Horsey Kisses and Grass Smoke

I guess this blog finds me out on my porch, watching 4 scruffy buffalo down by the driveway, a few tiny flames down by the creek that were left over from today's burn and my horses grazing peacefully out in the horse trap.  A cool south-west wind is blowing my American flag and stirring up the smell of grass smoke as the first few stars start to appear in the dark blue sky and the whippoorwills and coyotes start to sing down along   the creek.
Anyways, all of the above has nothing to do with the subject of this post!!  Last night I went out in search of new horse pictures, new close up horse pictures!  Blake was the first one to come to the fence, curious as to WHY I'm setting on the ground, whistling at him as if my very life depended on it!

"What......."

"Are......"

"You....."

"Doing?!?!"

"Hmmmmm, a camera, I like cameras!!!"

"Oh I just love to have my picture taken!!"

Now poor Blake don't have the prettiest head on him, but  sometimes you can catch his good side!  Key word, SOMETIMES!!!

Now, that's better......kinda!

Ummm,  Blake?

Blake, that's close enough!

Blake, sweetheart, you're fogging up my camera lens!!

And while Blake is fogging up my camera, Boogie is standing above me, smelling of my hair!

Why she does it? I have no clue!

Hippie Chick finally decided to quit being unsociable and come see what all the hub-bub was about! 

"Food?"

"Oh great, pictures!"

She really looks TRILLED doesn't she?!

"What IS she DOING?!"

"Ugh, I hate pictures!!"

She's 100% Angel!........Most of the time!

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 Thanks for Lookin'
Josie

A Day in the woods

**This post ain't got any pictures, just a funny story!**
Yesterday, me, mama and my sister took Blazer and Sadie to the creek/woods.  While Blazer loves to run, chase birds, try to figure out how he could catch one of those big buzzards that live in the bluff down in the creek bottom and wade in the creek , Sadie is just starting to figure out this country livin' stuff, you know, what things are good to eat like Buffalo poop, dead bugs, ham bones, all that good stuff.  Something else that she hasn't learned to do is swim. While down at the creek, me and my sister spotted a old bone in the creek(Now remember, both of us are homeschooled and simple things like that excite us), well the bone is out 'bout 6 or 7 feet in the water, to far to reach and to far(and to cold) of me to wade out in there and get it.  So what to do?  Ah ha, I remember that there's one of those little 3 prong garden digging tools in the truck, now if there's a piece of rope..... and sure 'nuff, there's some rope, now all we have to do is tye the rope to the digging tool and sortta hook the bone, HA, the first cast, I hook it!  Man, the boy scouts ain't got nothin' on me!! ;) Mean while, Sadie is chasing Blazer along the creek, well about the time I get that bone drug in, Sadie slides off into about 6 inches of water while trying to chase Blazer.  So I throw the rope down and grab Sadie by the collar.  Well the poor thing ain't having much luck breathing between the water and me dragging her out by her collar!  But we got it done!!!  She came out looking like a drowned car--er drowned dog I guess!  While I was getting Sadie out of the creek, mama and sister got the bone out.  Turns out, it was just an old deer bone.  After all that we called it a day and headed for the house.  With Sadie wrapped up in my sweat shirt, Blazer loaded up in the back, sister got real quite, which means that she was thinkin' hard on something. After a while, she spoke up and said "And you kept your cowgirl hat on the whole time!!"
Quit a day it was!
But in some ways it was just another day in the country!
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Thanks for Lookin'
Josie