Waiting for Santa

Well Whitney got up bright and early today to bake Christmas Cookies....

All cozy in my Bathrobe making Sugar cookies for our Christmas Celebration over at her Grandmothers house with her cousins...so she thought Cookies would be a nice thing to bring for them to share.

It was a nice morning to bake cookies since we are having some bad weather again. Sleet and freezing rain....good way to stay busy enough at home rather than to go journey outside. so not only do we have over 2 feet of snow..now we have a lovely ice crust on top of it from the freezing rain. when I let the Pug out to go Pee they can actually walk on top of all the snow with out falling in......

I have been sick all week with the flu and have not been to the barn in over a week. We finally made it over yesterday since I was feeling somewhat better.......

I had to share this picture that was taken a few weeks ago of Whitney and Minnie at the barn...Minnie is a 18 month old Draft horse who just came to the barn to live.... she is such a sweetheart and gets lots of Love and attention.

I Love this Picture of them!

Yesterday I taught Whitney who to Lunge Bull on a Lunge line. I still cant ride him due to my head injury. Where my staples were is still sore and I cant wear my riding helmet with out it hurting my head. So since I can't ride him I have been Lunging him on a Lunge line to help him get exercise...he has already put on some unwanted winter weight... so this is good for him to get his exercise by walking, trotting and get a good canter going.I showed Whitney just once how to Lunge and she picked it up right off and did it like a Pro! in this picture he has Bull-Run cantering in a circle on a Lunge line...HIGH FIVE WHITNEY!

after she lunged Bull she rode Freckles around for a bit.....

And we Got Little Miss Tori Driving a Pony! she is not a fan of riding. She gets a little nervous up on a horses back...so we introduced driving to her and she LOVES it! so Here is Tori Driving a Pony named Emma Blue...........





Oh..and to any of you southerners....I have Free Snow! anyone is welcome to it!



Please! come and take it away!

Starring Bull~Run, OM Turbo,Coal.Belle and Willow

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OUCH!

Coal is doing great...he is teaching us new things about him daily.... He has a side to him that is different than the Fawn Pugs...those of you who have a Black and fawn Pug is there a difference between the 2? I cant quite figure it out...but there seems to be a difference between the 2?
He is just a ball of fun and is such a joy to have. we are so happy to be his new forever family~

OUCH!!!!! My arm hurts.... any idea why tetanus shots make your arm ache so bad the day after?

so yesterday I had to get a tetanus shot.....not sure when my last one was but The Dr. really thought I needed it... Let me fill you in on my day after Thanksgiving...My Black Friday was Pretty Black! ( snicker )

Ok...the morning after Thanksgiving I woke up early and Whitney and I drove to the Barn to do a Morning Run feeding and turned out a handful of the horses that were in the barn all night... We have had a few very cold night and we have ice and frozen grounds here... as I was leading one of the horses out I had Whitney unhook one of the electric fences and to make sure the other horse wouldn't get loose... Whitney unhooked the fence and dropped the hard plastic handle and it hit the frozen ground and it made a loud noise and it spooked the horse I was leading out. I kept her under control with the lead shank I had ( this is attached tot he halter that has a Chain that wraps around the top of their nose to keep them contained) once I got her calm the other Horse got excited and got the horse I had in a panic and she went up on her back feet...all I saw was a BIG GIRTH and HOOFS! I turned my head with no time to run....and SLAM! JeanPool ( the Horse ) crashed down on my head with her hoof and winter-steal shoe....I felt my-head and knew I was in need of medical help but the Horse I was leading out is a World Champion Horse and she is worth lots of $$$ She was running on a icy area and the lead shank was still attached to her and getting all tangled around her legs...I was so frightened she was going to hurt herself so I was more worried for her than I was myself... as I am clucking for the horse to return to me I feel blood pouring out of my head and where I was bleeding my hair was frozen from it being so cold. Whitney is crying during this whole time apologizing for dropping th fence handle and thinking she caused this whole accident.....I reassured her I was ok and it was not her fault. Brad was just down the road and Whitney called him to come to the barn. Bradley and Whitney drove me tot he ER where Whitney was crying so hard when I went to the window to check in explaining my injury they took it as Whitney being the one injured and took us right in. The nurse went to to check Whitney and I said...it's not her it is me..( Ummmm couldn;t she see my bloody jacket and hood? and the cloth I was applying to my head?) They sent me right to Xray to make sure I had no skull or neck injury...they came back fine. They cleaned my head and shaved my hair in that area and scrubbed it with a wire bristle brush! ( the Dr was UGH...mot very pleasant..she said he needed to make sure there was no Fecal Matter in my wound! ewwweee! then he injected some lidacane and game me a zipper...( staples ) I was so high on Adrenalin and never was in any severe pain until my ride home...I cried like a baby. and slept all day....They put me on antiobiotics and pain meds...I think the pain med knocked me out all I did was sleep the first few days. Bradley took pictures of it but I don;t think you all want to see it...kinda gross..... So that was my BlackFriday!

so yesterday ..(11 days later) I got my zipper taken out! and I feel back to normal now...just a little sore still and a big scar on my head and really short hair in that area. so I have been wearing baseball hats off and on... so this is the reason why I had to have a tetanus shot yesterday....Now my arm is killing me....it feels so hot in the area where it was injected and it aches like mad!

Barn Fun with the Pugs

Fun at the Barn.....We packed up all four Pugs and went to the barn last night to attempt a family picture and to introduce Bull to the Pugs.....after they got to know one another and we even managed to fit in a family Picture with all the fur-kids..( 4 Pugs and a Horse is not an easy task...) I put Bull back in his paddock for the night and let the Pugs run wild though the barn. Coal had hip surgery in October and is starting to put more weight on his leg...so this is a great place for Coal to get some exercise to strengthen up his weak leg! Old Man Turbo had some fun running around too. He was a little lame but still had a good time. He tried hard to keep up but lagged behind.... ( he is feeling so much better! still not 100% but close!) Willow and Belle just gallivanted and checked out all the stalls.

I learned Coal likes the snack Bull dropped for him on the barn floor...( SO Gross!) there is COAL behind Bull eating Bull's Horse Poop! COAL must of thought he hit the Buffet!

Here is a short video of the Pugs running in the barn...... when Coal starts barking at the end....this is when he just realized a horse was in the stall....

I bought photoshop and I played around with our picture for our Christmas card.. if you didn't get one last year and would like to be put on my Christmas card list drop me a email with your address

....at bltwj(AT)verizon(DOT)net

Coal for Chrismas

Well.... to answer the last post.... our whole family got COAL for Christmas.... Meet COAL! Our new adopted Pug from www.gmpr.org ! He is a owner surrender who loved him much but she was elderly and could not afford his vetting and a surgery he need for his hip. Which he had done in October. He is still healing and we are making him exercise and help him strengthen his leg. He loves having it massaged while he falls asleep on your lap.
He is just under 2 years old. He is around 21 months old and is such a Love Pug. He came from the Cape Cod Ma. area and had a wonderful Foster Mom who took him in from the Pugs By the Sea rescue. Coal actually came with the name Slider but he didn't look like a Slider to us and we thought he would make a Great Coal...since he is all Black and it is the Christmas season. It is a little over an hour and a half ride and he slept most of the ride home. Once we got home He took over the house as if he lived her his entire life and gets along so well with Willow,Belle and OM Turbo He is a funny lil man. he will sit with you and will sneak in a kiss here and there. Can you believe we now sleep with 4 Pugs in our queen sized bed! you we do and to be honest it is no different than sleeping with the 3 Pugs in it...Coal loves the fenced in Pug yard..they chase one another around and released a lot of the energy of having a new Pug in the house.... They have loads of Pug fun in their yard. Me with my 2 Rescues! COAL and OM Turbo! Coal is all cozy in his new red sheep pj's
He slept all night and has not had one accident.
Coal joined OM Turbo to his Vet appointment today for a follow up appointment. Coal was a star at our Vet. We are well known there and they knew in time we would be walking in with a new family member...this time we surprised them with a Black one. I made a appointment for COAL to get microchipped next week.. They can't wait for him to come back. He stole a lot of the ladies hearts there.... I think he is a Ladies man...



Thank you www.gmpr.org for choosing us to be Coal's forever home!