Recession

I'm really not diggin' this recession. I think I'm ready for it to end.

Laurel's visit

Laurel came to visit us this weekend. We planned a little trail ride with some of our friends...we went to Rafter D's and met Karla and Fred there....they brought an extra mount so that we could all ride together. Laurel met John and rode him for the Trail Ride. John is a super good, mellow quarter horse that is very trustworthy. The ride didn't start off as "easy" as usual...Karla's little mule Pebbles was having a bad morning. They (Karla & Fred and their mules) ended up not making the ride with us, but they left John for us to use.



After the ride, George and Laurel rode the 4 wheeler. After checking the game camera, they decided to set a trap (live trap) for a raccoon...since there are 4 of them eating the deer corn. (They did manage to catch one...and transported it to another home).


They also did a little fishing on our pond...Laurel's first cast caught this handsome large mouth bass....After this it was time to fix dinner and settle in for the evening (George and Laurel fell asleep in the living room shortly after 9)


This morning, the last day of the visit, Laurel and George went for a little ride behind the house. They had some adventure as Goldie and Hat got a little skittish about something. Apparently Goldie made a quick retreat from the woods but Laurel didn't have a problem with it...she just kept on riding her.... Goldie is a little high strung sometimes and I worry about putting someone other than myself on her.... but she was doing great until she got spooked and according to Laurel she was fine after that too.


This is just a little parting shot of Goldie and Laurel at the end of their ride.


Soon we'll be taking Laurel home....and she and I are hoping to talk Uncle George into taking us to lunch somewhere on the way....

A little ride

This evening after work, Nicole and I took a little ride around the property on Goldie and Hat. It's the first time for Nicole and Goldie to ride together. I think we had a pretty good time.

If the weather holds, we're borrowing John the Quarter Horse from Karla and going for a ride at Rafter D's tomorrow.

Come back by for updates on Nicole's visit.

A morning on the White River

George and I went for a little fishing this morning. The river was so foggy that you could bearly see to navigate. I had wet hair by the time we motored from Red's Landing to the Norfork Trout Dock....but the first cast produced a rainbow trout...followed by the second cast repeating that..... of course we didn't have that result everytime...but it was a nice day on the river...

Here in the real world

I'm suffering badly from vacation envy....several of my friends and co-workers are beach goers this summer....I know...what can I be whining about...I just got an awesome new truck.....and I'm happy....but I sure am envious of those people that are enjoying the beach.

I was sitting in the dentist's chair yesterday listening to the sound of her drill and I kept thinking how much more relaxing and fun it would be to hear the sound of the ocean...I was green with envy of Betty and her trip to Hawaii....and my friend Kim's trip to Destin...you can see how beautiful Destin was at www.kimwhitten.blogspot.com

Oh well...It's not like I'm not having a great summer....riding horses, going to the lake and doing a little fishing on the river.... :-)

Maybe I'll save my vacation time for the winter and go do something then.... :-)

The move to Nashville

Friday we drove to Nashville to move Russell to begin school. It was a beautiful day and an easy trip there...everything went so well....you feel it coming don't you....here it is......UNTIL we went to the the appartment....it really wasn't an AWFUL place in it's own right...it had new furniture, a decent looking neighborhood etc....it was just the million other residents already inhabitating the place...I really had no clue where the boys would stay because the apartment was crammed full of roaches. I don't think I've ever seen that many roaches in one place.....completely GROSS..... The boys sucked it up though and after being assured by management that the apartment had been sprayed decided to stay.....as the afternoon wore on the bug population seemed to diminish (probably from the excellent "hunting" skills of George and his can of RAID)..... but after dark....the swarm began again....Russell called us (at our roach free hotel) to tell us that he wanted out in the morning.......So, Saturday morning we picked up the 2 Calico boys that were there and headed in to collegiate housing to get them moved to another apartment.....oh...more fun than anyone could ever want for a Saturday morning in a huge town with a great mall and tons of shopping...what better way could I be spending my time than sitting in a classroom that is being used as an office waiting for someone to decide that it's the right thing to do to move these boys into a room that didn't have a million roaches crawling around in it....oh...I forgot to mention that we came armed with ziplock bags full of roaches that the boys had collected as evidence.....along with several photos.....we met lots of NADC people.... the District Recruting Manager, the VP and the President herself.....it seemed that the only people the didn't think the boys should be moved was the "boss" at collegiate housing...the lady working with us was great and trying hard to get something done....finally over 3 hours later we finally had a new apartment.... no furniture for it until Tuesday but hey....we had the apartment....so we checked it out, finally got some lunch (and those of you that know me know that feeding me lunch at 2:30ish isn't the best idea if I don't get snacks in between...but I was being nice still)..... then we moved the boys out of Roach Haven and into The Cove. After we got them moved in we went shopping for their food and other supplies.....and finally we took them to dinner at about 9:00......but we got it all done.

Now they are all settled in and waiting for furniture.

When we were leaving this morning I made the observation that here's these redneck boys in this very nice attractive gated community of apartments with beautiful landscaping and retaiing walls ......I'm sure the community is wondering what just happened :-)

I'd post some of those photos but they gross me out still.

But, after all is said and done...I think things are good.

Happy Birthday to George.....hum......

Well, today has been a very interesting day....it started out bad and got worse but then it got really great!

Today is George's birthday. He's not really big into celebrating his birthday but we always make a big deal about mine....so....today for his birthday, he bought me a new truck....go figure...aren't I a lucky girl.

It's a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 Z71 with the LTZ package... white and a crew cab.... It has cashmere colored leather seats that are heated, dual air and remote start!!! I am so spoiled!!!