Lazy Saturday

We saw the sun today! Emily is feeling better. She sat in her chair for quite a while and endured watching TV with us this morning. She so much more enjoys watching TV in her room. Is that a teen or what? Grace was inside and outside all day. Now that she’s older she is closing the door behind her. No bugs flying around in the house today.

Speaking of bugs, that girl can go outside and play with every bug that she sees. But get her into her bedroom and let a small bug fly in there and she freaks out. Last week there was a bug on the wall in her room. It sort of looked like an airplane. And there it sat on the wall. She cried and begged us to go kill it. Jeff and I both told her that she could do it. But she just couldn’t bring herself to get close to it. The next day when I went into her room it was still on the wall. And yes it was shaped like an airplane…. I killed it for her and she was so happy with me!

We are going to sell our horses. I really love my horse, a Quarter-cross, but I just don’t work with her like I used to. Although I’ve ridden her she is only green-broke and needs more training. She is such a great horse and will make a good trail horse I think.

(my horse)

I truly wish I could find a 4H family who would want to work with my horse. I would consider donating her. I’m afraid to give her away though as other’s have done that and their horse has gone to the auction (send to Canada to be butchered for meat).

(Jeff’s horse)

Jeff’s horse, a thoroughbred, is fully trained. She’s been a 4H horse and also a trail horse. She is totally underused! And yet Jeff hasn’t ridden her in the last year either. So, sadly we’ve decided to find a new family for each of them.

We are looking forward to purchasing another 5th wheel trailer and going camping again (something we can’t do with horses to care for). I’ve been looking online and see that there are a lot of nice offers out there.

(our last 5th wheel)

Our last 5th wheel was a bunkhouse trailer. That means that there was a second bedroom in the back that had bunk beds in it. That worked out well for us for quite a while. However now Emily is larger and I don’t think I’ll be lifting her in and out of a bunk anymore. So I’m thinking that we should be looking at trailers that have a livingroom in the rear. That way Emily can be laying on the couch/bed and we won’t be tripping over it as we walk around (many units have a couch right in the middle of the trailer).

Emily loves to go camping. She doesn’t do much more than she does here, but it’s done in a different place and that makes it good. Emily does like to go for walks with her dad. And he loves to take her for walks. With a camping trailer it’s a little more difficult to take it into the forest so we have a lifetime membership at a park out by the ocean. The spaces are separated by trees and bushes and the other campers are usually very considerate about noise. And although we’ve camped all over this state we enjoy going back to our home park.

So while I was looking for a camping picture I found this gem. Grace and Emily had been poking sticks into a puddle in our driveway. I think they were pretending that they were fishing. This was about 3 years ago. Wow, they sure have grown!