That is just hilarious!!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Great-Gram
Great-Gram, who is actually since a few weeks Great Great-Gram, is still going strong with 102 years old. We visited her again on October 13 since both kids were out of school and Great Gram always enjoys to watch the kids.
It was such a nice weather after our snow storm that even Grams surprisingly agreed to my suggestion to get outside for a few minutes. She surely enjoyed her outside stay with her dog and the kids. I even needed to push her into the shade of the tree so that she does not burn her arms in the hot sun!
Fall
I took these pictures on September 26 with the phone but I hardly download the pictures of it. And I am hardly any more on this computer where I have all pictures. Therefore you get swamped with updates from me every now and then and the rest of the time you don't hear from me.
Anyway, these were beautiful fall pictures in my neighborhood while I was walking one of the dogs.
Our house
Two images of just down the street
..and then came the wind and tore our Willow tree (Weide) apart
...and then came the first snow of the season. But I already posted pictures of it a little further down.
Tobi and Amigo
When we looked at this house we saw a fawn boxer in the neighbor's back yard looking just like Tobi! We were very happy to see that Tobi became friends right the evening we moved in.
Someties they play in the front yard and if you don't pay close attention, you don't know who's who. But actually, it is not that difficult to figure out!
Tobi is smaller in size and weight and has a shorter tail. Amigo (almost same age as Tobi) weighs about 15 lbs more and has a white spotted chest. He's a very shy and timid dog, so different from Tobi who can be quite a challenge at times.
Tobi left, Amigo right
Tobi sitting in front, Amigo standing behind
Haha, just two fawn butts....but the tail tells it all! Tobi left, Amigo on the right
Where are the kids?
If you look closely, you will see Olivia at the top of the tree. Jonah is on branch number 2 and I stand on the ground...our front yard maple is quite tall and it gave me a twisted stomach feeling the other day trying to climb after my daughter... I got afraid of hights a coupld years ago and it seems I can't get over this!
Monkey Bars
Dover Saddlery
An English tack store, the Dover Saddlery is now the first one in Colorado. I only could order online since the actual stores are all at the East Coast but there was none west from Kentucky. And just 6 weeks prior to us moving down to Parker a Dover Saddlery store opened its doors just 2 miles down from where I live!
Of course I applied for a part-time position to work there and of course I never heard anything back. Being a Mom of still two very young children does not even offer me a part time position. What am I doing when one child is sick? What am I doing during 2 week of fall, winter or spring break? What am I doing with the kids and working when the kids are on a 3 month summer break?
So, I am still on the other side of the registry and just enjoy the smell of leather....for now!
But the store is gorgeous and of course they carry a ton of German brand names like Pikeur, Schumacher, Sprenger, Isabell Werth, Roeckl....
I surely did not move to Colorado for all their horse tack! LOL
Frisby!
Since Lisa said I can come any time to ride or play with Frisby, I took the chance again on Sunday when Chris said he takes the kids to the Grandparents! So on a whim I drove down to Elizabeth (that's the town called) and visited my Fussel!
The hooves need to be done on both horses but overall Frisby looks very good! Lisa said she rode him the day before and that he should just be ok with me today!
Lisa, besides having some company at her house, came out and we chatted a little and she took some pictures of me and Frisby. I did not play with him that much since I wanted to let Lisa take a look at my saddle that I brought with me. I wanted her ok for using it on Frisby. But she said, too, that the saddle - i used on Vanna - fits Frisby quite well.
I taked him up with my bridle, too and not to my surprise the headstall fits him the way I buckled it for Vanna. I did not need to change one hole on it! Amazing, what big full-sized head the little 13 hands Fjord mare has if the same headstall fits Frisby who is 16 hands tall...
Oh yes, and Frisby did not change one little bit in all those 6 years I don't own him any more. See this exiting look on his face?
'My' horse all geared up. The only thing I needed to buy for this big guy was a longer dressage girth. I made a fantastic deal on Craigslist in getting this Ovation girth for $15. This girth was just used once and it retails new for over $40! I have the exact same one for Vanna, just in the shortest version there is of 22", this one for Frisby is now 32" long.
Frisby was slow as always, that was the exact reason I sold him because riding was no fun any more for me. I don't know what made him going so VERY slow once you climb up...first he jiggs (not walking, not trotting, I need to admit a very comfortable walk/trot, jigging) but when you ask for more pace and kick him with your legs, he just freezes and bucks. Lisa needed to go back inside and tend to her potato salad for her family and friends so she could not snap any more pictures. I rode Frisby here in his pen with Dusty, his horsy friend, just being there, too. He never was once in the way, we could ride circles around him or he would just graze at the fence.
Frisby did as well this hopping, what he as well always did with me in the end. When you ask him to go forward he throws his head up in the air and as well the front end, like he wants to canter but does not. So he 'hops' (I called it a Trahopsel, as in trot-hopping). Drives me nuts! But after 10-15 minutes we cantered right and left and it was so much joy to feel his big stride and a nice big circle (soo different from Vanna where canter is so much more work). Frisby's head was down, his back all rounded, he was snorting with every step and everything just felt wonderful! Now his trot had far more forward motion, too! Just my slightest outside leg made Frisby canter, SOOO much fun!
I tried to trot behind his stall (the corral is a big circle and inside the corral there's a fenced in shed where the horses are kept in during the night or when Lisa is at work - since Frisby demolishs the outside white fence quite often - you can still walk behind the fence and neighoring hay shelter and you are still in between the white fence, think of it as a circle within a circle). He does not want to go there at all and was backing up and stepping sideways. When I tried again after cantering, he surprisingly did go behind the shed, not super willing but he did. I let him rest there and catch some air just like Clinton Anderson says to do.
We had so much fun that I could not stop riding Frisby this day!
Poor guy was really sweaty afterwards, but he had foam between his butt cheecks, the girth area was all white and he chewed the entire time nicely on the bit. There were quite a few times where I had no connection to his bit but he was holding his head nicely in position. I was so proud of him (and me for this matter in not falling off of a 'tall' horse)!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Unser Wetter...
Unsere Wettervorhersage...heute 80 F (so 26 C) und am Mittwoch Schnee. Das ist der Colorado Herbst
Parker, CO (80134) Weather
Updated: Oct 24, 2011, 7:25am
UPDATE DATAVideo: Denver's 60 Second Forecast | Raw: Hail shatters windshield
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