"Interested"~~ABC Wednesday 091510

Monday afternoon both Quad and Sunni were INTERESTED in what Cali was doing down in the arena. And, what was she doing? See for yourself! She's such a goofball! ABC Wednesday for September 15, 2010.

Monday afternoon

I had to drive up to the ranch yesterday afternoon, after school, and I'm glad I did. It was a beautiful Indian summer day up there, the breeze kicked in, and the air was cool. It was 107 degrees down in the desert, but up in the mountains it was completely different. It was...refreshing! I stopped at home to change my clothes and immediately headed up the mountain to the horse ranch where I board my five. Quad immediately nickered (I think he now associates me with...FOOD!) and Cali stood patiently by her gate, begging for a run in the arena. So, I took her down there and she calmly ate weeds until she got a hair up her BUTT, and off she went!!! Sunni and Quad had to come over to see what Cali was up to, hanging their heads over their corral pipes. I took some time and just hung out with them, brushed them, and gave them all some feed. Gigondas seemed to especially need some lovin' and I spent quite a while with her, grooming her, getting the knots out of her mane, and giving her scratches. It was a good way to end the day.

This weekend

I didn't get much quality horse time this weekend. I just had too many other things to do! Do you ever have a weekend like this past one? I had to tidy up the house as hubby was driving home from his trip to northern California with our son. I had to do all my laundry because I knew hubby would be coming home with his! And, nobody was up at the ranch, so I decided not to take out any horses while up there alone...I'm hoping that next weekend I'll get some quality time with the horses. I DID visit both Lowe's and Home Depot to check and see what fall flowers they had and this is what I saw there. I wouldn't say the cacti are fall flowers, but HDepot sure had a lot of them!

"Glow"~See It Sunday 091210

I'm reposting this photo that hubby took last year on September 11. We had gone up to the ranch one afternoon to visit the horses. I let Gigondas out into the arena and she ran and ran and ran and stirred up so much dust! As the sun was beginning to set, hubby took this photo of her. It wasn't until we saw this photo that we realized how moving it was for this date, September 11. I decided to include it for "See It Sunday" today since their theme for the week is "glow". She seems to be glowing in the dust and it looks surreal. See It Sunday for September 12, 2010. For other participants, please visit: http://www.seeitsunday.net/

Ready for some horse time!

Hubby and our son took this past week off work and drove up to Yosemite, Mono Lake, Merced, and up to Napa Valley. They had a family dinner last night with Art's sister, who has her own vineyard up in Napa. They are driving home today. I'm SO READY for some horse time! You know, it just makes my job easier when I can look forward to the weekends and know I'll have some time with the horses! It almost makes the week bearable!!! And, look at what I'm heading toward~Here's Quad, normally "Mr. Mellow", last weekend! Oh, boy! It must feel so good to get out and run and stretch and get all those farts out!!!

Jury duty and sunrise

I've had jury duty for the last two days and it was an interesting experience. First of all, I'd never been called into jury duty when there were SO MANY others called in! The jury room was packed! Turns out, there were 3 major trials selecting juries at the same time and over 300 people were there! Yesterday morning there was NO parking in the county lot, and we aren't allowed to park in the "county employee" parking, or if jurors did, they got a $44 parking citation! So, most of us had to park out on the street. I had to park 3 blocks away and walk! But, the good thing was that I had time to grab my camera in the morning and head out to take some early morning pics, which I'll also do today! I stopped at the Marriott Desert Springs yesterday morning to take these photos. Those are cattle egrets and there were over 20 of them! I tried to snap a couple of shots so that you could see their wings unfolded. The large one was chasing off every other egret that came close to him! He really was quite entertaining! The Marriott is an official bird sanctuary, and since they have several ponds and waterfalls, migratory birds frequently stop there to rest. A flock of Canadian geese flew overhead while I was there, honking away, and landing on another pond.

Horses~ABC Wednesday 090810

I'm always interested in the interaction of horses with one another and this past weekend, while Scout was down in the arena, I caught Quad interacting with both Sunni and his neighbor, a little Paso filly. Silly horses!!! ABC Wednesday for September 9, 2010.