Cloudy Friday

[Colliemom]

Good Morning,

Cloudy morning here. Guess rain moving in later tonight and we might even see some of the white stuff in form of snow showers tomorrow Nothing new there, can happen in May.

Off to the groomer with Molly this morning. Judy you asked why Piper isn't in my pictures yet. Haven't gotten a picture of the two of them to put up. Need to do that I know.

Haven't had a chance to talk with RE agent as yet regarding the inspection report. Still waiting for the radon test to come back too. Should be sometime between today and Monday he said. I'm seriously thinking of walking away from it. You asked about a Disclosure statement Judy, I do have one. But they only go so far. You only have to state Yes, No or Unknown if asked if stuff is in working order and age of stuff if known. The Seller said all stuff is in working order, which it is, it's working, and seller does not know the age of any of the stuff in the house. Nor is aware of any problems with anything. So she is not aware of the condition of the mechanicals or other things that were found during the inspection. It's just a case of home owner not maintaining the home. I have a feeling that her husband probably kept up on that stuff and since he passed away, she doens't know anything about home maintenance. Barb, you asked about tearing it down. Now that is not possible. For one thing this is not a cottage, it's a full year around home and sturcturally the home itself is sound. Here's a a couple of pictures, since you ladies have been asking for them. The first one is my home that i am seling, the second one is the home I was hoping to buy.

[/

[URL=http://s904.photobucket.com/user/colliemom/media/01753891ceb6d38b0ccee96a5bd4fb23l-m0xd-w640_h480_q80_zpsprxvjdrt.jpg.html]
URL]

I am now seriously considering my neighbors house next door, but can't commit to it till I know for sure that my buyers are going to continue with the sale of this home. If nothing turns them off on their inspection here on Monday, we will be all set. But neighbor has a contingency on her home, so can't do that. So shall see how things flow here. Right now I have to get cleaned up and dressed, so Miss Molly and I can be on our way. She has to be there by 8. Thanks for all your thoughts and opinions everybody. Keep em coming if you want. Hope you all have a nice day today.

[grammynmaggie]

Good morning Sue & everyone... good luck with all the irons you have in the fire Sue... went for my post-op visit on my left eye yesterday everything is great ... already only after 48 hours today I can see better than I did in for 5 days on my right eye but that was the worst one... I am very very pleased with the results and so happy I can see I asked him how long I've had these and he said a very very long time I wondered because I can't remember of being able to see this good probably when I was a kid but that was a long time ago... I'm still supposed to take it easy no bending over no heavy lifting stuff like that so I'm not doing really very much right now... I did take a quick trip to Walmart this morning dad decided last night he needed oatmeal so I got that and I got some pork chops and... something I used to make for my kids when I had a electric skillet they loved it my daughter reminded me about it not long ago I was you do is put in the pork chops and dump tomato soup over top of it cook it really good... I no longer have an electric skillet so I use the Crock-Pot hopefully it will turn out okay all for now have a
good day...& B safe donna

[Othersharon]

Good rainy morning! Nothing new with the rain! Had a good day out in the yard yesterday, got the mowing and weed wacking done plus did some more cleaning up in the flower beds. Boy, did I sleep good last night! So today will get into something inside plus need to run to Sam's for a couple of things. Sue, they said we could possibly get some snow tomorrow night here too! I knew I shouldn't put the shovels away! 70 today and that cold tomorrow night! Welcome to PA!
Sounds like you have a big decision to make about the house. But I know you'll do what's best for you. I think that's the part I dread the most of moving, houses here don't move very fast. SIL listed hers yesterday so will be interesting to see how fast it moves. It's a nice place and she's done alot of upgrading so we hope it moves. It's a nice little starter home for someone.

(Donna, see you jumped in...glad your surgery went well! I know I was amazed after I had my eyes done at how well I could see!)

Well, not much else happening here. Just wanted to check in this morning! I need to go back upstairs and get my hair washed and get ready for the day. Coffee is done so no excuse to not get moving! Hope you all have a good day and stay safe on the road!

[BarbaraRose]

Good morning! Raining here again. Thought it was supposed to start clearing up by now for the weekend. Guess not. Hope it is cleared up by Sunday afternoon tho, because we have our company picnic then.

Got a text message this morning that my salon manager had her baby last night, a little girl named Ellie Marie. So happy for her!

Had our family meeting last night with my brothers. They are not wanting to take my dad to court to get legal guardianship over him. So that limits our options. Not much accomplished there.

Gotta get to work now. Have a good day!

[havingfunnow]

I have to run to the grocery -- I'm all out of tomatoes! Where do they go? Can I possibly eat that many tomatoes? (answer: yes)

Then I get to mess with the fence and the garden this afternoon.

Judy, has your computer arrived?

[Olive6001]

Good morning everyone. Sue, your home is lovely and that's quite a yard to mow. thanks for posting the pics, context always helps. You're in my thoughts and wishes for a smooth resolution. Great Pumpkin, we need a cloudless weekend for Barb and juicy tomatoes for Louise. Donna, my mother used to make pork chops in tomato sauce (Campbell's Soup). Haven't heard of that for a very long time.

Nothing exciting going on here today. Weather is normal for south central Texas. Weather app says rain is on the way, but it's usually wrong. Never can tell.

Cowgirl up.

Nikki

[Acadianmom]

I took Harold for his check up this morning and we were only an hour and 45 minutes early. If we made his appointment earlier I would have to get up at 5:00 so we could be an hour and 45 minutes early. I got to eat at my favorite pancake place and we still beat the doctor in. I'm glad I can't make pancakes that good and that it's 60 miles from where we live. His checkup was good so don't have to go back until November.

Sue you have a beautiful place. I would sure be looking for a place with a smaller yard considering all the yard work you have.

Nikki, I was in Tractor Supply yesterday so had to look at the cowgirl T-shirts. Since I haven't been on a horse in 25 years I don't think I need the shirt. I keep looking at the rain that is predicted for next week. I am tempted to just throw some things in the camper and head to the lake tomorrow. If I knew that those stupid tires were really fixed I would.

Martha

[Olive6001]

I'm glad I can't make pancakes that good and that it's 60 miles from where we live. His checkup was good so don't have to go back until November.

Does this mean you don't get pancakes until November? Hardly seems fair.

Nikki, I was in Tractor Supply yesterday so had to look at the cowgirl T-shirts. Since I haven't been on a horse in 25 years I don't think I need the shirt. I keep looking at the rain that is predicted for next week. I am tempted to just throw some things in the camper and head to the lake tomorrow. If I knew that those stupid tires were really fixed I would.

When I was thirteen or so a friend and I would go to stables outside town and "ride." What that really meant was we'd get on huge horses that would agree to go only so far from the stable and then whirl around and RUN back with us hanging on for dear life and trying to look like it was all part of the plan. I don't remember anyone ever talking about the fright. Sometimes I marvel that I'm still alive. But I do like western shirts...some western shirts....phony, citified western shirts. Where did I see a picture of four or five cowboys walking away from the camera. All you ladies know the view I mean. I think jeans and work boots and.... I better shut up before my foot lodges itself where it don't belong. I'm old and this sort of talk is unseemly for a dignified person such as myself.

[BarbaraRose]

Nikki, i know the exact photo you are talking about! They look real nice from the back!

[Acadianmom]

Nikki, when I was in high school my friends would rent horses to ride with me. I could ride pretty well. I ran barrels, poles and showed in horse shows but I couldn't control the rented horses. It was not a fun outing. I learned to ride on our neighbor's barn sour horse. I can't tell you how many times that horse threw me. I was too small to lift the saddle so I had to ride her bareback. It took a long time but I was more determined than she was. At some point she must have decided that girl is not going to go away so I might as well do what she wants.

There is an old cafe across the street from the court house in the town where Harold's doctor is. They have the best pancakes I can remember eating. Their other food is probably good too because it looks like they have been there for years. I like their pancakes a lot but not enough to drive 60 miles just for that.

Martha

[JudyJB]

No, computer is somewhere in New Mexico and not supposed to arrive until Monday, so I am struggling with this old backup. Dell sent it by ground, of course, instead of the overnight they had promised me.

The horse stories reminded me of one. I was a good rider and took lessons from about 12-16. One of our neighbors at our cottage on Lake Huron had a horse for his boys, ages 10-12. Except the horse did not get ridden all winter because it was at their farm and what with snow and all, it would be pretty wild by spring and the kids were afraid of riding him. I was about 15 then, so they brought it from their farm nearby, and I kept it in a pen in the woods to try to calm it down and get some exercise on it. (They had inherited the farm and lived 100 miles away in the city. They paid someone to feed and water him over the winter.) I could ride it along a busy highway or on the beach--no other places available, but I could control him so it was OK.

So one of my uncles who bragged he could handle any animal, except that he had not been on a horse since he was a kid and only a couple of times then. So he got on the horse and rode him a mile down the highway on the grassy shoulder. No problem, until he turned around, and the horse took off for home at a full gallop. The impressive part was when the horse did a sharp 90 degree turn (just a little skidding) into the driveway of the cottage! He never offered to ride the horse again, but it was pretty funny.

[BirdbyBird]

I worked at a riding stable when I was in Jr High and High School. We taught and only offered English lessons and saddles. (Basic Park Seat at that time.) I was tall and mature for my age and began helping with the instruction of the lessons and leading the public out on trail rides in my early teens. We had 15-20 "school" horses and a small handful of other horses that the guides would or could ride sometimes but never the public. Any way, I learned to respect the work ethic of a good school horse that had to make its living sometimes working long days. All of our rentals required that a guide had to ride lead. We put the "squash" on all "cowboying" craziness and that last 1/2 mile to the barn was always at a walk. Horses are much more fragile physically that some imagine. Some of the school horses were long in the tooth, but most had stayed or stayed pretty healthy and enjoyed long careers because they didn't get crazy......

[Azusateach]

Fun remembrances about riding horses.

When I was in Jr. High we lived in Santa Maria (up the coast from Santa Barbara). There was a roping & riding stables about a mile from where we lived, and I made friends with the old woman -- and I mean old -- who ran the riding school there. She had about 15 horses, and I would clean out the stalls for one riding lesson a week. As I proved myself, she let me take a lesson every time there was an extra horse. I lived and breathed horses for about 18 months, until we moved to Minnesota.

As I became known at the stables people would ask me to "babysit" their horses when they'd go on vacation. It was wonderful! I'd get to ride all sorts of horses, just in a ring, but it was still riding and I loved it. One family even let me use their Shetland pony in the stable's equestrian drill team. It was a riot!

We didn't live in Santa Maria very long, but that time in my life was filled with lots of happy memories. The town has grown considerably since then, and the stables have been replaced with an assisted living facility. Makes me sad.

Strangely enough, my mom's brother lived in Pendleton, Oregon, and raised quarter horses all of his life. I never knew him. He was quite well known in the quarter horse world, and apparently the rodeo circuit in the PNW also.

Laura

[Acadianmom]

I don't know what it is but I think some people are born with a love of horses in their DNA. My dad was in the Air Force so we didn't live in a place I could have a horse until I was in the 8th grade. Growing up I had 2 Uncles that had ranches so I would only get to ride a couple of times a year. I'm sure they weren't happy to hear I was coming. I would pester someone until they saddled a horse for me. One summer I got to spend 2 weeks at my Uncle Paul's and got to ride everyday. I was in heaven. It's probably a good thing that I didn't know that I could have joined the Rodeo Club in college and kept my horse at school. I would have to get rides if I wanted to go home so I would have had trouble getting a ride for a horse.

Martha