Friends

Stormy and the dogs are friends.

See more photos of the dogs at

my other blog - the puppy tale - at blogspot.com (for some reason the link refused to come up here. It is in the labels below)

Star

All the big horses wanted to do today was look silly

Sunny

Nita

Pony Play

Today the ponies decided to play while I had the camera out and I got several decent shots of them and a lot of bad ones while trying to keep them in focas.

Pony and Dogs

On the Run

Travey

All Four Up

All four feet off the ground

Stormy and Tuffee

A race between Stormy and Tuffee

Traveler

Ponies

I say ponies but each of them is half horse and half pony. Traveler, the pinto, is half Tennessee Walking Horse and half Shetland Pony. Stormy the smaller black one is half Miniture Horse and half Shetland Pony. And both had the same mama Shetland.

Bad Hair Pony

Stormy was having a bad hair day. I hadn't groomed him for a few days and he had been rolling in the dirt.

Bonanza

This photo is of Loren Greene who played Ben Cartwright, who was the head of the Cartwright clan on the Bonanza show. These old newspaper photos where in my scrapbook from when I was a kid and these shows were actually on. The article that went with the photos of the Bonanaza stars was when the newspaper in Tampa, Florida where we were living in 1962-1964 had polled readers on what there favorite show was. We knew by the photos that the favorite was Bonanza, still a favorite for those of us who watch the old reruns, and write fan-fiction stories for websites that publish them like www.womenwritersblock.net

More Bonanza

This newspaper clipping shows Michael Landon - Little Joe, Dan Blocker - Hoss, and Pernell Roberts - Adam.

Gunsmoke

Newspaper photo of James Arness who played Marshal Matt Dillion on Gunsmoke. There was a question from someone wanting to know if he was too big to ride a horse. Apparently they never watched the show or they would have known the answer.

Rawhide

Newspaper photo of Clint Eastwood, who played Rowdy Yates and Eric Fleming, who played the trailboss, Gil Favor.

More on Manure

I have spent the last few days really cleaning the horse pens. They needed it. We had kind of been slacking off on keeping the manure cleaned up and thats not good. The ad on Craig's List had allowed us to get a lot of it out and hopefully will be helping all those gardeners out there have good gardens this year.
And when I get through I spend a bit of time relaxing from all that excersise by watching some of the old Western TV shows and movies which had made me do some thinking.
What about all that manure all those horses and cows genereated on all those shows and movies.
Did you ever realize that althrough the Western was one of the most popular genre of shows and movies you never, but never, ever see even one pile of manure.
And I have never seen any credits for the crews of 'manure removers' that must have been needed for all those Westerns.

Old Photos

For those of you interested in old photos I have been putting some on my other blog http://wonderinwords.blogspot.com . And I have been putting photos of my dogs, Tuffee and Ziva, on the blog at
http://thepuppytale.blogspot.com .

Antiques and Junk

My mother was a collector as was her mom and so am I to a degree. Mother was even sort of a hoarder but we were able to keep a handle on it (sort of). When mother dies in 2003 my sisters and I had to go through all the stuff she had collected over her life and sort it, throw it, and devide it between us. In that same year I moved to the home we have now at the Tumbleweed Crossing. Most of her stuff and the stuff I had collected have been packed in boxes all those years. Recently I started going through all those boxes and sorting things some more. Since the dirt that we live with here is determined to work it's way into all those cardboard boxes I am repacking things and putting them in the large 10 and 15 gallon plastic containers with the lids that seal well enough to keep most of the dirt out. Here are a few of the things I found in the first couple of boxes I opened. I am trying to take a photo of everything, and make a list and put in the top of the new packed boxes as to what is in the box.