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It’s nice to have to buy a bigger bra…
but I refuse to have to buy bigger pants!!! LOL

Where I worked before I had to walk up and down 2 flights of stairs at least 5 times a day. Now where I work, there is not much walking involved. I sit at a computer for most the day unless a patient needs a representative to talk to. And I just don’t get on my horses enough, to get any exercise out of that.
I read in a recent Family Circle magazine about these 4 ladies that are starting a diet and exercise plan… they are all going to do some sort of walking regimen. I am going to pick one and also write down a bit of a diet plan to eat healthier (I don’t eat enough calories in a day as it is to worry about that part) I WILL ADD MORE WATER TO MY DIET!!!

Hubby and I decided we would go shopping and charge on a few of these cards that were at the lowest rates before we closed the accounts.
And here are the things we got…
On March 10th we went to Best Buy and we got a camera… a Nikon DSLR D40 camera (Yep, the same one that Pony Girl just got.. haha!) Man.. I am loving this camera. Depending on the pixel size of the picture we can get as many as 3000 pictures stored on it. We made the pixels a little higher, so our storage on the camera is at about 2200 pictures. Yeehaw!
The OLD camera:




new laptop. This is taking a little getting used to because it has
The new laptop:

Then we went to Lowes and got faucets for our kitchen and 2 for the master bath. We used to have those funky white plastic things in the master bath. This was a good upgrade that has long been needed.




Then we went to the Nascar race down in
YEEHAW!
Go Gordon

Go Earnhart

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That was a nice spending spree….the bad thing is now we have to pay the bills (but at least they are at a low interest rate!!!!)

I will try and make this a short story before I ask the title question again.
My hubby and I lived a few miles from the beach in southern California for almost our whole lives. We raised our 6 kids there. We met a great friend (I will refer to him as G) there who has always been there for us and so loyal. We lived in the same housing tract for almost 25 years. When we came out to AZ to sign the papers on the land we purchased, G came with us and made a purchase of land up the dirt road from us. We made our move here to Arizona and a few years later G followed us. G is single and needless to say he met a few ladies in the last 4 years he has lived here. The last lady he met through a friend up the dirt road from him. She was involved, but wanted out of her relationship and evicted from her home. OK... long story so far... cut to the chase... This lady has a daughter that has horses. The lady was able to sell 3 of the horses, but the daughter wanted to keep the last 2. The day came when this lady finally made the (temporary it was suppose to be) move to his home. I and hubby decided we would help him out and keep the horses here for a while until she was on her own again.
Well.... 2 years later, we still have the horses. What bugs me the most, the daughter at first came by about once a month to pick out their feet and brush them and ride them. Then that time frame got more and more spaced out. I know G wishes things were different. I feel he does not want this lady living with him, but he does so like the companionship.
So... my dilemna. Way too often, they don't have enough feed and I am pulling from ours to feed their horses. The last time the daughter came down to see her horses she rode each one for about 15 minutes. Considering she rides them hard and fast during this visit and the interim time from her prior visit to this time has been almost 4 months, I don't think this is too good for the horses sake. Then there is the time I call them to let them know that the farrier will be down if they want to have them trimmed. They say no. Then 4 months later I call again about the farrier, they say no. Then finally when I had the farrier out last month, they finally said yes. Needless to say the farrier did not look at these horses before telling G how much he charges and G wrote the check and left. So when the farrier got to these horses, the farrier saw how grown out they were and I know he got underpaid, so I put in an additional 10 bucks.
Now when we took these horses in, they also came with about 10 horse panels. One day about 3 months ago I got a call from the daughter and she asked if she could have 5 of the panels back so she could work with another horse for a friend. I was floored and a bit mad. I said the first thing that came to mind by telling her that I think that by us keeping her horses and caring for them these past 2 years for nothing that the panels are ours now. Of course, I felt bad by saying this after I hung up. My hubby called G a few days later and said the panels are theirs and they can come and get them anytime they want. My hubby and I have often felt that maybe it is about time to ask them to move the horses to G's land (they have 2 acres). Then we always think that if we did that they may not want to come and help us when we go somewhere and we need someone to feed our animals.
They never came and got the panels. But I think there is a bit of a rif between G and us.
I had to call the lady today to tell her that her horses don't have any feed again because when she got the last bale we had already fed her horses for 5 feedings of our feed (which really pissed me off because it made it so my horses missed a feeding and only got their grain and carrots for their Sunday night meal).
So... to the question... What does one do in this situation?

Man oh man.. it has been wayyyyy tooo long! It seems like the last few months have just flown by.
Updates on the home front are:
#1 is……I HAVE TO GO READING my favorite blogs!
#2 is…..We no longer have the little foster kids. There were so many issues that made us make a decision to have the kids moved to another home. First of all, these poor boys had to be transported 3 times a week to see their father for a 2 hour visit and the drive usually took about an hour and half one way, so these kids had to be in a car for 3 hours 3 days a week. Then they had the kids in therapy to learn how to handle seeing their father and how to behave in the car after “daddy visits”. The thing about therapy was that they did not do therapy right after a time with daddy so they could address the daddy issues they had… nooo, therapy became what they were doing at daycare and analyzing US as foster parents. We would get a call from our CPS worker that said they were concerned about the kids’ play time or that their nails had a little dirt under them or that the boys had said they did not have a bath the night before. Did the therapist ever call us with her concerns NOOO. Also, mommy was going to be released from jail and the kids were then also going to have to visit her (so another trip into the 4th town south from us). We just could no longer have these kids have to be the ones to have to travel for these visits. And I just could stand the idea that they would be going back to homes with drug addicted parents, then back to foster care again. So we achieved that milestone in our lives.
#3 is…. The horses and my house were being neglected with having kids in the house, so I have been trying to do catch up on things that would get put on the back burner. It is nice that the weather is better, makes for being out with the horses so much more pleasant.
#4 is… I will have to write some stuff about our cruise and our recent visit to our kids in
But for now… I am going to do a little #1.
Take care and I will be back soon.

So here they are... pics of our snow... YeeHaw!
This one was taken last night from my front porch looking out toward the horses... They even have snow on their backs.
This is one of the little guys bikes, I took this one this morning...
This is my quad, this was taken this morning. This is between the house and the garage.
This was taken today at about noon. This is across the street from my work. These people have 2 little horses that are about 6 months old.
We are expecting a big storm this weekend that is suppose to bring more snow than this storm did. But we will be driving out to California to go on our cruise.... Another YEEHAW!!

Finally we are getting snow!!
I guess it is good then that I have to be stuck inside preparing all my stuff for my taxes anyway. One of my son’s girlfriends will be doing them for me this year, so I will save almost $250 right there not having to pay someone. For the 2 years prior to this tax year I had 2 businesses. I was a real estate agent (not by my own choice… another story one day to tell you) and we have the horse business. This tax year we will only have the horse business. So the taxes should be a little easier… then next year I may be able to do them all by my little own self.
So.. back to the snow… it is so beautiful. I know there are parts of the country where people are even snowed in, but I still think it is all so pretty. We won’t be snowed in… no such luck here. We have almost 2 inches accumulated and it is the early part of the storm. I will take pictures in the morning and post them for you.
Back to my taxes for a bit… then its bed time… or, maybe I will go to bed now!
LOL

Dad= Daddy/Not a Cowboy
Momma= Mom (yep, that's me)
Mattress= Momma and Pops 1st son
Kevo= Momma and Pops 2nd son
JDrums= Momma and Pops 3rd son
Boo= Momma and Pops 4th son
Pookie= Momma and Pops only daughter
Truck= Momma and Pops 5th son
KyKy= JDrums little girl
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