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New Llamas
July 24, 1999 16:43
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July 24, 1999 16:43
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Happy Birthday, Grandma!
Typical overly eventful week here at Freedom Hall. Still quilting, canning, writing books, editing magazines, planting, weeding, watering, tending our growing flock of animals, repairing outbuildings, and sorting junk. I’ve also decided to open a booth upstairs from the boot and tack shop in Colfax. They had some extra space upstairs, so they’re renting out spaces by month. Mine is a 10 1/2 × 9 1/2 foot space, but I have one extra bonus – one of the “walls” is the overhang for the stairs, so I get to hang things over the railing to attract attention as people go downstairs. That sounds like a small thing, but if you’ve ever done merchandising you know that’s a pretty good thing. I take “ownership” of it August 1st, so I’ve been busily painting and sewing and doing all the other things needed to get a booth like that ready. I’ll be selling woodcrafts and cloth items (think ...
Read the whole post...Typical overly eventful week here at Freedom Hall. Still quilting, canning, writing books, editing magazines, planting, weeding, watering, tending our growing flock of animals, repairing outbuildings, and sorting junk. I’ve also decided to open a booth upstairs from the boot and tack shop in Colfax. They had some extra space upstairs, so they’re renting out spaces by month. Mine is a 10 1/2 × 9 1/2 foot space, but I have one extra bonus – one of the “walls” is the overhang for the stairs, so I get to hang things over the railing to attract attention as people go downstairs. That sounds like a small thing, but if you’ve ever done merchandising you know that’s a pretty good thing. I take “ownership” of it August 1st, so I’ve been busily painting and sewing and doing all the other things needed to get a booth like that ready. I’ll be selling woodcrafts and cloth items (think ...
Horse Gets Hurt
July 17, 1999 16:46
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July 17, 1999 16:46
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Happy Birthday, Aunt Bobbie!
Woo-hoo! An update in under a week! What is the world coming to? ;-)
Well, the fun just never ends around here. Thursday afternoon Danny injured herself. She was sticking her head over the fence to eat grass on the other side (she’s got 3 acres of pastures, so why she was doing this behooves me) and when she pulled her head back she caught her ear on a nail and cut about a 3-inch gash in her ear. I discovered this when I went out to groom her in the evening, and immediately went into panic mode. We called the vet, who advised us to (1) put fly spray around her head and ear so she wouldn’t toss her head so much, (2) put ointment on the infection, and (3) stable her to keep her calm. Danny was NOT happy about this advice. But we did it as best we could (we got the fly spray on one ear, ointment in the general head area, and put her in her stable). She didn’t like being in her stable R...
Read the whole post...Woo-hoo! An update in under a week! What is the world coming to? ;-)
Well, the fun just never ends around here. Thursday afternoon Danny injured herself. She was sticking her head over the fence to eat grass on the other side (she’s got 3 acres of pastures, so why she was doing this behooves me) and when she pulled her head back she caught her ear on a nail and cut about a 3-inch gash in her ear. I discovered this when I went out to groom her in the evening, and immediately went into panic mode. We called the vet, who advised us to (1) put fly spray around her head and ear so she wouldn’t toss her head so much, (2) put ointment on the infection, and (3) stable her to keep her calm. Danny was NOT happy about this advice. But we did it as best we could (we got the fly spray on one ear, ointment in the general head area, and put her in her stable). She didn’t like being in her stable R...
Escaped Horse, First Harvest
July 12, 1999 16:50
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July 12, 1999 16:50
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Happy birthday to my nephew Don!
The day after the last update, Danny got loose. The wire lift-up latch on her pasture was evidently loose, and she just lifted it up and walked right on out! We, of course, panicked. Drove the countryside, at least as much as we could. Told what few neighbors we knew.. met a few more and told them. We skipped the Fourth of July doings down at the park (ice cream social and fireworks display) because Danny decided to have her own little Independence Day. There was no sign of her for two days. Then a neighbor we had never met named Randy drove up on his motorcycle and said his neighbor had a horse in their yard. So the word has spread. We drove over to check it out, and it was her – 6 miles away, fly-bitten like the dickens, and exhausted. We don’t have a trailer, so we then had the problem of how to get her home. Mike started walking her home and I went into St. John to try to find someone with a trailer who would help us out....
Read the whole post...The day after the last update, Danny got loose. The wire lift-up latch on her pasture was evidently loose, and she just lifted it up and walked right on out! We, of course, panicked. Drove the countryside, at least as much as we could. Told what few neighbors we knew.. met a few more and told them. We skipped the Fourth of July doings down at the park (ice cream social and fireworks display) because Danny decided to have her own little Independence Day. There was no sign of her for two days. Then a neighbor we had never met named Randy drove up on his motorcycle and said his neighbor had a horse in their yard. So the word has spread. We drove over to check it out, and it was her – 6 miles away, fly-bitten like the dickens, and exhausted. We don’t have a trailer, so we then had the problem of how to get her home. Mike started walking her home and I went into St. John to try to find someone with a trailer who would help us out....
Wedding/Honeymoon Update
July 05, 1999 16:21
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July 05, 1999 16:21
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May 21 was my bridal shower. Lots of family and friends came, and my bridesmaids – Nancy, Julie, and Donna – hosted it for me. It was GORGEOUS. Decorations everywhere, balloons, confetti, tons of food from Jason’s Deli, and the most beautiful shower cake ever! I was given some very lovely gifts from everyone (for which we’re very, very grateful), we played party games, and everyone made fun of me for becoming “Old Mrs. MacDonald”.
May 22 was the rehearsal. Everyone was there except 2 of my bridesmaids. We held it at Lake Ray Hubbard park in Rowlett. Rehearsal itself only took about 20 minutes, then we went to have dinner at a barbeque place up the highway. Since there were so many of us we had to wait awhile to be seated (dumb Dana didn’t make a reservation for SATURDAY ...
Read the whole post...May 22 was the rehearsal. Everyone was there except 2 of my bridesmaids. We held it at Lake Ray Hubbard park in Rowlett. Rehearsal itself only took about 20 minutes, then we went to have dinner at a barbeque place up the highway. Since there were so many of us we had to wait awhile to be seated (dumb Dana didn’t make a reservation for SATURDAY ...
New Horse
July 03, 1999 16:55
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July 03, 1999 16:55
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A lot has been going on since my last update. As you probably have seen, there are lots of new pictures up. If you haven’t seen this yet, go back to the home page and take a look – there are bridal shower photos, pictures of Danny-girl (the horse), and all kinds of other knick-knacks. Tomorrow I’ll be working on wedding photos and the wedding/honeymoon update.
Well, obviously we bought a horse. She’s a 13-year-old Thoroughbred mare, 16 hands high, brown (no white markings at all), registered. We bought her from a couple out by Spokane, and she was delivered here almost a week ago, on June 28th. She’s fitting right in, and has jogged down a little track in her (3-acre) pasture. Some time next week, we’re going into Spokane to get a saddle and a bridle so she can be ridden; she’s been getting a little restless. Mike has been easing into taking care of her little by little, which turns out to be a very good thing. The other day I h...
Read the whole post...Well, obviously we bought a horse. She’s a 13-year-old Thoroughbred mare, 16 hands high, brown (no white markings at all), registered. We bought her from a couple out by Spokane, and she was delivered here almost a week ago, on June 28th. She’s fitting right in, and has jogged down a little track in her (3-acre) pasture. Some time next week, we’re going into Spokane to get a saddle and a bridle so she can be ridden; she’s been getting a little restless. Mike has been easing into taking care of her little by little, which turns out to be a very good thing. The other day I h...