tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79619003624871788182026-04-06T11:56:16.051-07:00Living the Cowboy-way of life through the eyes of his wife. From daily tasks, to the horses, the cows, the goats, the Border Collies, oh, and don't forget the chickens; to the pleasures and tears of living with a Cowboy. Gotta have hobbies for sanity. Mine are gardening in the spring/summer/fall and making stained glass work in the winter.The W.O.W. factor!http://www.blogger.com/profile/18262478798908787803noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961900362487178818.post-81584241183509884032013-12-17T13:51:00.000-08:002013-12-17T15:15:08.218-08:00

It is that time of year again, when I am most humbled and grateful for the many blessings that God has provided for me.  This Christmas Season, my heart and soul are with my two nephews and their families. Their Father, my Brother, passed away Thanksgiving evening, after a battle with two cancers. I am thankful that he no longer suffers, yet my heart is saddened and, again....another void in

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...I tried choking back tears...to no avail.Not only are my yard, shrubs and flowers being destroyed....but so are secrets, dreams and memories that this house of 113 years held. "Ready or not...here I come! And I'll take this tree with me as it is in my way!" First big bite! This machine is hungry! Second bite.... Soot and ash fills the air...and everything the air touches! There

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...Wrapped in a nutshell....  We were Texas bound June 1, 2012 and it was a bittersweet time. I was vacating my "forever home" ~ for the unknown. May 29, 2012 We were giving up the only lifestyle we had known... for the "Promised Land"... To be close to our Son and his soon to be wife. Jobs with security and consistent pay...and Grand-babies! An EASY and fulfilling life!

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Because some have asked... This will be brief as I am lucky for the moment that Cowboy's phone is"connected"!  It's been a year since I wrote anything, almost exactly, and AGAIN... our lives have changed! For the moment, I am going to keep you guessing.  I will, however, say that we are back in Washington... have been for 3 weeks. ....until I get better access, this is all I am

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We've been in Texas 5 weeks! The trip was uneventful... I started work...learning to accept the humidity.. (love the heat without humidity!) . . and then . . on the 20th, I get a call.. My older sister had been been admitted to the hospital. On the 24th another call at 10:30 pm ...she had had a heart attack..  and was not expected to make it through the night. I flew up to

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...."one the road again!" (I think he wrote it just for us too!) It's a done deal. I hope Texas is ready for us. (and our son and  future DIL!) Cowboy started the ball rolling by applying for a Gvmt job. He's made it thru 2 of their drawn out processes, two weeks ago. We must wait for another 30 days+ for the next step. Working with the Military Working Dogs, at Lackland AFB in

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...LIFE! Things have been quite "eventful"! Quite "chaotic"! Quite "nerve wracking"! Lately. I don't know which side of the coin I'm on right now so I cannot talk about these past couple of weeks! Maybe by next mid-week I'll be calmer.....more informative... So until then.....keep your fingers crossed! Say a prayer or two! And be patient....as I must! Cowboy Wife

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...sometimes...and depends what they are!I'm home now. Mom's doing just Ok. She put her house on the market as it is way too big for just her. The market is horrible so not sure how lucky she will be. After the snow and ice storm, there was a ton of damage to her fir and cedar trees. LOTS to clean up and remove. She wants to move into an apartment but I'd just as soon she moved to Minnesota with

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...Life happens/changes too fast! I'm still here...just in a "zone"...forgive me, for I know this will pass. I've been busy creating that "special project" for our son's return from the mid-east in March, and with the time quickly approaching for the one year 'anniversary', if that is what one calls it, of my worst day ever....my Dad's passing...on my "watch".....my emotions are a bit like being

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A day for the record books..indeed! .......My Cowboy came home this afternoon and couldn't decide if he had made a wrong turn somehow and was lost?...or if he had acquired himself a new wife,  and just couldn't remember when!!.It all began at about 7 am..... . .I was quietly minding my own business, as I certainly have no one else's business I could get into .... . .

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-ave.....that is! Brave to take that first step everyone talks about...Brave to open the doors again to the world around me...Brave to be ME again..... So here I am.... Being  BRrrrrrAVE! Taking that 1st~~albeit left...  (as I am entitled since I'm a lefty...oh, reminds me of something I read...will post another day) ...step ...or is that just plain STU....pidity!(

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Thanks TW for the note the other day... It 'woke' me up. It made me realize "Life goes on". Now I just need to figure out where to start! Cowboy Wife

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...the longest stretch in 6 months!! I would not change the time time I've spent away from home since September...but I need this time. I am trying to put my head in a good place. ~ My Dad was diagnosed last September with prostate and lung cancer. Between his weakening body, numerous falls, 911 calls, hospital visits and treatments, my younger sister from Minn. and I took two week

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of this blog.... ...and I've been trying to find myself! It's been a nasty two years, for sure! A few ups and wayyyy too many downs! I'll fill in the gruesome realities briefly.. ~ In April 09, we thought things were changing for the good. The good turned out to be ONLY that I could have pizza any ol' time! The man who owned the place basically used us! Our sweat and tears...and many dollars too

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...and I'm not ready, willing, or able! BUT...I'll buck up and face my demons! This week I'm faced with TWO jobs. At my paying job, I must start training yet another gal! I've had to train TWO already in a short (?) nine months and that was after I had barely begun to learn the feedlot business myself! It's exhausting trying to teach a non-agricultural person the bare bone basics of cattle so

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Gives this Worn Out Woman a chance to do NOTHING! Hah...if you believe that, you don't know me very well.... But then again....I've never met any of you or vise versa...So who knows what the real Me is??I'm still trying to figure that one out...and I'm open to suggestions. I do know for absolute certain tho...This is Memorial Day, a day of Remembrance...for those who have served and sacrificed.I

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...it's only a test....Am I still alive?.....Am I still a The answer is.....yes! And that is about all I'm sure of! It's been quite a year since we made this transition in our lives.Was it a good one?? ? ? (it's taken me awhile to figure out how to get back into my blog and now that I have, I hope that my internet provider will get the issues fixed so I can stay on line longer than 10 seconds

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AHHHhhhhh! ... A breath at last! It's been a l.o.n.g.......4 months since I posted...Tonite I decided I very much needed to take a few moments, to see if blogging was still occuring or if some new form of communication had been developed in my absense.~~~ FYI...I am in the market for a new calendar & clock! Ones that will give me back some days and hours!...and even some seasons! I'd pay

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...on our Changes (and my absence)Twenty years of sh** can take a toll!I'm pretty darned sure this is a portrait of Us,if we had the time to look in the mirror!~We have been hopscotching back and forth, east & west, and back again!Working here, working there, going after this, going after that.~Doing what?Cleaning up what twenty years ago, used to be a fancy Registered Hereford facility.No

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...Beep!...Beep!I'm sorry but all lines are busy right now.If you care to leave a message, I will get back to you as soon as possible!My brain has been busy.My life has been playin' hop scotch....

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....Right????~I'm not talking about changing your underwear, although, a person should seriously consider doing so on a regular basis!~I'm not talking about changing your name either,though there could be advantages to doing so if you are inclined to live a double life.~But Change... ~Change means pulling yourself out of the pit you have fallen into and exposing yourself to new ideas, new people,

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...When a 13 year old boy is almost 6 foot tall?~A rambunctious gangly kid...~WithL~~~ LO~~~ EN ~~~GG~~~ S! ~~~ !°°__ ~~~ __°°~What happens when said kid and his rowdy cousins stuff M-80’s up a car's tailpipe and take off running?~An accident looking to happen!~ Left leg at the knee does a 360° rotation as said kid tumbles down an embankment.~#1 Surgery!~*~What happens when said kid is 14 and

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...To Re-decorate My Life ♫Yes...it is spilling thewhite stuff......AGAIN!If that is not enough..I think I see a tractor..~...sitting idle..that has no driver...I thought everything was coming up roses...♫..I beg your pardon,I never promised you a rose garden.Along with the sunshine, There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.When you take, you gotta give, so live and let live, Or let go.I beg your

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...Are Worth More Than Gold to a Cowboy! This is our Mac..an 8 week Tri-Color cutie!~ ~~~~ Here's Mac at 9 months, (on the right), helping his Mom, Kayla during one of Cowboy's Stock Dog Clinics he was putting on...~~~~See all of this snow? Yikes!Mac is on top.....at age 4We were all in agreement..let's head for Arizona !~~~After 5 years, of working at the feedlot and becoming bilingual working

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life." *"It goes on.”Robert Frost~....Whether you are ready or not! ~As of late, I've not only been in a quandary and procrastinating too much (yes, we all know how good I am at that) but I have been languishing in a slump! I am disgusted with my mind-set; my lack of cohesion that I once took pride in.~ I don't draw a paycheck for being

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