Baking begins

It's here, just got put in. Cookies are on the way. I never thought I would be so excited to get a cook stove. I must be getting old, if appliances get me excited. Hehe.

Studying Again

Yes...I'm studying again for my FA exam....just alittle tidbit. Do you know that you have loose areolar tissue in your scalp, and you don't even have to be female. Hum?

Not just your average cowgirl!

So Friday was an early day for me, got done before 4 pm. Decided to take Morgan to the barn. Got there, everybody was gone, no big deal.....Morgan got frosty out and "we" decided to go ahead and get Ellie out. If you don't know Ellie was originally Ralph's horse we got last September. She is huge, big, egnormous....huge again. I call her our John Wayne horse, because I think she looks like one he would have rode in his westerns.

Anyways....well...(here's my mistake) I got bored....Morgan's riding frosty...Ellie just standing there, waiting for something....So I started brushing her...let's say I'm ALITTLE scared of her. She's big. So Morgan saddles her, and rides her some, to get her "excited" moment over. It takes everything I have to get on her. I know, if my backside wasn't so huge, it probally wouldn't be a problem. But I did it. Ellie did good. Morgan and Frosty went outside in the arena....I told her she could, "we will be fine". (here's my mistake) I got bored.....I decided with all my expertise I could too ride outside. Here's some facts you should know: Ellie hasn't been rode outside with anyone at this barn. I have never rode outside period. I haven't rode her since this time last year. I am not your average cowgirl! You can pretty much say...I don't ride at all. Well, after forcing Morgan to l.et me ride outside, "no momma, I don't think you should". We slowly walk outside.....going good. Got to the end of the arena....neighbors wave at us. We wave back....this is great.....and then the neighbors decided to move their big black trash can on their concrete driveway...making a sound that would be normal to us. Not to Ellie and Frosty. I thought I was at a rodeo, and I was the main event. Morgan laughed, and laughed....Frosty she had control of, Ellie I d.id not. Thank God, yes I did stay on the huge broncing horse. But all I could say was "I WANNA GET OFF, I WANNA GET OFF". Still laughing, Morgan says to me, " Momma you've got to ride her to the barn". The mare was wanting me off, just as bad as I was wantinng off, and she thought she could make this happen by going faster. I prevailed, and we made it to the barn, where I got off rather quickly, and will be observing the horseback riding again from a nice lawn chair. Morgan makes this look easy.

Go MHHS Band

Avery came home sunday morning at 1:00 am. She was so excited and tired, but with reason. The band received 12 awards/trophies. Avery says "we're the best of the best". They were awesome. They even beat Jonesboro, who won last year. I am so proud of her and the whole band, it is a group effort, and they have put alot of hard work and hours in practice. Did I also mention, this is their first competition. What a way to start out. GO BAND!

No Kids

I tell ya, the girls were gone today, Morgan staying the weekend with a friend, and Avery is doing Marching Contest for Band, and Ralph and I didn't know what to do. We thought about going to Springfield and/or Branson. But we realize that we really didn't have to do anything there. So we did some shopping in Mountain Home, but that doesn't take long, and then we couldn't figure where to eat. It was sad. Can I say we were bored. Is this what's its going to be like when they leave us. Oh my gosh.....what will we do, besides try to kill each other.