussion. He knows I have a fondness for American Saddlebreds and he happened upon one that is absolutely wonderful. He is an 18 yr old gelding named 'Doc'. Doc has been in three movies and his a five-gaited, all business type horse. He is a bit over 16H and a very sound very good boy. So after discussing Doc, it appears that he is going to become my Christmas and Anniversary gift. LOL. I cannot wait to post pics of him as soon as we get some taken. The only was to describe him is a tri-colored fade. He is a Dark Red Bay that fades down into a black at the fetlocks. One front fetlock is white. I was pleasantly surprised that my husband remembered that I loved dressage as well as western riding...I did not think he has paid much attention to my disclosure of my love for Dressage. As some people refer to it "fancing stepping"... Apparently Doc just loves being a horse...he loves being under saddle and will do whatever you want to ask of him which is totally cool. Husband did tell me he is not the "lovey" type of horse but he does prefer females. So I think with some well-earned personal attention and affection, he will be more 'lovey'. I am indeed a happy wife and also a very lucky one.

The weekend so far....

Training is going well just not as much progress as I would like. But that is to be expected with everything going on right now.

Hubby is still down in Oregon with Matt, I am here with Cheyenne and her injured rat, and I am in need of some 'Me' time.

I spent last night sitting up all night with the rat and then spent most of the day at the vet's trying to get the little guy patched up. So many complications like his age, repiratory infection still there and now this wound. What a mystery it has been trying to figure out how he got it...the vet had no better idea that we do.

But we have meds, stuff to keep the wound clean and we must just take extra care with him. As we found out today, when he turns three years old in a couple months, he will be equivalent to a 90 year old human male. So bearing that in mind, this little guy has the right to a bit of care. The vet was very impressed with how sweet Kittsipimi is...he kept giving her kisses and trying to run to Cheyenne when she was messing with the wound. She was also quite impressed with the good care he receives and the bond between he and Cheyenne. So, she found a little warm spot in her heart for hiim right away.

Things are going well on all fronts, just not settled yet. I have to call my son this weekend and see how things are going for him in NC and with his son and the custody issues. So, the beat goes on as they say.

More later....