BACK HOME... FOR NOW...

We made it home from Crescent City last weekend. It was a good trip. Stetson's grandparents from Southern California were visiting so we thought we better make the 6 hour trip opposed to the 20+ hour trip it would be to go to their house in Hemet. We got some good visiting in. We left at noon Friday to put us there in time for dinner then headed home on Sunday Morning and guess what... We get to turn around and go back this coming weekend. One of Stetson's friends is getting married so we will be burning up the road once again.

NEW CRITTERS FOR THE FISH TANK

Last night we went over to Danny and Jennifers. Danny went and got an entire ice chest FULL of crawdads for dinner. We snagged 5 lucky crawdads for our fish tank so we will try and keep these ones alive. I must have ate at least 35 crawdads.... There is so little meat and so much waste, I actually feel a little guilty about eating them!!! There were a few cousins in town so we got to do a bit of visiting.

Tonight I am headed home to plant some flowers. I have a flower bed that is bare and it needs some color. Stetson and I went and bought a few flowers for it yesterday. Trying to find flowers for a shaded area, was about a joke but we managed to find a few less attractive ones... Then after planting some flowers I am making dinner for everyone....

I guess that is about all there is to report...

Grumble Grumble

Wow, it feels like I just keep getting hit with things and my frusteration level is peaking!!! This has just not been a good year...

I am going to have to give it some pretty good thought to think of something positive....

One positive would be that we will be paying much less to Uncle Sam this year, since our expenses are through the roof and our income is not near what is generaly is... WHEN is this economy going to pick up!?!?!?!? Why is it that Stetson and I's occupations both have to be tied to housing :o( Maybe I should switch fields... become a vet or something... then I would not have had to write a $500 check on Monday to hear, "lay her off for six months" granted he did do an ultrasound and inject fluid into her tendon.... But OUCH! Thats just after spending $600 on my other horse. Have I mentioned that it has been almost 10 years since I have had a vet bill!?!?!? I generally have sound horses and then WHAM!

I went for a run yesterday and went spinning today. I think my broken toes are finally healed to a point where they do not begin throbbing about half way through. I am running a 10k July 11th, so I have to get serious, therwise you can peel me off the road somewhere between the start and finish line, because I am pretty sure I am going to die... I am going to run 2 or 3 times a week until then and start increasing my distance. I only ran 2.5 miles yesterday....

Here's some new photos of Cody. Stetson has been spending a lot of time with her.

I hope everyone is having a day better than mine...

MONDAY....

I can't say I am a big Monday fan...

Here I am back at work. After a hecktic week last week. Today is off to a much more mellow start.

The weekend was great. Super low key.

I got my horses rode Friday, Saturday and Sunday... that is quite an accomplishment lately. My little one is now lame. I NEVER have vet bills and Cuda just cost me $600+ dollars to get him all fixed and now Jube is Lame.... Sooo... Stetson hauled her over to the Vet for me this morning and I am going to have to take her back next Monday for an ultrasound but he thinks she may have tore a tendon..... YUCK!!!! We will wait and see how much this is going to cost me, not to mention the down time she is going to need to heal.... Super Crappy Deal!!!!

Friday night we had plans to go to the Sister's Rodeo but it was downpouring so we decided against it. Instead we hit up the Bad Monkey Pub and Grub for dinner. Since we had planned to go to the rodeo, I had neglected to take anything out for dinner. Dad went with us since mom was out of town and he was not wanting to cook.

We decided on Saturday to turn our fishtank Koi into the pond. 1. They are HUGE!!! 2. They keep picking on the crawdad and eating all his food. So we took then to the pond and turned them loose... I will report back on how that turns out... We went back to the house to discover our Crawdad had kicked the bucket!?!?!? Stetson decided to clean the tank and found him in the ship... If we would have known that we would not have turned the Koi out, we were doing him a favor. We had both seen him the past evening, what the heck... So now our tank sits empty...

We went to the Sister's Rodeo on Saturday night and got to socialize with some friends and watch a good rodeo. It started to rain, but only lightly sprinkled for like ten minutes... WHEW! I guess that was my ounce of good luck for the month...

Sunday we went to Bend and ran some much needed errands. I also got my house picked up *Note: Not cleaned, just picked up* Made some Chicken Casserole for Dinner and Watched the Playoff game that ended horribly.

Here's a new picture of Cody, the new addition... She sure is cute, and so much personality!
Smo and Jube were a little jealous that the little one seems to be getting all the attention...



This weekend seemed to fly by in the blink of an eye. It seems like all the weekends are passing like that... They need to slow down so we can enjoy our summer.

SEE LAST POST :o)

In continuation to my last post we named her Cody.