Cabinets

Cabinets are in! Sorry but the rest of the pics won't load. The formica is on now and it looks like a real kitchen except for the missing appliances!

What makes me smile...

amidst other things :)

"Peaches"

SS SHADOW LAKE
2001 bay mare
click here for her pedigree

We made a trade today...we got a horse for a box of peaches! Pretty good deal eh?
We're up to six and a half now! I need a job! Rest assured we are not planning on getting any more for a while! This broodmare was rescued this past spring so she isn't pregnant right now. She has some pretty awesome lines! Dash for Cash is on her papers!!! We are planning on breeding her to Cowboy next spring.

Another one...FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH

Since it appears that I do not have enough horses Ma and I went down to Utah on Friday and picked up another one, FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH aka. 'Roxy'! So now I own 5. That is a lot! This mare is just a broodmare and is pregnant to foal next may. She is super sweet and nice...but really, 5 horses! Crazy!

here is her pedigree, she is pretty well bred!
FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH M, QUARTER HORSE, 2003

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FFQ POCOS FOXY FLASH 2003 QUARTER HORSE

IMA SKIPPIN CHEX 2000 QUARTER HORSE

WARRIOR COMMAND buck 1981 QUARTER HORSE

FRITZ COMMAND* buck 1967 QUARTER HORSE

KING FRITZ* b 1956

POWER COMMAND*

sor 1949

POCO JANE*

b 1948

SUTHERLANDS MISS buck 1951

JODIE THE TUFF

b 1945

TANGERINE W*

blk smky 1944

SUGAR CHICKS b 1972 QUARTER HORSE

TRIPLE CHICK* br 15.1 1955

THREE BARS*

ch 15.3 1940

CHICADO V*

br 1950

SUGAR MAYDAY sor 1958

LEO*

sor 14.2 1940

FRONTERA SUGAR

pal 1943

MISS CLASSY CACHE 1989 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR LAD* sor 1978 QUARTER HORSE

SKIPA STAR* sor 1973

SKIPPERS LAD*

sor 15.2H 1952

PATS DUSTY STAR*

pal 1964

SKIPS JOYCE* pal ? 1966

SKIP SCHOOL*

pal 1957

LITTLE PEARL ANN

sor 1960

TWISTIE CUE sor 1959 QUARTER HORSE

CUELLAR* ch 1942

KING*

b 14.3 1932

OLD SILVER

b 1923

TALLULA TWIST ch 1953

HARD TWIST*

ch 1942

BABE LUX

sor 1934

POCOS FANCY FLASH buck 1988 QUARTER HORSE

LEO SAN BUENO buck 1981 QUARTER HORSE

POCO SAN BUENO* buck 1965 QUARTER HORSE

LEO SAN* sor 1949

LEO*

sor 14.2 1940

SAN SUE DARKS*

sor 1945

POCO FAY buck 1955

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

PRETTY ROSALIE*

buck 15.0 1943

CLASSY BIEN ch 1962 QUARTER HORSE

POCO BIEN dun 15.0 1958

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

LADY PEP-UP X

dun 1949

TYPY TAMI ch 1957

SOPPY*

sor 15.1 1946

NICKITA

ch 1949

JILL BLANTON buck 1969 QUARTER HORSE

STERLS LUCKY dun 1960 QUARTER HORSE

LUCKY BLANTON* ch 1936

MARK

sor 1925

GOLD NUGGET 3

dun 1941

HEART 87 dun 1955

HOLLYWOODS PARKE

dun 1950

HEART 42

1952

POCO PEGGY 1956 QUARTER HORSE

POCO DELL* b 1950

POCO BUENO*

br 15.0 1944

SHADY DELL

dun 1946

BONNIE BENEAR b 1948

DUSTY BENEAR

b 1942

BONNIE CLEGG

br 1945

* - Photo Available

If you go to this link you can see the pics of the horses with astericks by their names http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ffq+pocos+foxy+flash


This is the pedigree of the stud that she is bred to, son of the great DRIFTS CHIP!!! This dude's brother was champion heeler a couple of years ago!!

DRIFT SUNNY FOUR H, QUARTER HORSE, 2000

Color: buck (CLOSE)

DRIFT SUNNY FOUR buck 2000 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTS CHIP* blk 1979 QUARTER HORSE

DOUBLE DRIFT blk 1956 QUARTER HORSE

GRAY CHIP gr 1953 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTWOOD* b 15 1932

MILLER BOY

b 1926

THE COMER MARE

ch 1920

SUGAR TIT gr 1942

KELLY

1938

LOUSE SCHUYLER

b 1936

ROSE WOOD b 1954 QUARTER HORSE

DRIFTWOOD* b 15 1932

MILLER BOY

b 1926

THE COMER MARE

ch 1920

MISS HONDO b 1942

HANK I

1936

NELLIE 21

~1935

DIAMOND ISLE ro 1959 QUARTER HORSE

DIAMOND CHIP b 1948 QUARTER HORSE

SILVER KING* b 1937

OLD SORREL*

ch 1915

CLEGG MARE NO 3

b 1925

SCAR FACE S br 1935

BAILEY

sor 1913

MARE BY MIDNIGHT

gr 1926

DUSTY BABE ro 1946 QUARTER HORSE

DUSTY HANCOCK* bl ro 15H 1940

ROAN HANCOCK*

b ro 1935

TRIANGLE LADY 12

buck 1939

8 0 3 BABE 1939

RED JOE OF ARIZONA*

ch 1932

DREAMY 9

BELLES SANDY SUNNY buck 1990 QUARTER HORSE

BAR MONEY SUNNY* buck 15.0 1982 QUARTER HORSE

BAR MONEY* ch 1960 QUARTER HORSE

THREE BARS* ch 15.3 1940

PERCENTAGE

ch 1923

MYRTLE DEE*

blk/br 1923

MISS RUBY b 1946

LOS MOLINOS

b 1932

TEX

b 1939

SUNECE BAILEY buck 1962 QUARTER HORSE

GOLD KING BAILEY pal 1945

HANK H*

ch 1942

BEAUTY BAILEY

pal 1932

MACS SUNNYDAY b 1951

STAR BRIGHT MOORE*

b 1945

NILA B

br 1939

DOCS BONNIE BELLE b 1984 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS TIVIO JACK sor 1981 QUARTER HORSE

DOCS JACK SPRAT* sor 14.3 1972

DOC BAR*

ch 1956

PURA FINA

b 1965

ME LICKA STAR sor 1968

STRING FLAG

buck 1963

DANNY DOLL

sor 1959

MONTE BONNIE b 1980 QUARTER HORSE

MONTE JIBO sor 1967

BUENO ROBIN

b 1961

MON SUE STAR

br 1961

SWEET BONNIE GAL buck 1973

HANCOCKS DUDE*

br 1960

HOPETT

pal 1964

* - Photo Available

 if you go to this link you can see his progeny and the pics of the horses with astericks by their names http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/drift+sunny+four

My Drawings for 'Grandpa's Quilt'

I think that this is as fancy as I get! These are the measurments I used for 'Grandpa's Quilt' if you want to make one. It was really fun to make, I made the quilt top in an afternoon and then stared at it for a month because I couldn't decide how to quilt it! It finished at about a twin size I think. I made the points on the stars by cutting a rectangle and then sewing 2 squares on just like a snowball block in case you were wondering...

Ugly Baby

Not loving her looks right now! Good thing she is so sweet and loving and loves people so much!

We've made a lot of improvement eh? This is even from a week ago, and looks even better than that!

I love her little nose, I don't know why, it's just cute...and soft...very soft...

Mama for sale...

who knows what will happen...

Music Box Dancer by Frank Mills

I have to play this at a funeral tomorrow, it is a really pretty but hard to play!

Stitches!

This is what it looked like when I rewrapped it this morning, you can sort of see where the stitches pulled loose.

The effects of barbed wire...don't click if you are sqeamish!!!

Meet our latest addition...

isn't she pretty!

...Tess. A great birthday gift if you ask me! We've got big plans me and her already! She is so fun to work with, I've been doing lots of Clinton Anderson stuff with her and she is really catching on, I can't wait until we get to vertical flexion!!

Grandpa's Quilt

This spring I got to make this BEAUTIFUL quilt for my dear great grandpa Leonard.

I have wanted to make this quilt for a long time and this was the perfect excuse!

The idea came from a quilt a a dear friend's house.

I have stared at that quilt for a LONG time and finally drew up the blocks on graph paper.

Now, i finally got to make it!

I want to make one for me now!

Sorry, the rest of the pictures won't load :( I was going to show you how to make the blocks.

Maybe later!

I just can't get enough of her!

after 13 months of waiting and hoping...the birth pictures

Here are just some pictures from the birth, I finally got them to load at my Grandma's house. Don't click 'read more' if you are really really sqeamish. I don't think that they are bad or bloody, but you never know!

this is just about 10 minutes after her water broke

...waiting...waiting...

Beautiful.

Thursday I witnessed one of the most beautiful and sacred things on earth. Birth.

Meet, out filly. Born on June 7, 2012 at about 10:30 am

Sorry if you are sqeamish about this picture, this is one of the only ones I could get to load! It's just the bag hanging out after her water broke, if you look really really hard you might be able to see the tips of the baby's feet.

It all happened soooo fast!

Bailey busted the gate to get out of her pen at about 6:45 am on thursday, I put her back in at about 7 and then fed her, then after we ate breakfast I put her into the pasture at about 9 am and I went to check on her at about 9:45 and I saw that she was starting to have contractions but I figured we still had several hours of first stage labor to wait through, so I ran and got Ma and when I came back her water had just broke! I called Cathy and she came over to watch

After she had been in active labor for about 25 minutes we could still only see her(the filly's) front feet so we called her(Cathy's) husband Wendell to bring his calf pullers to pull the thing out and in the mean time Cathy and I started pulling and we got the nose out and broke the sack so that she could breath(she was starting to suffocate)

when he got there he slipped the chains on and we started pulling she came about 3-4 minutes after that.

It was kind of a rought birth, and if we hadn't of been there poor Bailey would have been dead 3 times over, NOT KIDDING!!!

Because 1, the filly was too big for her( and she is a maiden mare) and she was starting to give up and she was reaching that 30 minute mark where the foal will die if left in longer than that so Wendell the AWESOME and me had to pull her out. (Wendell's wife Cathy is AWESOME to and helped a ton as well!)

2. because right when the baby was born the umbilical cord broke instead of staying attached and she was squirting blood everywhere so we got that tied off with a bit of twine and

3. she had a retained placenta and after about 5 injections of oxytocin per the dr's orders(i'm so glad I bought some ahead of time even though ma had to pick up some more that day 'cause I ran out!) it still wasn't coming so we had to take her to the vet at about 7 pm the same day and the poor vet had to manually remove most of it. she and the baby had to spend the night in Gooding because it still wasn't coming. The vet said she passed it about an hour and a half after we left I think we left at about 8:30. He had been peeling away the placenta that WHOLE time, it was still very firmly attatched I guess!

AND if all of that wasn't enough, she wasn't producing enough milk for the baby even though she had been STREAMING milk for WEEKS!!! I had thought that that much oxytocin would stimulate enough milk( that is one if its properties) if that was a problem, but it didn't, maybe we have fescue grass in our pasture that I didn't know about??? So now she is on oral domperidone to help with that, along with banamine(a NSAID) to help combat the threat of laminits from the retained placenta. She also got a shot of long lasting antibiotics at the vets...sooooo...she's pretty drugged up!

that baby is just so stinking cute! But I still can't figure out what color she is...any ideas anybody? she's sort of buckskiny but she's startin to get what sort of looks like a dorsal stripe, but neither of her parents have a dun gene. her legs also fade out instead of get darker so maybe she won't go buckskin. Who knows! I'm just hoping that she doesn't go red(sorrel, chestnut or blood bay) but brown might be okay! But I think that it would be pretty hard to because of the stud's genetics, I've only ever seen color out of him, even when breeding to a red mare like Bailey.

Another funny thing about her is the filly was supposed to be a colt from the ultrasound, so we didn't really look when she was born, we had all just been calling it a him for 9 months! But about five hours later I was playing with her and realized it wasn't a him, it was a HER!!! So we have a filly instead of a colt, I thought I was DONE with mares, sheesh!

And no, she does not have a name yet. However my mom's cousin Sid(the stud's owner) said that we should call her question or q for short since her forehead marking looks kind of like a question mark and because of her interesting and questionable gender.

They are both healthy and happy now, dispite their trauma! Isn't she sooooo cute???

This was her last night Bailey had been an AWESOME mom so far!


I'll try to post more pictures later...