I'll do this now...

Since tomorrow I probably won't be able to move my hands: after Emily rode tonight I volunteered to help unload the hay truck, as in,  semi-tractor trailer load of hay truck, like to the order of over 400 bales of hay load of hay truck. With no gloves and a short sleeved shirt. For over 2 - 1/2 hours.  Can we talk stupid?

Here they are, my pretties:

Before

 

 

 

 

 

 

During:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And after.

So whatta ya gonna do about it?

Yeah- I know I keep promising to write. Well I get busy. And tired. And rinse & repeat.
Busy day Saturday- Dianne & Jen's baby turned one. A's so sweet- we got there at 4:00, and when we left at 8, she was in her jammies having a bottle. Not a single off-key squeak out of her all day! Such a GOOD baby!
Sunday I picked up Bob and we drove around looking at cars. He's having a heck of time trying to find something. Everyone wants way too much for 18 year old 8 cylinder trucks with over 200K miles on them. One guy in New Bedford was asking $1650 for such a vehicle. Bob offered him $1500 in cash on the spot, even though he thought it only worth about $1200 & the guy turned it down saying "Oh I need the other $150".
As Bob left, the neighbor asked if the truck wasn't what he wanted and Bob told him he was interested, but that the seller turned down the $1500, which was too much as it is. The neighbor went ballistic. Turns out the neighbor is the seller's landlord, and the seller owes him 3 months back rent- $1500!! The neighbor said "I'll get him to sign the title over to me and I'LL take your $1500!!!"
Anyway, Em came home last night and we went over to ride the Axe. She was very good, but a bit peppy. I had given her Sunday off. I got on for a quick lesson and Em even had me go over a cross rail! And I didn't fall off! I haven't jumped since I was about 17. So I guess I can go another 30 years before I have to do that again!
I worked on Snowflakes last night until the thunderstorms made Chicken curl up under my armpit and start licking my hand for pats on the head. Then I couldn't sew anymore. I'm close to finishing it! YAY!

Photos!

Here's progress on FOS:

And Snowflakes:

And stash:

Each design gets more "Do this first!"

That's a cut of LSL "Lentil" for the Quaker Christmas Smalls.

 

 

 

Petunias (still alive???!!!)

Random Question:

Do earlobes grow longer as you age? That's been bothering me lately, as I look at my boss's ears and see how long they've gotten.

Drip, Drip, Drip...

That's the sound of all the sweat dripping off me; it's in the 90's and very humid. I even put my window A/C in my computer room- earliest ever.
Axe was hot out in the paddock when I went to visit, and wanted to come in out of the bugs. After dropping Bob off at home, I went by to see if she needed to be hosed off, but she was nice & cool. There's a very pleasant breeze coming in the back of her stall. She hadn't drunk a lot of water unless Sandy topped off buckets before she left. I have to shuffle piles of dorm stuff around in here, and maybe I can set up the cot so I (and the hairy black critters who live with me) can sleep in here and maybe stitch!

News Just IN!

Today is National Donut Day!

Go out and have one........or three!

If horses could smile:

Ms.Axeu would be grinning ear to ear. She was so funny last night: her stall has a back door that opens up to a small paddock outside her stall. Jodi let her use it for the first time yesterday because she took her horse, who has the same set up in the adjacent stall, to a show. (She wants to be around to monitor things when Axe & Diesel are turned out side by side for the first few times.)

She was outside when I stopped in before stitching, but came in when she heard me. Then, when I didn't give her any food, she went out again. Then she came back in & went out again, just to show me that she could! I swear, she was like a 3 year old with a new toy- "Look what I can do!"

Lynn, one of the other boarders, said she had been doing that all after noon- watching her ride outside, then going in when she went in.

When Axe first came off the track, Dianne let her have a run-in, where she could go in & out of her stall at will. This helped chill her out, and calmed her down from life at the track.

Here at Jodi's, this is the first time in 5 or 6 years that she's been able to have a run-in. If horses could smile with happiness, Axe was doing just that last night.

Axe at HBF: "I wanna break out of this hell-hole!"