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Today was such a fun day for me, I took my gelding Mick and we went to Lake Texoma for a trail ride.  We met my daughter and some other friends and rode for about 4 hours.  The weather was wonderful and even if the trails were a little muddy, mostly everything was great.  I didn’t realize how MUCH I missed my rides.  I quit barrel racing because of my bad knee, and when I did I lost a really big portion of my social life.   It’s hard to find women of my age that ride, or for that matter have the time to ride.  I’m lucky that way, being sort of retired,(you know my husband is retired, but I still have all my housewife things to do) I have more time that a lot of women who are still working.  Riding here on the place by myself is just not as much fun.  I did a lot of that when I raced, had to keep Mick in shape to run.  I really enjoy just moseying along and not have to go if the weather is bad or something else comes up that I need to do I don’t feel like I have to choose—just go another day.  Rachel has found an association that does competitive trail riding–not the go as hard as you can for 6-8 hours kind.  But one that does short rides with easy trail obstacles that sounds like a lot of fun.  We are going to check it out.  I do need to get back to riding.  I can’t remember when I felt so relaxed and mellow.  Also another good reason to get on with the weight loss.          I hope you all had a great week end to.  Happy Trails.

Can you believe it?  Donuts in the kitchen and I have eaten only one?  Yep that’s right, ONE.  I’ve read that book Debra clued me in on and taken to heart some of the ideas that were in there.  THE MOST IMPORTANT one for me was ask yourself if you’re really hungry before you eat. And paying attention to what you are doing, if you want to eat, then eat, don’t do something else along with that.  This has been hard–not reading, or walking around with a sandwich, or watching TV.    I have only been doing this for four days now, so it’s really new, but asking that question of myself, then really paying attention to the answer,and paying attention to EATING,  has had a big effect on me.  I know that it isn’t that easy, but this one thing has made a real difference in my eating!  Paying attention to what and why I am eating it seems so simple, but after I thought about it, I realized that a lot of the time, I was eating because it was “time” to eat, or I didn’t have anything else to do.  There are some tricks in the book to use to help you along and the CD alone is worth the price—you are to  listen to it everyday for 2 weeks—, but I’ll wear it out, I put it on right as I am going to bed and listen, it relaxes me and helps me sleep so soundly.  I swear I have been feeling better and have more energy in four days.  Now don’t get me wrong—there are some visualization drills that you do that I struggle with.  I’m just not good at “seeing things in my head”.  But I figure that trying is worth something.  I know this is not a quick fix for me, but I’m liking what is going one.  The scale will tell the tale I guess.  We’ll see.   

REBA ON PARADE

Hey ya’ll got up this morning a despite it being gloomy, my friend Barb and I took Reba and went to be in the Centennial Parade at Coleman,OK.  A small community about 10 miles from where we live.  They had antique cars, tractors, horses,bicycles, an a couple of floats!  It’s a little spot on the highway, with a couple of churches, a school, a coulpe of convience stores, and a post office.  But , today there was a traffic jam in downtown Coleman!  We had a fun time, it is so funny to watch people—-they’ll spot the car, have a good look–then they’ll look up to check out whose driving such a cool piece of work.  SURPRISE!!!!  Everyone all ways has a big grin when the see me behind the wheel.  Wonder if they wanted a Mustang when they were growing up?                                                                                                                                                     Weather was supposed to cooperate today, but so far not a sign of the sun–I’ve turned on the heaters in the house and am planning on settleing in with some hot tea and watch a little college football.  This cold I have is not doing me any favors by going away fast.   My daughter and her “boy” friend are out riding today,in spite of the weather, she is taking a coulpe of days for herself, going to a friends and hang out with no responsibilities, John will go home and take care of the animals, and Josh is at his Dad’s until Sunday night.  Bless her heart she needs a little down time, this has been a really bad year—I h ope to goodness next year is better.  Hope you all have a great weekend.

ok here is the deal, I know some of you have tons of buddies, so when you have some that haven’t been on in months, you think they probably have checked out, to you delete them from your buddylist and move the ones that you keep in touch with up on the list or what.   I don’t know about you all, but I have just a few buddies that I really talk to, everyone on here has been really nice, but after all you can only follow so many.  When I have time I go through and check out the blogs and I always find something good in the ones I read, but my time is limited  so I never get to ALL of them.  What do you guys do?                                    Don’t think I’ve gone away if I’m not here for a few days, I’ve been in the doctors’ office with Josh the last two days, and I swear I caught something while I was there,(you can’t not breathe you know) , I just don’t feel right no real symptoms yet….just not right.  Josh had to check and see if he had asthma(he does got meds).  Then then next day some idiot at school put him in a head lock and hurt his neck, so back to the dr to check that out.  Thanks goodness a chiropractor visit took care of it. I really didn’t care for the attitude at the school, ASD if the kid did it again, (this was his 3rd time to do something like this), just a boys will be boys attitude I don’t care for.  Grabbing some one from behind with a headlock and pulling them off their feet isn’t just horse play in my book.   I guess we should be thankful he doesn’t have a broken neck or some kind of spinal injury or worse.  I don’t know if the kid even realized he could have killed Josh doing what he did.  Anyway, two trips to the doctor in 3 days, with all those bugs floating in the air, just the    place I want be!                                                                                                                                                                        It’s still raining here, we have had tons, and I feel a big pot of stew coming on, so I’ll have to be really strict with myself, no big pan of cornbread to go along with it!  Nothing like a stew for rainy, cold weather, and cornbread just makes it better.  I have found that not having something around to tempt me is the better part of valor as far as I am concerned!   Hope you all are doing good and getting ready for a fun weekend.  If I’m not sick, a friend and I are taking REBA to a parade Saturday, a centennial celebration for a little town up the road, they are having a parade and a antique car show, so I think we’ll go.  Take care and be good.