Sunday, April 27, 2014

Solid Working

     Today was a REALLY good day.  I sold a LARGE chunk of my rabbits.  It'll pay for the next month to two months of rabbit feed.  Arnett has the 4 bags for me already.  I plan to go pick it up Tuesday when I'm in town getting a front wheel alignment.  Thankfully I can't wait until everything is completely settled.  The sooner the better.  I'm going to give it a few more days to see if I can get some nibbles on my torts.  If not I can always put them in the freezer!  I'm ready for this.  I'm really seriously ready.  Less rabbits, less rabbits is good.  Must have less rabbits.  
     I'm hoping to go up and see Heidi tomorrow.  I have to take the car to go see her and it'll mean probably getting wet.  I doubt Perry's switched her up to full board yet.  Hopefully soon.  Things have been good, I'm still physically tired.  But I'm still working on getting a LOT of things done in VERY short order.  I still meant to get on Drifter this weekend see what she's going to do.  I think she'd make a cute trail pony and if she's got spunk and speed a neat little barrel pony.  
     I've had LOTS of thoughts of switching Heidi to Western.  A lot of the reason would have to be directed at the fact that she's not been riding well for me because of my lack of time.  Going back to 12 hour shifts won't help in anyway shape or form and despite the loan off my 401K I'm still hoping to get out of Nestle.  I'll be sending my resume to a few other Vet's offices.  Though they're smaller offices than a place like Rood and Riddle or Hagyard, they may be more willing to take a chance on someone.  
     My teeth are almost all done now as well.  Once they're done I won't have an issue in the world leaving Nestle.  I'm thinking of trimming a few more bunnies just to make wiggle room.  Sinus' are good and clear so far and I'm feeling pretty good.  I started the Slim N Sassy today, let's see what happens. 
     Anyway, another short post because I'm tired.  it's well after 12 and time for some sleep!  Set up the diffuser and off to sleep I go!

Over thinking

     I've broke down and asked Allen, he's going to help cover the other part of the full board for Heidi, so that takes care of her for a little bit.  I'm hoping to have another job and be able to take over the full board from him as soon as possible.  Heidi will like it better, she can be in out of the heat so she doesn't sweat unless I make her sweat.  Perry said he's also got a friend that'll do some work on Heidi for me.  I think Perry and Sandy were getting the feeling I was going to leave.  It's just felt that way.  They knew something was up as I've not been over there much at all and when I do get over- like yesterday- I end up frustrated with my lack of time to work on Heidi.  She needs the work to get past the green-broke stage, she's been green-broke for a couple years now.  
     Once I get my rabbits sold down I'm keeping, literally 15 right now.  I've got someone coming this morning for rabbits, so I do have to keep moving, well get moving to start, I'll be selling a few cages(a 24 x 24" stack set) and one of my 4 hole carriers.  In the long run I want to get another 2 holer and another dutch sized 4 holer and get rid of the big nz 4 holer.  Those big ones are so hard to carry and I always forget some kind of cart to put them on.  
     I'm keeping mostly steels, a single tort, single black, and 3 blues.  Time to dig out cage tags so I can clip the sale tags to the cages so I know which rabbits are going and which ones are not.  Lots to do!  

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Awesome day

     Yesterday was just an awesome day.  I was laughing so badly because I couldn't talk right.  Spent a few hours up at Rolex.  We watched the last 5 or 6 dressage rides then we walked around so Aunt Lisa could get some of the drift of what was going on and what this was all about.  I think it was a bit of a mental overload for her.  That's why I didn't want to go for a really long period of time.  This gave her a small inlet and if she wants to, we can go Sunday morning again.  Though we probably won't get lucky a second time with out having to pay admission.  That too, yesterday was awesome.  A guy picked us up from the parking area and drove us straight up to the back of Rolex stadium, right past the ticket booths.  It was cool.  That saved us $20.  That $20 I turned around and used elsewhere.  I had $40 set aside for half chaps, which I did get but I also got 3 new saddle pads.  I know I didn't need them but they were pretty and cheap.  I got a Lilac, Purple and a baby blue, they had them on sale for 50% off retail price.  Who can pass that up?  I only went $15 over my limit but it's okay.  I'll make it back up some other way (Sell a few rabbits maybe).  Now I have way more saddle pads than I need but if I rip a few, so what?  
     I also learned a lot from just talking to vendors.  When I get *that* much extra money I'm going to try ordering a different bit for Heidi.  The consensus from talking to people was the single joint that I'm using might be hurting her mouth.  A double joint might do better for her.  I'm going to get this Myler back up for sale since she really doesn't like that bit and then once that's sold, use that to pay for the new bit.  I've still got to figure out how to full board her but that's coming slowly.  I could probably still do it but I would take all month to pay him most likely.  Right now I'm getting bills put in their places and then I'll be ready to rock and rumble.  
     The doTerra stuff seems to really have been working.  I'm fighting off a sinus infection, I started the Tri Ease softgel blend and it doesn't seem to be doing as much for my allergies as I had hoped (though they were controlled at least) it also seemed to help with my gut some.  So instead of two a day of the TriEase today, I'm doing a TriEase in the morning and one of the Slim 'N Sassy with dinner.  I'll see what happens by the end of my 5-day.  Though if my sinus' keep holding the pressure that they have been I'll break down and get something from the doc's to get rid of it.  Having the lavender seems to do a better job with the breathe at night too.  Ayden seems to like it as well, he slept on the bed with me last night. Well enough for right now, maybe more tonight.  

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Work weekend, fun ahead!

     Finally my 5-day weekend.  I finished the last of my 10 hour shifts tonight.  As of next Monday we'll all be on 12 hour shifts again.  At least now I'm on better hours, 12:30 pm to 12:45 am.  Work hasn't been completely insane. Well Tuesday with the staple incident was a bit beyond crazy.  
     Friday starts out with a bang, getting another set of cavities done, then I'm going to meet up with Lisa and go down for the afternoon watching the dressage at Rolex.  I want to at least get in through the Jeffer's tent and see if I can find a cheaper pair of half chaps that are a bit smaller than my current ones.  I don't have much money to spend as I expected our bonus to be bigger than the one we got.  Hopefully, since I'll miss stadium jumping on Sunday, I'll be alright money wise to spend some at Rolex.  
      Saturday is a Heidi day as well.  Friday evening when we get home from Rolex I'll swing out there to her and Saturday.  Sunday I'll be home cleaning rabbits cages and waiting on the people coming to look at Bailey!  Hopefully Bailey will have a new home this weekend.  It'll give me the money to put gas in my truck and pick up my rabbit feed for the next month.  Still leaves Heidi up in the air though.  Despite needing the new half chaps, those I'll only get if I can get them for under $40.  Then I need to get a month of full board to get her out of the sun.  I'm going to see if I can borrow the board for May from Allen and pay him back in July when he's here.  I'll be bringing her home end of May I'm fairly sure and set with it. I've got a big chunk of my pasture seeded and hopefully I can get the other bag of seed to do the rest of the pasture Monday morning as well.  I'm crossing my fingers that everything works out.  Once the rabbit feed is set for May then I'll not worry as much anymore about it.  Still fighting to get their numbers down.  Hopefully I can get another chunk of them sold soon.  

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

So Many Choices!


     So many choices that I have now faced myself with and a lot of things came more clear to me over the weekend.  I've decided Bailey is GOING.  I seeded the field and she spent a vast majority of Saturday and Sunday loose in the backyard grazing, and when she goes back into the pasture, she still paces circles.  That was expensive dang grass seed she's destroying.  I know she needs a buddy but without a pasture I can't bring Heidi home yet.  
     Heidi is in fact coming home, just as soon as I can get my pasture to grow.  I can board her all winter, that's not an issue but summer time, at least until Perry gets some run ins for the pasture board done, she needs to come home. She's finally okay with being left in the stalls in the upper barn, though they're a bit too small for her, she's fine with it.  I had thought about going full board for a few months to get past the worst of the heat since he has no run in sheds and no shade in the big pasture for pasture horses.  Heidi's not good in the heat.  Maybe she's just playing me up, I don't know but I do know she's been already sweating when I pull her out of the pasture these last couple times and it's only been in the upper 70's.  Not good at all, doesn't give good feelings for this summer for my big girl.  I may have to actually go ahead and body shave her.  Her being black and white makes that even a pain.  White fly sheet and neck protector will keep her a tad cooler too.  Maybe if I see Jeff on Wednesday or Thursday I'll see if he's still looking to get rid of his little paint stud and if he'd geld him and then swap him for Bailey, I'll board the gelding with him for a month to allow my pasture to grow and then bring him here before Heidi gets here.  I'm thinking end of May she'll have to come home.  
     Going back to full boarding Heidi, Perry said he had one empty stall in the bottom barn so I walked her down there the other day with Rachel and it's the only stall in that barn without a window- it was so dark in there, she freaked out.  It was too dark in there for her. I don't blame her, even I got jittery in there because it was so dark.  So there won't be a need to even ask Allen if he could help me with the board while she's on full board.  
     I've looked and looked at the rabbits, over and over again and finally decided enough was enough.  Most of my torts I don't really care for, after losing that one tort last spring that was it for me.  Faith is the only one I really cared about so she's going to stay and I'm going to get one buck to breed her with from Carla (a Sassy Mou baby) and that'll be it for Torts.  Same with my blues.  I've let the blues get out of hand and they've gotten worse in body type so I'm just cutting most of them now.  I'll keep Marcie and Clover.  Eventually I'll have to find a buck for them but I'm seeing if the Alura x Harold buck settles down and quits being a pig headed male.   I'm keeping mainly my steels, a couple blacks, I might add a couple grays eventually and I'm keeping my Chins.  
     Well my doTerra came in.  Beginner's trio (Lemon, Lavender and Peppermint), the TriEase soft gels and the Slim 'n Sassy softgels.  I'll start the softgels this weekend so just in case my digestive track doesn't agree with me for it I'll be home.  Rolex weekend coming up, so I won't be home-home persay much but I'll definitely not be at work!

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Personal Day

     Today is a 'Me' day.  I have a dentist appointment, the crown and two cavities filled.  This way my smile doesn't look too lopsided anymore.  It'll probably be a month or so before I finish the last of the cavities from shifted teeth.  Once I finally get done with it I fully intend to keep up with them and enjoy my smile and my teeth.  I've already made adjustments to diet and after my appointment today I'll see if adding a vitamin D or calcium will help as well.  The vitamin C I already take helps keep my sinus' under control, I'm still taking Clariton as well as the Vit. C in the morning, but doTerra has an allergy type capsule I want to try instead of the Clariton.  Still using the diffuser at night too.  I'm enjoying the nice sleep- I need to get some good lavender as this little bottle isn't the best but it's working until I run it out and get some stronger in.  
     After the dental appointment I'll stop in and pick up rabbit feed, then come home and get that put up for the weekend and wait to meet up with Marty to make the swap of dutch rabbits.  Three unwanted ones for two more highly wanted ones!  Thinking rabbits, I think my blue dutch are done until I can find and afford a really super nice blue buck.  I'm having such a hard time getting my blues better and it's just not going.  I let them go too far and into bad body type.  My steels are staying strong, and my torts are holding their own but the blues.  Uhg.  Well I guess I can't always keep after them after all.  Maybe it is time to move on, off the rabbits, get rid of most of them and just keep 10 or so.  My torts are down to a trio only, blues are sitting at a trio right now, Chins are at a trio now to move the steels down.  Hardest part is I have so many nice steels I don't want to get rid of any that I have.  I just have to be more selective.  Cage keep up is a pain in the butt, cleaning takes time, but showing is still a relaxing fun day.  I really still want to try dog showing.  Mainly the rally and agility type classes.  It just seems like such fun.  Maybe rabbits and dog showing?  Heidi will just be a trail riding girl.  I'll have to still get some training on her but then I'll be able to take her english or western and just ride. 
     This weekend should be interesting.  I'm going to try to get teh cages pressure washed and spray painted so I can hopefully hold them out for a little longer before having to replace them, replace floor wires in 6 of them.  First I have to see if Uncle Jim's pressure washer, or is it Aunt Lisa's, still works and if they have it.   Either way gives me an excuse to go visit!  Not that I ever need an excuse to go visit them- but it seems to clear myself from everyone else's time tables.  My weekends are screwy at best anyway!
      I'll have to start thinking a LOT more about it as I move forward, see where I want to go, what I want to do with my future.  I *STILL* want to get an Aussie.  I've got my heart set on a red merle aussie.  Saw one on craigslist last night that was darling.  I'm bidding my time, I'm thinking things through still.  

Monday, April 14, 2014

Heading into a good weekend



Last Sunday spiked hot so I used the day as a bath day.  Heidi got a good bath as did Bailey.  Heidi's bath was nice, the sun was still high and she had warm water.  Bailey's not quite so much, cold water the sun was disappearing.  








Its been a slow, easy as it goes, when it comes to work.  So far it's been so far easy and not too mentally provoking for me.  My stress has stayed low and I've quite happy with what I've been doing.   Saturday a fellow Co-worker gave me a heck of a scare.  Stanley, the one 'Old guy' that I miss working with, I heard he had a massive heart attack.  Stopped me dead in my tracks at work when Anita told me.  Not another of my buddies!  I've already lost Connie, can't lose Stanley as well.  I keep up with Richie on Facebook since he quit Nestle.  Just clips off his daughter's Facebook(Shaunna Patton):
"April 12-Update on my dad: They said if he hadn't gotten straight to the hospital, he wouldn't have made it. All valves are almost completely blocked. They opened one with a balloon to stabilize him. He'll be in CCU overnight & have open heart surgery in the morning. Please continue to pray."
"April 13-They're taking dad back for surgery now. They're doing quadruple bypass & replacing a valve. Supposed to take about 5 hours. We hear that his surgeon is one of the best & he came & had prayer with us. We've also consulted with the Great Physician, so we're confident that everything is going to be fine. Please continue to pray."
"April 13 later-Surgery is finished. Doc just came out & talked to us. When they opened him up they found that his heart was worse than they thought. It was extremely enlarged & barely beating. The faulty valve was leaking profusely. They did 5 bypasses & had to open the heart to repair the valve. Since they took him off bypass, his heart has improved by almost 100% and there is no leakage. Doc said there is a chance of stroke with this surgery but they won't know until he begins to wake up, but they don't suspect it. In most cases, they would begin to wake him up tomorrow but he is so sick that they probably won't wake him for a few days. He will be in the hospital for a couple of weeks. I want to say this...Everything they have told us has said there is no way he should be alive. He shouldn't have lived with heart failure for 3 weeks, he shouldn't have made it to the ER, he shouldn't have lived through surgery, and they can't account for his vast improvement since they finished the operation. I know it was all of your prayers moving the hand of God that has made it so I get to keep my daddy. Thank you all so much & please continue to pray. The next 24 hours are extremely critical."
"April 14-My dad is awake & breathing on his own & talking! Praise Jesus!  Dad is doing so great! Giving everyone a hard time about wanting to go back to work! Lol. They're getting him up in six hours to walk around a little. The doctor is amazed, but we know it's the work of our Lord!"
Thank God he's alright.  He's 62 years old.  A vast majority of us that I've talked to don't think Stanley's going to make it back to Nestle any time soon, but so long as he's still alive that's all that matters.  
Next weekend is Easter.  I can't wait for the extra time off from work, it'll be relaxing, I can spend more time out and about, I do have to do some work on my rabbit cages this time around though, so I won't be able to kill *that* much time over in Winchester.  But I'm hoping that I can get up early enough to cut and spray paint some floor wires then head over to the barn, then stop by Aunt Lisa's to visit (I know Uncle Jim will be working so I can't bother him)!  So much stuff that I want to get done this weekend, lets see what I *can* get done.   
I'm hoping with Rachel and maybe Allen's help I can get everything done.  I don't have much time but what time I do have will be well spent I hope!  
I've pulled another sinus inflammation and it has my allergies down to 3 different things: Horse Hair, Rabbit Hair and/or grass(including Hay).  The diffuser has been helping a LOT and I use the flonase to pull the inflammation down to make sleeping a bit easier.  I'm thinking of trying a few of the other allergy type stuff from do Terra I want to talk to Aunt Cathryn first(Plus give me a little time to build up some money, as I want to try something else as well).  



Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Catch up post


    Well Friday was the first day of my 5 day weekend.  It was super duper windy so all I did was go catch Heidi and put her in the crossties with the wind blowing on her face and brushed her clean!  Lots to brush clean at that point!  I shed a TON of hair off her, then I closed the doors to keep the wind out and I pulled her mane shorter and more even.  It really does look good now.  Then let her eat and put her back out, I still had a LOT to do to get ready for the rabbit show on Saturday.  After picking up my uncle's car, a Kia Rio, I got it home, and got the tarp laid out, then got all my carriers set up and ready for the next morning.  Came in, made sure I had all my pedigrees for rabbits going and printed up my control sheet for entry and packed everything up.  I went to bed a bit early, but not too bad.   The rabbit show wasn't bad.  I learned a lot, even if I was a basic flop and class filler.  Natalie did take a Best of Variety in show B.  My two chins were the hot commodity apparently!  My chin boy got plenty of work out with new girlfriends at the show.  I think he enjoyed that!  
     Then Sunday I was up riding Heidi.  The super star mare.  She's been awesome about having stuff thrown at her and she digs in and works harder.  She was certainly wore out after that!  I had intended to ride for half hour maybe 40 minutes so I could get back to meet Jess at Aunt Lisa's to pick up my wallet.  Long story short, I had dad's truck with me.  No nothing wrong with mine we just had to pick up grandma's car so dad can start working on it. Well I blew that timing out of the water.  We rode for over an hour, with Molly and her friend on Ben and Rooster.  Sandy took pictures for us, I always try to bring my camera and tripod(though the tripod was in MY truck).  So hopefully today can be as good as Sunday's ride.  Even if it's not, I can always learn new things anyway.










Thursday, April 3, 2014

Loving life!


     I love some of my new work schedule and other than some pretty strong smelling seasonings it's been awesome.  I love not being cold all the time, it's nice and snuggly warm over in the Sauce room.  The idea of still working for that company that doesn't give a rats behind  about their employees.  I'll take what I can while I can.  The good parts are still some of the people I work with, we can have fun and it's nothing hard to do.  Yes the part that's hard is the physical labor but it's nothing I can't do.  I'm a tough, strong girl.  
     I haven't really done much of anything with Heidi at all lately and part of it's just been I've been so busy.  Last weekend out with Aunt Lisa and Grandma, then this Saturday is a Rabbit show.  I had a fleeting thought about getting rid of the horses and keeping the rabbits since I don't need that kind of space for them as I do the horses.  But I could never get rid of Heidi.  Bailey I probably could but never Heidi.  
     Rabbit show this Saturday, I'm hoping that I can work hard enough to be able to get one more day off for one more spring show this year and hopefully I'll get all the ones sold that I want to get sold, keeps my numbers way down and gives me the wiggle room to start rebuilding my cages and getting the wire spray painted to slow down the rusting.  I'm working my way down in my rabbit numbers, I can't wait!  It'll be fun and this time I won't be so wore out!  Natalie and Connie will both be getting Granded- Natalie and Della will be getting registered.  It'll be a fun and exciting day.  I'll get to see Catherine, her mom and her boys plus just relax and have some friendly competition!
     I'm still in awe of the fact that Aunt Lisa and I DID manage to get all of Grandma's apartment packed up and moved.  I know I kept myself positive the whole time doing it- at least outwardly.  Inwardly I had my own personal doubts.  But we did it.  The two of us actually did it.  We are two tough cookies and we CAN do whatever we put our minds to. 

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Going into the Future

     Been a long hard weekend that just never seemed to give up.  I couldn't stop, I had to hold steady and had to keep going.  We HAD to get it done.  Mentally it didn't challenge me in the slightest, but physically, I feel it now.  I cannot wait until this coming weekend.  Sure I'll have two craptastic paychecks in a row, but I'll figure everything out.  The hardest part of goign back to work today was I didn't know exactly where I was sore and stiff.  I knew the one leg was swollen but I chucked that up to being in a truck for 3 out of 4 days plus eating out all weekend.  Right shoulder and my back is sore but it'll take a few days to get back to normal.  Good thing the Sauce room is easy nights.  I mean the lifting can be heavier at times but Tonight I was done by 5 pm, I killed time until 7 pm before I left.  7.5 hours I know isn't good for the paycheck but gave me the chance to stop by Walmart for a few things I needed to pick up.  
     The whole time I was gone, I never touched my HBP med, Vit. C and my allergy pill.  Felt AWESOME to not have to deal with it.  Grandma used at Diffuser with soem of the DoTerra essential oils in it.  I have some of the breathe oil.  Grandma and Aunt Lisa both use the Breathe and Lavender and I slept good, sinus' stayed clear.  So now I'm off and looking for a diffuser and at the moment until I can save up a little more money I'll have to use the stuff from Walmart for Lavender but if I can sleep that good again and keep my sinus' that clear again I'd be in heaven.  The HBP pill could probably go away too once I get another job.  Tomorrow morning I'm going to print and mail my resume/cover letter to Hagyard, maybe a few of the others.  Hopefully one of them or another has a spot that they can get me into to work.  But for now I'm going to stay where I am.  Sauce room isn't bad at all. 
     Well it's off to bed.  A 11:30 clock in time certainly comes early!  Need some good sleep, set the alarm on the phone and off to sleep I go!