I love coming home from work, not because I'm off of work for the rest of the day BUT I get to come home to my pets. Yesterday Snickers shocked me with how hyper she was. She is 15/16 years old now and doesn't get around like she used to... Yesterday she shocked me! I got out of my car and she came up to me like she normally does then out of no where she took out running and didn't stop for about 7 minutes. I just had to take video of it since like I said she is very old and some days I wonder about her quality of life. Just happy to see she felt good yesterday!
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Dry Lake
Sorry no helmet cam footage as I didn't adjust it correctly, so I ended up with a lot of sky, sun, and mountain videos.... and watching them made me motion sick, so lesson learned!
But I did grab a still shot from one video... I guess I looked down for a second and it came out ok.
Anyways I rode Legacy down to the dry lake bed by my house. I've only ever been down there once before today and figured it would be nice to check it out again. I forget just how BIG it really is. On Google Maps it doesn't look -all that big- BUT after riding down to it and in it which seemed like a forever ride.... I'm now taken back with how big it really is. And here I thought I actually got somewhere out there. HA I was so wrong!
But I did grab a still shot from one video... I guess I looked down for a second and it came out ok.
Anyways I rode Legacy down to the dry lake bed by my house. I've only ever been down there once before today and figured it would be nice to check it out again. I forget just how BIG it really is. On Google Maps it doesn't look -all that big- BUT after riding down to it and in it which seemed like a forever ride.... I'm now taken back with how big it really is. And here I thought I actually got somewhere out there. HA I was so wrong!
Monday, October 15, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Goat
So I ate goat for the first time yesterday. At first I was pretty hesitant of it due to the goat living in my yard for the past few months, but after the fact, I gave it a chance and I will say that it was pretty darn tasty! We had some friends over and all seemed to really enjoy it, including my dogs as they got the bits we weren't about to eat/cook. Mitchell got 3 goat legs, and Snickers got a got leg, goat heart, and goat tail as she doesn't have many teeth left, so it's hard on her to eat bones and such.
So all in all, I will say a home raised goat is yummy and I would try it again! Eric and I are thinking of getting some female goats and learning how to milk them to make milk and cheese. Yum yum!
A few pictures under cut - *graphic*
So all in all, I will say a home raised goat is yummy and I would try it again! Eric and I are thinking of getting some female goats and learning how to milk them to make milk and cheese. Yum yum!
A few pictures under cut - *graphic*
Friday, October 12, 2012
Canadian slaughterhouses refuse US horses
I am really afraid for the horses going to plants in the immediate
future... they may suffer a worse fate now, getting hauled all over the
damned country waiting to die. Why can't we just have our own regulated
plants back... that would be better than this mess and it would create more jobs.
http://www.examiner.com/article/canadian-slaughterhouses-refuse-us-horses
http://www.examiner.com/article/canadian-slaughterhouses-refuse-us-horses
Rain
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Saddle Woes
I can not for the life of me find a saddle that A. Fits my mare B. Fits me C. Is correctly made!
For the past year I have been saddle searching. I found a saddle last January that I bought fitted to my mare. It fits her, is made decent but it doesn't fit me as much as I wish it would.
I have bought and sent so many saddles back in this last year that it is just sick at the amount I have wasted on shipping alone.
My CTK endurance saddle that I've been living with for the past months has grown old on me with it not fitting me. So I figured I would just buy another CTK saddle only this time a bigger seat and western style. Should be fine right? WRONG!
Yesterday I get the saddle that I bought from CTK Saddlery and I'm just horrified! The saddle is A. To big for me B. Doesn't fit me mare C. Is rusty and so dried out that the leather is like cardboard.
I AM PISSED! I wrote the seller a nasty email and demanded to send it back for a refund.
THIS IS NOT A NEW SADDLE BY ANY MEANS!
WTF?! How could anyone pass this saddle off as "new"...
Oh well. I should just stick to what I have now, but damn it! I'm a hard head!
For the past year I have been saddle searching. I found a saddle last January that I bought fitted to my mare. It fits her, is made decent but it doesn't fit me as much as I wish it would.
I have bought and sent so many saddles back in this last year that it is just sick at the amount I have wasted on shipping alone.
My CTK endurance saddle that I've been living with for the past months has grown old on me with it not fitting me. So I figured I would just buy another CTK saddle only this time a bigger seat and western style. Should be fine right? WRONG!
Yesterday I get the saddle that I bought from CTK Saddlery and I'm just horrified! The saddle is A. To big for me B. Doesn't fit me mare C. Is rusty and so dried out that the leather is like cardboard.
I AM PISSED! I wrote the seller a nasty email and demanded to send it back for a refund.
THIS IS NOT A NEW SADDLE BY ANY MEANS!
WTF?! How could anyone pass this saddle off as "new"...
Oh well. I should just stick to what I have now, but damn it! I'm a hard head!
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Short GoPro video
Here is a short video of some clips of yesterday ride that Legacy and I took.
Here is a route we rode
Here is a route we rode
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Bathroom catastrophe
Well now I know why my electric bill has been
through the roof for the past month or two. Looks like I'm going to need
a whole new bathroom after this shit is done. FUDGE!
Apparently the shower has decided that it needs to wash the floor... with hot water but the floor isn't wet, it's just sunk in and has caused a fun house effect. I could hear water running down the wall in the hall way and the closet has turned into a sauna.
Oh and it all makes sense now, as to why we can't take a shower that has hot water for more then 5 minutes.
Thank god for good friends who know the handyman trade because if not, I'm sure I would still be sitting in a house that was slowly flooding out underneath. Can't complain to pay a friend $15 for him to come over, pull part of the wall out and find the source of where the water was coming from and put a valve on it, so we could turn it off. Yes it is just a minor fix BUT now I'll need to gut the entire bathroom. I guess this is what I get for saying how much I could not stand the wall paper in that room. LOL
Oh well. Life goes on. :)
Apparently the shower has decided that it needs to wash the floor... with hot water but the floor isn't wet, it's just sunk in and has caused a fun house effect. I could hear water running down the wall in the hall way and the closet has turned into a sauna.
Oh and it all makes sense now, as to why we can't take a shower that has hot water for more then 5 minutes.
Thank god for good friends who know the handyman trade because if not, I'm sure I would still be sitting in a house that was slowly flooding out underneath. Can't complain to pay a friend $15 for him to come over, pull part of the wall out and find the source of where the water was coming from and put a valve on it, so we could turn it off. Yes it is just a minor fix BUT now I'll need to gut the entire bathroom. I guess this is what I get for saying how much I could not stand the wall paper in that room. LOL
Oh well. Life goes on. :)
Monday, October 1, 2012
Updated Life. HA!
Holy cow am I bad at blogging! April was my last update... wow.
Sooooo much stuff has happened since then. Where to start?
Well in summery I will write this, since writing 5 months worth of stuff would be a little silly and I would probably be sitting here for a few days.
So in the last five months, what has Ali been up to you ask...
Well a lot of things but mainly working, drinking way way to much coffee, and riding everywhere that I can get Legacy & I, safely of course.
I've been working 6 days a week for some time now, my only day off is Sunday and in that tiny 24 hour period I cram a weeks worth of stuff in to it.
So to sum it all up, I will try to post a few pictures and or videos from the past however many months it has been.....
(my riding arena)
April:
I FOUND OLD BAY!!! (In Walmart of all places out here)
On April 23rd, we had a HUGE tanker type truck some how manage to mix up my address with the people behind us who too have the same address, just live on a different street name... at 9pm at night. Why were they delivering gravel at 9pm at night I will never know, but it almost played like a horror movie. My cats wigged out so I went to see what they all were freaking out about, just to hear a heavy duty motor. I peeked out the window just to see a bunch of lights on an 18 wheeler truck IN MY YARD. I ran and woke Eric up wondering WTF was going on. Walked around outside for a few minutes wondering where the driver was, since the drivers door was open but no one was any where around. I finally called the # on the truck and asked why they were in my yard... just to see the driver running back toward my house from around the corner yelling that he had the wrong house. *shakes head* I almost for a few tons of free gravel.
Sooooo much stuff has happened since then. Where to start?
Well in summery I will write this, since writing 5 months worth of stuff would be a little silly and I would probably be sitting here for a few days.
So in the last five months, what has Ali been up to you ask...
Well a lot of things but mainly working, drinking way way to much coffee, and riding everywhere that I can get Legacy & I, safely of course.
I've been working 6 days a week for some time now, my only day off is Sunday and in that tiny 24 hour period I cram a weeks worth of stuff in to it.
So to sum it all up, I will try to post a few pictures and or videos from the past however many months it has been.....
ON TOP OF THE WORLD
(my riding arena)
April:
I FOUND OLD BAY!!! (In Walmart of all places out here)
On April 23rd, we had a HUGE tanker type truck some how manage to mix up my address with the people behind us who too have the same address, just live on a different street name... at 9pm at night. Why were they delivering gravel at 9pm at night I will never know, but it almost played like a horror movie. My cats wigged out so I went to see what they all were freaking out about, just to hear a heavy duty motor. I peeked out the window just to see a bunch of lights on an 18 wheeler truck IN MY YARD. I ran and woke Eric up wondering WTF was going on. Walked around outside for a few minutes wondering where the driver was, since the drivers door was open but no one was any where around. I finally called the # on the truck and asked why they were in my yard... just to see the driver running back toward my house from around the corner yelling that he had the wrong house. *shakes head* I almost for a few tons of free gravel.
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