THE END...of 2009...Good-by!

Thursday night, December 31st, 2009 - 10:45pm. Just an hour plus till 2010. 40 years ago...who da thunk?! Even 30 or 20 or 10 years ago...does time go by this fast or is it my silly little imagination?! Regardless...here we are, 2010!

The hubby took me to a fancy dinner @ Twigs...pomegranate martini's, flat-iron-steak, and deep fried drunken donuts for desert! Oh my goodness, now that's a romantic dinner! Then we came home for a quiet night alone...plus, the roads were bad and we aren't the goofy kids we once were...so home safe is a good thing! We will try to make it till the New Year's kiss, but no guarantees! And that's ok too!

So, how's your year been? Mine, you ask?! Well, now that you ask...let's see...
The hubby...I love that man who loves his wife!...I love my life!! He is great!
The grandson is about 5'6" with a bass voice! Goodness, he's grown...yet still so sweet!
The son is so in love and has had his best year in life ever!
The daughter-in-law "Dr.J" is a wonderful addition to the follies! She is a joy!
The families...all doing well and we have added a new nephew to the bunch!
The critters...a ton of fun, a laugh a minute, pleasure beyond belief...except for the horses:( Bombay is still ouchy, lame and all around not doing so hot. Dali isn't to awful far behind him...founder...both at the same time...go figure! We have been fighting this for a month! But that is a post for another day!

For tonight, I guess I'd like to leave you with a light heart and a feeling of hope for the future! GOD will watch over us all in 2010, HE will see that we have all that we need. If we trust HIM, HE will never let us down. I pray for all of you, may blessings shower down on you in the New Year! Thank you all who tune in to the "follies", GOD Bless and Happy New Year!!

If my horse could talk!

Got a horse that seems ouchy on his feet. Also, his "sheath" is swollen like a softball...well crap, this is gonna suck!! It is below zero out there! I call the vet daughter in law. What's the first thing she says?! Check his temp. Aren't you supposed to have a string attached to the thermometer for that? Apparently not! She says, "don't worry, he won't suck it up inside himself!" She should've put that in the memo to him! But not to worry, I had a death grip on it!

Also, she says there may be some stuff that causes lumps of ouie-gouie around the urethra and that "I"...yep, "me" needed to get the little ouie-gouie lumps out! Oh man, I wish she would have added that to the memo also!! If you want details on that part of my day I will refer you to the vet lady's blog... www.draggonlaady.livejournal.com/ ...ask her how to remove ouie-gouie lumps from the personals of a horse! After all, she is the one who explained it to me.

Ok, there is a part that I can share and it may well be of some use to you! The ouchy feet...well, it turns out the Paint horse was ouchy also. A week or so ago it had rained for a few days straight...hard! Made a marsh out of the upper pasture. Then it turned sub zero and the ground froze in solid little peaks. Add to that 2 horses that chase each other into their feed area. Now we have some bruised feet and don't want to move...at all, and some edema sets in. All this kind of action...or lack of it, has a shade of founder to it. So now we need straw bedded paddocks and butazone. Oh, and a special diet for awhile! Oh, the inconvenience of it all!

Oh yeah, you are curious as to how that affects the "sheath"...well, all the lameness added to the swelling that was already there...made it look really serious, and it was!

Thanks for checkin' in on the follies! If ya get a chance, come visit me on the web at http://www.fisirid.com/ ! See ya there!