Wednesday, September 1, 2004

And the day goes on

This morning I got up and ready to go to the doctor for a test involing my ears to check my balance or something like that because of my vertigo attack a few weeks ago. The phone is ringing as I am going out the door. I almost did not answer it. It was the doctor's office calling to postpone my appointment. Seems the doctor is out and they are not sure when she will be back. Oh well that meant I had to cook breakfast.

pat and I decided to ride the horses this morning. I was thrilled! I enjoy riding my Precious. Pat rode Belle. She is still very green broke. We were hoping that the ride with another horse would help her some, get her more used to being rode with oher horses. We did not count on her Mama's blue eyes turning green. Crystal is so jealous of Pat having anything to do with another horse. We were saddled up and riding down the drive when Crystal went ballastic out in the field. She was bucking and running and generally just raising hell. That did not go over well with Belle. It made her a nervous wreck. Lucky for me Precious is fat as a barrel so she did not get too excited. She did keep walking sideways so she could see Crystal. She does not like being separated from her. She did give one small jump that jarred my back. It is a little sore but no problem. We were on them for about 30 minutes. I am working with Precious to teach her neck reining. She has to be guided by plowing. Slowly but surely she is responding to the teaching. Belle is finally learning to stop so Pat can get off of her. She will stand there without being tied. That is a good thing. We have never used a lunge rope on her. I thinkit is rough on them to be forsed to run in a circle over and over to teach them something. It is hard on their young developing bones. The ride was not hard on the horses. Crystal was the only one that broke out in a sweat!

I went walking today out in the fields after Pat left for work. They are getting high and colorful. I can tell fall is on its way. The fall flowers are out in full bloom. The bees were busy gathering the pollen to make new honey and the pollen is busy making noses twitch!

 These are some of the light purple flowers I found, very small, tight clustered flowers.      Looking a little closer I found some small toadstools nestled down in the grass.  Next I came up to some blackeye susies  Of course they are slightly browneyed now.  I came around to the backside of my garden where I have been unable to mow and there I found the prettiest purple and yellow flowers.

    Then I came up to the sunflowersheads with some real creepy bugs on them..

That was my afternoon.

9 comments:

  1. I get nervous when Blue and I go past a pasture with other horses; they frolic and trot and buck along the fences, and sometimes I think he's going to buck too!  He never has, thank goodness.

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  2. AWWW!! IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD THEEEE BEST DAY CELESTE! GLAD TO HEAR YOU SPENT TIME OUT WITH PAT AND PRECIOUS.:) THATS SO NICE. I HAD TO WORK.........YUCK.......LOL!!  THOSE ARE SOME GOOD PICTURES YOU TOOK.
    KIM.

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  3. wow Celeste beautiful pics....                                                                                                             I have lots of purple and yellow flowers too, and its weird that they loook so good together huh....sounds like a beautiful day!  

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  4. lovely flowr pics. I sure wish I could go for a ride. It use to calm me so much Lori

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  5. Some great photos!  The purple flower on top acutally has a couple names. Baby's Breath and also Mist Flower. I call it Mist Flower. It is a late bloomer and will be with us well into October.  Technically, it is from the boneset family and i do believe is posinous. The toad stools i think are devils snuff boxes and the last purple one with the yellow golden rods is Tall Iron Flower.

    Thanks for sharing!

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  6. great pictures!  thanks for sharimg them! you be careful on those horses!!!!! glad you had such a nice day!!!

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  7. We call the purple ones Joe Pye weed around here...and the gold ones Golden rod.

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  8. I can tell you love your horses just the way my daughter and grand daughter do. The flowers are so pretty. Thanks for sharing, Paula

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  9. I love your pictures.  They remind me to take time to look around, observe.  Thanks for sharing them.

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