Have you seen this dirtbiker?!

I want to apologize to my other readers as I have a personal message for this guy. I will be back to my regular fun stuff real soon!

So big guy, I guess you will get to be acountable for your bad decision! Oh and the landowners fence you cut up on the mountain is not happy either. I think he is a lawyer............you should have drove a little further and went to Cal City where it is okay for you to ride. All the way from Calabasas is quite a commute already I know. And when someone is VERY upset and FED UP with grown men riding where they know they shouldn't be, shoving their lame excuses down your throat and expecting someone else to get them out of their predicament that doesn't make her a B***H. It just makes you an A$$HOLE with no manners! Do you like my blog?

How my day went.

My day started out at 3am for some strange reason. I don't know why I was up so darn early. I had to be at a meeting in Tehachapi at 830am. So I guess I didn't want to miss it. The meeting was with the Forest Service, BLM officials, Sheriff Dept., PCT officials, ORV Watch Kern County and a few of us concerned property owners that are having such a problem with the unlawful dirtbikers. It felt like a huge waste of 2 hours (not counting the 2hour drive time) of my time. We are all still sitting with our hands tied. BLM did say they would be in the area the next two weekends enforcing the no offroading out here. I hate to be a pessamist but time will tell if the problem will improve. Funding issues have cut back how responsive the Sheriff has been. You know the story, the country is going to hell in a hand basket...............

So I rushed home from the meeting to pick up the kids so Jeremy could get some work done. Not to mention I needed to get Moose to the vet since he has developed kennel cough after being picked up by the pound a week ago. Moose and the kids were very good at the vet. Even Steele gave me the sweetest smile I think I have ever caught on film. What a little rascal, I want to print the picture and hang it from my forehead so I can see it all the time! Sage gave a sweet smile too, but she is always sweet!

We left the vet with our meds and headed to McDonalds to get some late lunch. Then I headed to Big Lots to hopefully get the Polaroid camera they had advertised for a really good deal. Darn! They had sold out!! So we headed over to the local feed store to beg them to please load two bales of hay into my little jeep liberty. We will be getting a delivery tomorrow but needed a few bales to get us by in the morning. We feed two bales per feeding, not to mention some of the horses eat cubes. Lotso hay and money we go through around here..........YIKES!
This was within about a mile and a half from home. I thought it was so pretty with the wildflowers blooming and the clouds peeking over the mountains.

Calendar?!

I think I could get into the calendar making business! If my photography skills were better that is. But the scenery sure isn't lacking! Sorry poor husband for exploiting you! I couldn't help it! She is a pretty horse.......This is a two year old filly that is not halter broke. We were wanting to move her and remembered, she needs to be worked with. So he stopped everything else he was doing to get her out and do what should have been done a long time ago. She is a tough little cookie and put up a pretty good difference of an opinion. By the end of their session she was using her head much better.

Riding their cars at Grandpas

Sunday was my dad's birthday, so we took him out to brunch at the local Mexican place. I don't know what I would do if we lived somewhere where they didn't have good Mexican restaurants.

Afterward we went over to Grandpa's to let the kids play on their cars. They just love these darn things! Steele kills me, he has rode this motorcycle like he knows what he is doing ever since he was 18 months old.

The new baby goat

So my Saturday turned out nothing like I had envisioned. I had big plans of saddling my sweet little Poco filly and riding with the kids on Chico. Jeremy had lots to do and was riding like usual to catch up on some days he has missed on the outside horses. Well, I woke up grumpy as can be with a wicked sore throat. The wind was howling all night and I wound up sleeping on the couch cause I don't think our drafty bedroom was helping me sleep. This poor old house is so challenged and still needs lots of TLC. The wind comes down out of the north and right into this canyon and that side of the house has taken a beating over the years. Anyhow, back to my day. Being a grump I didn't want to deal with the kids and them fighting over the ONE horse so I just puttered around. Jeremy was saddling Chico for Sage and Steele and I were getting ready to make sure the gate was unlocked for some company that was coming to bring me berry plants! As we were leaving the house we passed by the goat pen and noticed one of the really young goats had a foot hanging out of her. JEEZ! She shouldn't be pregnant!!! She is so small I knew she would need help. So I drove my little golf cart over and got my rope and then figured I had better get help. Mike and Paul were both here and Jeremy also came over. Great guys! THey stopped everything they were doing to come and help me and my poor damsel goat.

The darn thing is almost as big as her! It was not an easy delivery on the poor girl. Her pelvis was just too small but we got him out and they are both doing fine. I had to milk her and bottle feed him the first couple of time since it took her awhile to be able to stand steady.

What the boys were up to today.

Isn't this some pretty country? Way off in the distance Jeremy and Paul were loading telephone poles. We were given permission to take the remaining poles from a telephone line that has been there forever. I am not even sure if it was ever used and over the years people cut them down and took them but this stretch of poles was on Tejon land so they were never taken. This is only about two miles from our place.

Can you guess which horse this is? Just in case you don't know him the horse is Ojos, 2007 Extreme Mustang Makeover Finalist. There is a whole page dedicated to their journey on our website www.jbcattleco.com Jeremy thought he would be perfect for the job at hand. Some of the poles were up on hills way away from the road and instead of tearing up good pasture with the truck, and some places you couldn't even get the truck, he used Ojos to drag the poles down to the road and then him and Paul would load them in the trailer. Of course I didn't get pictures of them working cause I was off sipping ice tea in town. I am such a trooper, I tell ya! They parked up on top and worked their way down. Paul would drive the truck and Jeremy on the horse.

Did I mention that I ran off to town to have lunch and do some shopping? Did I mention a phone call I got about a certain couple of guys that wanted me to pick up some beer? I get home to find this..........then to our relief Uncle Bill pulls up and says "quite a predicament, huh?" Thankfully he offered to unhook his trailer and pull our truck out. It wouldn't have happened but the 4-wheel drive has not been working on the ol dodge for quite some time now. And my husband reminds me regularly that he is a horse trainer not a mechanic. ARGH!

Bill Perez and Bobby Linn had been out doing some work around here today were heading out at just the right time!