Once Bitten...

Seems little Willie Mae Jane has been bitten by the HORSE FLY and her symptoms have become increasingly apparent to all!

Poor little stick pony...

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HOPPY Easter!

For the 1st time in about 25 years...the Easter Bunny will be visiting our house! Yup...we have 4 year old Jed with us in the desert and he was promised that the bunny would find him here ;) The week before Jed came...I went to the "bunny store" and was ready for the special occasion before Jed arrived.

Today the eggs were boiled then Jed asked for the names of all the special people in his life to be added to an egg! Unfortunately...I forgot the vinegar so I had to use Lemon juice from a lemon on our tree. Yup...I just went out and picked one and squeezed!

Easter morning the Easter Bunny left Jed a Spiderman Easter Basket...and a huge STUFFY BUNNY!!! Jed was sad when he found out the E.B. had hid all his colored eggs...but he soon found them and was so HOPPY!!!

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Stud Colts!

How can one Zsa Zsa be so lucky? To have 2 little stud colts this gorgeous???

But...alas, they have grown so much that I don't think that the pony costumes will fit them when I get back to the PNW the middle of May!

The first born stud colt...TOBY (4yrs) on the right and 2nd born JED (3yrs) on the left!

Please indulge this Zsa Zsa with a few very cute...short videos of her STUD COLTS!!!

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Beauty...and the BEAUTY!!!

I just gotta say...I think Mason is the real beauty here, don't you???

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YEARLING'S... UPDATE!

It has been a while since you all have seen a recent picture of my "Filly's"! since I have been back (10 days) in the PNW I have had all 4 of the young grandkids that live in town for an overnight or daytime visit and I got some great new pictures.

The Rosa Jewel is not quite a year and a half...

The Rosette just turned a year old last month...

These little cousins will have such fun growing up together!!!

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It's A Jungle Out There!

Mama H over at the HOMESTEAD tagged me and now I'm it. The rules are to post your ninth photo in your files...(or something like that) only like Mama H...I have so many photo files the rules don't really apply to the way I keep my photos. So...I decided to post the 9th photo in my most recent downloaded photos off my camera!
The "Rosette" and her brothers recently visited us here in the desert and she sure loved Zsa Zsa's tigers!!! Thanks Mama H for tagging me...oh ya, and thanks for the loan of Cowboy H today!!!
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The Rosa Jewel!

Isn't she just the cutest baby???

This is a picture from last fall but I want you all to see how serious the Rosa Jewel is about her name sake.

Oh ya...she wanted to show you her shoes...ring a bell with anyone???

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OREO"S!

Who doesn't love OREO's??? And of course the next question is...how do you eat them?Do you eat the cookie whole...savoring every bite??? Or do you carefully separate the outer chocolate cookies to lick the luscious rich icing center with your tongue??? Then you need to eat the outer cookie shells which are never as good without the frosting.
How do you think this little cowpoke is gonna eat his OREO"S???
Yup...he's a frosting only kind of guy!!!
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There's A New Cowbaby in Town!!!

Yup...Baby Mason is here with us for a week while his Mom, Dad, and sisters are skiing in Aspen! I flew to Denver Saturday to pick him up...and fly back to Denver with him this Friday to deliver him to his family! Unfortunately...I have the "CRUD" and have been sick now for a week!!! Feeling better today though...hope the baby doesn't get it!!!

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The Grand Rose Rides Again!

The Grand Rose is 16 now and quite a busy girl. She is an actor and just recently was cast in our NW Children's theater group in the play Pinocchio. Because of her acting she is always in rehearsals and not able to come to the desert very often. However this year during her Christmas break she was able to come down and visit us for 5 days. We had 2 great rides...the last being the "Once in a Blue Moon" ride...however our 1st ride was full of excitement too!

It started out as one of our typical rides in the canyon. The day was beautiful but a bit on the cool side do we wore flannel shirts...and of course decided to dress alike!

You can't really tell from this picture...but even Jesse and Little Lady dressed to match. Lady is wearing a turquoise Pendlton saddle blanket that matches Jesse's! We even had to wear vests that day! The canyon was very busy and what should have been an hour and 1/2 ride took us 2 1/2 hours because of all the hikers! Jesse has always loved to stop and say hello to all the hikers and now Lady does too! One day this last Nov a hiker gave Lady an apple on the trail and she has NEVER forgotten it! She actually will try and get into their pockets and see what they might have in there. Heaven help them if they have any food on them because Lady will be all over them!

Now...you ask me...who took the picture of the 2 of you??? Well...they did!You see...there was a "forced labor" work crew in the canyon that day! These guys were doing a great job of cleaning up all the downed palm tree fromm's and debris that naturally falls onto the trails. They were soooooooooo excited to see Jesse and Little Lady, the all had their picture taken with one of them. One or another was always hugging or kissing the horses, well the brave ones. The more shy ones just dared to pet them.These guys really were the nicest...always smiling, joking. I am sure getting out for the day into the beautiful canyon was reason enough for that. As we left them I thanked them for the great job they were doing and told them that I hoped I would not see them there next year! They all got a kick out of that and some said they would be sure not to be back next year!

I do have to post these classic Jesse and Grand Rose photos!

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First Baby Dolls!

Do you remember your 1st Baby Doll? The first one that I remember was one of those hard plastic ones...I am sure it was a Christmas present from our parents or grandparents because my sisters got one each too. Because I was ( and still am) 3 years younger than them, they were both very quick to name their new Baby Dolls something that was very cool...like Suzy or Debbie and little me could not think of a name for my new special Baby. I must have been quite distraught and because "I" was the Baby of the family our Papa took me in his arms and tried to comfort me. He asked me what was the matter and I told him. He then said in that special way Grandpa's talk..."Well why don't you name her after me???" Of course that made no sense to me and I said I can't name my Baby Papa"! And my Papa said..." My name is Oren, how about if you call her Orena???" So...my poor Baby Doll lived with the name of Orena all of her time with me. She suffered bad hair cuts...finger nail polish and bites on her cheek, all from me!

Here are some real Baby's with their 1st Baby Doll that Zsa Zsa and Papa gave them for Christmas this year!

The Rosette was not sure what it was ...but liked her anyway! ( 8 months...Rosebud is holding her.)

Miss Rosa Jewel...the big one year old knew right away that this was her new Baby! And even knew to burp her!!!

Do you remember your 1st Baby Doll...and it's name???

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Lucky Zsa Zsa!

What a lucky Zsa Zsa... to get to ride with some blossoms from her Rosegarden! Toby is in the saddle with me on Little Lady! The Bossman's grandson Tristan is on the matching Slick PONY! This was just this week!

Then at Christmas time The Rosabella is with me on Jesse and The Rose Kid is on Gray Boy who the Bossman is poning!

Both trails rides were about an hour long and they all did just great! This was the 1st time I have had a child with me on the trail on Little Lady and...other than a couple of almost "little" naughty time moments...she did great!

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The Rosette Gets a Pony Ride!

The Desert Rose can't wait to get her hands on those cheeks...this weekend!!!

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After The Bath!

For 5 nights I gave 2 lovely little girls a bath in my bathroom!

This is the finished project!

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Best Friends!

It has been going on 2 weeks now that we have had our grandchildren...different families with us at a time. We have our teenagers with us now. It's not that they aren't cute...they are. They just do not do things like this out of the blue!

These are pictures I have captured by sneaking up on them!

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Blue Boys...ah Girls!

I have been so lucky to have 9 of my 10 grandchilren with us on and off for the last 10 days!

2 different grandchildren...2 different tubs!

The water has blue fizzy's to make it very blue! We call this slime bath. The red water is the blood bad and the yellow...is the pee bath! Anything to make bath time fun...for this Zsa Zsa~

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Christmas Rose Garden!

The Desert Rose is soooooooooooo looking forward to seeing these rose blossoms at Christmas time!

Last year they were snowed in...they were sick...and the Rosa Jewel was born on Christmas Day so we were not able to see them at Christmas time and did not get to celebrate with them till the middle of January. I also did not get to go up and see my family on Christmas Day which has been our tradition for almost 20 years!!! Please don't let it snow...don't let it snow...don't let it snow!!!

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