Another Horsey Wine Label

I am always drawn to horse-related wine labels. Found this one at Fred Meyer the other day. It’s a very fruity 2006 vintage Columbia Valley cabernet sauvignon. And this one has a really neat (and REAL) cork, too!

SkyWatch Friday #28

Sunday Stills Challenge: Color

Sunday Stills Challenge: Color

This was one of the easier challenges for me as I knew I wouldn’t be able to shoot much color this week. However, that doesn’t stop me from digging through my archives and pulling old pictures out that people haven’t seen yet. All of these shots were taken on May 18, 2008. And these are only a select few. There are lots more. I would have to say that this was one of those days where things just clicked, literally and figuratively. Sorry it too me all day to dig them up, but I think you will find that this little bit of spring in the middle of winter is well worth it. :)

Lemonade! Get Yer Chilly Lemonade Here!

Thanks to go to gtyyup for sharing this award with me.

Rules:

1. You must add the logo to your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show Great Attitude and/or Gratitude. (And because these awards can get a bit much, I am amending the count from 10 down to 5.)
3. Link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link this post to the person from who you received your award.

Here you go:

• Cowgirl Sprat over at A Spot of Mercy
• Caffeinated Cowgirl
• Ed at Thoughts from the Road
• No Parental Discretion...
• The Back Forty

Bottoms up everyone!

Happy New Year!

I am raising a glass of my new favorite wine to all my horse friends and you other bloggers out there!

Wordless Wednesday

December 22, 2008

Sunday Stills Challenge: Food

Christmas shaped scones best enjoyed with blueberry jam from our own blueberries.

Scones courtesy of Paddock Boy and the Little Cowboy.

Wordless Wednesday

December 5, 2008 Sunset

Note: No color correction or retouching was done on these.

Muck You!

Here are mine. Wet.

Wetter!

Yet More Awards

Thanks to Karen J-S for yet another blog award.

With this award, there are some rules:

1. Name 5 other Superior Scribblers.
2. Link to the author and the name of the blog that gave you the award.
3. Display the award on your blog with this LINK, which explains the award.
4. At the bottom of that link, add your name to Mr. Linky’s list.
5. Post these rules for your recipients.

Here are my Superior Scribbler Award recipients:

• Amanda’s Veranda
• California Cowgirl
• Chickens in the Road
• Prairie Runner
• Pink Chalk Studio

And thanks again to Cactus Jack Splash for yet another great award.

1. Put the logo on your blog
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you
3. Nominate 10 (or whatever number you choose) other blogs for this award
4. Add links to those blogs
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs
6. Give a reason why you consider their blogs cool

Here are my Butterfly Award recipients:

• Sommer Designs - Great products and awesome clean design!
• Crunchy Chicken - Great local gal with lots of thoughts to ponder!
• Green and Clean Mom - Good advice to live by.
• Esprit Cabane - Wonderful ideas!
• Rancher Ron - City boy trying to make it on the farm. Very enjoyable!

Dreaming With A Broken Heart

I am not tagging anyone, but if you want to play, go for it! I added the song title, artist and album title.

Directions:

1. Put Your iTunes on Shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write down the name of the song no matter how silly it sounds!
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name.
5. Tag at least 10 friends.
6. Anyone tagged has to do the same, because fun pointlessness spreads like a virus.

Here we go...

If someone says, “Is this okay?” You say?
Bodyrock, Moby, Play

How Would You Describe Yourself?
Home Bird, Foy Vance, Grey’s Anatomy Original Soundtrack Volume 2

What Do You Like in a girl/guy?
GuitarFlute and String, Moby, Play

What is Your Life’s Purpose? Marching Bands of Manhattan, Death Cab For Cutie, Plans

What is Your Life Motto?
Someone Said Goodbye, Enya, Amarantine

What Do Your Friends Think of You?
Down Slow, Moby, Play

What Do You Think of Your Parents?
Don’t Know Why, Norah Jones, Come Away With Me

What Do You Often Find Yourself Thinking About?
Dirty Little Secret, Sarah McLachlan, Afterglow

What is 2+2?
Perfect Girl, Sarah McLachlan, Afterglow

What Do You Think of Your Best Friend?
Paper Aeroplane, KT Tunstall, Drastic Fantastic

What Do You Think of the Person You Like?
On Your Way, eastmountainsouth, Eastmountainsouth

What Is Your Life Story?
False Alarm, KT Tunstall, Eye to the Telescope

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Screenwriter’s Blues, Soul Coughing, Ruby Vroom

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Run On, Moby, Play

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Fools In Love, Inara George, Grey’s Anatomy Soundtrack

What will they play at your funeral?
Through the Dark, KT Tunstall, Eye to the Telescope

What is your hobby/interest?
Send Your Love, Sting and featuring Vicente Amigo, Sacred Love

What is your biggest fear?
Talk of the Town, Jack Johnson, Curious George Soundtrack

What is your biggest secret?
Don’t Think of Me, Dido, No Angel

What do you think of your friends?
Too Soon, eatmountainsouth, Eastmountainsouth

What will you post this as?
Dreaming With A Broken Heart, John Mayer, Continuum

Friday Foto Flashback

My horse obsession started very early!

Book Tag

Thanks to SOSHorses I have been book tagged.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next two to five sentences.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one. Pick the Closest.
6. Tag five people to do the same.

Here you go!

Concise Guide to Nutrition in the Horse

by David W. Ramey, DVM and Steven E. Duren, PhD

Blending grains with vitamin and mineral supplements requires a feed mixer. Feed mixers allow feed manufacturers to do all sorts of fun things to grain products and give you even more choices for feeding your horse. Typically, two or more types of processed grains (such and corn and oats) are mixed together in these products. Mixing grain products can have some advantages. For example, individual grain have a certain protein and amino acid profile. If you mix oats with soybean meal, the amount and quality of the protein is increased over that provided in oats alone. Similarly, the mixture of corn and oats provides more energy on an equal weight basis that does feeding oats alone.

This is a good book for basic nutrition information and should be in every horseowner’s library.

Next on the tag list:

• Amanda’s Veranda
• Cactus Jack Splash
• Suerte
• Pony Girl
• Baba Yaga

2008 Pumpkin Carving Party

Wow. What a party! We had 7 chili recipes and carve 27 pumpkins on Saturday. The leftover pumpkins we carved Sunday afternoon.