Another Day

Today, the weather is crappy. It has been raining most of the day. I had to leave work early because my baby girl decided to rip her bandages off. My in-laws came over and called me as soon as they found her with them off. Thank god for them because they took her to the vet and I met them there. Luckily the vet was okay with the bandages being off, but the wound started to bleed when we got home. I got out my husband's EMT bag and found some gauze to re-wrap her leg. We have to go back to the vet on Monday because she still has some swelling in her leg and the vet is just a bit concerned because the swelling is in her joint. The vet wants to make sure that she doesn't have a bone infection happening. This kid is going to give me gray hair.

Last night we baled hay. DH hired a couple guys to help because we needed to get it up before the rain came. Well, we only got about half the field done. The cows will be getting lots of fresh hay, which will make them happy.

Work is still crazy. I feel like I can't ever get anything done. I was making progress today until having to leave unexpectedly because of the dog. I still am buried in paper and have so much to get done before friday. I have two big projects that need to be completed this week. I'm hoping that I can get them done otherwise I might have to do some work on Saturday.

Sunday is another horse show. I haven't had an opportunity to go ride my horse to make sure that we are in sync for the show. Things have been so crazy at work and home that I haven't had time to think let alone ride. I'm looking forward to the show. I'm starting to enjoy the whole process of prepping and then showing. I get nervous before showing, but I think I'm getting better.

The above picture is from Hawaii. This is Waimea Canyon on the island of Kauai. The southern part of the island is like a desert and the northern part (where we stayed) is tropical. The canyon was really cool, but it was a long way up.

Way Behind

I've been meaning to post more often, but I've been super busy with work, the DH working overtime, and trying to get my horse ready to show. We went to a horse show this past Sunday. We were suppose to go for the entire weekend, but the girl who is training my horse had an accident with her horse on Friday. While trying to clip her mare, she reared up and cut her head open on some steel. Ended up having to call the vet and have stitches done, plus she also scratched her cornea. We ended up just going up to Mason on Sunday morning and showing that day. We placed in two out of three classes, but I think we should have done better. The judge seemed to have her favorites. I made some mistakes in the classes, but overall we did much better than our first show. We are suppose to go to another show this coming Sunday down in Clark Lake. Hopefully I will get a chance to practice before then.

Today, I didn't make it to work because I had a migrane and then ended up having to take one of the dogs to the vet for an infection in her leg. She had a small fight with one of the other dogs on Friday, but I didn't see any puncture wounds, well I was wrong. By Sunday her leg was swollen and this morning it looked horrible. I took her to the vet and they did a short procedure to create areas in her leg to drain the fluids. She has to go back Thursday to check on the healing. She also has to take some antibiotics for awhile. I feel like a horrible parent, but I really didn't think she had gotten hurt.

I'm ready to head back to Hawaii and leave reality behind. With summer here life is crazy. We have hay down right now, so I had to do some raking this afternoon. We will probably be baling tomorrow or Wednesday. Hopefully the weather will hold out.

Hawaii

Sorry it has taken me so long to post about our adventures in Hawaii. Work was long and difficult this week and I didn't feel up to writing.

We left for vacation on a Saturday. We stopped over in Vancouver, WA to stay the night with my sister. They also went to Hawaii with us, so we all had the same flight over and actually got to sit together. The flight to Vancouver was almost 5 hours and on Sunday morning we boarded another plane for a 6 hour flight to Oahu where we had to catch another flight to Kauai. Our flight out of Portland left late, so we missed our connecting flight Honolulu. We were lucky that we heard an announcement regarding our missed connection and we ran to jump on another flight to Kauai. Of course, our luggage didn't make the plane, but they have flights over to Kauai about every 45 minutes. It made it on the next flight and we waited for it. By the time the boys got the rental car, my sis & I had secured our luggage. We stayed in Princeville which is almost an hour drive north of the airport. The island isn't that big, but there is only one main road, so traffic gets ugly.

We were in Kauai for 8 days. We saw lots of sun and rain. It rained everyday, like it does in Florida. We had a very relaxing time, which is why my DH and I went. More to post later.

Horse show results

Sorry, I've been away for so long. Things have been absolutely crazy. We just returned from a vacation in Hawaii. I will post more on that later.

As far as the horse show went, we did pretty well. We entered 7 classes and placed in 4. I think we actually placed in 5 classes, but I couldn't hear the announcer well, so I'm not completely certain that she called my number.

The next show is June 21st and I am looking forward to it. This show helped me to feel better with riding my mare. I think we would have done better in more classes if I would have had time to ride her more often. Thank god for Mandy. She has been doing a great job with getting her trained and ready to show.

I hope to get more posted. Right now I'm suffering from a 6 hour time change, so I'm off to bed for tonight.