Doing Some Partying!

We had some partying to do this

weekend ~ first the dogs had a great

time.   Chet arrived and remembered quite

well the dogbed in the kitchen ~ he and Opie

had a grand time.

Chet now takes up most of the dogbed ~ next time

he visits he will be bigger than Opie.

It was able to be coordinated to have everybody

home at one time for a very important

birthday  ~ not sure if the surprise was successful

or not but there was a house full celebrating!

Two sons and families = 14 celebrating mom's,

grandma's and great-grandma's birthday!

The big day isn't for a few days yet so there will

be plenty of time for more celebrating.

I am tackling a put off to long "To-Do Item" ~ last

fall I bought Christmas material to make stockings

to be hung here for our Christmas ~ 4 stockings

to do (now I will have to make an additional

one before this holiday season) ~ my mom 

was my teacher when I made one for

daughter a couple of years ago.... Will have

to see if I can put it all together.

Our weather here is beautiful today ~ in fact

I am headed to the great outdoors now!

Have a great day!

It Is Still Winter

After some dustings of snow, I think we have

more snow now than we have had

all season.

We had freight train winds yesterday ~ blowing

snow, melting, freezing all makes slippery

sidewalks and roads for a period of time.

Jacks' vet visit went well ~ for now we are

going to try an extensive deworming and some

antibiotics (horse pills) for 10-14 days.   That

boy is going to get 10 pills in the morning and

10 pills at night ~ wonder if he will still

like me after we are done? (probably better

than a needle)

Hopefully that will get him back on track, if

not then we are probably dealing with

Old Horse Gut and will have to try

to figure out some feeds for him.

Just like people ~ our stomachs sometimes

start to have issues as we get older.

It is vet season around here - everybody has

to get their spring check ups.   Dr. Jill will be

back in May to give the horses all of their

yearly updates.

And the dogs will be going in soon too!

Add that to the spring cleaning list!

Trying to Get in the Groove

Exercising, Eating Healthy, Spring

Cleaning, Lists and Lists ~

Hey Summer is Coming!

Trying to get going on all of the above!

We have gotten some rain and some snow ~

our colors are still pretty drab (all browns).

Last weekend, we scraped the horse lot by

the hay bale and barn ~ hopefully it will help

when the frost goes out so that it isn't so 

poopy and muddy!

Our ol' boy, Jack, is going to be 28 years young

~ he has been a bit under the weather so is up

for a checkup this week.

Been trying to work on the Spring To Do List ~

done = oiling of the kitchen cupboards and

now the table (oiling helps to restore the finish

and fill in any scratches hopefully making

them last longer).

Yesterday (Monday) we had some snow in

the air ~ it covered the ground but it pretty

much melted... It is cool out ~ we are 

ready for some warm weather again!

Snowmobile Season

We had no snowmobiling opportunities here in

Minnesota this season (although we kept on

hoping) ~ we had a vacation planned to the

BigHorns of Wyoming (which at times was a

bit iffy if we were going = snow).... 

We made it there and back ~ there was snow,

it was quite warm in the mid-40's but we

made the best of it.   It was beautiful ~ I am

now convinced that each trip to that area will

be different and unique!

The area hadn't received snow for a few days 

and there was none predicted ~ since the snow

was settled and some had some high traffic

we found that we could go almost anywhere

we pleased  (ie:  many of those meadows and

hills in a normal year would have way too 

much snow on them that our Minnesota sleds

wouldn't be able to take them on)

It was our third trip to the area and my

brother-in-laws first (I think he was as

intrigued with it as we were last winter on our

first visit).

(Hubby and I)

The weather was so nice that we could ride,

stop ~ remove all that headgear etc and

sit and visit ~ an awesome time!

2014-2015 season

Our first ride March 11, 2015

Our last ride March 13, 2015

Apprx 300 miles

Melting...

We didn't have much snow to start with ~ but

it is melting....

The first part of spring has arrived.

Hope you are enjoying the spring sunshine

in your part of the country!

I Don't Want to Go There

I hate computer problems ~ my current laptop

is from 2009.... it has been a great computer.

Occasionally I have had troubles but it always 

seems to come out of it ~ today some start up

problems (more than I should have)....

I really like Windows 7 - I don't want

Windows 8.... I don't want to start over with

a new computer....

Fingers crossed that this oldie just keeps

plugging away but I better get a

plan in place!

A Spring Day Arrived

By sundown today ~ the water was running... it 

won't last long this year because we don't have

much snow.

Spring arrived this weekend ~ today was 

beautiful 40+ degrees, sweatshirt weather

at times, wet dogs, some mud starting

to show.

This week the weather is going to be

beautiful ~ I think some windows will

even get cleaned!

(at least the windows that the dogs have

had contact with through the winter).

Hope you are enjoying some of the warmth

that Mother Nature is handing out!

Thinking...

I had a friend say to me upon congratulating them

on a special day "it has been made up of mostly bad

but I guess some good ~ head shake ~ a whole

lot of bad things have happened"... 

how sad that somebody cannot find some good

in the time spent... 

I can personally say that (I suppose some would

say I have not had any tragedies in my life)

but that life has been good!

Pick yourself up by the boot strings and

make life great!

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My summer clothes are staring at me from the

closet ~ waiting to be moved to the
everyday closet... 

Spring is coming - Kodi is starting to leave
little white fuzz'ies on the floor.

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I am ready for the time charge - jump 
ahead..... Ready for Spring.... ready for
a change in the season!

The Old El Tigre

Back in December - with the lack

of snow, I encouraged Hubby to pull the

old Arctic Cat El Tigre out of storage

and get it running again.

Here it is ~ covered and stored (pretty dusty,

dirty and covered with some bird poop) ~ the

cover did a good job but is now brittle and

will be trash.

There is some fading - some rust but overall

the old sled is in pretty good shape.

Dirty.... Grandpa Carl took a look ~ he worked

on all kinds of Arctic Cat sleds over the years.

One good thing is that the seat is in great

condition ~ some cleaning and adjustments

to the inside foam and the seat is perfect!

This sled is a 1976 El Tigre and is one of the

sleds that hubby used when he was younger.

From storage straight into the car wash.

A few nights and days of tinkering and lots

of cleaning .... and a list

of things to buy or upgrade (some for the Hay

Days event next fall)

Back to life ~ a little bit over a month

later and he had it running!

Maybe sometime we will take in an

old sled event.