Welcome to SPRING!!!

Ok, I know that 2011 is almost half way over and I haven't posted. My bad, but I have been a busy person. Yes I started doing my Arab presentation sets. In fact I have sold 3 and trade 1. Also have started my "Most Wanted" search back up. Thankfully several collectors have been helpful and let me make payments on BIG purchases. Breyer did their "Treasure Hunt" again this year and I love it. In fact I was able to get all three of the new Eberal models. I can't wait to see what "Rainbow" looks like. And from what I gather, those will be mailed out at the end of May.

This is "Partly Cloudy" sporting my Hunter Green presentation set which now belongs to Steph Michel. I named the mare "Wish Me A Star".

This sets color is Royal Purple and White. I added Swaroski Elements to it and the headstall. Sporting this set is "Shared Chow Chow" yup that is the "Sunny" of this years "Treasure Hunt"
I am currently showing her as a Non-Gaited NSH.Here is the elusive "Thunderstorm" of the TH. I had to buy all three(after buy the other 2 individually) just to get her. I haven't named her yet, or gotten her a pedigree.
Don't worry, I will post her name.

Ok, Pied Piper Ranch news. I finally decided to go ahead an start paying for web hosting thru Yahoo. I tried other "Freebie" hosting sites and the only one that was worth a poop was Weebly, but I didn't want adds on my site. I tried Zymic and OMG what a joke. They told me that I would have to turn off my virus protection just to download their file manager. Uhmmm I don't think so. So I finally got pissy with them and said KMA.
So now you can see all most all my models at: www.piedpiperranch.net
If you will notice that I now have .net at the end. Why? cause as of January 12,2011 Pied Piper Ranch is a fully registered and recognized non-profit organization. So anyone out there wants to steal the name will be sued and put in prison for stealing it. Yes I am very protective.
There is a "False" site out there using Pied Piper Ranch but they have it .com. It is under investigation for Copywrite infringment.

Well enough for now.

Well as 2010 comes to a close, we have to reflect on what has happened. 2010 held out way to much drama.

First off, back in January, Dan and I went to work for a trucking company in New Mexico. What a joke. The owner(s) kept us out for damn near a month with no cash for food or a shower. So we used the company credit card. Oh that made them mad. Oh well. When we did finally get some time off, that was our last run. Dan tried to get his check from them, but they said that there was none due to the fact that they had to pay for 2 tires on the trailer and for all the showers, eats etc. Uhmm......that is what they were suppose to do. When we filed for unemployment, Oh that was fun. But thankfully, the unemployment worker seen it our way and we got over $5000.00 from them. I also knew that the trucks that the company ran were NOT registered to go into Colorado,Nebraska and Missouri. So I put out the word about them trucks to those 3 states. Colorado state police did catch 2 of the trucks there and both were impounded. The Missouri state police was able to catch the other 4. Yes all 6 trucks were illigal. LOL.

After I had gotten the money for the property that my siblings and I sold, I was able to purchase a 97 Prowler 5th wheel rv. Yup you guessed it. I am now living in an RV. Hey I am one happy camper cause at least NOBODY can tell me that I have to move out. Just move off the property.

We did live in Oklahoma for about 6 months. Dan was working for a company there and we were living in Wayne, Ok. Not to bad except for in May we did have a tornado touch down about 2 miles from where we were living. Scary. I didn't get no pictures cause I was making a beeline for the cellar with my dog Heidi. Dan did end up quiting that job cause he had to drive a water truck that was very dangerous to drive. The floor board had holes in it. The stuff that the company was putting down on the road was making Dan's lungs bleed. I figured that his life is far more improtant than the job. So we moved back to Pampa, Tx where Dan is now working for a great company. He likes his boss(he didn't like the boss from OK)and believe it or not, the boss likes him. I did let Heidi have a litter of puppies. Oh they were so damn cute. Black!!! She had 3 of them and the owner of the father(who is my nephew) took the only one that looked like her daddy. ALL black and only a few white hairs on her chest. The other 2 puppies where black with a white strip on thier chests(like Heidi) and the little female had 2 white socks on her back feet. They went to a employee at our local Gebo's. The manager there said that if I give her daughter(the employee) the puppies, I can get a model horse for free. Guess what? I have a model horse for free.

I haven't named him yet, but here he is. It is the mid-states release.

I know that there are 2 of them this year and I was able to get both of them. Big accoplishment for me.

Well, I guess that is it for now. I am working on my NEW web site. Getting it updated and putting the new faces on there. I may also starting next year get back into making my Arab presentation sets. I don't do the live show scene anymore due to some bad blood between me and a judge. Plus that judge made it very clear that if I was to ever show my face in any of her shows again, she would have me arrested. Oh well. No skin off my behind.

Lets just hope that 2011 is more productive than this year was. Until laters.

Time flies................

And that it does. Here is an update that is severely over due. I am currently living in a 33' 5th wheel rv and yes I am enjoying it. Ok, now on to the updates.

February 2010: I get money from the property in NV. $16,000.00 for me (YEAH!!!) and $16,000.00 for 3 other sibilings. Dan and I were living with his brother when all hell broke loose about the money. His sister Joyce found out that I had gotten that money and she WANTED $5,000.00 of it to buy herself a Semi. She DEMANDED that I loan her the money. Here is what I told her.
" 1. I will loan you the money, but the semi HAS to be in MY name. 2. You have to have FULL coverage insurance thru Progressive. 3. The money HAS to be paid back in 2 weeks. If you can't go by these conditions, forget me loaning the money."

Joyce like to have had a heart attack when I told her this. She went off saying that WE owed her that money for all the times that SHE helped us out. BULLSHIT. She no more helped out than the man in the moon has a wife.

I told Dan that I was going to find us a 5th wheel rv and that was what we were going to live in from now on. I found one. Hey for $9000.00(that includes the 5th wheel plate) who can beat that price? I sure couldn't let that pass.
Then I found Dan a job in Oklahoma. So we have moved to Oklahoma. We have been here in Wayne, OK since the last part of March. At least nobody can tell us we HAVE to move out of the trailer, they can just tell us to move the trailer.

Yes I am back to online showing. If I am still here in Ok in October, I may go to a live show. Yes I do have 4 horses here with me, but only 3 are showable. The one that isn't showable has paint rubs, she is good for breeding thou.

Oh also, I will be creating another blog for my ranting and raving. be sure to follow that one soon.

2010........What adventures lay ahead.

Happy belated New Year everyone. I hope that it went well for you as for me it didn't go to well. I won't go into the details, but I will say one thing. The 2 teenagers that were here for New Years are 2 of the laziest brats I have ever seen. I had asked Erin to help keep the house clean(we are staying with in-laws)and she said that she didn't do dishes. She said in a snotty voice that the cleaning was my job. I asked her if my skin was black(no offense to anyone) and she said no. I then told her that she was just like her grandmother.......a slobby,snobby biatch. Oh that didn't go well with her. Oh well. So what did she do? She went outside and filled a 5 gallon bucket up with runny, stinky mud and poured it out on the kitchen floor. Proceeded to trample thru it and then her brother and her had a mud ball fight. Yes the kitchen was a mess. Did her father do anything? NOPE. He thought it was funny. Then he decided that it was time to take the brats back to their grandparents(their father only has visitation rights for now)and they left the kitchen in a horrid mess. I called their father and told him that the next time this was to happen, I was going to flatten all the tires on his truck. It took me and Daniel 3 days to clean up. Plus they left their dog here. He craps every where and he is NOT to be left outside. He is fixing to be thrown out in the darn garage. Filthy dog. Plus he is constantly trying to hump my dog. ewww I don't think so.

Oh I did finally put my foot in the door to the returning to the hobby. I bought another model after waiting for so long. I am back into online photo showing. But as for taking any orders for my Arab presentations set? I can't take any right now. I know I still have Kollean's sets in storage(Daniel put them there) and I have to dig them out and send them off to her. Yes they are completed. I just have 3 more sets to finish and send to Kollean. We are basically still living in a 15' travel trailer and IF some of the job offers come thru, we maybe moving to AZ. It is the waiting that kills me.

Hopefully 2010 will a much better year.

Until Laterz

Major update here

Well, here it is.

1. I am now slowly getting back into the hobby. I wont throw myself in completely until we have a new home to live in and Daniel has a full time job. Yes I do a bad thing today(bad by Daniels standards), I went and bought a new model. I have posted a picture on my forum. here is the link to my forum. Any non members will be limited to it. So if you LOVE the Paint breed(model and real) be sure to register and check it out what your missing.

http://modelpainthorse.freeforums.org/

It has a new look cause today I was updating it greatly. Plus I did post it on my Yahoo Group and on Face Book.

We do need members and judges there. Plus the first member to reach 200 posts will become a mod. Yup I need them as well.

Well until next time

Well was able to get my internet back thanks to my brother - in -law. As most everyone knows, I have stepped back from the hobby. Reason is cause at the time(back in May), my hubby took a job that required us to live in a 15ft camp trailer. Well we did and plus the bank stole $750.00 from our checking account for the mortgage payment. They refused to return it even after we told them that they didn't have the authority to do the transfer. So when it was all said and done with, they have foreclosed on the house. It was sold at an auction recently for less then what it is worth. So thankfully we don't have to pay the difference. Oh well, that house needed some MAJOR repairs done and we didn't have the time or the money to fix it. We came up with an estimate of nearly $30,000.00 in just the repairs. That didn't include the labor that we would have had to put into it.

As for the hobby? Well, until we either get a new house in a different state(can't stand the town we are currently living in) or just rent out a house/apartment. What I mean by a different state is that we both want to move to Flagstaff, AZ. The country there is awesome. Trees everywhere and yes I know it does snow, but hey that is what having smarts and a great 4 x 4 is for. Plus it makes for great winter scenes.

As for my website, I will be using Yahoo Web hosting. The price is right and for $7.95 a year, who can beat that? As soon as I rebuild it using sitebuilder, it will have less photo's. BUT here is the good stuff. Each horse that does have a photo by chance will have a page for themselves. It will be better than the old site.

Oh as for my Arab Presentation sets, I will get back into making them as soon as we get our lives straitened out. Yes Kollean, I do have your sets, they are just packed away(Daniel did that on purpose......LOL)

Well until laters.

RIP Mom

At 2:00pm PST my mom took her last breath yesterday. She passed away peacefully and not in any pain. When my brother called, I had asked him what really did cause mom to pass away and he said that her lungs were to far gone to substain any air. Besides smoking for more years than I can remember, she also had Pneumonia. Evidently thou the she had the Pneumonia for quite some time.

Here is what conspired to her passing away.

May 14 - 16: Mom wasn't feeling to good. Hardly ate and when I talked to her on the phone the 15th, she said that she just wasn't feeling like she normally did. I told her to go to the doctors. She said she would the following Monday.

May 18: A neighbor's husband who delivers the newspapers, knocked on mom's door to give her the newspaper. Mom never answered the door. He then went home and told Jan (his wife, mom's friend). Jan then called mom's house and didn't get an answer. She tried 2 more times, but still no answer. She then decided to go to mom's house where she and her husband found mom, lying half way on her bed. Her nasal cannula wasn't in her nose(yes mom was on oxygen), it was down by her chin. Mom was cold, shivering and blue due to lack of oxygen. Jan and her husband then called 911 and had the ambulance pick her up to take her to the hospital in Pahrump (NV). The hospital then had mom transported to Las Vegas where they found out that she had Pneumonia and poor oxygen in her blood.

May 19: My sister call's me and tells me the bad news.

May 20 - 22: Mom's condition slowly deteriorates. We hope that mom gets better but we are absolutely clueless to mom's condition. We do know that mom's kidneys were damaged at the time she was found.

May 22: Vincent, my brother calls to tell me that mom was having severe tremors and that the hospital sedated her with morphine to help her rest.

May 23, 12:05am: Hospital calls my sister and brother back to the hospital to give them the grave news. Mom's conditions worsens and the outlook is grim.
I text message my sister to find out what is going on, but she wouldn't say much.

May 23, 4:54pm(cst): My brother calls me to let me know that mom passed away at 2:00pm (pst).

She is now in heaven with my dad who had passed away December 27,2007.
Mom was 71 years old.
As soon as I find a good picture of both her and dad, I will post it. Plus I will be doing a "Memory" video of them, Just like I did for our son.

I will miss mom terribly but that is just the way god wanted it. It was her time to go home. She maybe gone, but I won't ever forget her.