Mikey's Madness

Your Daily Dose of Drama from a

Horseshoeing Housewife

Thursday November 29th, 2007

Hitching Rail 101

I’ve been meaning to put this thing up for 6 months now

Some friends made us this heavy duty hitching rail

I finally got tired of tripping over it

First you lay things out

This is one heavy sumbeech

You know you love a chick who can

run a set of clamshell diggers

I have to do this by hand because of that

pesky power line right there

!!Wah La!!

the hernia only hurts a little bit

And here we have

your token breathtaking Arizona sunset

complete with Christmas lights

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Tuesday November 27th, 2007

Kids, Horses, Xmas and

Tampon Ornaments

Look!

Casper’s back in action

Doing his job as chief babysitter horse

You can’t keep these two girls

off the horses

They literally WAIL when you try to get them down

They want to ride everyone’s horses

Riding Mommy’s horse

Then Daddy’s horse

While Daddy has a talk with old #4

who seems inclined to talk back

Mommy and Lil Bit sorting

Jill, who owns Lil Bit

came out to ride her horse

That looks ready to go to show

Someone

Can’t wait for Santa

Hold up

What’s this?

Amongst my beautiful ornaments

and 12 yr old candy canes

lies a tampon

????

We’re redneck, yes

But not THAT redneck

I had to tell her

NO TAMPONS ON THE TREE!

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Sunday November 25th, 2007

Cover your eyes Mommy

These are the words that

scare me

I saw her 10 minutes ago

disappearing into her room

with her dog

and a big smile

I probably should have investigated

She comes out and says

“Cover your eyes, Mommy”

Okkkkkk

THIS is what she’s done

Oh Yo-Yo

Is that blush?

Yep

Sniff

Sniff some more

Yo-Yo smells a lot like….

MY PERFUME!!

Oh geez

That’s just lovely pumpkin

LOVELY

One more thing

Like the haircut?

She’s officially mastered scissors

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Saturday November 24th, 2007

Brace Yourselves

It’s misc. recent pictures!!

We’ll start out slow

Mercy on Olga

(Wade, your horse needs a haircut)

Probably a good idea to just

wear the helmet all the time

At our house, the oldest dog

gets the biggest treat

(ham bone)

that’s pure canine bliss

right there

And this

I’m being pretty brave to post this

THIS

is why Wade tries not to be around

when I first wake up

And this

THIS

is why

I look that way

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Thursday November 22nd, 2007

Happy Turkey Day

We had ourselves some turkey

and then we rode horses

Jeffery, Mercy, BJ, Wade and Mikey

with Shady (who thinks she’s a horse),

Vinnie, Mesquite, Monte, Olga and Lil Bit

I’m riding this new horse.

She’s never seen a cow in her life.

Guess where we went first?

Mercy and Wade pick one out

while NeeNee discovers

what she was born and bred to do

herd cows

This picture makes me want to say

Sit up straight!

She’s getting the idea

Follow that cow honey, you got it

Hmmm, an impasse

Now she’s got it

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Monday November 19th, 2007

It comes in 3’s

One more accident

This happened yesterday at the shop

We had a lot of horses down there

We generally tie our personal horses all over the place

rails, trucks, fences, whatever’s handy

Mercy’s horse, Casper

has been everywhere

As a result, he ties anywhere

without being actually tied

I call it “hard tied” or “not hard tied”

So he is “not hard tied”

to the stocks

standing near 3 other horses hard tied

to the hitching rails

Wade and I were talking nearby

when I heard a bizarre noise

I turned to see Casper dragging the stocks

over his head

He backed very quickly into the hitching rail

and another horse

I said “OMG IT’S CASPER!! WADE – RUN!!”

We fell all over each other trying to get to Casper

We got to him and could see he’d caught the noseband

of his halter on the stocks and was stuck fast

Wade yelled for a knife

3 people (including me) stuck a knife in his face

Meanwhile he’s talking to Casper

Saying “Whoa easy buddy, we’re gonna get you outta here”

He grabbed a knife while I held the stocks up

and he cut the halter off

Meanwhile the other 3 horses are all set back

and fighting their ropes

That’s what I call a dangerous situation

We assessed Casper

He looked like this

I flipped out the phone and hit

Speed dial #4

That would be THE VET

who comes after voicemail, Mom and Wade

I have 4 different vets on speed dial

Cause ya never know

We loaded Casper up

and within 45 minutes of it happening

We were standing in the horse room at the vet’s

Some people would have let this go

You know “It’s not that bad”

It was that bad

He looks like this today

There’s a drainage tube and 9 stitches

He’s got one big headache

and is eating plenty of Bute

Big Thanks to Dr. McCollum

We sure appreciate your stitching skills

and you being there for us

Now if we can only get thru

Thanksgiving

without something else happening

Y’all know I’m cooking right?

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Saturday November 17th, 2007

Horse therapy

Nothing soothes a broken heart

like time in the sun,

kids,

and

good horses

Today Mercy rode Mesquite

To give Casper a break

He gets to work tomorrow

Mesquite loved this

He’s well into his 20’s you know

*Note the old riding crop in her hand

Mesquite needed some forward motivation

She was tapping his butt all the way down the road

I finally had to tell her to stop

Poor horse

He puts up with much nonsense

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Thursday November 15th, 2007

Brokenhearted and crying

Yesterday

I took 3 dogs to vet for surgery

2 dogs got neutered and

one had a tumor removed

While the vet was neutering my dogs

I was shoeing her horse

Good trade, cept her bill was bigger than mine

I picked them up

Little Dog was still really dopey

The anesthesia hit him hard

On the way home he perked up

We snuggled and had kissy face

I rolled the window down for him

and he was happy

I got to our gate and was distracted by

another one of our dogs who was playing dead

Little Dog hopped out and

sat right in front of my tire

I didn’t see him

He was too dopey to move like he usually does

I ran him over and killed him

I got out, horrified

His eyes were already glazed and no breathing

I ran thru all the options,

Scoop and run back to the vet

Go get the gun and put him down

Or hold him

I held him while his heart stopped

under my hands

and I cried and cried

He was still so warm

Little Dog, I will miss you so much

I’m so very very sorry

Lord, please hold Little Dog for me