Well, as the title says, NAN has come and gone. No my horses didn't place at all. I pretty much knew they wouldn't. Oh well. At least they had a chance to experience a large show. The person who proxied them for me got a few top 10's. Congrats to her for that. I was looking the results over and once again, I noticed that a few showers(who remain nameless) had more top tens and champions with lots of models. I guess it is these showers who go to several shows a year with the same horse. Or the judges just think that their models are totally worth the high placings. Oh well. No there won't be a "Next time" for my horses. In fact, any cards I get from now on will be discarded. No I won't destroy them, I will just put them in an envelop and put them away BLANK. I am now going for points NOT nan qualification.
I know some of you who read this will object, but if you have been burned as many times as I have, you would see it my way. Yes I have a hand full of models that get first and second placings, but that is it. The rest are like............."Oh it is her horses.............place it under 4th place cause she is to stupid when to stop showing"
Yes that is how I feel at times.
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Trouble isn't all that happened
Well, NAN 2015 came and gone and I wasn't able to view it live via Ustream. Why? No internet or phone. Daniel only getting 2 weeks of 25 hours each put us in a hole and I had to let my net get shut off and my phones deactivated.
I had 5 models showing at NAN this year and none of them even made it to the top 10. In fact, only 2 of them got any points. I guess when a judge see's my name they are like "Oh so this is her horse. Lets just make sure it DON'T place". Yea, I am somewhat upset, but I knew that my models had some stiff competition to compete with. Congrats to all those who did get ribbons and better placings. I just wonder how many horses didn't make the cut? Oh well.
On to other things. I may not be doing anymore Arabian costumes. Why? cause Daniel and I had this big ole fight and he accused me of being a (his words) "Filthy, stinking, hoarding bitch". We had some serious words flung around and when I went to take a walk, he threw all my tack making supplies and models into storage. Changed the lock and now wont give me the key. I told him that I had orders to get done, but he said that it was just tough shit.
Daniel loves to listen to his family when it comes to my hobby. They keep telling him that NO woman over 25 collect toy horses. He told them that yes they do. But they don't listen, so instead they try to brain wash him. Now he wants me to completely forget about collecting. Asshole.
Well, better go for now.
I had 5 models showing at NAN this year and none of them even made it to the top 10. In fact, only 2 of them got any points. I guess when a judge see's my name they are like "Oh so this is her horse. Lets just make sure it DON'T place". Yea, I am somewhat upset, but I knew that my models had some stiff competition to compete with. Congrats to all those who did get ribbons and better placings. I just wonder how many horses didn't make the cut? Oh well.
On to other things. I may not be doing anymore Arabian costumes. Why? cause Daniel and I had this big ole fight and he accused me of being a (his words) "Filthy, stinking, hoarding bitch". We had some serious words flung around and when I went to take a walk, he threw all my tack making supplies and models into storage. Changed the lock and now wont give me the key. I told him that I had orders to get done, but he said that it was just tough shit.
Daniel loves to listen to his family when it comes to my hobby. They keep telling him that NO woman over 25 collect toy horses. He told them that yes they do. But they don't listen, so instead they try to brain wash him. Now he wants me to completely forget about collecting. Asshole.
Well, better go for now.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Caroline Murphy
Many of you have seen our newest rider on Facebook and Google + and I know your ready to hear her story to why she came to us.
About 3 weeks ago, Heather came to me asking questions about letting a young girl being at a ranch. I answered them the best I could not knowing that those questions were about the ranch.
So, when the time came, I got a big surprise. Caroline Murphy came to live with her aunt Heather. Now don't get me wrong, I was surprised, but didn't get mad. Why should I, the poor girl just lost both of her parents and Heather was her only closest living relative. So without much ado, here is her story
"Hi, my name is Caroline Murphy and I am 10 years old. I recently lost my mom and dad in horrific car wreck. I was staying the night at my best friends house when the police came to their house to give me the bad news. The police officer told me that some guy in a pickup ran my parents off the road in a fit of rage. Then after he got them off the road, he proceeded to ram their car with his pickup. My dad was the first to loose his life. From what the officer told me, my mom died shortly after my dad. The bad guy was arrested and they found that he had lots of beer in him"
While Caroline was telling me her story, We were both crying. I told her that I too had lost my parents, but not the way hers' died. Mine died of natural causes. Heather had told me before that Caroline was a good rider, so we gave her a try out on one of our newest Saddlebreds. They seemed to have "Clicked" and now Caroline has a horse all to her own. She knows the rules around the ranch and since child labor laws prohibit us to pay her a check, we just added her wages on to Heather's. For a 10 year old girl, I can say she can ride.
Here she is on her assigned horse, Winter Blues R Gone.
Though she is assigned to him, she still has the opportunity to ride our other gaited horses. When showing, He will be her first entry to the class.
About 3 weeks ago, Heather came to me asking questions about letting a young girl being at a ranch. I answered them the best I could not knowing that those questions were about the ranch.
So, when the time came, I got a big surprise. Caroline Murphy came to live with her aunt Heather. Now don't get me wrong, I was surprised, but didn't get mad. Why should I, the poor girl just lost both of her parents and Heather was her only closest living relative. So without much ado, here is her story
"Hi, my name is Caroline Murphy and I am 10 years old. I recently lost my mom and dad in horrific car wreck. I was staying the night at my best friends house when the police came to their house to give me the bad news. The police officer told me that some guy in a pickup ran my parents off the road in a fit of rage. Then after he got them off the road, he proceeded to ram their car with his pickup. My dad was the first to loose his life. From what the officer told me, my mom died shortly after my dad. The bad guy was arrested and they found that he had lots of beer in him"
While Caroline was telling me her story, We were both crying. I told her that I too had lost my parents, but not the way hers' died. Mine died of natural causes. Heather had told me before that Caroline was a good rider, so we gave her a try out on one of our newest Saddlebreds. They seemed to have "Clicked" and now Caroline has a horse all to her own. She knows the rules around the ranch and since child labor laws prohibit us to pay her a check, we just added her wages on to Heather's. For a 10 year old girl, I can say she can ride.
Though she is assigned to him, she still has the opportunity to ride our other gaited horses. When showing, He will be her first entry to the class.
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Hard times
I know I haven't been here lately. Been trying to keep the swelling down on my feet. It has been working. Started the "Eagle" graphgan over. I frogged the daylights out of the other one cause there were so many missed/added stitches, it wasn't even funny. So I decided to start over and work slowly. I am already half way done and I have only been working on it for a week. Yea, that is going slow.............NOT!!
Money has been extremely tight due to the rain. Knocked my husband out of work for days. Driving a haul truck has it's disadvantages. Plus the boss was trying to cut his hours down, but yet was letting other employee's get all the hours. Boy there was an argument to live for. So now the hubby has his hours back and hopefully we can get out of this bind. For a full month our checking account was in the red(over drawn) and I had to take out a personal loan from the bank. I really hate to do that cause it makes me feel like a lower class person. I had several people tell me that Daniel should just quit his job and we live on welfare for the rest of our lives. WHAT??? I was livid. First off, these people are NOT even our friends(it was on facebook) and they have the gull to tell me and Daniel such crap? I went on a blocking spree. I don't know how they found out that we were in such a tight spot either cause I don't post things like that. Even Daniel don't post like that. We both think that it was a former employee that Daniel talks to, that may have said something to some of his friends and so on so forth.
Been getting some threatening calls from Commonwealth financial. They keep calling me and telling me that I HAVE to pay off an old(1991) Fingerhut account. The person keeps telling me that the last time I made a payment was about 3 months ago...................Really? from an account that is nearly 30 years old??? I done told them time and time again, that the account is so old it makes me look young and that there was no way I was going to pay on it or pay it off. They keep telling me that they are going to sue me, but I have yet to see a sheriff handing me a subpena to appear in court. LOL who do they think they are?
Well, better get off of here and get some grub cooking
Money has been extremely tight due to the rain. Knocked my husband out of work for days. Driving a haul truck has it's disadvantages. Plus the boss was trying to cut his hours down, but yet was letting other employee's get all the hours. Boy there was an argument to live for. So now the hubby has his hours back and hopefully we can get out of this bind. For a full month our checking account was in the red(over drawn) and I had to take out a personal loan from the bank. I really hate to do that cause it makes me feel like a lower class person. I had several people tell me that Daniel should just quit his job and we live on welfare for the rest of our lives. WHAT??? I was livid. First off, these people are NOT even our friends(it was on facebook) and they have the gull to tell me and Daniel such crap? I went on a blocking spree. I don't know how they found out that we were in such a tight spot either cause I don't post things like that. Even Daniel don't post like that. We both think that it was a former employee that Daniel talks to, that may have said something to some of his friends and so on so forth.
Been getting some threatening calls from Commonwealth financial. They keep calling me and telling me that I HAVE to pay off an old(1991) Fingerhut account. The person keeps telling me that the last time I made a payment was about 3 months ago...................Really? from an account that is nearly 30 years old??? I done told them time and time again, that the account is so old it makes me look young and that there was no way I was going to pay on it or pay it off. They keep telling me that they are going to sue me, but I have yet to see a sheriff handing me a subpena to appear in court. LOL who do they think they are?
Well, better get off of here and get some grub cooking
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Kinda of a rant
First off, just to let ya know, I love to play the Sims3 game. Well, recently I found some mods that I thought were pretty cool. Well, these mods allow same sex interaction. I don't mind, but obviously some people found it offensive. I took 2 pictures of my lesbian sims and posted them in a album. Yes I edited the genitalia with black marks. Oh that wasn't good enough. Both photo's were reported. So I just deleted the album. I won't be posting the photo's here to show what I did.
About 9 people sent me a PM expressing the distaste that I produced, but yet when I went to their pages, there were posts ALL over the place promoting same sex relationships. Double edge sword they are playing. Geesh, it is just a freaking game that thousands of people play. Some people are just way to sensitive to see that. Oh well, to keep the peace, I deleted the album. And won't be uploading anymore photo's from my game. That includes any houses I build.
About 9 people sent me a PM expressing the distaste that I produced, but yet when I went to their pages, there were posts ALL over the place promoting same sex relationships. Double edge sword they are playing. Geesh, it is just a freaking game that thousands of people play. Some people are just way to sensitive to see that. Oh well, to keep the peace, I deleted the album. And won't be uploading anymore photo's from my game. That includes any houses I build.
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Severe Weather...
Severe weather is upon us. Yea, I have been watching the weather channel as well as local channels for any and all updates. So far, we haven't had any tornado's. South Texas(Midland - Lubbock - Dallas etc) have been getting them. Oklahoma got hammered with them. Over 50 or so. I don't think Oklahoma has ever had a year without tornado's. Norman got hit last week with a high end EF2. Yup lots of destruction. One elderly lady did loose her life. She drowned in her cellar due to the flooding that was going on. R.I.P to the un-named. Horrid way to die, but I guess it was her time to go home.
Living in an RV when there are storms around does put me into my nervous state. I have seen the pictures of RV's being thrown around like feathers in the wind. It gets even more scarier when the local sheriff decides that it is best to stay in the park just in case there is a tornado so he can warn everyone to get to shelter. The cellar here is NOT cleaned out and has some weird animals living there. The owner refuses to clean it out. So if we do get a threat here, we are pretty much screwed.
Plus there was a big debate on one of the Oklahoma News channels about the schools there not having a cellar. I personally believe that every school in Tornado alley must have a cellar. Wither it is used or not, It should be mandatory to have one. When I posted my thoughts on the subject, Lots of people liked my comment and even replied that they agree. Our kids need safety from these fierce beasts of nature and some of the schools don't have it. I guess the government don't give a damn about the safety. If it was up to me, yes there would be a cellar at EVERY school in tornado alley. It don't matter if they only get 1 tornado in a 10 year span, it only takes 1 to take a school out and kill innocent children and teachers.
Living in an RV when there are storms around does put me into my nervous state. I have seen the pictures of RV's being thrown around like feathers in the wind. It gets even more scarier when the local sheriff decides that it is best to stay in the park just in case there is a tornado so he can warn everyone to get to shelter. The cellar here is NOT cleaned out and has some weird animals living there. The owner refuses to clean it out. So if we do get a threat here, we are pretty much screwed.
Plus there was a big debate on one of the Oklahoma News channels about the schools there not having a cellar. I personally believe that every school in Tornado alley must have a cellar. Wither it is used or not, It should be mandatory to have one. When I posted my thoughts on the subject, Lots of people liked my comment and even replied that they agree. Our kids need safety from these fierce beasts of nature and some of the schools don't have it. I guess the government don't give a damn about the safety. If it was up to me, yes there would be a cellar at EVERY school in tornado alley. It don't matter if they only get 1 tornado in a 10 year span, it only takes 1 to take a school out and kill innocent children and teachers.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Some people.....................Never ends
For the past week or so, I have been watching a model horse transaction group on Facebook. Seeing who is good to deal with etc. Well, another red light went up for Scarlett Wilde. Oh man that started a whole bunch of comments. 2 people in particular are Scarlett's cronies. Every time someone places a red on Scarlett, they jump in saying what a wonderful and sweet person she is. These 2 girls are completely blinded to her. So now everytime someone posts a red, they post a bunch of greens. Ashley Foulk told me that I was under 21 and acting like a 2 year old. Uhmmmm, I'm not 21. She has a foul mouth and claimed that it was everyone else who was cursing. I did look at her FB page and thought to myself "I wonder if she uses those words in front of her 3 kids?"
I have told Kollean who it was that was reporting back to Scarlett when someone said anything bad in pm. I hope she takes my warning to heart and remove those 2 from her friends list.
Oh here is something else I found while I was "Surfing the web"
IMO this is a direct threat
" Lastly, after being singled out myself and had serious cyber attacks,
as well as a virus sent to my computer caught by my anti virus software
and my facebook and paypal being hacked. I take trouble makers seriously."
If my memory serves me right, I found this in a model horse forum.
If it is directed towards me about the virus crap, I can tell you right now, I don't have her email and I don't want it. As for her FB and PayPal being hacked, that is her own damn fault. Not mine
I really don't appreciate being accused of something I have no clue to what happened.
The problem with Scarlett is that for every wrong doing that she does, she blames the other person. It don't matter if the model was broken in transit to her house or broken AT her house. It is ALWAYS the other persons fault. She hides behind the block button and talks smack about everyone. Sometimes I wish FB would just do away with that option. Oh well.
I have told Kollean who it was that was reporting back to Scarlett when someone said anything bad in pm. I hope she takes my warning to heart and remove those 2 from her friends list.
Oh here is something else I found while I was "Surfing the web"
IMO this is a direct threat
" Lastly, after being singled out myself and had serious cyber attacks,
as well as a virus sent to my computer caught by my anti virus software
and my facebook and paypal being hacked. I take trouble makers seriously."
If my memory serves me right, I found this in a model horse forum.
If it is directed towards me about the virus crap, I can tell you right now, I don't have her email and I don't want it. As for her FB and PayPal being hacked, that is her own damn fault. Not mine
I really don't appreciate being accused of something I have no clue to what happened.
The problem with Scarlett is that for every wrong doing that she does, she blames the other person. It don't matter if the model was broken in transit to her house or broken AT her house. It is ALWAYS the other persons fault. She hides behind the block button and talks smack about everyone. Sometimes I wish FB would just do away with that option. Oh well.
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