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I don’t think I have told u about my new horse yet. Well I got him a couple of months ago.
He’s a Modern Haflinger colt out of one of the best Modern Haflinger stallions. His mom is a really good brood mare, she is so well tempered. She’s what u would call a bomb proof horse. So with her being so sweet that then transfers over to Magic.
He’s going to be our ranch stallion. I’m going to show him in a lot of shows and try to get himself a really good name in the Haflinger world. I hope he will be really tall, at least as tall as my Major. Major is 15.1 which is pretty tall for Haflinger.
Ok, well that’s my new horse that I’m pretty excited about. If u have any suggestions for training a colt please tell. Thanks for reading!!!
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I had a very unusual and busy weekend. I had three girl friends over Friday night. We went and got pizza then goofed around out in the horse pasture. Then I think we went to my room and started to joke around again . We fell asleep somewhere around there.
So here is where we get to the unusual part….
We woke up around 6:30, got up and got dressed; we then proceed to put the cage that had all our roosters in it in the bed of the truck. We then went to the gas station to get some donuts. We went to a ladies house that my sister new. We took them to her back yard and she taugh us how to take a live chicken and put it on the table for dinner. (She taught us how to kill them and cut them all up.) We got a lot of meat out of all of them. So yes it was a very unusual morning.
So after that things got more normal we than went home and we put all of the cut up chickens in a cold water. We went to subway after that and had a great time there joking around.
We then went home went riding and had an awesome time.
While I’m talking about horses I don’t think I told u about the horse that I’m now trying to sell.
I have been trying to sell her before she goes home in two weeks, I have been working with her every day that I can. She is a very sweet horse and she learns really well. I also think she will get better with age.
Ok moving on we then went to pick apples.
Witch I will tell u later what we did with them Monday . We also took a lot of fun and random pics. So after that my two friends Miriam & Marah went home.
But my friend Savannah stayed the night again we went to Wal-Mart and Target, we got some apple cider, snacks,” Iran Man” , and a couple other things. So we went home watched the movie ate the snacks then we went to bed…. (Man was I tired!!!!)
So the next day we woke up straiten the house and got my dad out on the horses for the first time ever on our horses. That was so much fun and the Major the horse my dad rode, was really really good. ( He use to be my bucking horse)
We got done just in time for church. Before it started my dad, Savannah and I ran and got some donuts for everyone. We had a really good serves. After that Sav and I gave the kids a trail ride with the horses. O and my mom served one of the big chickens for lunch it was really good.
Ok well that was my weekend but the fun dint stop there. Today we went over to my fiends house Miriam and Marah and them and their mom taught us how to can tomatoes & apples, make apple pie, and how to make bread for pizza. We used the apples we picked sat.
So that was what we have done so far, but tomorrow I am going out to eat with a couple of my friends. The rest of the week is pretty full to but I won’t go in to that right now.
Ok well that was my weekend.
Hope u have a good week!!! Rachel |
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We went to "TSC"
We had bought a little paddle boat last time we were there, and they where supposed to deliver it, but they never came. So we decided we better check on it.....
  Well, we were walking around the store again and we went by where the chickens were ....
 There were the cutest DUCKS!!!!!!!!!
We showed my dad and he said we could get four. Josh, Ruthie, Jacob, and me all picked out one.
  They are living with the chickens for now. When they get older we are going to build them a shelter on the island.
As they grow, they will turn into white ducks, but they won't be able to fly, we've been told. They can stand the cold winters we get,
So they sound like really good ducks.
 The guy there told us that since they will kinda resemble a swan, they will keep the geese away.. Which is really really good!!
  Well, my mom and I went to Shipawana on Tuesday. It was a lot of fun and I will write about it on Sat if I get a chance... Whenever I do write about it I will tell you what other farm animal we bought while we where there.......
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About a year ago I got to completely redo my bedroom. My mom and I had a hard time deciding on what we wanted to do in there, but we finally decided that we would do a "Western Themed "
bedroom, special effect paint, and wood floor.
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My Bed  My mom wanted an "organic mattress," and probably as all of you are thinking, my family also thought that was "crazy." Many many jokes were made out of the "organic mattress," but in the end we got an organic mattress, and a free organic pillow. Now every time someone comes up to my bedroom, lays on my bed, and puts their head on my pillow, they tell me that they are going to take it, or say that they wish they had one. So if you haven't caught on yet, my "organic mattress" is very very very comfy, and "Healthy."
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My Dresser
 A couple things have changed in this pic since it was taken. The doors are now painted white and there is a pic above the dresser.
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My Night Stand
 The dresser, bed, and the night stand are all made out of
cedar wood by the Amish.
The wood smells so so so good. For about a month my mom kept stopping by my room and just sticking her head in to smell it.
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This is the paint color in my room.
 The color that is on my ceiling is the color that is under the orange that is on my walls. Every day for about a week the color on my wall would change and look a little different
 It was a lot of fun to come into the room every day and see how the paint had changed !!!!
There was three steps to getting my paint to be that color. I don't have a pic of the first but it was a solid color. Then we painted small Xs all over that, and that was step 2. Then we painted small Xs over step 2 and that was step 3, and we get our final color.
Step 1
Paint a solid color of some type of blue.
Step 2
My Ceiling ^^^
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My Wood Floor
 This wood floor is not an every day wood floor. It is the original wood floor that was put in when the house was built 150 years ago. We stained the wood floor two or three times and I think it looks beautiful, but maybe that's just me.....
This is what it looked like before we stained it.
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My View
 This window is the right window in the pic below,
And this one is the left one in the pic above.
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 When people see my bed they always say that it looks like you could hitch a horse up to it.
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Guess what !!!
We got more pets, to be exact, 18 more pets. Before I tell you what kind of animals we got, I am going to tell you how we went about getting them................
Last Sat I got home from a sleep over at around 1:00 or something like that. My friends and I went riding and had a lot of fun. We rode in saddles around the trails, but before they went home we rode a little bit bare back. Bare back is my favorite way to ride!!!!!!! So much fun!!
 Well, anyway I'll get on with my day.....
They went home after that, and my family
then went out to eat with my brother and his wife.
So after that we went to "TSC" cause my dad needed some work boots. So when we were in there we were all looking around cause it's a really fun store to look at every thing in there.
So as we are looking around, we see that they have Chickens for sale.
 They are so so so cute.
We showed my dad and he started talking to the guy that was helping us.
And what do you know.......
 My cat thinking we brought dinner for him for a month!!
We come home with a chicken coop in the back of our truck, things for the chickens and the coop, and 18 baby chickens!!!! When we left our house a couple of hours ago we had no idea that we would be coming home with chickens!!!!!!  My brother and his wife had gone home and were in their yard playing with their dogs when we got home. We were driving down our drive way when my brother looked at us. His mouth dropped and he started to point and said,
"Is that a a Chick Chicken coop?"
I think he was more surprised than us that we had bought chickens.
 Our family is extremely spontaneous!!!!!
As you can tell........
 Well, the chickens are doing great, growing fast, but doing good.
 So if any of you have any suggestions on rasing chickens, we would greatly appreciate it !!!! Considering the fact that we have no idea how to raise them.......
 So that's one of the things that is new around here...
There's a couple more things that I am going to blog about that are new, but this is the most recent and the most interesting.
Rachel
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Hey how are all of you doing? I'm doing really well. I am going to try to training some of my horses tomorrow sometime. They are being kinda bad.=( I said I would tell you about the New Year thing so here you go................ It was a lottttttttttttttttttttttt of fun we played a lot of games, ate hot dogs, and played some more games....... There was some really loud music, but they only played that when we were so pose to be singing... They talked about "Why Not Now". Why not asks Jesus into your heart right now is what they talked about. It was really good, and I really learned a lot from it.................. Ok, will I am going to try to write late. So I guess that’s it. I will tell you the horse training went........ These are some pics I really liked......................................................... All of these pics came from Ranch Shekinah .
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