Me and Daisy Jumping-Revised

Here is a revised video of Daisy and I jumping (compared to the one from this summer, :)). This week has been very mild, so we had a few days to really ride, and jump again! We don't look the greatest, considering we don't really have an open area to jump, and we aren't using a saddle ;-), and we haven't jumped since summer, and I don't know how to jump correctly, but I thought it's good enough to fulfill all your wonderings of whats going on with me. I hope to post again this weekend, so check back. Enjoy!

Kittens and Chickens

Hello! I'm pretty amazing, huh, to post 3 days in a row?! Don't get used to it, :-).
I took these pictures a few days ago, and I decided to post them. The top two pictures are of Genenvieve playing with the string on my summer fly bonnet for riding. She sees it a lot and starts swinging it around a playing with it. The kittens are so good. I came out of the house last night to go and feed them all dinner, and I called Gronemeyer's name once, and he came BOUNDING full speed through the snow until he was at my feet, and the minute I picked him up he started purring really loud! He's really love-able. The next pictures are of him in his perch. Yes, he climbs into the top of the wall of the barn and the ceiling, and sits there, and watches. Sometimes he'll let himself slide straight down the wall onto the ground! Or he'll climb up the corner walls of the barn, on the outside, and enter the barn through the roof. He says, "Never mind the door, I'll take a shortcut!", which isn't really that short. So you walk up to the barn and see him watching you from the roof!
I just put the chicken picture in because I thought it might be nice. I happened to go to the coop with the camera, so I took some pictures, and that's one of them. The black chicken in the front is Speedy, because when he was a chick you could never catch him (you still can't). The white one is Bibbi, she's the "mother of the eggs" (she tries to hatch babies, ;-)), The red one next to her is my Lilly, the most friendly, and kind chicken. I like the name Lilly, so I named her that. She had really cute colorings as a chick. The big gold chicken on the roost is Power Puff Girl (strange name, I know, but she has puffs on her cheeks, and she's a girl, so....), and the chicken behind her is Redhead, because Redhead has a red head (duh!).
So, that's it, just a little post. I'm running out of posts now, it'll be a couple days until I post again. I'm off to church now! Have a good week!

One Must Have Loyal Workers

My apologies, this post is a little long (and probably boring).

Strange title, I know. I'm not really sure why I named it that, but oh well. Anyway, would you like good news or bad first? Bad? Save the best for last? Ok, bad. Well, about last Monday or Sunday, I was cleaning the stall, minding my own business. Actually, I had already cleaned, and I was just sweeping the back area of the stall where Daisy eats, and, just as I was sweeping, I patted the broom an to the ground to get rid of dust and *Smack*, it broke in half! JUST LIKE THAT! It ditched me, took it's last breath, and died, leaving me with an unbalanced broom, and a new water bucket cleaning brush. He was a loyal worker, 'till he decided to die out on me.
The second passing on of life was Daisy's fault. See, on November 28 (according to our receipt) we bought a big, 16 gallon water trough, that you could plug into the wall to keep the water in it from freezing. It worked well until last Monday or Tuesday, when Daisy just HAD to itch her big behind on the rim of it, and SOMEHOW, I don't know how, she got her entire hoof into it, and made a big hole in it, breaking it forever. All I can say is, "Good going, Daisy". Really, it wasn't very good, because the bucket had not been cheap. We tried to return it at Country Max, but they wouldn't take it. SO, I got a regular, 5 gallon to hang on the wall, same thing as before, but smaller, and cheaper. I'm happy with it, because I like that it hangs on the wall ;-). So, that's my new loyal worker, replacing the old one.
Next worker, and probably the most important one: Mr. Michael Wheelbarrow. Yes, I named my wheelbarrow. One can get a little bored while cleaning a stall, so I decided to name him Michael (nothing to do with my brother, Michael). It is a very skilled wheelbarrow. It can carry two bales of hay at a time, three, sometimes four, bags of shavings, manure (that's a humble thing to do, I have to say), salt blocks, and bags of feed, plus more, I'm sure. It's a very loyal wheelbarrow.
THEN there's my pitchfork and shovel, also very important.
I put the bag of shavings up just for fun. That is the not so loyal bag of shavings. You see, we get our shavings at Country Max (as everything else) and they sell two brands: the brand pictured, and a clear plastic bagged one. The one in the picture is the bad one, because, at least, when I used it in the summer, it was REALLY dusty! It got the ENTIRE stall in a huge cloud of dust, and it wasn't even worth it, because it isn't very absorbent. The clear bag kind is better, because there's no dust, and it absorbs well, and smells good.
So, those are my workers, loyal and not-loyal, that either make taking care of a horse easier or harder. Sorry, this is just something I thought might be kind of interesting, but maybe it wasn't. Anyway, I will post again either tomorrow or Monday, a post about the kittens. Have a good weekend!

Trotting Sidepass

This is a video of Daisy and I yesterday, Thursday the third, trotting up the driveway. I've always like side passing, where the horse walks sideways :p, and this summer I tried to get Daisy to side pass. I think she knew how to do it, she just forgot. It took awhile, but now I can trot her sideways pretty well. Enjoy!
P.S. Come back soon, I will post again this weekend!