Dad...Another Year Older

May 15 was another birthday for Paul Moon. Last year, if you remember, was the big party when he turned the big 60. Well even after all that, he had another year to go by and he turned 61. The numbers just keep going up. This year Adam and Chip (Joey) and an adopted brother Lance, cooked a wonderful dinner for Daddy-o. I tell you what....Adam needs to be a grilling chef with Chip and Lance as his assistants! That was the best meat I have ever had. The whole meal was great. I guess they get their cooking skills from their mother. It was a really nice evening. We missed Josh and Kimmie and Tera but we talked about them.LOL We appreciate all that cooking and trouble you guys went to. WE love you!

Tooter's First Field Day

Tooter is in kindergarten and this was his first time to participate in Field Day at his school. Good ole Field Day. The Sack Race. The Three Legged Race, Tug o War. They didn't have any of that for kindergarten. Had those blow up bouncy things and blow up slides....no races, no ribbons, no squalling cause you didn't win a ribbon, no cheering your classmates on. What is going to happen to these kids? Look at Tooter drinking his water like he just ran the 220 relay race. He had just kicked a ball and ran after it, picked it up and brought it back to where he kicked it from. It was a challenge. Wore him smack out. They had a snack trailer with pop corn and drinks. The kids were only out there for about an hour but I guess they needed refreshment. Remember when we were kids and sat out on our "brought from home" towels all day in the hot sun watching race after race. We might have had a grape or cherry popsicle before we all went back into our classroom stinking like sweating horses, red faced, with our hair plastered down on our heads from sweat. Some of us had puked we got so hot after running our race. But we didn't care. Had rope burns for three days on our hands from Tug o War. Half of Tooter's class checked out and went home after they had jumped in the jumping tent. Used to be that was the only day we had everybody at school and no one would have thought about going home before the day was over. Now that was Field Day. What has happened?

Johny 8,9,10 Golf Benefit 2010

This huge golf benefit was held this past Friday for Johny Etienne at the Point Mallard Golf Course. It started early that morning and lasted until late that evening with with more than 150 so called golfers playing. It was a beautiful day for the tournament. One group of golf teams played in the morning and one group played in the afternoon. I am not sure who won in either division. It was a tournament mostly done up for our wonderful friends Johny and Hilda....to show our love and support for them and their family. I know if anyone made a hole in one they would have won a tractor from Case Tractor in Tanner Alabama. Do golfers make holes in one out on a golf course? I hardly ever made a hole in one at the Putt Putt. By the way that is Josh and Adam with their dad, Paul and their grand dad, Fredo. Those four made up a team. I can just imagine how that went. I think Josh ran their golf cart into Adam and Paul on the first hole. It was all "pay backs" after that....and lots of laughs.

Sleeping Horses

That is Lady, our beautiful Quarter Horse. She was five years old when we stumbled upon her in Auburn Alabama. Some guy had dumped her off at this lady's farm and never came back. She is a sweety even though she is a mare and can be moody. She has calmed down a lot since the early days when she first came to live with us. We could never catch her. One day when we were going on a trail ride, it took four guys to run her down and get a rope on her. Now she just walks up and gets her halter on and waits to be saddled.

Pud is the baby and the "cut up". He is a Saddle Horse which means his gait is a little more bouncey but nothing near as bad as a Quarter Horse. Pud is a sweetheart all around. He sees Paul's white truck coming down the road and he takes off to meet him at the gate. He loves for you to throw your arms around his neck and love on him. And he would stand for hours and let me brush him if I would do it. He loves to nip Lady on the butt and take off running to make her chase him. When we first got him, he was afraid to let anyone touch his ears so it was almost impossible to get his halter or bridle on. Now he lowers his head and gets his halter on with no problem. Takes lots of time and patience with horses because they are so scared of everything.

No Bo is my baby. My baby. I have had Bo the longest. Bo is a Tennessee Walking Horse. Your butt will not bounce at all when riding, even at a trot. And he could probably out run Lady's full gallop just in his walking trot. He is long legged and he takes long strides. Bo is the same today as he was a year ago and will be the same a year from now. He is steady. He has never had a problem getting his halter on, coming to me, grooming or riding. He takes care of me when we are riding. If he stops when we are riding, I always wait to see what he is checking out...and there is always something that has gotten his attention. He is careful. He doesn't like to get his feet wet. He stops at a creek or ditch and then tiptoes across. Or he will try to jump across. I love this picture of him laying down with his feet tucked up under him. Hard to think of him weighing about a thousand pounds when I look at this picture. There will never be another horse like Bo. He even smells different than the other horses. I love all our horses but Bo was my first love and he will be my last.