Hi guys...its been too long to speak since I have checked in I am a butt head to the extreme.  I will give u all the clift notes version of whats up..
1.  Robert graduated threw away his scholarships to play football and moved in with a hoochie mama.
2.  I have all horses back at my place at least temperarily.
3.  I went on a masive diet and lost enough weight to ride confortably
4.  I am working two jobs the restaurant and wedding planning and am still broke.

Whats up with you all???

Hey TBB glad to see that you are back.  Sorry to hear that your son thru away a scholarship but they have to live and learn.  My friend from indiana, Jill, had her daughter do the exact same thing only it was for swimming/diving.  Glad to hear that your horses are back home for a while and congrats on the weight loss.  I have only managed to loss 21 pounds since moving to Kansas.  You will have to read some of the notes to find out what is happening with everyone else.  Maybe now we can get a little more action again on the board.  I am going to have to get some pictures of the babies and put them on here so you can see what I am up to.  Working 2 jobs must be tough, I am working nights and way to much overtime and am thinking of working part time down at the gas station/convenience store.  It pays about 3 and hour less but at least then I can have a life.   Keep posting.

21 pounds rocks....go val.  Oh yeah the kid is a certifiable idiot but what can ya do.
Man it has rained for 24 hours strait its supposed to be flipping August.  Course 3 days ago it was 105.  Gotta love oregon.

You'll love this one took Buddy out for a little ride yesterday.  Every tree, stump, bush, large clump of grass he was ready to turn n burn.  He needs to get back in an arena.  He has not seen a barrel in about ayear and a half.  I believe he is ready to run. lol.

You riding and running barrels?  I am looking for somewhere to put my babies when the field they are in now wears out.  I do not want to go back to a 52 mile drive to ride around a very small dirt patch.

Talk to ya soon

I haven't been riding much, filly I was starting on barrels developed some subsolar abcesses in both front feet so we have been dealing with that.  She is about sound now so I am thinking this weekend I can crawl back on her if she doesn't kill me.  LOL, she is a little bit of a fire ball.  I have a 2 yr old being broke now, told the man I don't want her back unless she is really broke.

  Turnins back!    It must feel GREAT to have the horses at home with ya!!  Ugh, dang ol kids!  I don't want to hear any bad kid horror stories,lol!  My news is we are expecting our first kid, little boy they say, October 4th.  Pretty excited, ready to get it over with, lol!  I miss riding my horses, but soon enough hopefuly!

Wild is gonna reproduce look out world...Congrats to u my dear.  Well I have been riding everyday rotating horses.  Let me tell u I got a hell of a surprise when I went to ride the gray mare Bop.  She is my dads but is here with me and getting no attention so I felt it was my duty to take her for a stroll.  She is fricking nuts.  I have ridden her lots before she is patterned on barrels trail rode with her forever.  She danced a bit with the saddleing which she has always done she is what I call a porshe of horses fast and loves to run very tempermental.  This is the anglo arab.  Well my butt hit the saddle and it was spin city.  She started spinning did about 8 rotations got her stopped and she spun the other way.  We he went sideways across the yard would not go forward.  Took like ten minutes to get her to walk forward.  Got her over to the drive way she would not go we spun we jumped we tried to rear nearly backed into the fence went through a tree before I got her to stop.  Got off thought well perhaps something has her spooked walked her out down the drive all around no problem.  So it was a case of I dont want to be rode down the drive way so I rode her down the drive way did not let her get away with her absolute temper tantrum.  It was crazy I thought horses were self preservtion animals.  She was so out of it she wacked her head into a tree trunk.

On a totally sill subject go to this site www.bfro.net  click on reports go to the sandy river sighting and look at the pics.  That is a Bigfoot site and the report is from about 2 miles from my house.  A little extra tid bit.  Robert did his senior project on Bigfoot cuz he swears he saw it last spring.  In his senior project he interviews one of the english teachers who found tracks in January in his yard of what appears to be bigfoot.  Ladies I have a new neighbor.......

Doesn't sound like Bop wanted to come out of retirement.    Glad you didn't get hurt on her.  You just never know about some of them sometimes.   We had a horse at the TB farm I worked at in Florida once that did stuff like that all the time, walked head first into a huge oak tree and the farm crew said he wouldn't even make good alpo, well that sucker ended up being a stakes winner and earned like 200,000 on the track. 

Not sure if I believe in big foot, just can't believe that there could be something we haven't found in the US but now I do think they may be up in Canada and maybe drift down for a visit around their old stomping grounds or something.  The American Indians even believed in them.  Maybe I should believe in them a little bit more.

It's a scary, scary thing that I will be reproducing!!

Sounds like you had a hell of a time with Bop!  Way to stick with it!

I saw a story on Big Foot on yahoo a few weeks ago.  I'm like Val, not sure if I believe! 

I do not know what to think about big foot.  I just know it is not a comfortable feeling having the big foot investigators on my road!!!!!  Oh since my last report bop tried to go through the fence.  Yup she had to get through about 5 acres of heavy woods to find the fence but she did it.  She has some issues for sure.  Maybe big foot was chasing her.......

lol, I was just going to say that Big Foot was chasing her!!