How On Earth?

Is it almost the weekend again?

Wasn't it just yesterday when I posted?

Guess not.

We have had some cooler temps around here, the monsoons moved in. I LOVE clouds!! Big, shady clouds.

I will not even complain about the humidity that comes with the monsoons. It just feels wonderful to be back into the high 80's-low 90's.

CdnCowgirl asked what a swamp cooler was? It is this...
A metal box attached to your roof (or in a window) that has a fan and a water line attached. In arid places such as the extreme western Colorado (and any desert place), these work darn near as good as an air conditioner. The water is pumped into filters that line the insides of the metal box and the fan blows the water cooled air into the house. They do not work so well when you get a bit of humidity in the air though.

As requested, more pics of big Sandy...

Hes a brute of a horse. Shows every single inch of his 'Bert'...

And Blackburn...
breeding. Both foundation sires, although they lacked 'pretty' produced tremendous using horses. If I had not run barrels on this horse's 1/2 sister (same dam), I'm not sure I would believe he had the capacity for speed. His hulking physic and slow moving nature is deceptive. I heard a great story about my brother and a friend of his pitting this horse against a Freckles Playboy bred horse in a little good natured cutting competition. Sandy showed that finished cutting horse a good what for in the cutting and then went on to show them how roping a bull and dragging him into the trailer was supposed to go. The bull didn't stand a chance.

All well and good, but that doesn't necessarily translate into barrel horse potential, until we sent Sandy to a friend of ours who rides for big ranches in the sandhills of NE. The man glowed when he told us he was never, not once, outrun by a yearling in the pasture. Now that shows speed. Yearling bovine are quite fleet of foot when they throw that tail over their back and head for the hills. Not only could they not outrun the horse, they could not out duck and dive him either. Yea, he'll make a barrel horse. A very deceptive one at that-LOL.

Oh, and lookie here...
My Blue Andalusian (who is actually black) has started laying eggs.

Aren't they cute compared to a regular 'large' egg?...
They'll get bigger. Pullet eggs are always small.

The two remaining hens are only 5 months old, so I was really surprised she started spitting out eggs. The other hen is supposed to lay green eggs.

We never did find a single live chicken after the great break-in debacle. We were a very sad crew around here for a very long time after that. But we will try again next year. We might be minus one dog before that happens, but maybe he learned his lesson.