The Past Few Days

It has been awhile since I blogged! I have much to tell. Saturday was my Mom's birthday and my parents came over to our apartment for supper and cards. I cooked fettachini chicken alfredo along with garlic french bread. It was delicious! Then we played a game called Up the River Down the River. Mom lost almost every bid she played. It was birthday luck for sure! Us kids gave her a facial to Contempo Salon in Dubuque. She is going to love it.

Another exciting event was that I brought my horses up from the timber and into their pasture by the house. Mom helped me bring them up and also comb out their tails. What a trooper! Today I finished with all their tails and manes, but still have a few cockaburrs in their forelock. The reason I got them up from the field was to get their teeth floated. I brought them to Kundes and had Christine Woodford preform the task. Precious and Flash had to get double tranquilized, while Woody was an angel as always. I took a few pictures of her in action. Check out her business of VIP's. She specializes in teeth, chiropractics, and acupuncture for horses.

She had awesome equipment and a flashlight that shined into the horses mouth. This is not one of my horses but just another of the 19 patients of the day.

Chris convinced me to come sit on the tractor and keep him company while he plowed on Saturday. It was warm and sunny but pretty windy. My hair was everywhere and was terrible to comb through when I got home. It was my first time experience with this type of plowing and it was interesting to watch the ground get folded over ever so gently. It was kind of weird how peaceful the plow dug into and rolled over the earth. I took a picture of the first dig into the 10 year land back in commission. I almost forgot to mention that I almost died. Chris stopped the tractor suddenly and I went flying forward-luckily he caught me!