I'm sick of poo!

So I've been at Sunnybrae for a little over a day and its seems that no one really cleaned the barn last fall before they left. I have been all over the field and paddocks cleaning poo and water tanks but it doesn't really look like I've done anything at all. School is on the back, back, back, burner, but I'm not sure it really matters anymore anyway. The maintenance guy liked me until he found out I was the head wrangler and has since spoken to me only of glue and hay allergies. So he is probably not likely to become a convert to the horse religion of mucking out and feeding. I only have three horses here today and I am running almost non-stop. There are supposed to an few more by the end of the week... I think about 22 in total. Hopefully I will have some willing help by then.

So its been a month...

I guess I haven't been here in awhile. Sorry all. Between finishing English, starting and flying through Bio 12 (again!) and deciding to take on two more subjects a week before I head off to Sunnybrae, I guess I haven't had much time. Hopefully by next Friday Bio will be done, Earth Science will be almost done and Work Experience... well maybe my teacher will have got back to me by then and I can actually start it!
It will be wonderful to spend the summer on horseback. I am really looking forward to being the Head Wrangler at Sunnybrae this year. I'm sure it will be a big challenge; I have not had any time to prepare for my lessons at all! "So kids this is a horse... isn't it nice! This is how you get on... isn't that great! This is how you stay on... or not." I'm sure it will be great. If anyone happens to read this, please pray for people to send their horses out for the summer. I think my herd is only about 8 right now and my second Horsemanship Camp has 36 campers already... could be interesting with 5:1 kids to horse ratio!

This is my beautiful mare who recently decided that the grass was most definitely greener on the other side of her fence and jumped the gate to reach it. Liz, who was watching her, said that she walked up to the gate sniffed it and turned away. A moment later she came at it at a full gallop and gracefully flew over it. Fortunately Liz was able to catch her with out much ado and returned her to a pen with higher gate.

Congratulations Justin and Nikki!

The Happy Couple
Thanks to Erin for the beautiful do! Yes Marshall, beauty is pain.
We were completely exhausted by this point.

Here it is!

Welcome Home

As a result of reading other's blogs again I have decided to try this at least one more time. Well we are finally in our new home. Although it is much smaller than the one we just came from it feels as if we have more room here. I guess it's because it is finally all ours; there is no out of limits areas for the first time in almost three years! I will try to put up a picture of it tomorrow sometime between Act V of Hamlet and the every dreaded essay on some aspect of the play.

Ice Capp Kitty

Auzzie has found a new favorite drink (although I have not tried to give him anything else yet).

Peaches for Jill's, Karissa's and Mom's sake.

Now that I finally have something interesting to say I have decided to update my blog.
This last weekend my mother-in-law, Liz, and I canned 212lbs of peaches! My body was not quite sure if it had had a break or not. We spent most of Saturday just trying to finding the peaches. The thriftiness in us both was rewarded when we made it to a little fruit stand in Vernon. We bought 212lbs of peaches for $0.65/lb! The man there was so happy that we were taking all of this fruit that he kept giving us other things as well. By the time we left the stand we had our peaches, dill weed, corn on the cob (we only bought 12 but left with 16), and a bucket of fresh garlic. Liz was so happy. I have never met anyone as miserly as this woman! I hope I can say that because she so proudly admits it herself. By the time we got back to Pritchard we had added a huge bag of sugar, to our already full car, as well as several bottles of vinager. Thanks to Grammy McKnight we also came home with FREE canning jars and a FREE canner. Did I tell you we were stingy? We didn't start canning until 6:30 or 7:00 that night. Although we only worked for a few hours, we had already emptied four of the eleven flats of peaches. By the time we finished on Sunday afternoon we had 117 jars of peaches!