A Beautiful White Christmas

I know, I know...many of you are really tired of the white stuff. Recently you've had an overdose of the stuff. But, we had a nice lil' storm blow through last night and give us 4-6 inches of new, powdery stuff...then the sun broke through the clouds about mid morning and the world was right!


Christmas with just My Man and I is a pretty quiet affair. We're up at the usual 6 a.m. and having coffee by the wood stove; this mornin' there's a lil' Baileys in it...Yum! After the first cup, My Man headed out to feed the herd, and I popped the French Toast Casserole in the oven and caught up on some blogs and Dogster.

Then, it's time for presents!! My Man was way too good to me...as usual.

Lets see a couple of books, a Montana Silversmiths belt buckle, a set of western plates for the horse trailer, and the biggie~~~a hackamore and mecate rein (similar to the one in the photo). Well, Dan Fowler is the maker and is really backed up; I won't actually get it until February.

The hackamore in the photo I won with the cutting club last year and was made by Dan...it's the softest, smoothest kangaroo hide. He's a true craftsman with leather braiding. But, I need a larger one (bigger around) to start Colt and show him in. The one I have is for when I ride him in the two rein the following year.
So, I'm really excited to get started on this new phase of his training!!

As we're eating breakfast, here comes the Wild Bunch down the hill for breakfast. Look at the snow on Catnip & Stetson!


It's time to get outside to check out the snow and see what I can find interesting.

Coyote is the first to the fence..."Take my picture!"

Stetson is like a woolly mammoth...him & Catnip have snow
on their backs (and their heads) all the time...their undercoat is really thick.

My Man is playing with his tractor...plowing snow is one of his favorites!

We walked up the hill behind the house...nice horse trail through
the snow heading toward the west hill.

Cindy Sue's in hot pursuit of some Chuckers...she's really
a big dog in a small body!

Cowboy is checking over the edge...he's scaring
me there...it's straight down a good 50 feet!

There's the Wild Bunch running across their paddock.

Ok, I had to step on the edge where
Cowboy did to get this shot!

Ok, we're off the hill..that was fun!

Brego's trying to get a lil' attention.

But Colt won't get away from me far enough to take any pics!
He's such a clown...playin' with a weed.

Whiskey says he likes the sunshine and is ready for spring!


Are you?