Pictures of the new place!!

Well here is some pictures of the new place that I have been promising. I finally got to walmart to get our pictures on disk so that I could erase the ones I had on our cameras disk. Can't wait to have a computer where we can burn our own pictures but that is a whole other post of its own on how my computer sounds like it is going to implode!! Someday:) I wish my camera took better pictures cause these don't do justice on how prity the landscape around us is.

The front yard and house!! It is an older 1978 mobile home but with all the updates and painting they did inside I wouldn't have known it was that old. It is a 3 bdrm 2 bath. The lady before us had 5 draft horses and let them loose in front yard so it is prity messed up.
our view from the front door.

My camera doesn't take very good pictures, it is really pretty.

Our front yard and some of the view

The backyard looking over into the horse pasture. Yes it is a little bit of a hill down there so now you can see why I spent so much of my time on my rear end when it was muddy and icy!! Good exercise though.

Duke enjoying backyard that needs quite a bit of work but they love it and it is fenced in so that is great. It overlooks the other half of horse pasture and the mountains in the back.

The bluffs in the distance are sooooooo pretty. Wish I could get better pictures.


More of our view from the back porch

Pringle and you can see the river barely in the back part there. gotta get their big pasture all fenced now that the ground isn't to frozen.

My baby girl waiting for more food:) She looks soooooooooooo good since changing her feed. I am soooooo happy. She isn't bones anymore!!

Praying for safety!!!

I am praying for all those in japan and also for relatives of mine on the oregon coast as the tsunami heads for there. I have an uncle visiting the coast, I have a nephew that lives on the coast and we have quite a few beach houses in the family and friends. So I am praying it will not be a bad tsunami. It is just crazy how many natural disasters are happening lately!!! May the LORD be with everyone through this time.

28 Hours of Hope!!!

28 Hours of Hope

http://k99.com/give-to-the-28-hours-of-hope/

Below is a post from a blogger friend(GUNDIVA) and I wanted to share it and ask for y'all help. I to have been in abusive situations and no one said anything. Friends and family said it wasn't their buisness or didn't want to get involved. I hate to say this but if you know it is going on IT IS YOUR BUISNESS and you could save someones life by saying something. I didn't give much but if everyone gave a little, guess what that would equal a lot!! I know this may not be your city or even your state but it will help someone that needs help. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE EVEN IF JUST A LITTLE!!! Click the above link if you want to donate. Thanks:)


(gundiva post)
In the three years or so since I've been blogging, I've seen bloggers who have never met face-to-face pull together to help little girls with cancer, mommies with cancer, people just having a rough time who need a shoulder to cry on and have seen the bloggers stand together, strong, through good times and bad.

I've been lucky enough to participate in the blogging community and have been blessed enough to help some of our fellow bloggers.

This time, I'm asking for help. Not for me, but for abused children in Larimer County. I was lucky enough growing up that my mom got us out of a potentially abusive environment. She took the beatings for us until she said, "enough!" and got out. She had a very wise counselor at the time who told her that she was going to get out of the marriage no matter what - she either gathered her courage and left, or she'd get out of it in a pine box. There were no options. He also explained that wife beaters don't stop with the wives - they move on to the pets and the children and when he killed her, who was going to protect the kids?

People knew about the beatings Mom was recieving, but what is there to do? Our close neighborhood friends knew, but, you know, what happens behind closed doors, how is it their business?

We kids knew. Hell, Dad would line us up on the couch in birth order and command us not to move when the beatings commenced. We knew, but we didn't say anything. It was our own dirty secret. If we told, we'd be the ones getting the beating. Selfish, I know, but we were kids. Dad was a big, strong firefighter. What chance did we have against him?

Silence was our enemy.

We didn't tell.

The neighbors didn't tell.

The teachers didn't tell.

Silence.

Thank God for Mom's counselor. I don't know if she told or if he figured it out. He was a smart man. Smart enough that he knew the patterns of abusers. When Dad started in on Junior, the youngest of the four of us, Mom realized her counselor was right and got out.

There are a lot of kids nationwide, not just in Larimer County, whose parents aren't as strong as Mom is. There are a lot of kids for whom Silence is their enemy.

They don't tell.

Their neighbors don't tell.

Their teachers don't tell.

Silence...

...it's killing our kids.

The Good Morning Guys at K99 sponsor the 28 Hours of Hope every year in an attempt to break the silence and raise money to help abused children in Larimer County. They will stay on the air for 28 consecutive hours, taking calls and pledges from the community and Country Music celebrities. They went on the air at 5:00 am this morning and will continue to be on the air until 9:00 am on March 11th. Jeez, and I complain about working fifteen hours straight - these guys will be working non-stop for twenty-eight hours for a cause they believe in.

RockCrawlinChef and I will be making a donation and I'd like to ask each of my followers to make one, too. It doesn't have to be a lot. Even $1.00 on your credit or debit card will help. The change in your car's ashtray or change jar will help. To donate, click here or on the picture in the sidebar, that will take you directly to the donation page. You can make a donation on-line, over the phone, or via mail.

If you can't afford to donate, then do something about the Silence. If you suspect a child is being abused or neglected, tell someone. Break the cycle of Silence. All it takes is a phone call to break the cycle - either to the police department or social services.

And, please, please feel free to steal this post for your own blogs or link to it. The more exposure we can get, the more we can help the children and break the Silence.

Just a hello and I am still alive:)

I know I have been prity quite the past week, but I have still been really struggling with not feeling so well and my hands and fingers hurting. So I have been cutting back on the typing. Not a lot of excitement either. We did drive down about a 1/2 mile to the neat little parking area by the river and took all the dogs for a walk. Yes three dogs and two people very entertaining:) but only because the pup is still learning. When we were trucking few years back I could walk all 4 of our dogs on leashes by myself at the truck stops and such and never worry about my security:) I do miss the traveling. I think the dogs do some also, they sure loved going places. But the walk by the river was nice and of course bear had to take a swim. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Is all I could think! Even little Duke tried it but when it got above his knees he got scared and got the heck out of the river:) I so need to get my pictures of my disks so I can get pictures for y'all of the new place. I need to get a new computer eventually so I can burn my own pictures and not have to go to walmart and pay ridiculous amounts. Its on my someday list:) Hope everyone has a great week!

SOOOOOOOOO MUCH Pain

This post won't be long as even typing brings tears to my eyes. My body has been wreaking havoc with me lately and has really been getting worse. The past two days all of my joints hurts soooooooooooo bad, even my fingers feel like I sprained every single one of them. I have had this happen on and off but not usually all of my joints at once and not for this long. Oh my gosh I wish it would stop!!!! I can't wait till our insurance kicks in and I just pray it won't have pre-existings. I am thinking of starting a gluten free diet. I have read a few things on that being a trigger for hypothyroid people. I know this will be expensive and hard to do but if it makes me better I will try it!! I am going to read up on it and see what I can do.

In Like a Lamb so out like a Lion

I will say the old saying has prity much always been true. You say how would you even know?? Well my birthday is on March 31st so I always watch to see if it is true. Today is absolutely gorgeous so most likely my birthday won't be. At least the weather I mean:) I can't believe at the end of this month on the 31st I will be 31. I honestly can't believe I am even in my 30's it is just crazy:)

Awesome Day with great friend and great riding:)

Yesterday I got to go visit with BECG. We had a great morning of coffee and chatter. It was so nice for us to just get to chat and get to know each other more. And the more you get to know "L" the more you gotta love her:) Then in the afternoon we were off for a few hours to ride not to far from her place. It was a gorgeous area and the weather was spectacular. I got to ride spooks, the big black boy and he was awesome:) I really like that horse! I may just claim him as my riding partner when I go there:) hee hee!!!! It was just an all around perfect day. But then me I FORGOT MY CAMERA:( I know I finally do something camera worthy and I FORGET:( BECG did get a few pics of me but I will have to remember my camera next time for pics of her and just the beauty:)