It's Friday...no wait, it's Saturday?

I woke up(at 9:45 I might add.  Don't hate.) this morning, glanced at the clock, looked out my bedroom window, and noticed that there was not a soul around at the shop.
But it's Friday, why aren't the guys working?
Oh.  It's Saturday.  I forgot. 
So now that little problem has been salved...moving right along

Yesterday we went garage sailing..... defiantly NOT my favorite thing to do.  Getting up early to go hunting or go work cattle is one thing, but to go garage sailing? No, I see no point in doing so!  But I did get some cute new clothes...I guess that's one good thing about it.
It was cold and soggy yesterday, rainy, misty, it barely got over 45* all day.  I dislike it very much!  It's still cool out this morning, but it's going to warm up this afternoon(Thank God!).  I just hope we have a early summer this year, and by the looks of things, I think we are.
The buffalo are having babies early this year:

And while I was out screaming at Mama's dog(in sweatpants and bare feet), I heard the whippoorwills for the first time this year.  

Yep, I think we're gonna have a early Summer!

Let's see, what else....oh we got some tomato, pepper, and cucumber plants yesterday that we've got to plant sometime today.  I finally(4 days after my birthday) got my petunias planted that my nanna got me

*Excuse the LOVELY iPhone picture.....*

They were still alive as of last night, so I'm assuming that they're still alive this morning.

Dad has got us a new project started, we're going to widen out the horse lot by the barn, i.e. make the gate wider than 3 foot across....like it is now.  He's got the holes dug for the posts, but we've still gotta set the posts and all that jazz.  Hopefully it'll be done in a couple weeks.

Dad's gotta haul his little dun mare over to his friend so he can ride her a bunch while the ranch he works for is getting in cattle.  She's gonna be a hell of a horse, i think!  

After we get her gone, I'm bringing my paint horse, Tonto, over here by the house so I can start riding him more.  So far I've been on him twice, both times bareback and with only a halter.  Considering the fact that he hasn't been rode since Oct. of last year, he did alright. 

 The way I figure it, is if I start riding him just as soon as I get him over here, we'll be ready to rock n roll when Shippin rolls around in July/Aug.

Oh and something else that I have to look forward to in Sep. is hopefully getting my Driver's Licence!  

I finished all of my online stuff a couple days ago now I'm just waiting on some stuff to come in so I can do more.

Hehehehe, I'll be able to DRIVE.....well legally anyway ;)

Something else that I'm goin to try and learn this summer is to pull a horse trailer/drive my dad's standard Dodge good.  

I've been stumped as far as writing on my other blog, I just can't find anything to write about!  Not that I don't want to write, I just don't have anything that I can write about!  Maybe I'll find something today....

Anyways, for now lets have some random iPhone pictures:

My pond...and smoke, lots of smoke.

My purdy little paint horse :)

My baby

Dad's little brat of a mare...

Aww Bo Bo the Mini Donkey!

Cattle truck haulin in G-'s steers....ahh nothing says "Spring" like the smell of a cattle truck!lol

Sadie loves her soccer ball!

Gotta love all the pictures on my phone!haha

Well I guess that's about it for now!

Later peeps,

Briggsie <3

Rambles...

Spring makes me happy...tho other things kinda mess my "I'm so happy it's Spring" mood up sometimes.  But the main factor right now is it's Spring and I'm 16! YAY!!!  Oh my birthday was nothing short of wonderful.  It started off with dad giving me my "birthday money and hug" that I always get from him, then mom took me to the B-Ville to get me a new straw hat.  I walked out of the western store with 2 new straw hats AND a new belt!  Oh i forgot, I got a new purse and billfold from Nana and Pop, and I got a totally awesome pocket knife from my wonderful aunt too.  So anyways, me and mom shopped and little then went to Walmart, then we made F.L.Y.I.N.G trip home so I'd be on time to meet my best friend at the barn.  We pulled in about 10 minutes before the school bus got here!lol  So I got a beautiful bracelet and matching earrings AND a homemade birthday cake from Miss Kate.  We set out by the cake house and cussed an discussed many things, and of course we had to take pictures!

We're too cute!

  Then we got bored and took off(barefoot I might add) to the barn, ignoring the storm clouds that seemed to appear out of thin air.  At the barn we found my little paint horse and pestered him for God knows how long.  Kate had a fit over his long hair a.k.a "the fuzzies".  She cracks me up!  And somehow we started doing silly Indian sounding things and started singing the theme song to The Lion King while standing on the water trough.  We're so freaking mature!haha  And while we were being VERY mature while singing "O wimmabuwa O gimwabwawa" on the water trough(where there's water and a pipe fence and a very tall wooden pole thingy) we watched the lighting that was popping everywhere.  Hey we're so Mature and Smart that it ain't even funny! huh yeah right....Anyway, I go back into the tackroom after a camera and check my phone.  I've got 2 texts from mom and dad saying to "Watch the weather" and "come to the house".  Alright so maybe it might be gonna storm.  We gather our stuff up and walk to the house just as a Tornado Warning is issued for the county just west of us. So me and Kate and my dogs set on my porch and watch these clouds:

Delightful looking, huh?.....so this is what happens when I turn 16....

So me and Kate are on my porch:

And while we're on my porch/in the yard walking looking at the clouds, we(mostly me) update Facebook 1000 times on how Kate's stuck at my house(since her mama can't get to my house because of the storms) and how I'm having a great birthday.  So we eat pizza an set in the carport for another 30 minutes. I go put on my new straw hat and get a flash light and act retarded for the next 10 minutes, making Kate and sister laugh. Update Facebook again saying that we've walked around the house and are sitting on the cellar. Then we decide(/get bored) that the storms have moved on and it's safe for Kate to text her mama and tell her that she can come get her.  But until Mama Nikki gets here, me and Kate are gonna walk over to the shop and look at some M.A.S.I.V.E deer sheds.  But as we walk out the back gate, I look over to the north west and see a firey glow and smoke, so I run back to the house and get dad.  He calls around and decides that we need to go see where it is.  Cool!  So me and him and Kate load up in his Dodge and take off, deciding hat somewhere between here and there we'll find Kate's mama and let her out.  We take off up the road, all the while dad's on the phone/texting everybody to see where the fire is.  Eventually we find Danny who is sitting on the road watching the fire(which turns out to be a little farther away than I thought).  Dad gets out and him and Danny talk for 15 minutes while me and Kate set in the Dodge and make fun of people.  It's 9:00 when Kate's mom and dad find us, then of course, her dad has to get out and talk with my dad and Danny about the fire.  Fast forward 10 minutes, me and Kate say goodbye, but not after her sweet mama and little brother tell me 'Happy Birthday' and I get to see Miss Dixie Reb(Kate's puppy).  They leave and we set in the road for another 10 minutes before me and dad take off driving towards the fire after he finds out that it's on some land that his friend manages.  Danny calls and says he's going to help, so dad decides that he's going back home after his fire truck and he asks if I want to go with him, duh of course!  What's a better way to end my 16th birthday than to go to my first fire?!  So this is what, me and Dad, Danny, and Grandpa rolled up too:

Not necessarily a big fire, but enough of one to burn grass that didn't need to be burned.  So we left the fire around 11:00, oh did I mention that it's still storming?  Lighting everywhere but no rain.  We go home, get ready to call it a night and go to bed, turn the TV on and they're saying that there's a tornado coming.  Great.  So we all get back up and dressed, no tornado.  Finally the storm passes and it starts raining.  That's it I'm done, I'm goin to bed!  

That was the end of my wonderful Sweet 16.

The next day was boring as all get-out.  It's been boring ever since! 

I'm taking Driver's Ed right now, I'm so ready to get my permit and eventually my licence!  

I can't wait!  Freedom, the open road, wind in my hair ect ect.....yeah now I'm just being sarcastic.  Hopefully I'll have my licence by Sep. of this year.  

Let's see what else....

OH the Springy weather!  It's so wonderful!  There's leaves on the trees and the grass is green on the earth is aLiVe!!:D  I woke up this morning early just as the sun was coming up and looked out the window above my head at the trees by the porch.  It was beautiful(:  

I can't wait for hot weather and swimming!  Hopefully I'll get to go stay some with Kate this summer too, along with helping ship B. Bros cattle out this July/Aug.  Me and ol Tonto wild be raring(metaphorically speaking haha) to go!  

I'm so ready to grow up.  I know, I sound like a typical 16 yr old and every body says "stop wanting to grow up!" but really i am ready!! I guess I've got nothing but time tho....

I guess that's all the rambling I can do for tonight, I gotta Saddles and Psalms meeting on Facebook with the girlies at 8!:)

Thanks for readin!

~Briggsie~