Dance Dress Rehearsal

Not to be outdone, big brother decides to give advice on ballet

Family Friends' Portraits

 Some of my favorite people - family photos for 2012

The Ranch

The view of our place from the West, riding home at sunset

Miles sharing the love

Must be Winter

Just background left!

 Here is the latest cross stitch design happening in our house...  I have been working on this one for a while, but the interesting parts are done and now I'm on to background.  Which is fun, because it's yellow and orange, but a little boring. 

The chart for the running red horse piece

Eating my berry pie while riding my bike, with a photobomb by Nase the dog Owen dubbed this one "calories in, calories out"

Monster Mashed Potatoes

Monster potatoes, prepare to meet your doom as mashed potatoes!  Owen is in charge of mashed potatoes, I did squash stuff, and we both made a berry pie and an apple torte.  Torte is the word I use for apple pie when we don't have enough apples to make a whole pie, so I just put crust dough on the pan, dump apples in the middle, and fold the edges of the dough up around the apples.  Our friends had us over for the actual thanksgiving meal. 

Before and After Snow

 Here's the sunrise this morning at Bit of Honey Training when I went out to feed.  There was a storm rolling in and the clouds were just starting to gather.  The next set of pictures is the evening photos after I did the night feeding.  Same day - just pre and post snow!

Neighboring cattle

Two mares in snow, Rain and Kildee

Snowy sunset

Working Cows on Fri. night

I've had this mare in training here for a few months.  We've been working on western dressage and trail riding, but she's bred to work cows.  I was able to go to a neighbor's a bit east of here to try her on his cattle on Friday night.  She wasn't afraid of them, just didn't know what to do with them.  I'm not well versed in cattle work, either, so it was kind of a steep learning curve for both of us.  We tried really hard, though, and now we can say she's pretty cowy.