I'm Back

Hey! Sorry i haven't written or posted anything in like forever, but I have been kind of busy. I'll try to keep posting now.

So recently I started riding my sisters reiner Toby. She used to ride him last year, but switched to Rio because she wants to go to Quarter Horse World. Me and Toby have been working together to try and figure each other out. He's soooo different form riding my buddy Smokey (in a good way), but we are doing really great. I hope to be able to kick butt on him, but that might not very likely because he still gets very nervous and excited in shows.(thanks to a mean trainer when he was younger) But we have only been to two shows, both where he was really sore. I think we can figure this out, but it will take a while. If I don't win anything or do bad in shows, I won't mind very much cuz #1 it isn't really Tobe's fault and #2 I just love riding him. Right now I can't ride him because his knee is inflamed (cause of soreness), but in a month and after we take him to a vet to check that he's healed we will be back working together.

I have to thank my awesome trainer and my sister. Without them we would not be as good as we are. Although my sister and I usually get grouchy at each other when she is trying to give me lessons me, she has helped me a ton.

Wish me and Toby Luck! Later!

Toby

Waylon

To learn more about my baby Waylon, look at my About Me page. I'll post more on her later. =)

Graduation Parties

     My sister's graduation party is coming tomorrow so we've been getting ready, buying decorations, and making food this week (and you can add last week too). My sister originally started with a pink and green theme, but it turned into a pink and green beach theme when we found a ton of pink and green beach stuff at the dollar tree. I did not know how it was possible to spend 80 some dollars at the dollar tree, but we did. (Dad only thinks we spent half of that, so shhh. (=  ) We bought a LOT of stuff but it looks really cool. 

    I've been helping my grandma with a lot of the food making. Yummy. My cousins from Denver arrived yesterday.  I haven't seen them in four years so that was really fun. Her party is going to be at a new horse barn that was built. The owners have a kind of house thing with it that you can rent for graduation parties. Its kind of hard to find the place though because its behind a row of trees. My mom and dad rented a bouncy house for the little kids. 

   A few of my cousins and me have hatched a surprise for my sister. It involves a song that we all sang when we were camping and stuff.  It will be fun to see what happens. Some of the adults will probably think we're a little crazy. =)   I can't wait until my sister's graduation party, it will be a lot of fun. 

http://www.dailyclipart.net/clipart/flamingo-clip-art/

http://www.onlinestuff.biz/palmtrees.html

A Blank Check

http://www.sageapple.org/donate.html

   If I were given a blank check to spend on five things that would improve our school, I would


- Make Our School Lunches Better (because they taste terrible.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDA_Food_Pyramid.gif

- Get Better Air Conditioners And Furnaces (because they never work when their supposed to and you end up freezing in the winter and roasting in the summer)

- Fix Water Fountains (they have no water pressure so you cant drink out of them)

- Improve The Computers And Update Microsoft (because our computers are really slow, I forgot exactly why their slow; and our Microsoft powerpoint, documents, etc. needs updated so they have the better and improved things.)

http://treerootandtwig.com/2012/04/22/
book-review-scorpio-races-maggie-stiefvater/

- Add A Lot More Fiction Books To The Library (we used to have a ton of books, now we hardly have any)


Those are a few things I would spend the money on. What if you had a blank check? What would you spend it on to improve your school?

Golden Retrievers

http://www.funnyfunnypictures.net/golden-retriever-pics-865.htm

If I could be a dog, I would want to be a golden retriever.

• Golden Retrievers are:
• Friendly and fun 
• Lively and energetic
• Loyal and obedient
• Easily trained
• Eager to please

They also love challenges and tasks and they learn quickly, which is like me. I also want to please my parents and teachers. I think if I were a dog I would be a golden retriever. We currently have two part golden retrievers (Jet and Dolly). And we used to have a pure golden retriever called Coven. I love golden retrievers. They are my absolute favorite breed of dog. I think I would be a good golden retriever.

http://www.dailypuppy.com/puppies/dax-the-golden-retriever_2009-02-16

http://dogbreedsites.com/golden-retriever-puppies/golden-retriever-puppies/

You can go to this website for some more on golden retrievers. (Of course there are more websites with more information on retrievers, but this one is a nice short and sweet summary.)

Things About My Town

I love many things about my town. So here are some things I like about my town.

Attribution - http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/Seasons.html

1. It has about 24,000 people. So it's quite large but not near as large as some other places.

2. Low crime rate


3. Has all four seasons


4. We are getting a cool water park


5. Has a several good restaurants including Big Red Keno


6. Large public library


7. Several lakes and camp grounds are near us

Attribution- http://blog.gpcom.com/

8. We are only two hours away from two big cities


9. Located in Nebraska


10. We have a Big Bang Boom fireworks show on the 4th of July.

Attribution - http://www.williamsportmd.gov/fourth_july.html

A Horrible Smell



    Our blogging assignment is to describe a strong memory based upon a smell. This smell has been stuck in my head for forever because it was so bad.  

This is just a random barn. Attribution -
 http://www.hiddenhillshorsefarm.com/Horse-boarding-md-facilities.html

    We were going to our trainer to get horse riding lessons. (We don't go to this trainer anymore.) She works in some really rich people's barn and trains their kids. Anyways, as we enter the barn connected to the riding arena, this horrible smell rolls over us. My eyes and nose burned until I got used to it. Part of the cause for the smell was what they were feeding their horses, the large number of horses they had, and they had to keep the doors shut because it was cold out. They could also have probably cleaned the stalls a little more often everyday.

   The trainer we go to now has a very large, nice, and clean barn. 

6 Legged Calf

On tween tribune there is an article about a baby calf that was born with six legs. It can only walk on four though.

The article about it is at...
http://tweentribune.com/content/cow-has-six-legs-walks-four

It's amazing that the little guy lived. I think the calf is still kind of cute the way it is, but it would have been a lot cuter if it hadn't been born with the extra legs. I feel sorry for the little calf. She can't help that she was born with two extra legs and she will never be a normal cow. Her name is Lilli. I hope she has a happy life.