Thanksgiving with Scott and Paige

Wednesday eve Jim and I flew to Houston to spend a few days with Scott and Paige whom we hadn't seen in almost 6 months. My how time flies. They said it didn't seem like that long. We had a wonderful time and delicious Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. We also toured the University of Houston where Scott is attending optometry school. I'll post more about that later. We also drove to Galveston to enjoy some waves and check out the damage. More, too, on that. We ate at Pappasito's Mexican restaurant twice! Yummm. I'm already missing that place. We also saw the new James Bond movie. Scott pronounced it great but maybe not as good as the last one. All in all we had a terrific time. Stay tuned for more posts. (I can't seem to get any pictures to attach to this post so I will try again tomorrow with those.)

Basking dogs

I couldn't stand seeing my bruised arm every time I checked in on my blog so decided to post again. Yesterday, I had another picture of the dogs on the sofa (Penny giving me a look that said: "What? You got a problem with this?") but couldn't get it to upload. That would've made the fat arm disappear. So today's picture is of Sonic and Penny basking on the back porch in the morning sunshine. Even THEY know how important Vit. D is! When they come in I like to feel how hot their backs have gotten especially Penny's black fur.

My New Sofa!

My new sofa has been claimed by these two. I guess they like the view outside from up there. Oh well.

What does a horse bite look like?

Talk about biting the hand, or in this case, arm, that feeds you! This happened the other day when I was feeding 3 horses and the filly. I'm not sure exactly how this happened and definitely not sure WHY. The big horses didn't want me to feed the little guy but I was trying to do it anyway. Maybe this one horse was mad at me for doing that or mad that I was out of carrots and apples. I just don't know but it sure took me by surprise. It doesn't hurt as much as it looks. Mostly felt like a good pinch. Maybe he thought he was giving me a love nuzzle and didn't know his strength. I know which one did it by his large white blaze down the front and see if he gets anything in future!! Anyone who knows horse psychology and has some answers let me know. Not too eager to repeat the episode.

STARRYING: Big Piggy!

That "fur" ain't soft! Not prickly either, but definitely not like other animals. He's still so sweet, though. I can see why people like them as pets. Well, after you look at the dirt around the nose, maybe not. He obviously isn't afraid of horse legs and feet. In one picture he is even snorggeling the filly's ankle. He was making a nice snorggeling noise while doing it, too.

New Piggy

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This is Big Piggy's new girlfriend, Pink Piggy. She's very shy. When the horses and Big Piggy came to eat apples at our back fence she spent the whole time hiding behind that tree watching us. She's gotten a little braver recently. Awffy cute. More on Big Piggy tomorrow.

Fridays Around Franklin

Scenes along the beautiful Natches Trace Parkway that I snapped yesterday. The Trace runs from Nashville all the way down to the Gulf Coast. The speed limit is only 40 MPG's so it would take awhile to get there but it would be a lovely drive this time of year.

Madman flowers

Don't these look like a mad man holding his breath? I don't even know what kind of flowers these are. They've been blooming now for about a month.

A Sad Day for our Country

Well, the media has selected Obama as our next president in spite of the fact that he refuses to produce his birth certificate. This election was all about race because no one with as radical far left ideas as Obams's would have been elected if he had been white. I'm not racist. That's just what got him elected. It's a sad day to see our nation move away from the kind of government that Jesus Christ helped institute for our country in 1776 and heading DOWN the path of socialism. But how else can the prophecy be fulfilled where the Latter-day Saints come in and rescue the Constitution "which will hang by a thread in the last days" unless there is a president and congress who will desecrate it? Too many people, young ones especially, don't know their history or what socialism even is. A lot of people think socialism is being nice to each other. That's charity and community. Socialism according to the dictionary is a system of government that is moving away from capitalism and toward communism. Why people think this is a good idea is beyond me except that they don't really have a clue about what is going on.

Just a few pictures I had left of Beaver. One is the territorial courthouse. Another is the Beaver Opera House-who knew? And the last is Gigi and Bruce in front of the statue of Philo Farnsworth (inventor of TV) who lived in Beaver. Stay tuned for more posts. I have a lot to post about in next few days.