We had a lot of happenings this week. Saphira had her 6 pups and it has been storming with lots of rain and snow that melts when it hits the ground. We have been inventive in ways to keep our puppies and moms dry and warm. I had hoped for a home by now when I bred them. going to post the next 6 pups. Already sold one of them today.

  We have puppies!  Tiki and Launi had their last litters. we have a total of 11 between them  Tiki only had 4 so has taken one of Launi's to give Launi a break. We got our loan for our mobile home and are preparing the area we will be putting it on.
    Roy has also been working like a dog on the seasonal creek area. We just love it down there. The rain has brought much turbulence in the stream. Unfortunately we think the goldfish have been washed into Lake Oroville. Our Dam can only do so much when there is a torrent coming down.
   We are almost completely over the bug we had at Thanksgiving. Going to Portland to see Julie brought back some unexpected sickness. We thought we were going to die! We had a nice Thanksgiving at Kate's house in Stockton. That was so nice of her to have us over.
    We are going to have a quiet Christmas again this year. It has been kind of nice to just relax in a way. We sent Nate and Jared's packages yesterday and some for Kenny and Julie. Plan on getting together with Lisa and Jenny on New Years to exchange.
    Sadly my sister Karen lost her husband Jim after 40 some years of marriage. He is in a good place. We will miss him.
   We found out Nate will be home March 19th. Hopefully our mobile home will be in place by then. Don't really expect him to stay around long since he plans on heading to Utah.  so all is good for now.

November 2012

November is almost done. We had a good one. Excited to find out we will be getting a mobile home  hopefully by the end of February. We took the boat out on the lake a couple of times. It is good to be finally utilizing the lake after all the time we have been here. We got to explore Lake Oroville a bit more.
   This month we sold our pup Tinky. We decided to downsize a bit and hopefully will get there soon. It is just too much for me with all my health issues. I sit here now on antibiotics for Pneumonia.  Guess I just kept on going when I needed to rest. I did get back a clear result for my lung CT scan last month. What a blessing.
   This month, I was able to go to Portland to see Julie and family. It was Zane's birthday. And Thanksgiving was spent in Stockton with Darryl and Lisa and Antanella. It is wonderful to get to see our grandchildren. Jenny came also with Ethan when we were in Stockton.
    We are still working on our place and are currently working on fencing off the pasture area that we seeded. Hope to be able to save some on feed eventually. Roy also built a bridge over the creek at the bottom of the ravine. I love it down there. It is my favorite place to sit.
     Nate and Jared send home wonderful letters of their mission. We are grateful for their willingness to serve the Lord. It is getting closer for Nate to come home in March. Hope we have our home by then, altho we know he will end up in Utah eventually.
   So that is our update for now.

   I can't believe it is October already!  wow. A lot has happened in the last month. We put some money down on a mobile and did some paperwork to get it going and are awaiting now the appraisal. It is a big step but we are hoping to have it in by Christmas. Not looking forward to living in the smaller travel trailer. We are in a 35 foot (actually 33 feet) 1969 KenCraft trailer that we had to revamp to be livable. It will do for now. We sold our other trailer to have a downpayment on the mobile we are going to buy.  My biggest concern is the cut in the land where our mobile is going. The research I have done says to face it south for best results with heating and cooling with solar. Protect it from summer sun with awnings and use the sun for winter heat. I am worried about cutting into existing root systems of some of our oak trees. Then again we don't want them too close to the house since wildfires are a concern up here.
  I sold all my puppies!! I am keeping one black tri female from Onyxia named Tinky (Antanella named her). She is so sweet. Roy and I took a walk down to our creek and took her and Aussie with us. I am going to rename Aussie, Annastasia. And our new female also back from my friend and out of Onyxia has a funky name we decided to change from Angus to Angelea . So thinking I had a breather from puppies, I looked at my calendar and realized I am going to have more puppies born the first of December!! ugh! Winter pups are so hard to keep warm. I need to have my mobile in by then and then I can use my wash room for a whelping room.
    I had a nice birthday last month. Lisa and Jenny came up a few days before and we rode my horses. Fancy is sold now and I have Ruby and Blondie. It was a struggle to get on Ruby for me but I did with encouragement. After falling off Fancy last year, I have been gun shy about mounting. Don't want a broken back again!.
   Roy and I took the Kayaks out and found the orange one didn't fit him so we traded it for a canoe on craigslist and took it out and I fell in the lake when he tried to drop the prop into the water. It was a nice warm swim but I got a few bruises falling out. LOL   That spurred Roy into finally getting the jet boat going again and now we plan on taking it out next week for a test run.
  Life is full of adventures!  My CT scan came back clear for my lungs and I was thrilled. Happiness!!

Shooter

August 27th  We had a family reunion this month at a resort in Windsor. It was so nice to get our family together. We left on the 15th and came home on the 20th. Onyxia decided to have her pups 5 days early and lost two males (a red tri and a blue merle) but our neighbor Gail and friend Michelle were able to rescue the blue female and black tri female,  and Michelle took them home to make sure they thrived, which they did!
  We did an ocean trip to Bodega Bay and Goat Rock and went to a playground for the kids with a lake but mostly ate and swam and sat in the hottub and talked together. It was really nice and a nice place to be.
  We sold our travel trailer and have been looking for a mobile home and plan on using the money to put down on a down payment.  We are anxiously waiting for information back hoping we get one. In the meantime we moved into another OLD 1969 KenCraft 35 foot park model travel trailer and fixed it up enough to live in for the next 3 months. Another adventure!! So the days before and the days after the reunion have been spent moving, cleaning and organizing the two trailers. the one to prepare to move off the place and the other to live in. Roy has worked so hard to make it all possible.
    Our Female Aussie had her pups a couple days Early on the 23rd and had a litter of  blues! I was so shocked. no Black tri's. My friend Michelle female, Kalua, had a litter on the 12th from Kona and had 10 pups 3 blue males, 1 black female and 6 black males!!!

 

July was wonderful. Had a lot of hot weather but it is cooler up here in the mountains than in the valley. I noticed that the air quality was pretty bad in the valley when the fires were going and it was much better up here. I have a new horse named Blondie. She is a 13 year old paint and supposedly a quiet riding mare. So my Fancy mare is now back at the trainers being put on the market to be sold.  I traded the last of my puppies toward her. It is nice to be able to do that sometimes. We will be expecting a couple of litters with Onyxia and Shooter (from snoroseranch.com) and Aussie and Teddy.
  We placed our old faithful dog, Callie in a nice home up in Paradise where she will get the doting and love she so much craved. We are hoping to get a mobile in place by Thanksgiving. Hope all goes well with the loan company. We will be going to a time share in Windsor Ca for a family reunion in August and  looking forward to seeing grandkids and children that we miss so.