You caught me dreaming...

My favorite!!!

Yep, this is the stud we bred Bailey to. I can't help but dream about foals that are mine and Bailey when I see him!

Doubled

Yes, I have doubled my horses. In one day.

WHAT??? You may say, but it's true.

 A few weeks ago a guy we know said that he really needed to get rid if his chariot racing team, and wanted to know if we would take them. So, my dad, the wonderful heart that he is said yes. So I have doubled my 'herd.'

At least they are both geldings. I DO NOT LIKE MARES ANYMORE!!!!

They both seem to be really gentle and let me do anything on the ground with them. Walk behind them, spray them etc.

One is broke for sure. I haven't tried to ride them though. The guy rode one of them to our house though.

The downside...they're thouroughbreds. Which is just as bad as a mare in my opinion!!! Especially since these are race horses.
I took pictures but I can't find the camera cord. But one is really pretty, he has a flaxen mane and tail any way the other one is OK though.

And yeah, they're for sale if someone out there wants them. Just let me know...

Calves

We got a couple of day old heifer calves to bottle feed and then take to market. We are just starting with one per kid, but I think we will get more next time around. We still don't have Caleb's yet and he is about to burst he is so excited. I kind of like it though because a lot of times he will go out and feed mine for me!!

The nice thing is that we don't have to feed them in the middle of the night or during the day, just once around 6-7 am and 6-7 pm so it isn't too bad.

Jared's at like 2 days old

My calf sucking on Caleb's fingers and my cousin Erica

It's pretty funny when we have to leave our farmer/rancher friends' baptism because we have to go feed! Usually it is the other way around, it was kind of weird!

Simple? With her? Never!

So, a couple of years ago I had this wonderful idea. Let's breed Bailey!

Well, this year that idea came to life as we bred her.

But, I had forgotten that, NOTHING IS SIMPLE WITH HER!!!!

The first time we bred her (talked about in one of my previous posts) she didn't catch, and of course, we couldn't tell when we took her to the stud, so we had to get her ultrasounded. And...nothing.

So, we gave her a shot of lute and we bred her again.

And of course this time she looked pregnant when we checked her with the stud,

but...I kept feeling like we needed to get her ultrasounded anyway. So finally, I got an appointment.

and of course...

She was pregnant...

WITH TWINS!!!!!!

And horses rarely can support twins until birth, and even if they do, one usually dies(if not both of them) or they both will be weak etc.

BUT, one of the fetus' looked sick and we could hardly get a heartbeat on it (in fact they called in another vet to look for the heartbeat because the first vet couldn't)

So we dropped her off one night the next week so that they could ultrasound her again early the next morning (we didn't want to have to be in gooding at 5 am!), so that they would have the rest of the day to abort it if necessary.

They called us that afternoon and said we could come pick her up and that it was almost dead, they couldn't find a heartbeat at all and before both fetus' had been the same size but they were now noticeably a different sizes.

They prescribed a hormone for her to help her maintain her other pregnancy and told us to bring her back in two weeks to make sure the sick one died.

And can I just say that the gooding vets are awesome!!!! They definitely have lifelong clients now!!!

Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you, the healthy one is a COLT!!! YAY!! I do not want anymore mares!!! I am good with the geldings!

My goals.

Every wise woman buildeth her home: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

                                                                Proverbs 14:1

Lately I have been thinking about the differences between me and the other young women around me. These young women aren't bad in any way and I am not either but it is just interesting to see how different we all are.

These young women’s goals are going to college to get a good degree so that they can have a good job.

 My goal, to take college classes to further my education so that I can teach my children correct principles.

They have the goal to be the town’s basketball star.

My goal, to be able to cook sew, quilt, mend, and take care of a family.

They want to be the most popular girl in school

I want to ‘be an example of the believers’.

They want to work after they are married until they have children.

I want to stay at home to prepare for my children.

They read Twilight in their free time.

I read books such as ‘equine medications’ and ‘lap quilting’

For fun they hang out with friends

I hang out with some friends too for sure but, I also work outside, work with my horses, sew and play the piano a lot more.

Yeah, I guess you could call me old fashioned!

Fun Week!!!

 We had the lovely experience of having to take Bailey to the vet this week, because she stepped on a big fencing staple.

Yep, we got home from somewhere on Monday night at about 9 PM and I saw that Bailey was out. So I went to catch her so I could put her back and when I walked past her to get the halter she didn't flinch(she usually will run away because she doesn't want to be caught!). So I caught her and she was limping really bad.

So, I got my dad and we checked her feet and found a nice  big, rusty staple in her foot. and we pulled it out. And I gave her some antibiotics and other stuff. And texted Kristen to ask her what medicine to use on it.

Tuesday morning Kristen called(she hadn't texted back earlier because her phone was dead). She said we had to get her to the vet as soon as possible for antibiotics. I knew that she had a horse that had to be put down from stepping on a nail.  So I called our vet and got an appointment for that afternoon.

We arrived with a little bit of trouble but we got there and the vet said she needed to have antibiotics. He gave her banamine(for pain, it is like human asprin) genamyacin(sp? an antibiotic) and penicillin right then and said that she should have a profusion the next day(today). So she got to stay the night.

We also went to watch the profusion which was very interesting. It is actually called a something glandin profusion but I forgot what it was called. I want to say prostlgandin but I know that is wrong. But any way, they put a tourniquet on her leg to shut off blood flow. Then they injected a large amount of antibiotic in the vien below the tourniquet. and then you have the leave the tourniquet on for a while(an ideal is 30 minutes) horses generally don't like the tourniquet and even though they are sedated to where they are about to fall over they still can(and do!!) explode unexpectedly. So it is hard to got 30 minutes!!! We got 20, whenever they move the foot with the tourniquet they can feel it so that is when they generally react.

After they were done they gave her an antibiotic shot that will last 4-5 days(so I don't have to give IV shots 2x a day), we walked some of the sedation off and then took her home. On Sunday when the antibiotic wears off we will put her on oral antibiotics for 10 days or so.

So yeah, that is my story for the week! I hope yours wasn't as expensive!!!

God Bless the USA

   

   God Bless the USA

If tomorrow all the things were gone you'd worked for all your life,

and you had to start again,

with just your children and your wife,

you'd thank your lucky stars,

to be liven here today,

for the flag still stands for freedom,

and you can't take that away,

And I'd gladly stand up,
next to you,
and defend her still today,
'cause their ain't no doubt
I love this land,
GOD BLESS THE USA!!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!

Recent Sewing Projects

I made these quilts for the care center. The Christmas one somebody gave me the top already made so I just tied and bound it. the other one I am NOT showing you!! I was experimenting with a pattern for the top and it didn't turn out. I think it is going to go to a blind lady!

This is my first try at triangles, I need to finish quilting it. On the left side you can kind of see the lines of the quilting. this one is also for the care center.

These are some snowball bocks sewn together that I am making for a quilt top. I really like the colors and the pattern so far. this one will go to the care center.

I made this bag with the scraps from juice boxes

Maybe next time I will put some pockets in the inside or something to fancy it up a little bit more.

I really love how  the back turned out! I really like this stripes fabric, I found probably around ten yards of it in a shed at the land(who would of thought!) I am sad that it is almost gone. I also used it for the back of Juice boxes. You can't tell but I machine quilted flowers barely overlaping on the back. I wish I had pieced and quilted the front piece as well, I just stuck the pieces together. 

This was a first attemt with this pattern, it was pretty east but takes practice. I'm glad that you can't see the mistakes in it bacause the lighting is bad. just don't look to close.

This is jsut a simple tube skirt that I made for easter with fabric from the DI. It took maybe 30 minutes so it was pretty fast.

I call this my Sense and Sensibility dress. Because that is what it looks like. When I wear it I usually tie a bright ribbon around it to give it color. I made it with a $2 sheet from the DI so it was cheap!! And the pattern was very simple.

OK, I am done babbling on,

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Hiroshima Atomic Bomb

This is crazy, and sad that we had to do this



I read about this in my history book and it said their were more then 140,000 dead from it.

Take a wild guess...

This is interesting, I've been researching for a history class that I am taking the UN. I found this and thought it was interesting.

Why are we trillions of dollars in debt and we finance 22% of the UN? It doesn't make sense to me,


Top 10 donators to the UN budget, 2011[53] Member state Contribution


(% of UN budget)

United States 22.000%

Japan 12.530%

Germany 8.018%

United Kingdom 6.604%

France 6.123%

Italy 4.999%

Canada 3.207%

China 3.189%

Spain 3.177%

Mexico 2.356%

Other member states 27.797%

Beautiful...

Bailey

Bailey

So, Last night we went and picked Bailey up from being bred!!! I am so Excited. This Stud is awesome too!!! He is a cutter/reiner and has cow!!! So I'm guessing it will be a fast cow horse. Our best bet is that it will be a Palimino. Any way, here are some links to Bailey's and the Stud's pedigrees and other stuff.

Bailey's Pedigree:

Westways Star X0463138 1990 sorrel mare SI: 0 Starts 0 Wins: 0 2nds: 0 3rds: 0 Earnings: 0 Hlt Pts: H- 0.0 Perf Pts: P- 0.0
SIRE side of pedigree		Native Dancer (TB) 1950 T0114251 gray	Polynesian (TB) 1942 T0118035 brown
	Raise a Native (TB) 1961 T0116267 chestnut		Geisha (TB) 1943 T0153156 gray
		Raise You (TB) 1946 T0153152 chestnut	Case Ace (TB) 1934 T0124269 bay
Westway (TB) 1977 T0292235 chestnut			Lady Glory (TB) 1934 T0153642 brown
		Never Bend (TB) 1960 T0115905 bay	Nasrullah (TB) 1940 T0116325 bay
	Album (TB) 1970 T0292234 n/a		Lalun (TB) 1952 T0201475 bay
		Early Frames (TB) 1959 T0159212 chestnut	Prince John (TB) 1953 T0118564 chestnut
			Bed o' Roses II (TB) 1950 T0183135 bay
DAM side of pedigree		Vandy II 1954 0058848 brown 95 19 4 6 4 $ 3,519 H- 1.0 P- 0.0	Vandy 1943 0043628 sorrel 85 3 2 1 0 $ 0
	Breezing Vandy 1960 0124318 bay 45 2 0 0 0 $ 0		Beggar's Pokey 1940 0030715 black
		Breezing Bobby 1945 0015059 brown 65 1 0 1 0 $ 0	Flying Bob U0071183 n/a
Barbie's Star 1971 0823740 bay H- 0.0 P- 71.0			Breeze 1935 0006896 sorrel
		Bar Deck 1958 0123082 bay 95 26 9 2 6 $ 10,379	Moon Deck 1950 0163343 brown 95 62 11 11 6 $ 22,086
	Barbie Deck 1963 0270277 sorrel		Miss Night Bar 1950 0032535 chestnut 95 26 6 4 1 $ 2,702
		Fag's Ann 1958 0176854 chestnut 85 26 5 4 1 $ 3,067	Fag (TB) 1940 T0056231 brown
			Mexron 1946 0022988 chestnut

The Studs:

Mr Quien Sabe 416 3357401 1995 brown stallion SI: 0 Starts 0 Wins: 0 2nds: 0 3rds: 0 Earnings: 0 Hlt Pts: H- 0.0 Perf Pts: P- 0.0
SIRE side of pedigree		Easy Jet 1967 0573195 sorrel 100 38 27 7 2 $ 445,723	Jet Deck 1960 0167014 bay 100 31 22 4 2 $ 200,628 H- 5.0 P- 0.0
	Easy Crimson 1976 1343513 sorrel 98 11 3 1 1 $ 25,246		Lena's Bar (TB) 1954 T0059481 chestnut 95 76 24 18 10 $ 28,311
		Vandy's Lass 1966 0645834 sorrel 85 13 0 0 2 $ 607	Feast (TB) 1952 T0056371 bay
Mr Crimson Shoes 1981 1816069 palomino			Vandy's Pokey 1959 0107683 sorrel 75 7 0 1 0 $ 347
		Azure Te (TB) 1962 T0052758 bay	Nashville (TB) 1954 T0061755 bay
	Soft Shoes 1972 1078473 palomino 93 9 3 0 1 $ 2,261		Blue One (TB) 1952 T0152831 bay
		Cee Holly Joanie 1961 0173121 palomino H- 11.0 P- 99.0	Cee Bars 1950 0032022 sorrel 95 31 4 4 3 $ 2,272
			Holly Joanie 1958 0114561 palomino
DAM side of pedigree		Jet Deck 1960 0167014 bay 100 31 22 4 2 $ 200,628 H- 5.0 P- 0.0	Moon Deck 1950 0163343 brown 95 62 11 11 6 $ 22,086
	Sahki 1970 0709469 bay 92 21 5 3 2 $ 13,870		Miss Night Bar 1950 0032535 chestnut 95 26 6 4 1 $ 2,702
		Miss Croton Oil 1961 0152489 sorrel 100 38 14 6 6 $ 29,406 H- 13.0 P- 0.0	Croton Oil 1955 0058971 sorrel 85 5 1 0 0 $ 770
Quien Sabe Sugar 1977 1331277 gray			How Cute 1954 0071763 sorrel
		Eddie Graygo 1969 0610709 gray	Eddie Red Rose 1960 0144564 sorrel
	Quien Sabe 126 1974 1035504 gray		Miss Blue Otoe 1965 0387541 gray
		Quien Sabe 6 1967 0492193 gray	Grey Badger III 1947 0020285 gray 75 4 0 1 1 $ 0
			Devil's Queen 1960 0358090 dun

and his preformance record:

HORSE PERFORMANCE SUMMARY RECORD

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REG. NO.	HORSE'S NAME	COLOR	SEX	DATE FOAL	ST
3357401	MR QUIEN SABE 416	BROWN	STALLION	04/10/1995	TX

Additional Horse Information for MR QUIEN SABE 416:

·         Genetic Typed

SIRE		DAM		MATERNAL GRANDSIRE
1816069	MR CRIMSON SHOES	1331277	QUIEN SABE SUGAR	0709469	SAHKI

DESCRIPTION	NAME	ADDRESS
BREEDER:	FULTON QUIEN SABE RANCH	LUBBOCK, TX
OWNER:	KRISTEN AND/ OR SID WARD	RICHFIELD, ID

AQHA Show Totals

DIV	EXHIBITOR	DESC	WINS	SHOWS	PTS	DESC	WINS	SHOWS	PTS
OPEN	N/A	LAST SHOW : 07/23/2001
		GRAND	0	N/A	N/A	RESERVE	0	N/A	N/A
		CUTTING	0	2	.0	COWHORSE	0	2	.0
		TOT PERF	N/A	N/A	0.0
AMATEUR	RAY BLAIR	LAST SHOW : 07/10/2005
		GRAND	0	N/A	N/A	RESERVE	0	N/A	N/A
		COWHORSE	0	6	.0	TOT PERF	N/A	N/A	0.0

AQHA/Alliance Totals for MR QUIEN SABE 416
Accuracy and completeness of information are the responsibility of each alliance.

NATIONAL REINED COW HORSE ASSOCIATION

$ 133.00

Earned thru 08/13/2005

She is due May 5, 2012(if she caught this time). It will be fun! The only problem now is, I'm broke!!