What a Christmas............

Well my Christmas wasn't to good. Woke up this morning and found out that we have to replace the 12v battery on our RV. Can't run the furnace cause it is drawing to much power. I am hoping that the parts store in town will be open today and we can get a new battery, but with this being Christmas, I doubt they will be open. So, now we are bundled up and cold. 

Hubby loved his few presents I did get him. But for some reason I feel he is blaming me for the battery problem. So this morning I have been looking online for houses that are for sale. Found 2 of them, but the price is just out of our range and I don't think Green Tree would allow us to take on a second mortgage. But it never hurts to ask. So I guess I will be asking them this week. The only thing they can say is "NO!" 

That would be my luck. Plus I have been trying to get it set up for auto pay with them for nearly a year now and the darn website keeps saying that I don't qualify. So every 3 months, I get a call from them and we set up the e-check thing. I keep telling them that their web site says that we don't qualify for auto pay, but they say we do. Confusing. I think as soon as we get that house in Pampa paid off, I am going to sell it for cheap, cheap, cheap. We were going to remodel it, but with Daniel's hellish hours, there is no way we can get it done. Getting a contractor to come do it is going to cost us an arm and a leg. For just the electrical (wiring etc) it is going to cost us $1500.00, For the drywall and insulation: $4,000.00. The total cost to fix up the house is going to cost us close to $10,000.00. That also includes all the plumbing. When we bought the house we thought it was ready to move into. We didn't know that we would have to practically rebuild the damn thing. I just hope that when we do sell it, that someone will buy it and be ready to rebuild. 

Well until laters

Merry Christmas!!

Yup, Merry Christmas everyone. I hope that 2014 was a better year for you than it was for me. Some of 2014 was good, but as we know that it did have it's bad days/months. I hope you also got many presents that contained model horses(would love to see them). I won't be getting any this year cause my 2 presents was our water heater and our furnace. Plus I am expecting 2 years of payments on models from Nicky Petrie. She said she would mail them off after Christmas. Hey that is fine with me. The hubby is none to happy, he will accuse me of spending high dollar amounts for them when I have been making payments. The man just don't get it. 

He thinks that I don't need anymore models, EVER. But yet he demands more and more tools. He has 9 drills, 12 saws(both manual and electronic), 9 grease guns, and numerous amounts of sockets and wrenches. But yet he wants more and more. I figure that with all those tools, he has spent more than $6,000.00 in one year. Some of them are NOT cheap. The most expensive tool he owns is his large crescent wrench. $500.00 that he bought earlier this year. And he bitches about me buying a $200.00 model. He says that the horses don't produce work. They just sit there and look stupid. There have been plenty of times where I wanted to take that $500.00 wrench and use it up against his head. But then I think that my models won't be stolen anytime soon where as some of his tools have gone missing after a few days(some of the employees here). I have to laugh. 

Anyway, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Time to go out and get his presents. 

Getting back into photo showing

After a year of horrid photo shows and having young ones tell me that my photo's are NOT up to today standards(which they are), I have decided to renew my membership fee's to IPABRA. Hey $3.00 a year is great. So I have to judge a few shows. At least I won't have some young UNEDUCATED kid screaming down my throat cause her photo was not champion. I have tried to explain to them that I have been in this hobby much longer than they have and have MUCH more knowledge then they do. I guess they think different. 

 The above photo has some serious faults. First off, the fence is seriously OUT OF SCALE. And the grass is to out of scale. The photo looks to be taken at an angle. The lighting is good, no harsh shadows etc. The tack could use some updating, but i'm guessing this is a "Novice" showers photo. 
Yes some showers don't put a whole lot of effort into getting good photos and then bash those who do put some serious time and effort into getting a good photo. 
Here is the photo that was recently "Bashed" for being a bad photo

I know that the back drop could be better, but the horse IS in focus and shows the detail quite well. But yet this photo was DQ'd.
I have like I said, tried to keep from letting my temper show through, but sometimes it is best that I did.
 

What is wrong with me?

Why is it that I can NOT get into the Christmas spirit? Is it cause it came up to fast or is it cause all the stores started to early? I know that there are some commercials that make me click the mute button cause they are out right irritating. Like the Cadillac commercial. Irritating music and they just love to repeat the darn thing back to back. *rolls eyes*.

Plus after the new year, I am going to renew my sub to IPABRA group and start online photo showing. The groups on Facebook are just not getting me the points that I need. So, Starting next month I can start a new and hopefully stay away from Facebook more. Plus I have to keep working on my new web site. It has lots of pages and I was trying to find out with my current account with Yahoo, just how many pages I was allowed. The pages are mostly sub pages and sub pages to the sub pages. I guess when I am done, and go to publish it, we will find out which pages get cut. LOL


 

Common sense when driving in fog

I know a lot of people drive in the fog and use common sense, but for one driver, common sense is NOT in his brain. I won't sugar coat what I am about to say about what happened in the picture I am posting. So if you don't want to read what I have to say, stop reading this.

 What your seeing in this photo is a wreck that happened yesterday(12/5/2014). See, I was(and still am)expecting a package from Tn. I had been tracking it and so I called the office(where my husband works) to see if the package had arrived. Well the secretary told me that there had been a wreck involving the FedEx van. I went crazy. I was trying to find out all the information about the wreck using every venue I could think of. I called my husband and told him what had happened. He told me not to believe the secretaries cause they have a tendency to tell little white lies. Well as you can see this was no lie. I did find out that my package was safe. I called the 800 # for FedEx and the gentleman was very helpful. He told me that the package was in a different truck. Talk about relief. Anyway, the photo above shows the horrors that happened. Reports stated that the cattle hauler was doing speeds of excessive greater than 75mph. Plus is was very foggy. The driver claimed he didn't see the FedEx van and decided to go to the left(maybe to pass someone). Well as you can see that the driver of the van didn't have a chance. Yes he was killed upon impact. Dee King transport is one of the most shittiest companies around here. Their drivers have no common sense and they speed. I have had several of their drivers pass me in a no passing zone when there are on coming traffic. 
Plus they are rude when talking on the cb. I hope the family of the FedEx driver sues the living daylights out of Dee King. They deserve it too. Plus the driver for Dee King needs to be fired for this. He had absolutely no right driving that fast in that kind of weather. I bet he was high on drugs. Seems that is all Dee King likes to hire. Druggies and Illegals without a CDL's.