Puppies For Sale

Well once again, I have to wait until something newsworthy happens so that I can blog about it.

I posted a classified ad on a website called Kijiji to sell my 5 puppies. I was only asking $75 for them, and I posted the ad on Friday afternoon, and the weekend was very nice and warm, and felt a little like spring. I am wondering if that is what made the puppies so easy to sell, or if the price was right, or if they were just too cute to resist. They were really hard to get pictures of, but the combination of all of these things made for an easy weekend selling puppies. By Sunday evening all of the puppies were sold, and we had enough money to buy Cache's new saddle, that's what we told him that the money would go toward, to make the sale easier. So over the last week, he sure has had a good time riding in his new saddle. It sure makes a difference for a little guy to ride in a saddle that actually fits him.

On Thursday night there is usually ranch roping at the arena, but there was also a big horse sale in Calgary that night too, so there weren't too many guys roping that night. Cache, Bailey, Zoe and I went along, and Bernie told the guys that were there that they would just rope the dummy that is pulled behind the quad that night. I wondered who was going to drive it, and to my surprise he said that I would. I just strapped Zoe on with one of those front carriers that looks like a backpack and I drove the quad and they roped the dummy while Zoe and I drove it. Cache and Bailey had a good time watching, and Zoe didn't complain at all, and seemed to enjoy it. Then on Saturday, Bernie was working again, so he asked if me and the kids wanted to go along again, so we did. We ( I should say "I") put horn wraps on the steers. I took the opportunity to remind Bernie that I really don't like cattle or feel comfortable touching them. He said I would be fine (grudgingly I have to admit that he was right), but I did get my finger caught between one of the steer's horns and the chute that he was in. I whined about that for a while. Then Cache and I worked the chute and chased the steers for Bernie as he worked 4 horses. He took us out for supper after. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was at the time, but don't tell Bernie (because I'm pretty sure he never reads my blog).

Zoe is doing great. After we got home from the horse sale at the end of February she was kindof a bear, and I couldn't put her down or she would have a fit, and I think that she does have a little bit of a temper that we are going to have to work with, but she is doing much better now. She loves Cache, and he is very good with her. He knows what makes her happy, and sometimes when I am busy and she is crying he goes to her and gives her things like his cowboy hat, his bronc reign and many other interesting things. I have started giving her some very messy cookies, and she loves it as you can see.

Hello Again

Once again it has been a little while, but I'm back. After going to Kamloops we went to Red Deer for the weekend to a horse conference put on by The Alberta Horse Industry. Henry and Bonnie and Maurice and Jackie were there. It was really good to see them, and we learned some really neat stuff at the conference too.

We had left the puppies outside in a shed with Zada for the weekend, and when we got home we could hear them but we couldn't see them. It turns out that she had moved them all under the deck at the back of the house, and we couldn't get to them. Bernie had to pull up one of the boards on the deck to get them out. They are eating puppy food now, and Zada seems to be avoiding them. I think that I would too. They are getting very big, and their teeth are very sharp. Cache brought a few of them in to play with them the other night, and he had such a fun time they chased him and licked him and he just had a great time.

Zoe is doing just fine. She is growing and changing too. Yesterday Cache found another box with toys in it, and he found his Yukele. He was so excited he brought it out to the living room where Zoe was sitting in her exersaucer and started to sing to her. His favorite song these days is "Didn't Even See The Dust" or as I like to call it "Shotgun" by Paul Brandt. He started singing what he thinks are the words, but she didn't seem to mind. She started bobbing along and cooing and screaming with him. And don't you know I couldn't find my camera. What a shame. Bailey was over the other day too, and although she loves to play with Cache, she also loves to stop and take a minute to play with Zoe too. It's just a quick minute though, because she doesn't have enough time to take off her bull riding gear.

KAMLOOPS

So as it turns out, the horse that Bernie was going to look at is in Kamloops. I guess he got confused by the K names. At least he had the direction right, and figured it out before we had to leave.

Bernie has spent the last two days riding with Les Timmons, and spending some time on the horse that Keith wants to buy. Zoe and I got to come along, so we have been hanging out at the hotel, going to the mall, and seeing Kamloops. It is actually a really easy city to be a visitor in because when you are on the freeway you can see all that the city has to offer below you.

Cache got to stay at home with Uncle Philip, Auntie Naomi and Bailey, because Philip's friend got some tickets to the flames game and heard that Cache was a big fan. He is really excited, and that all happens tonight.

We will be heading home tomorrow, so I will post some pictures later.

Back At It

I really like the whole idea of blogging, and letting people who want to see know what we are busy with.

We have completed our move to AB, but I have yet to encounter a change that is easy. I went to get a mail box before anything else, because I thought that I would need it in order to get, for example, a phone, a cell phone, or anything of that sort. The lady at the post office told me that I would have to have something with my current address on it. I looked at her like she was crazy, because that was why I was there... to get an address to put on things. I don't remember how I got around that one, but I did, and now I have a post office box. The next thing was getting a phone, and Telus couldn't seem to find me on their grid. I had the legal land location, a lot-block-plan address, and the 911 number at the end of the driveway, as well as the phone number of the last person that lived here, and they told me that I was going to have to get them more information. I was at a loss as to what more I could get them, so I just kept trying until I finally connected with a lady that just did it, and boy can I tell you, I was happy to have a phone.

Then the other day the newest thing started. I needed to get an Alberta driver's licence, because my Saskatchewan on expires at the end of December. I went in and the lady told me that I would have to have something to prove that I live in Alberta. I can understand this so I asked her what kindof proof would work. She told me that I could use a current Alberta Driver's Licence. ... ... ... I could have punched her in the nose. THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE FOR!!! So we finally decided that I would have to go the the bank and have them print me off a statement with my new address, and that might work. So then I went back and got the whole process started again, and they told me that I was going to need my legal land location. I of course have this, but it is written on a piece of paper at home on the refrigerator. So I left there without a licence. On the 2nd of January, after my licence had expired I had Bernie drive me in with my land location in hand. Then when I got there they started the whole thing again, and then they noticed that I had a code on my licence that indicates that I have a medical issue. So as it turns out, since I have let my Saskatchewan drivers expire I will need to go in for a medical before they can issue me a licence.

You can't tell me everything is better and easier here in Alberta. But I'm sure that it will get better... It can't get worse. Can IT?

Now, enough whining. My children are doing fine. Zoe is rolling all the way over, or should I say she can, because most of the time she ends up on her stomach, and then she gets really mad because she doesn't like it there. She's funny. She is full of smiles, drool and lots of talking. She is always making me and Cache laugh during the day. She sleeps all night long, and that sure is a blessing.

Cache and I have been doing a small amount of school work at home, because I'm still not sure if I'm actually going to send him to school here for Kindergarten, because of the long bus ride, and the fact that I will have to drive him in or pick him up every day, because the kindergarten is only half days every day.

Bernie is loving his new job, and there are lots of opportunities for him to learn lots and advance in any and all areas that he wants to. They seem to be happy with him at the barn. Next week he has an opportunity to go to Kelowna to look at a horse, and spend a few days riding with the guy who has been training it.

I too, am doing fine other than the frustrations that I have experienced, but my sister Crystal would say that it just makes for a good story, and I do love a good story, and the fun is always in the telling, and the retelling. I know that this is where God wants us right now, so I find peace in that, and I look forward to seeing just why it is that he has brought us to this place.