Snow Day

There was only an inch of snow but it was enough to close Sadie’s school but Allie’s day care was open.  So I volunteered to watch Sadie for the day. After playing with the kitchen, Barbie’s and dollhouse Sadie wanted to play a game. 

I finally found one with all the pieces that didn’t need batteries. 

It said for ages 7 and up but Virginia had told me Sadie liked playing with legos. And she is 4 now.   She loved the game and didn’t need much help. We played 3 times before we had to break for lunch. (Sadie 2, Mimi 1)

Despite the bad weather she still wanted to go feed the animals with PopPop. 

She is always ready to help carry the buckets. 

Lucy and Ricky were a lot bigger since she had last seen them and decided Joe could go in and pour the feed out. 

Sadie has gotten very brave with Molly.  She said Molly likes to sniff her. 

She petted Molly for a long time. 

Then we hiked back to the house for some Unicorn Academy until it was time to go home. 

 

Clinic Tour - Plus Lots More

Sadie wanted to spend the night. Since she didn't have school on Monday, she spent Sunday night so I could Sadie sit all day Monday.  There was so much to do.  We played dress up, Barbies, 

and made banana bread. 

She wanted to do more crafts.  I thought this stain glass heart craft would be easy enough.  

It turned out great!

For lunch we had another tea party.  This time we used china Joe's father brought back from Japan when he was stationed there after the war.  After lunch we drove to town for a tour of the clinic.  I thought with Sadie's love of animals that she might like to see where I work. 

She petted Stevie, the hospital cat. 

She gave Phebe, Dr K's dog some treats.  She watched the groomer give a hair cut. 

And saw a dog dental.  She also walked through the kennel.  Later, she asked why the big dogs were so loud.  She wasn't use to dogs barking inside with all the sound bouncing off the cinderblock walls.  

After the clinic, we went dress shopping but ended up with pants and a sweater.  Then we went to visit Papa R at the Senior Care Home we just moved him to.  She gave him some banana bread, colored a picture for him while we were there, hung the heart stain glass craft in a sunny window in his room, and took some banana bread to another resident at the home.  

When I took her home she wanted to try the sweater on with different dresses and show me how her and Allie play with the Barbie house.  It was a very fun day. 
 

Fallen - Not Me This Time

We have had some very high winds for the last couple of days.  Along with the wind we also had torrential downpours of rain.  

The first morning, as soon as it was light out, I looked out to check my bird bath.  It was ok at that time but a couple of hours later it looked like this.  At least nothing broke this time.  I have decided to move it into the garage for safe keeping until I can work on it in good weather.  

The wind also blew down a rail on my fence.  I think the whole thing needs replacing.  It is over 20 years old now.  

And of course we had some more trees blow down.  Thankfully, this one didn't land of a fence.  
 

 

Happy Valentine's Day

Can you think of a better activity for Valentine's day than working cattle?  

If you are still together at the end of the day, then it was meant to be.   

Today, we sorted out 40 smaller end, and replacement heifers.                       

And worked 96 head to send to the feedlot in a couple of weeks.  But Joe and I did have some good help.  Mike carved out some time to come help push the cattle up the chute.  

Working  cattle meant 3 shots each.  For those of you that are needle shy, that was 288 shots.  I just drew up the vaccines, Joe gave the shots and Mike, as previously stated, pushed them up the chute.  

Three hours later, we found the one we were looking for, the last one.  No injuries and we are all still speaking with each other, so it was a good day.  Hope everyone else had a good day too.  
 

Ice Storm And Play Day

Snow, sleet and freezing rain. 

 Yesterday started with about 4 inches of snow, then progressed to sleet and freezing rain.  I stayed inside.  Joe had to work outside.  This morning I ventured out to clear off the parking pad and take a few pictures.  Allie's daycare was open but Sadie's school was closed, so I volunteered to Sadie sit.  

Ice was hanging off everything.  This is the only activity the bluebird box has seen so far.  

A few days ago, before the weather turned bad, I worked on my lamp art again.  This time I found another ceiling light fixture from an apartment remodel that I had in the garage.  I am thinking this added the necessary umph the structure needed.  

There was about 1/4 to 1/2 inch of ice.  

Then Sadie arrived. 

She brought an appropriate toy with her.  She went upstairs to play Barbie and horses.  As she was playing with a 25 year old Nibble's stable and complaining that the bridle was broken, (which I fixed with needle and thread),  I started looking up to see if there were new Barbie horse barns.  Sadie noticed I was doing that and said for me to keep looking. 

Of course, there was some cooking with the Easy Bake Oven.  It is more like 55 years old.  

Sadie asked to do a craft.  I used a paper chain stencils to make a butterfly chain for her to color.  She picked out the Disney Princess colored pencils to use.  

Then, between episodes of Unicorn Academy, we had another tea party.  No dressing up this time but I did use my grandmother's china which is 80+ years old.  It is nice to be able to share treasures from multiple generations with the new generation. 

 

Trend Setter

It has been 3 months since my injury.  I am still wearing my back brace.  Hopefully, at my next doctor appointment at the end of the month, I will be told I don’t need it anymore. 

 But until then, I am becoming a trend setter.  

I got an email from an equine store that was advertising this stylish shirt.   I immediately thought she was wearing a back brace. 

Maybe there are a lot of people out there that need to camouflage their braces.  This could be the shirt for them.  Could equine fashion actually be practical?

Outdoors With Allie And Kit

Allie was sick last weekend and got upset she wasn't able to come to my birthday dinner.  So I told Virginia I could keep her some Saturday since Sadie wasn't feeling the best.  The weather wasn't too bad so we had some outdoor play time.  

Sadie and Allie both love playing with the ribbon toy Matt got them. 

Then we played ball.  

She wanted Kit Kat to play but he was not interested.  

But Allie did get PopPop to play. 

I think we made up for missing the dinner.  She said she had fun playing at Mimi's house.