Thursday, August 12, 2004
Still at Home Duane and Lauren are gone and I’m home all alone. I had planned on taking some time off work both this week and next but I’m so buried with work at the office that I chose to work all this week and take care of the remaining animals at home. I will be taking 3 days off next week for the State Fair. For now it’s just me, the dogs, cats, fowl, my old horse Hawk and mini donkey Jules. Hawk is beside himself since his filly went to the show as well. This will be the first show for our home bred yearling filly and I’m very anxious to see how things go for her both in how she behaves as well as how well she places. I of course think the world of her but she is my “kid” and we all know how a “mother” views her children. She got a clip job the other day and was great…. With the twitch on. Didn’t move an inch so it was a positive experience. Hopefully there will be a time when she won’t need the twitch but for now it’s a start. She looks so mature all cleaned up with her mane pulled, ears and face clipped.I really am depressed about not being there with everyone. I will meet up with my family Friday nite but will have missed the halter classes. At least I’ll be there to hitch and drive Ladies Cart. I didn’t sleep hardly at all last night. Woke up at 4am and couldn’t get back to sleep so I got up and headed in to work at 5. At least I’ll get home early tonight thanks to flex time. I’m gonna stop by a fabric store on my way home today. Yesterday I saw a 50% to 70% off sign out there – they are moving the store so I’m hoping for some deals on purple, grey or white fabric. It always seems like I need more of that for odd and ends – like the new display table that Duane built. He painted it purple so it looks nice but I would like to see it with a table skirt and our new logo. The stall drapes will be making their debut at this show. A big hug and many thanks go out to the Prill ladies for their efforts in hemming these for us. Still a whole bunch of work to be done on those, putting on our farm name, logo and stripes – it never ends. Duane is going to be making a type of awning for the valance so it can be back lit. Big dreams on a small time budget, I think that I will finally acquire all that is needed and be satisfied with our efforts when we are ready to retire ;-}. I’m going to get some silkscreen paint/ink to do the logo and farm name on our drapes next week and that will be our next project once we get home from the State Fair.
1 Comments:
You might consider having a screenprinter make you a screen with your logo on it. You can buy the screen from them and then re-use it at will. I used to know a screenprinter that was going to do that for me, but I never got around to it (stupid I know, but the farm name's changed since then.....)
I hope your filly does well!! I love reading about what y'all have going on, and I know all about those big time plans on a small budget!
Shea
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