STINKING THINKING`

....So....

That's what my daughter says when someone has a bad attitude

That's just stinking thinking

Which is kinda where I found myself Saturday

Mr. Gorgeous WANTED BADLY to go to a Cutter Rally

and I wasn't "getting into it"

Hey...I'm not about cold weather activities 

but I decided to put my big girl panties on

and participate with him

So we headed out early Saturday morning

to travel almost 2 hours north/west of our place

to hang out with other

Cutter Rally..Cold Weather enthusiasts. 

I dressed up warm 

and we packed a little lunch

and met up with a whole bunch of other cutter rally fans

(photo courtesy of facebook page for this rally)

Lots and Lots of horse trailers, trucks, horses, mules 

and bundled up folks  

 (my photo)

The organizers did a good job of plowing out lanes for everyone

to park

Good turn out

you can imagine all these farmer/cowboys

gathered around

checking out each others gear and animals 

nice team of horses ya got there 

I thought my husband was crazy to want to go

to all that work of

packing up the gear

getting the horses in

traveling there

harnessing them up

just to Undo all the gear at the end

and put it all away  

he calls it a labor of love

I call him crazy

  (my photo)

 (my photo)

Mr. Gorgeous left the sleigh out ALL last summer, fall 

and this winter

so it is in need of a paint job.

He says it is a great social activity for the horses

Hmmmm. Did you ask them

Maybe they are a little miffed at having to work that hard??

As soon as we were all hitched up

the somewhat warm sunny weather

got cloudy and a little windy

Gall dern it

    (photo courtesy of facebook page for this rally)

 

 Some kids had their toboggans

tied to the back of their parents sleighs

and got pulled behind it......would be kinda fun for the kiddies

 

   (photo courtesy of facebook page)

Gosh, I sure wish my grandkids lived close enough

for us to do that with them 

 (mine)

Cool looking MULES !

So out we head, and I am starting to "get into it"

Every now and then our horses would

act up a little

and I was WHOA NELLY !!!

About 1/2 way along the trip

they had a station at some farmers property

where you could get some refreshments

a hot dog....BOILED WIENER

(never will I eat a boiled wiener)

 hot chocolate/coffee

that sort of thing

(courtesy of facebook page)

Hitched up while humans went in for there

sick boiled wiener

 (my photo)

 This was a cute little unit 

and he even has a stove inside it...if you look at the front

you can see smoke coming out of it

NOW THAT'S TRAVELING IN COMFORT  

    

 (my photo)

 

FIVE STAR facilities  

So after this little stop

we headed out again

Things were going rather smoothly 

when all of a sudden there was a potato chip bag

left on the trail

Well, our team of little house on the prairie horses

turned into little horse of horrors

They FREAKED out over this stupid bag

and it was RODEO time

I didn't know whether to jump off

or hang on tight

and hope I had all my body parts still preserved 

But thanks to hubby

he got them under control and back on the trail

He told me he had total control of the situation    

I told him he was close to having to drive me back

to those Five Star Facilities.

   (my photo...it is hard to take photos when your bouncing around)   

That line you see across the photo

is the whip hubby uses incase they need a little coaxing

hells bells, they didn't need any coaxing

and I kept getting whacked across the face with it

This was about an 8 mile treck

through fields

 (courtesy photo)

and trees

  ( my photo)

As we were pulling up into the homestretch

a fellow stopped us and asked if he could take our picture

He was from the local newspaper and wants to put our picture in it

as OUR sleigh was impressive he said....different from the others   

(and here I was looking like I took a long dip in the ugly pond) 

We all gathered in the community hall 

 (my photo)

 (mine)

An interesting bunch of folks

There were some handlebar mustaches there

I could have done pull ups on

It was called a Poker Rally

and at the beginning

and at the rest stop area

and the end

you'd draw some chips out of a barrel with numbers on them

and put that number or your card

Prizes given out for highest hand, lowest.....etc

   (mine)

As it turned out, MY HAND took fifth place

and I won $24.00

 (mine)

Restroom

  

 (mine)

We all got a ribbon for Participating

OUR FIRST 

I'll have to make a ribbon, picture board

and put it in the arena I think 

 (mine)

Hubby putting the horses and gear away

After about a three hour treck, I was pooped

and I really didn't have to do the WORK

I think my near death experience took it's toll on me (tee,hee)  

So all in all

I have to admit

I HAD FUN

and need to stop my stinking thinking 

WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF.......

NO

not the book of Love

cause whoever wrote THAT book  was messed up

No one can write a book about love really

you learn it, feel it, grow with it

through your own lifes journey

BUT HEY

(to quote Uncle Si from Duck Dynasty)

that's not even what this post is about.

It's about BOOKS IN GENERAL

I love books

LOVE !!!! books

I like to look at them, feel them, hold them on my lap

that's why I'm kinda not sure about the whole Kindle thing

(although everyone swears by it)

to me...it's kinda like buying a blow up doll

Not. The. Real. Thing. 

I am not a very domestic chick
I don't sew, crochet, cooking is "ify"
heaven forbid I am a moron when it comes to crafts
and creating anything

SO I READ
(safer) 

Ernest Hemingway said: "there is no friend as loyal as a book"
 

(pinterest)
I kinda like the look of books scattered around the house
in a neat dis-orderly fashion
if that makes sense

 Here are a few examples of some 
of the books lying around my place

 (don't mind Lucy's bed there in the back)

(hmmmm, kinda blurry)

(that's my daddy, when he was in the fire department, Captain)

 oh.....and a son and his wife

For those of you who have been following my blog

for sometime now

KNOW I have .... I CORRECT

Mr. Gorgeous has this HUGE arena on our property

in there I have about 3 boxes stuffed with books 

that I need to get to

Me and God have an arrangement you see

I can't die until I read ALL MY BOOKS

and

that includes the books on my "too read list"

I am going to be VERY OLD

 (tee,hee)

Or plan B

HE has to let me take them with me 

When I read my books I tab parts that I really like

then when I'm finished, I write them all down

in my little book

WHY???......cause I love to go back and re-read those quotes

and think about them

 I think it helps me learn

how to write better

how to express myself better

beautifully written words from amazing authors like:

.....kisses that ran together like a string of pearls

(Cold Sassy Tree..Olive Burns)

....  in a long and unprotected life I have seen and heard

vomitings of demonic humans (Travels With Charley..John Steinbeck)

....and the colors was like milk so soft and warm and

pouring over and into each other. (Gap Creek..Robert Morgan)

SEE HOW BEAUTIFUL 

Every now and then I try and read one of the Classics

just so I can say I DID

Mark Twain said: "a classic is a book which people praise 

and don't read"  

 (pinterest)

Cornelia Funk :  "some books should be tasted, 

some devoured,  but only a few should be chewed and

digested thoroughly

 (pinterest)

C.S. Lewis said: "you can never get a cup of tea large enough

or a book long enough to suit me"

So.............while all you clever gals and or guys

out there

are being creative with your hands

and are incredibly artsy

and some of you I know actually WRITE YOUR OWN BOOKS

I'll just tuck my feet under me

and read

and PRETEND I know stuff

  and p.s.

if you want to extend my lifes longevity

tell me a couple of YOUR favorite books