Wordless Wednesday.........

Our 4th of July in pictures

This is Steele and his cousin, Scotty.

The men, checking out the new truck. They had not seen it yet. Starting from the left is Jeremy's brother, Dakota. His stepdad, Jim. His uncle, Shawn. Our Pauly Wally. (Sorry Paul, Sage made me wrie that!) And Jeremy leaning on the beast.

My girl at the Bad Bulls , bull riding eating cheese popcorn. I think I caught her offguard, what do you think?!

Steele asking Daddy why they aren't riding any of them. Jeremy said, yes they were and he promptlysays very matter of factly "No they aren't"
I hope he doesn't have any plans of showing them up!

Some more lake pics

Jeremy and Paul trying to get the hook out of the fish.

My sweet little angels happily playing. It doesn't get any better than to see them having such a great time. It sure was a wonderful refresher for all of us.

Here is my baby, Priss. She's a swimmer! Here I was, laying in the sun. Trying to get a suntan. I told everyone all I wanted to do was lay on the beach and get a tan........

I am only posting this picture cause I catch hell cause there are never pictures of me and so you can see what a brilliant idea it was to lay in the sun.........I didn't know it yet in this picture but I got FRIED! I put sunscreen on the top of my body but not on my legs and stomach.........

Not. A. Very. Good. Idea.

I was in agony the last copy of days. Today I feel a little better. I tried vinegar and aloe. Nothing can take the burn out except sleeping with ice packs. As old as I am and as many times as I have gotten sunburned I surely should have known better! Ugh.

Have a very Happy 4th of July Everyone!

We ran away from home today.

We needed a pick me up play day before Jeremy's surgery. Paul and Zip came along and I brought Priss for her first trip to the lake. As soon as we parked the car and walked down to the water she came to the edge of the water and right in she went! It was so funny! On the way down the kids were talking about fishing so we stopped and bought them a fishing pole that they shared. We didn't even think they would sit still long enough to catch anything.
Not long after casting it here is Steele bringing one in!

Can you just see his proud face?! He even helped daddy gut it tonight.

And I really didn't think Sage would be patient! Here is hers!

We have a surgery date!!!

This is the update I posted on our website last night.

www.JBCattleCo.com

6-30-09 Update-As many of you already know Jeremy has been in need of surgery due to a recurring dislocating shoulder. Two months ago it happened twice within three days. Being as we had horses in training already and we had to push on Paul and I started riding the colts with the owners permission. While I loved it and got to work with Jeremy daily and ride horses under him, it is just not my gig to be riding other people's colts. Not to mention trying to get that done with kids running around getting into trouble, well it was interesting to say the least. With Paul's help we had it running like a well oiled machine! He is truly a great friend and has agreed to stay and help us as long as we need him. He has been here since the miscarriage I suffered April 22nd. Jeremy was injured a week and a half after I came home from the hospital. And then again on May 3rd, just two days later. They know him by name at the ER now and I think they may even find it amusing to see him coming with no shirt on, a mangled arm obviously in the wrong place, chinks, hat and boots with spurs still on and usually drunker than Cooter Brown since we are so far from town and he needs something for the pain! He started riding outside horses again on June 1st, still in pain but we had to work to bring in money. Thankfully we now have a surgery date for him and we can feel like we are moving forward and get him healed up and back to work. Timing has worked out well with the last training horse he has here will leave on July 7th and his surgery is scheduled for July 9th. We have been scheduling lesson days in an effort to keep him off the streets and keep food on the table. I have gotten my resume together and am looking for work while he is healing. I figure if he is home with the kids he won't be able to get into too much trouble! Several people have encouraged him to write while he is recovering. I sure hope he does! Needless to say he will not be taking outside horses for quite some time. We will keep you all posted as to when he will open the book to limited horses again. Our main focus will be to keep him down and let it heal properly in the coming weeks. Wish me luck! Please.......

Trespassing meeting

In our efforts to keep the trespassing buttholes out of our land I had to attend another waste of time meeting of all of the state, county and whatever else they were officials to try and rid the illegal offroaders on the PCT and surrounds areas. The sheriffs keeps crying budget cuts, blah blah blah. So I think this states my position. In case you can't read it, it says.

"Prayer is the best way to meet the Lord, Trespassing is faster"

I love it! I also have another one in mind.

"If you can read this you are in range"

Buttheads, their mammas should have spanked them more, maybe then they would have some respect. Hopefully my life will get back to some sort of bore and I can catch up with all the stuff I am behind. Wish me luck for a nice boring day, please!

Sage

So tonight we are laying around trying to stay cool. We had just gotten home from Agoura Hills where Jeremy gave lessons all weekend. We stayed with our good friend Mary while we were there. She is so gracious to open her home to not only us but our two rascals and this time, my new pup, Priss. And she lets Jeremy use her best horses while he is giving lessons so we don't have to haul a trailer. She also spoils the kids when we come, buying their favorite goodies and giving them her undivided attention.

It is so great for Sage to get these visits as she lives in such an adult world. She gets to dream and plan and have it all her way like a little girl does. I am leading up to something I swear. Also living on the ranch we occasionally when we need money we take animals to the sale, cattle, goats, ect. Living in this adult world (as we also homeschool and work for ourselves for those of you that may not know) as she does she decided she wanted to be sold. I am not sure what exactly brought this on.

Could be all the talk about needing money for Jeremy's surgery.

Could be all the fun and attention away from her brother (I sure wish she got that opportunity more often) this weekend.

Could be that I plan to haul goats to the sale tomorrow to pay the hay bill.

Could be the grass in always greener.............

At any rate, I tried not to let it break my heart she was willing to sell herself AND she made a sign. In an effort to keep it light hearted I told her next time I get to name the price.

While all this was going on I had to tell her that while we were gone her ewe Harriet had died. She was old and with the heat, that is the only reason I could figure she died. Yes, she had shade, water, blah blah. That is just it, while I had a wonderful time away this weekend I couldn't wait to get back to our simple life on the ranch. I could micromanage it but it just is. She died, it is too late to fret over it. She was old and it was her time. Maybe that was the reason Sage wanted to sell herself and live in the city, who knows. I doubt it, she knows life and death all to well. I am afraid she is feeling the stress of "dad needs surgery"...............she is such a giver. God love her.

Then there is the boy who is completely oblivious and when he heard the sound of daddy starting the tractor all he could do is run in circles looking for his boots. "mommy could you put me on it?!" I knew what he was getting the tractor for and was reluctant to let him ride but it is what it is. So there Steele is sitting on the tractor while Jeremy loaded Harriet the ewe on the bucket of the tractor. I was helping with the gates and being as I was in my underwear with the heat I just tried to stay out of the way. Jeremy is a wretcher. If something stinks he will toss his cookies and for some unknown reason I think it is HILARIOUS! Well, Harriet had been dead for a little while apparently and nobody had noticed cause of where she was. She was pretty stinky. I hope none of you are eating your dinner! Anyhow, Jeremy is holding his breathe in an effort to not smell her, usually my mission is to try and make him talk and then he will catch a whiff of it. He knows this and all I did was look at him and he was doing his darnest to keep his eyes off me cause he knew.........when we hear Steele yelling at the top of his lungs

"IS SHE DEAD, DAD?"

I taught him well.