dry spell appears to be over

 Dry Spell Appears to be Over for Now

Hi! it's me Precious the House Mouse quit talking a while back we don't know why.

After about a year of no rain it has been raining or drizzling or misting for about a week now. The pond isn't full maybe about halfway is all but that's ok it's wet. Been a long time since we have been wet. Won't make up the twenty inches we are short for the year but it's wet and we are grateful.

Before the summer was even half done we had no water in our pond and no green grass to eat. What a summer that was. It is very nice to eating green grass now about five days before the New Year begins. Things are backwards but nothing we can't deal with.

We adapt. We watched until all that was left was Wisteria and Poison Ivy but we didn't miss a step. We ate feed and hay. Oh my HAY!!! The hay was gone from around here by September. Lucky we have the House Mouse taking care of us and she had some stored in the barn. Our Man said 'Don't ya'll worry I won't let you go without.' We have a good life.

The House Mouse came home one day with a large round bale of hay in the back of her truck for us. You know that face I make when she worms me? THAT is the face I made when I tasted that hay in the back of her truck. "What IS THAT? That's not hay. EEEWWWWW". It is rice grass hay.

This just in from down at Squatamala 'Flash' cut a back leg on some hog wire. He has been bandaged and got a shot. He's standing up eating and got put in his own little pen for a now.

needs brushing

In Rememberance

In Rememberance of my Mother.

Tree Frog

The little tree frog who lives in the little house in the ivy plant
hanging basket did not move out for the winter. He came in to the sun room with the ivy plant. We did not know that for about a week when I walked by and saw him peeking over the side of the pot. I was hoping since he was at dirt level he had decided to dig in for the winter. Took him and his plant outside and gave the ivy a good drink of water. I put a spray paint cap in the old bird nest in the center of the ivy plant for him a water bowl. Then I brought him and his plant back into the sun room.

Oh yes it is a multi family housing ivy plant. It has the little wooden house on a stick for the tree frog and in the center is a small bird nest that gets reused every year. Please don't anyone tell me about bugs living in bird nests.

Now back to the Tree Frog:

He spoke to me yesterday so I put him outside. I thought he said "FEED ME FEED ME" but probably in frog language he said 'There is a BIG storm coming batten down the hatches!' too bad for him I don't speak frog.

Boy you should have seen that hanging basket blowing in the raging wind and rain. Bet he's not a happy camper after living his life up to that point on the sheltered front porch or in the sun room. He got a big ole slap in the face of real life!!!!!!!! Poor little thing. I hope he's decided to hibernate.

I walked by the back side of the ivy plant this morning so I don't know if froggy is mad at me or not. Did I tell you the big girl from across the road pets him? Yes she does. She is well over six feet tall walks up to that little house and pets the frog. Rubs him on top of his head and scratches him under his chin. I do not do that.

I do not want him in my house awake all winter either. I don't mind if they burrow into the soil of the potted plants and stay hidden from me but I do not want to see them. In the spring the first one that makes a noise gets all the plants put outside.

We have a friend who brought two tree frogs in with his potted plants last year and he found them in different places all over his house all winter. I would not like that. I would not like to walk into the bathroom and there be a frog sitting on the mirror. Or go to the laundry room and find one sitting on the cabinet above the washer. He said he never knew where they would be because you know they have little suction cup feet. They could be beside you above you below you they could be anywhere they wanted to be which just would be not a good thing in the house all winter. Not a good thing in the sun room either. Yep not even in one room do I want a Tree Frog to be looking at me all winter. Or talking to me for sure till learn tree frog language.

Clown Horse

All this time we have been thinking that the big Pretty Boy was probably a rodeo horse. Maybe a calf ropers horse. Then we found out that he was being ridden as a barrel racer. Well that explains how he can make such quick turns. But today the girl found out that he is a Clown horse.

Funny Funny Funny to see so try to picture this as you read what the girl told me to write for you.

Oh I have thought in the past that the Pretty Boy might have been a cow horse or a calf roping horse in the rodeo. Then I heard he was being ridden as a barrel racing horse even with his half hoof. But today I found out the truth. Oh Yes I did and it is not what we have been thinking.

That boy was a clown's horse!!!! Positively sure about that. I leaned over to pick up a bucket laying on the ground and that boy knocked me with his big ole head about six feet. Got my balance, got upright and turned around to look at him thinking I was fixing to say things a child shouldn't hear. But as I whipped around to lay some words on him he quickly turned his head so his nose was darn near pointing at his butt! Thinking it might be a coincidence I turned my head back around and got the bucket. Whipped back around he did it again. I told him 'Well you big old clown you! You KNOW what you just did to me don't you!' He turned to look at me just a little bit then all the way with his nose getting closer and closer to the ground as he turned that giant head. 'You silly boy! I guess that was just something you HAD to do but don't you be doing it to me again.'

I think he smiled. I know I did.

Scared Pony

We had a visitor here for a few weeks we were training. Pretty little thing but a skeerdy cat. Not really a cat she was a pony but she was scared. Just about everything bothered her. We had to teach her to just settle down. Just remain calm because jumping and running is not the right thing to do. It's okay to twitch but not jump kick and run. You have to breathe in and think.

Thinking is the key. You have to think you are going to be okay. That the human girl will be expecting us to be brave horse's is just something we keep in the back of our heads. She knows we know how to act.

But storms are scary things for little pony's who have not had someone to hold them and tell them it's going to be all right. Little pony's who have been left out in the pasture alone can get scared and not know what to do. So they brought us that pony.

We stood still and she stood still. When things were going to be scary me and my horse, The Pretty Boy, stood on each side of her to show her we were there to take care of her. If we saw storm clouds coming, real storm clouds not just dark clouds, we made sure we took the little pony to our safe place.

A safe place doesn't even have to be a real place but we have one of those. Our old barn is our safe place. We can be just anywhere and go to our safe place in our minds. That was a little hard to explain to the little pony.

We told her to just think about the pasture full of green grass and the pond full of water with our tummy's full of grain. But then the thunder would come and she could not fit that loud noise into her green pasture with the pretty pond and a tummy full of grain. And then when the storm was closer and there was lightening before the thunder well that was just two things to frighten that little pony.

What to do what to do. My Pretty Boy said she was just going to have to learn how to think her way past it. I said that she couldn't think when she was so scared she was shaking. So we took her into our big red barn and asked the House Mouse what we could do to comfort the little pony.

The House Mouse said what she did was go into her small nest with it's fluffy floor and try to be asleep before the loudness got started good. Well it was too late for us to do that and then we felt bad that we had woken the House Mouse up out of her hidey hole. But she said not to worry everything would be fine. She said we could sing songs or listen to music.

What music?, we asked her. There is no music. Oh yes there is if you listen you can hear it. The sound of the rain is very hard to hear way down here in the bottom of the barn so you have to really concentrate. Then when you can hear it you tap your finger. Pretty soon you are tapping your toes too and the thunder is your foot hitting the drums!

Oh what a wonderful idea we will start a band and we can practice when it is raining so we have something to do.

The House Mouse said that is exactly the right thing to do. You have to think everything will be fine that you have time to practice your music or play your game or take a nap or whatever it is that you want to do that will make you not think about the storm outside. She said that the human people have games that they play while sitting in the storm shelter and sometimes they don't even come out when the storm is over because they have not finished their game.

There are a lot of things to do when a storm is approaching so that before it gets here we are ready for it. We decide where we want to be and what we want to be doing then we are ready.

By the time the pretty little pony went home she was much better about being scared. Of course there will be times she forgets she is a brave girl but they will get less and less as she gets older. And now that she has skills she can teach them to the chickens and the goats at her house. Maybe she can even find a barn cat to talk to when storms come so that she doesn't get scared. As long as she has someone/something else to think about then that is less time she has to think about what is scaring her.

Here I am!

Boy did that summer go by fast here it is already towards the end of a dry dry August. My horse, the Pretty Boy, is doing well and I am fine just fine thank you.

Yes I am. There is no need to pick my foot up and look under it. No need at all. You can pick up that one on the other side and look all you want but this one I am keeping on the ground. Blood on a rock? Not my blood I assure you. No really I'm fine. I will back up one step but I will not lift that foot. Push on me all you want that foot is staying on the ground and I am not kidding. You can stop now because you are not going to win. I weight about a million pounds more than you do and all your pushing is getting you no where. Oh you don't think so. Well let me show you how many different ways I can move without taking that foot off the ground or even ever taking enough weight off of it to give you half a chance of picking it up. See I told you. I'm fine walk away just walk away. Go on now nothing to see here. Move along move along. OH! Do you see that! HA! There you go I'm outta here now. See you later! hahahaha tricked you and now I'm gone!

Worming Day

Do I know my human girl or what!! Today is worming day. I know because I saw my horse, the Pretty Boy, already get his.

Then she came over to me and tried to put that 'thing' in my mouth. Well I'm not stoooid nope not me. I put my head down. Down Down Down till my nose was on the ground.

See I don't have a halter on so she couldn't do anything about that. If I had raised my head up there is a good chance my human girl would have just grabbed a handful of my mane hair and pulled my head down but no way could she reach me way way way down here on the ground. HA I WIN!

She has walked away. I knew I could outsmart her. I don't like that stuff and I said NO. Good for me -what? she's coming and she has a halter?!!!! I gotta go I GOTTA HIGH TAIL IT OUTTA HERE FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our beloved PANSY gone but never to be forgotten.

Friends came to visit

Me and my horse, The Pretty Boy, had friends come to visit us yesterday morning. Four of the horse's from across the road walked over to see us. They are very beautiful horse's. We didn't get to visit with them very long though because Terisa was outside and they heard her.

Terisa lives over there to the East. She was putting stuff in her garage and the big horse went to see what she was doing. We heard her say 'God love me!' so the other three horses went to see how come she said that. When they got over there where she was we heard her say 'God Loves me A LOT!' she was soooo happy to see those horse's. She yelled to me 'Look Precious! Look what God sent me!'

But then Daryl came out and told her they were not her horse's and he was going to have to find out who they belonged to. She got to stay outside and pet them until he came back out and told her they had to go back across the road.

Well at least they just live down across the road so she can still go visit with them if she wants to.

Just made my heart feel good to see her so happy and feeling so blessed.

BUSTED

My favorite neighbor was over here yesterday morning getting Cataba worms to go fishing with and while she was here she told my human girl that my horse, The Pretty Boy, was mean. 'Mean? Him?' 'Yes him. When I am giving them sweet treats he doesn't want to share with her and he gets mean towards her.'

"OH!" Said my human girl 'that explains that.' 'Explains what?' my favorite neighbor asked. 'That explains how it is that we don't give her hardly any feed lately but she isn't losing any weight only getting bigger and bigger.' LOL!!!

I surely did not want my human girl to know about those sweet treats. She thought that my favorite neighbor was just giving us a handful of deer corn and she was ok with that. I'm not so sure she is ok with us getting all those sweet treats. I know I wouldn't like it if I didn't get them anymore because they are sooooo very good but I guess I would understand if we didn't get to have so many of them all the time. I would understand but I wouldn't like it. Nope I wouldn't like it.

A story by the human girl

Hi! I'm sure Precious will have her own version of the morning she had but I get to go first because she is over chatting it up with her friends over the West fence.

Levi and Layni got here about 6 or so this morning. You remember them. They used to live across the road and sing to us every morning before they moved off to live in town.

Such good horse's and such tiny children. They are 3 and 5 now but don't weigh more than a feather even though they are as tall as 5 and 7 year olds.

Before 8 we had already been out gathering cataba worms and rode the horses.

I put a lead rope on the boy and rode them in circles doubled up. Then they picked 'their' horses and wanted to be on them at the same time.
'But Precious doesn't have on a halter so no rope.' 'so' 'so she will
oh well fine I'll throw you up there' Levi got on his horse that has
been his horse for years he says and Layni got on her pretty boy. She
wanted to know his name. Pretty Boy. 'Oh I knew that!' Precious
started backing up. Levi was laid back on her back looking at the
clouds. He said whoa whoa whoa and she did, just long enough for him
to sit up. He said 'what is she doing that for?' 'maybe trying to back out from under you grab some hair and bale off'.' 'can I do that?' 'we won't
know till you try'. Layni was starting to get nervous. 'I want off I
want off!' 'I can't be in two places at once he isn't moving so don't
you move'. 'OK' whew.

Such precious children.

Stupid snake won't do that again I bet

Stupid snake let the human girl see it climbing the pipe to the pipe that goes over the top of my water trough. She went to the big house and came back with a rifle. I heard her say 'If you are in there you better get out! Can't have you hanging out where me and the horse's do so you have to go on.' But he didn't listen to her till later. So she shot her bb rifle into that pipe. Again and again about six times. Then we watched her walk to the other end of the pipe and look.........and yelp! HAHAHA That was funny. Me and my horse, The Pretty Boy, both jumped when she did that. I think that snake must have been looking back at her when she was looking to see if it was at that end of the pipe is what I told my horse. And then she backed up a few steps and shot into that pipe again. Three or four more times. Then she stepped back even farther and we did too. That snake was coming out of that pipe and he didn't look happy.

Apparently she hit him with one of her bb's because halfway out of the pipe he fell to the ground. She shot at him again and again and again. Each time she shot she said shoot.

When she came to our barn later to feed us she told me what had happened....

A stupid snake slithered up the pipe to the cross pipe over the water trough, it was three feet long at least but not fat. I decided that if he thought he was going to hang out in that pipe I walk by and you and your horse are by all the time he had to die. Came back to the house. First rifle I picked up was my bb rifle. Not the high powered one either just the cute as a bug one. Brass bb's that'll work. Well I couldn't find him on the ground in the area so I decided he did go into that cross pipe over the tank. Bad boy have to die now. Bird nests in there. I shot thru the pipe about six times. Sometimes my bb made sparks inside that pipe. Then I thought I should go to the other end and see if I could see him better. He was looking at me!!!!!!! I shot a few more times and he decided he didn't want to be in there anymore. I injured him about 3/4 of the way down his nasty body. Probably 15 bb's into that dark pipe and I only hit him the one time. Never got him again even though I tried as he slithered on the ground towards the backyard!! Well shoot. The baby dog is out in the back yard and I can't get there from here. hurry hurry hurry don't think about the pain just hurry and get that dog or he will never forgive you. Got the dog never found the wounded snake. Put the rifle up and saw howcome I couldn't see thru the scope. Caps were on it. Didn't really need it but would have liked to have been able to back up a little farther than I was able to do.

And that's the story the human girl told us about her snake hunt. It was a lot funnier to watch then to hear about.

Safe Haven Equine Rescue

Safe Haven Equine Rescue is where we got my horse The Pretty Boy and they are in super need of our help. This spring has brought them many many many horse's who needed their help and their love but with this comes the added expensive of feeding, doctoring, and caring for our friends. We need you to go to their web site and see some of the beautiful horse's that have recently come to be cared for by these fine people. And while you are visiting there maybe you could help them out a little or a lot. Say a prayer for them too because they are truly Angels.

Click here (or where ever you see the words Safe Haven on this web site) to go to Safe Haven Equine Rescue web site. Bless their hearts.

oh HAPPY DAY

It is a very happy day today because it is the Birthday of the Grand Princess LayLay! YES!!! Good for her! Three cheers! WOOOOPPPPEEEEEE!!!!

Isn't that great! Eight years! Why she is not really that much younger than I am.....much smaller but not that much younger. I should do a happy dance in celebration of this wonderful day! The human man isn't around out here so it is safe for me to kick up my heels so off I go................

The Pretty Boy here, Precious is out in the pasture dancing and running. I don't know why I just knew it was a good idea to get in here out of her way. She came out of this barn like she was starting a horse race and grinning from ear to ear. OH! Now I know I just heard what she was saying when she ran by here....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TO
GRAND PRINCESS LAYLAY

WE HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY WEEK!

WITH LOVE FROM
YOUR HORSE'S
PRECIOUS AND PRETTY BOY

Got myself in trouble

I got myself in big trouble but it was worth it! The human man caught me inside the barn with my head in the feed barrel yesterday afternoon. I'm lucky it was him and not the human girl. He came in the barn and was very surprised to see me in there. He opened the big front door and told me I had to get out then he went to tell on me. I tried to stand in his way because I knew what he was going to do but he told me 'Go on now' so I had to. After I thought about it for a minute I decided it would be best it I went way way away before he found the human girl and told her what I had been caught doing.

Sure enough he told on me and sure enough she was not happy with me. Oh but that feed was soooooo good!! My horse, The Pretty Boy, didn't go inside with me so when the human girl found the door pulled loose I was the only one to blame. Then she saw where I had eaten a lot of my boys special feed and then split the rest of it. And then she opened the feed barrel to see how much I had eaten. Apparently that was important.

My horse got to have some feed because he was still in the barn behaving himself. When I saw him getting some food I went to get me some. Boy was that a bad idea. The human girl explained to me how I wasn't going to get any and how I wasn't supposed to have gone inside the barn and how I had made a mess she had to clean up and by golly I best just get myself out in that pasture and start walking it off if I knew what was good for me. So I did. I walked clear across the pasture to the other side of my pond since I am not a stupid horse.

The human man kept coming out looking for me the rest of the day right up to dark thirty. I would hear him say 'She's still standing and eating grass!'. Since that seemed to make him happy I kept doing it.

Someone should remind me that just because a door or a gate gets left open doesn't mean that I am supposed to go where I know I am not supposed to go.

Nece lost us

Nece said she couldn't find us. She said that she was gone for awhile and when she came back we were gone.

She is so silly. We have been right here the whole time. We think she just didn't look in the right place for us. We were over there under the trees in the shade or maybe we were down in the pond but where ever we were we were here, we really were.

We don't know when Nece will come back to see us. Maybe she is here right now but looking in the wrong place again. Or maybe she is here right now and if I turn around I would see her.......................nope. She's not here in my barn but I see some other humans.

The other humans are unloading a trailer and it doesn't have anything on it for me. That's what they just said when they saw me looking. 'Nothing for you girl!' oh well I'm going to go see what they are doing anyway.

later.......

Now I know what they are doing out there. They are going to put some more metal on my barn on the top part. The top part where our Grand Princess LayLay plays. They are going to make it all pretty for her. They have already put some of her windows back in that blew out in that storm this past winter. Now they are saying they are going to fix it so that the rain doesn't get in there. That will be nice for our Grand Princess LayLay. Hey! Maybe Nece will come to see GP LayLay's country castle and when she does she will see me and my horse, The Pretty Boy, too! That might be nice and then Nece could maybe take a picture of us for if she can't find us again she can look at the picture!

Yep Sometimes I have some pretty good ideas that's for sure.