Going on Diet the South Beach way! Getting down and dirty!

This weekend Aly and I ate so much junk food and drank way to much good tasting and extremely fattening stuff!! I picked up 3 pounds, YEAH I know right!! LOL. So we are starting the South Beach Diet. Every morning shot of Apple Cider Vinigar, and our South Beach Bars... At lunch our South beach bars... For dinner, our South Beach Bars! LOL, okay its not that bad we are just not allowed high calorie foods, so pretty much chicken and salads, a lot of cabbage, fruit and we are allowed small snacks like crackers and cream cheese etc.

My roasties are looking pretty horrible at the moment, omw, I burnt my nose yesterday and it is red, haha I look like Rudolf!! Aly’s finger is looking horrible there is defiantly some hardcore break in it. Muscles are still aching, tubing is dangerous! LoL, even with the serious muscles I’m growing. It was so funny the other day I was chatting to Brandon and when I showed him my arms he told me they were probably bigger than his!

Oh yes, I got a new bangle, again... I have a bangle tan because I have so many on my wrist. Got a new one from New Melonies Lake. PEACE! Lol. Aly and I also got matching ankle bracelets! I’m trying to remember all the things I left out of my post yesterday... Thinking thinking. J

Oh yeah on the ride yesterday we found this really pretty waterfall, obviously its not flowing now, but when the rainy season comes it will be gorgeous! The weather has already started to cool down a bit here. I think the highs are about 97 this week which is pretty great.

We got a show jacket for me yesterday, we still need to find crème jods... For the Hunter classes you can’t wear white. So jods and boots next. You are not allowed to show in jodhpur boots and gaiters, you have to have full boots.

So today we decided to take thedrag up to the top arena and drag the whole thing. Aly and I were caked in dirt!! I was in black pants and a black shirt and it was now tan! My hair was so light you couldn’t see my streeks. Aly could not even see out her glasses! The amount of dirt on us was hilarious! We just kept laughing and getting more dirty! I eventually had dirt caked on my eyelashes! It was super funny!

Our diet is going well, we are still following it! LOL, it was just a little difficult to not eat more and try get used to a bar for a meal. All is going good otherwise! ^^) We finally went to the council again and all the papers are good right now for the barn! Can’t wait to put it up!! Oh yeah, Pinky is okay J She is a little stiff but she is looking perky! The calves are now eating calf starter and Belle and Rowdy both drinking out of buckets. We are just waiting for Charlie to catch on. 

Us ranch girls are all battered up!

The rest of this week was a great one, We got another feeder calf who is really cute. We named him Charlie. ^^) On Wednesday Aly had to work again, so I spend most of the day staining the deck. It was so hot on Wednesday to the point where I was dripping with sweat! It was hardcore!

G and I are getting better with the dressage, there are still a few things we need to work on because the last girl who rode him would ride only with his face, which makes him stronger and stronger. So I have to spend a lot of time bumping him off with my leg instead. We have finally gotten the show entries in! I am doing a bunch of Hunter classes and a bunch on dressage tests.  We are leaving the ranch on Thursday morning staying over with the big horse trailer and then probably coming home on the Saturday evening. My Hunter classes are all on Friday and the dressage all on Saturday! Super excited! ^^)

We got loads done as usual and ran around like mad this week! This weekend was a pretty heavy weekend! I have not felt so beat up since I’ve been here as I do right now. I worked my ass off literally this week! Sweated way half of the rest of me! LOL<, just kidding! I wish!!

Friday we spend most of the day at the auction came home with a 700lbs Heafer Calf and a feeder calf. I swear we never leave without buying something from the auction. We invited Kent, Javier, Jordan and Chris over for a couple rounds of beer pong... I will stop right there... This is where all my injuries started. I came out of that one with a bruised but and thigh, a bump on my head and the roasties from a little earlier on! I guess thats what happens when you put a quad and a leadrope together, I have the worst roasties on my arm like ever, and omw are they sore! I’ll put pics on facebook.

Saturday morning was a usual work in the sun doing landscaping. Somehow, Jordan and Chris were still here, so we decided to cook this huge breakfast and stuff our faces! ^^) Great job! Riding later that afternoon in the sun pretty much killed Aly and I. Then where we got some more thigh bruises, feeding the calves! Rowdy and Charlie are getting extremely push and pretty much head butting us off our feet! Its pretty hilarious!! Painful at times, but we just laugh at eachother! They are so fast to that you can run flat out and they are still trailing right behind you. We went to the movies on Saturday night and watched the new Expendables! LOL, it was pretty brilliant! Was a great laugh.

Sunday we were up bright and early again to start up the landscaping again and finish my dressage tests and stuff J Then we decide to go off to the lake. We spend about 7 hours on the water, so thats where the sunburn came from. We bought a new twoman tube, the injuries continue... Then we start pulling the tube off the tower. One minute hello Tarryn, nex minute, Holy crap!! She’s flying... Haha, was pretty crazy!!! I sadley had to come down at some point, and yes it was like hitting a concrete wall, with my face, I literally got the wind knocked out of me. So I started getting brave again and I’m working my arms then my legs, so they are all stiff, not to mention the bruised on my shins from the tubing. I think I got winded at least 3 times and sprained my wrist the one time and was rocking a super headache! Then to add to it, tubing with Aly we both got whiplash a couple of times.

All I can say is thank goodness for the hot tub, Helps with all the aches and pains... Well we get home from the lake and its time to feed calves(in the dark) We get the quad out and we are driving along the fence and bam! A piece catches the quad and breaks Aly’s finger... Yip so we are filled with cuts and bruises and aching and broken parts! Very hard week for us! Aftewr the lake the usual pitstop in at the OC for burgers and then off home...

Monday morning, up early again to go on a ride with Jords and Aly... Yip once again bruises from our bratty horses. Splinters from fences and a couple more bruises.  BUT HEY, ALWAYS A GREAT LAUGH WITH GREAT COMPANY AND SUPER GREAT MEMORIES! We ran around like crazy today with all the shopping and stuff we had to do. Sadly we had to end the day with Cara and Via trying to take down a pig which was not to great, but we hope she pulls through. If not we are just gona have more sausage!

There is looooooads missing between but I’m sure you are getting tired of hearing it! LOL, anywho. Goodluck to Taratay for their show in Linbro this weekend!! Show them how its done! I will be at the Mother Lode Morgan Horse Show next weekend, wish me luck! J

Taz

Spending time with friends! Feeling a little less beat up.

So yeah I am having a great time making friends here and we are all just hanging out doing fun things, working hard and generally always having a laugh!! This morning when I got up it was super dark and I was tripping over everything when feeding everyone. At one point I tripped over my own feet! It was hilarious. Anywho, Got everyone fed and happy J Geez, trying to feed both those calves at the same time is almost impossible. Belle stands perfectly and sucks away while Rowdy is knocking me off my feet and jabbing me with the bottle, therefore pulling the bottle out of belles mouth... Gawsh it was a mission, but they are still cute as can be! They ran after me today for about 20 mins I could not get away from them, running flat out with these two crazy girls running after me.

So we then go for our ride, we rode for about 4 hours this morning. The weather was great for once. It was cloudy and there was a breeze which was great!! That lasted about half the ride then the sun showed his dominance and burnt them away. The rest of the ride we pretty much baked... Like cookies! We found this old cemetery on Mary-Anne’s property that was pretty trippy. All the headstones had fallen over, there was one standing and it was a wooden one that the engravings had worn off. There were loads of sunken in bits but it was pretty cool. They had died between 1860 and 1875. Most of them really young, like 2 and 17. What is weird though is that on the headstones they put the months too, like 2 years and 6 months or 17 years and 9 months. I wonder why they would do that.

Jordan and I are going to research why they did that. Another thing we want to know is why there is one white granite rock at every corner of the rock walls. Will let you know as soon as I do. ^^)  By this point we were already lost and it took a while to find our bearings and we eventually rode home. We had a pretty pleasant ride.

We then went through to Oakdale and stopped in at the Cowboy Museum which was pretty cool. Then off to the pool to have a swim and chill. Almost killed myself on the diving board a couple of times doing my ‘sweet’ ticks... Hehe. So then we went off to Tractor supply, went for root beer floats and then back home. It was a pretty chilled day. Had a good time with Jordan. J

My calf is still hurting when I don’t use it for a while and then have to walk on it. It seems to be fine though if I keep on using it. My back isn’t too sore anymore which is great! My yellow jacket bite is a little swollen and itchy but its not getting worse. ^^) And as for the headache, constant!

Still haven't found the camera so can't put those pics up :( Putting up the ones from today though! 

Can’t believe that its already the middle of August!! Its crazy! J  Anywho, Stay fab!!

XxxX

Tazzy

A productive week, A literally “crappy” day, a perfect weekend and a beating Monday!

I’m sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I have been so busy it is crazy! Lol. We got a lot done this week that we wanted to. We fixed the hog pens, to try keep the ducks from eating the pig feed. We painted the small boat all camo colours so that it looks like reeds for when we go fishing. Stained the deck. Been bottling calves and tagged them. There were a few small things we got done too that I can’t really think of right now. We moved stuff from the big tack room to the new tack room and a bunch more J

Friday was apparently just not my day!! Started off as usual, feeding everyone etc. I did notice though that the surrogate hen lost another baby, so she has 8 yellow and 10 black babies now, that’s a serious amount of kids to look after and she is doing great! She has only lost 5 so far and she is a first time mom so I think she is doing pretty well. G decided that he would break out that morning and be miles out in the field with the mares. So I trek across the pasture, pretty much all the way to the border fence in my pj’s!! LOL, Yeah I rocked it! Alyson finds it hilarious that I do all these strange things, lol, she calls me weird... So I ride G back to the ranch (in my pj’s) ;) then carry on with the day.

Friday is Auction day so we decide to take ducks to the sale. Me being a bright spark decide to put all the wrong ducks in the kennel, so I now had to take them out after they had shat all over the kennel. This is where my shitty day started! Covered in duck crap. So I get all cleaned up and off the the sale we go! Aly as usual gets into the conversation and we miss our turn, lol. We are so used to it now we just laugh and carry on. There was a guy that was selling poodle pups!! Alyson’s weakness!! LOL, originally when Aly went to get a poodle it was supposed to be a black male and then she came home with Gemma a white mini poodle!! J Hehe, anyway yeah we bought a black teacup poodle! He is really so tiny and the cutest thing ever!

We are sitting in the action hall with the puppy and they start brining feeder calves through. There was this really big and strong looking calf and well Aly raised her hand we got it for $38 which is a really good price for a feeder. Generally they can go between $100 and $250 for one calf. Then another really cute and little calf comes by and yeah we got her for $18 which is a REALLY great price, like we seriously scored! Then our poor little $5 calf came through, he was in really bad shape and they just said he needed some TLC so we got him anyway. Now we think we are done and as we are about to leave and “Pistol P”, the poodle puppy decides to pee on my lap! So number two for the day!! We left the auction to go fetch the trailer because we never thought we were going to come home with some more critters.

We get home finally and I can change my pants, we grab the trailer and truck back to the sale to fetch our babies. We get home and I start unloading the calves, they were in such bad shape I had to carry them out, I got the first two girls out and guess what...n I was now covered in cow shit... Number 3 now over with!! When I went to grab the next calf I noticed he had a broken leg... Thats obviously why they carried him across the sale pen, but they never mentioned that he had a broken leg. We filled them up with milk and water to rehydrate them and they started looking a little more perky. It was a little horrible though to watch the little guy try stand up with no leg, his shoulder was completely out and his bone broken right by his pastern. Was so sad, so we just bandaged him up and kept feeding him and maybe hoping he would get somewhere.

Matt came over to visit with his 8 little sale goats to come visit. Now these are the most horrible goats ever. They arrived at the auction in a hummer, with little goat collars on and they arethe most vicious horrible things, they bite you and they are just terrible things... LOL, I hope you noticed the sarcasm, for those of you who didn’t its okay! They are the cutest, they remind me of Mavis our little mountain goat. They are just smaller but just as friendly and the ‘Vicious biting’ is them trying to nurse.

So Aly and Matt decide that they want to castrate Lady’s man, our male pig. I was not particularly happy about that so we made a deal, I would catch him and then I could walk away... Needless to say that never happened. I couldn’t catch him so Matt did and he screamed like there was no tomorrow, it was horrible. So Matt now has this pig and Aly tells me to sit down, for a minute I was thinking HELL NO I’m not doing this and yeah I stepped up sat down. Matt showed me how to hold its legs and keep it between my legs a bit and Matt sliced the little thing open. The screams were crazy!! OMW, I had such a headache but yes now for number 4 I was covered in pig shit, mud and on top of that his ball sack blood.  But yes Aly was proud of me cause I manned up and got the job done. I think my ears are still ringing.

To end Friday off we needed some girly time! So we got all dressed up and went out. We had a really great night Aly and I danced our butts off while Russ and Danny played pool. It was a great night, real good start to the weekend!

Saturday morning comes and yeah up extra early to start Landscaping... This is a project that Aly has wanted to start for a while. It involves moving dirt from pile to a new pile where Aly wants her mountain like dessert garden, moving huge boulders from pile to a new pile where Aly wants to border her mountain like dessert garden. It was an exceptionally hot weekend, so we decided to stop working so hard at about 2 and took the little dingy to Salt Springs to putter around and cool off. It was really nice Aly and I just chilled. Then we got home late as usual, and were in trouble with Russ as usual!! LOL. Being late and we both still needed to shower and get ready!

We got all dressed up and looking good again to go off to Dave’s house for a party. Matt cooked a pig in a barrel, omw it was soo good! It was actually a small pig but tasty. That was also a great night. Met so many great people, and had a great time with my friends... LOL J

Sunday morning, up really early again, by now I was really tired from going to bed 1:30am and up at 4:00am two days in a row. The sun also pretty much takes the life out of you! We continue with the landscaping though... All morning, stacking boulders and rocks to make a wall. It looks really good so far actually. It is so hot though, like every 10 minutes or so you feel dizey and have to sit down. I hate the feeling but I guess it could be worse! Like I could be living in Arizona! At about noon Russ came out to ask us if we wanted to go to the lake, Aly and I were like Heeeeell yeah!

Jordan(Kent’s Niece) and Javier joined us on the boat and then we met up with Chris and a bunch of their friends on Kurts boat and Kelly and a bunch of her friends on their boat. Party in the cove! LoL, its great back there to just float around in the water with a drink while its so hot! We had a good time tubing too, we never tried the water-skis though, so that’s next weeks laugh! We were so tired we literally got home and passed out!

This morning another early start! Fed all the animals etc. It was Chris’s first time feeding a calf this morning, it was Hilarius!! Chris is so full of crap I’m glad he got some crap from that calf! The one is so strong she pushes you over and knocks the bottle around, Aly and I have bruises from her ramming us! Therefore her name is Rowdy, Aly’s calf. My calf is the cutest little thing, she is little and cuter than cute, I named her Belle. Oh yeah I named my pig Goat... J Just cause I am weird like that!

So Jordan, Aly and I got the big trailer hooked up to the truck, got all the tack in and fetched the ponies and off we went to Matts place up by Red Ranch. In fetching the horses I got stung again by another yellow jacket on the wrist, it swelled up so fast I now have a fat wrist! We had a great ride, even though it was stupidly hot!! Honey also decided that my calf was a good place to stand on and that made me a little lame. I think Matt now finds it funny to give me crap about all the animals, like telling me I should make slappers out of my puppy, or how I was the one that hurt the pig cause I was holding him! So I think he intentionally wants me to help just so he can give me crap. He asked me to help him put bands on the goats, so I’m now the horrible person again cause I grabbed all his goats and held them down while he banded them.

It was so hot at one point Jordan and I could not handle it so we went into the trailer and turned the a/c . We then climbed up into the bed to get closer to it and we both passed out in the living quarters. That was such a good power nap! J Then we trailed the babies home... Did the usual afternoon ranch stuff and now I am entirely tired and need to pass out!

Have to be up early again tomorrow because Jordan and I are going riding in the morning. We are riding up to a really old peasant graveyard where the headstones are even still made of wood. That should be fun! Then I have to finish staining the deck and look after Mr Pistol and the baby calves. I think tomorrow might have to be a slow day cause I’m limping like a tonsil... Need to rest my leg, I am so going in the hot tub, soak my bones!! J

Oh, I still haven’t found the stupid camera so I can’t put up my bday photos, will get them up asap, as soon as I find the camera! ^^) I probably missed out loads of the weekend, I’ll add on if I remember anything grand J

PEACE LOVE and COOKIES!!!

XxxX

Tazzy

My birthday weekend! -- Monday again, lol, along with grass rash!

05 August 2012 

Well! Talk about freaking amazing!! So the morning started off rrrreaaaallly early. Seeing as it was my birthday I finally got to open my present that my gran sent me! OMW! It is a gorgeous silver and pink jewellery set. Leaves, sparkles it is simply gorgeous!! I love it! Thank you soo much gran and grandpa!! ^^) Then to get the horses loaded up and ready to travel... We decided that morning that we were taking Ellie and Happy, both beautiful little mares. Ellie is actually Happy’s only foal that she ever had, the rest have not survived sadly! Ellie is a perfect Morgan mare, perfect confirmation and colour and a real great personality. Imagine the other perfect little babies Happy would have had. ^^)

Anyway, we drive all the way to Wolf Creek and the drive up there was so great. We drove over the Sierra Nevada’s. Then got to wolf creek and rode in them. It was breath taking, riding on these trails along the side of the creek, riding in great big forests with all kinds of trees, then through great big green meadows that almost look like an oil painting! Words can hardly describe it!! It is crazy. The girls were so good, up huge rocky embankments, down river beds, swimming in the creek. It was such a great way to spend my birthday! Doing something I love with all my heart and in such an amazing place!!

We found this perfect chill session rock in the creek so we tied the horses up, took off our clothes and went for a swim. The water was freezing, because it is the snow melt water, you do get used to it after a while! So after that we rode a bit more up the hill. There were some really steep places where I had to remind Aly we had to come back down that way lol. We did them both up and down, the mares were super duper! Those two horses are turning into great horses!  We eventually rode the trail back to the truck and the two girls were so good, they knew they had gotten back to where they hopped out.

We then drove into Nevada to go to Steve’s and Karren’s place for a Barbie. They surprised me with a birthday cake and singing, it was really great! Thank you guys sooo much!! ^^) I fell inlove with Steve’s dogs they are too beautiful... Great big Malamutes! Really gorgeous! I could not wait to have a shower, and yes... I slept in a bed just cause I’m cool like that! Alyson slept under the stars in the truck, bigger balls than me! Hehe, half way through the night I was freezing and had to turn the fan off and get under the covers, so I don’t know how she survived, lol. I also met Eric and Chris for the first time, Aly;s other brother and wife.

Then for the drive back, it was soo pretty we went past Lake Tahoe, which is HUGE, and soo pretty Gawsh!! Hehe, it was cool to drive through there. Then going through the mountains I could see Heaven’s Ski Resort, there was no snow up near the runs but there was snow on a couple of the other mountains! I really cannot get over how amazing all the different places I have been to here so far are! Its crazy!! ^^) So Hawaii next?? ;) Maybe!!

We got back Saturday and then went up to Sam’s for a Barbie, had a great night. J Sunday was a really chilled day, Made breakfast with Chris, Kurt and his girlfriend. Later on we ended up playing cards and watching loads of hilarious and utterly stupid stuff on tv! LOL, was nice to have a relaxing day.

So all in All I had a greeeeaaaat birthday weekend!! Thank you to everyone for the wishes!

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06 August 2012 

So today G was a little bit of a pain, probably cause he got the weekend off, but he is still one super horse! Wow, he can so freaking jump!!  Its crazy!!  Then went on to work on the stalls again. We are getting further. So far we have laid the floor bars and bolted the steel down. I have taken the planks off of the old posts, which was such a pain to do, omw. So we are going places lol. The stalls will be looking great!! Yeah!

We are nearly underway with the barn!! YAY! Hehe, Yip, putting it up ourselves! So it shall be perfect!! We finished the pig pen too. There is always something to do on the ranch, you finish one thing and start the next, its crazy! Today I also scrubbed the boat as spotless as it can get so that I can paint it tomorrow, that was a half mission.

The feed store today had no pellets for the horses so we ended up getting a couple of Alfalfa bails, Those things are so heavy omw! So we just threw them on the quad to move them and then gave to the allocated aminals. Thus where I got my pain in the ass itchy grass rash from... Arg! Haha, yeah so I am nearly covered from head to toe with some sort of painful or discomforting thing! LOL, whether its bruises, cuts, scratches, rashes, calluses etc, you’ll find something everywhere!!

I got a parcel in the mail today from mom, Ian and Tay back home, it was a pretty cool to get something mailed. It is this really cool grey belt! ^^) Thank you soo much! Missing you stax love you all!

I am still having a great time here! Working hard still, loosing weight which is great!! ;) hehe. Yeah, so I think thats pretty much it for now, If I forgot something or you wana ask me something, don’t hesitate!! J

Peacekeys!!

Tazzy <3  

P.S. I will post photos on facebook asap... Just having a technical difficulty locating the photographic devices... :P

Off to Wolf Creek to camp with the horses for my birthday.

Today was a great day, got thrown around a little by the horses but it was a good day of riding. We went up to San Andreas again today, had such a nice drive back, Aly and I got lost on the prettiest road ever so we didn’t mind! Was really beautiful!!! We stopped off at the OC on the way home for some pool with JR and Chris, had a pretty pleasent time! J Then back home for a movie and to get ready for tomorrow!!!

Yes! So its my birthday tomorrow and we are going up to Wolf Creek near Tahoe!! Just Aly, G, Happy and I... Yeah, we are going camping, just us girls with the horses!! ^^) Hows that for a great birthday!! ^^) Eeeep!! Really can’t wait! So I’ll be offline for the weekend!

My gran and granddad are the best I could ask for! My gran pre planned my present and made me not open it till my birthday, so I get to open that up tomorrow!!! She says that it was really special and she hopes I pass it on one day... So we will see whats in store. Thank you so much! Missing you like crazy!!!

Apparently my mom and them sent something in the mail... LOL, will have to wait and see how long that takes to get here!

Anyway, So we had a good day today, was hot!! As usaual... Hehe, I’m off to bed, early morning! All the horses are ready, all we have to do is stick them in the box and off we go. I think we are boxing to a stable first and then beginning the trail and then camping!! So exciting!!

XxxxX

 STAY FAB!!!

Tazzy!

Caleveras County Museum in San Andreas.(Pinch and a Punch for the first day of the month!)

Today I had the greatest ride on G!!!!! He was soo soft! This morning I literally just spend with Gbbers!! ^^) Fed the animals as usual and then sat for a bit organising show dates and what we are doing for my birthday!! Still trying to finalise shows!! LOL... Then went out to get G. Spend about an hour just grooming him because he decided to get all caked up with mud, tangled his mane full of burs, and had molasses all over his face!! We had a really great workout session for a couple of hours, then I took for him a trail ride. When I got back to the ranch I decided to bath the monster! Shampooed and conditioned, he looks so gorgeous!! ^^)

Then off to San Andreas to go to the bank and the Court to get approval for the barn J We decided to stop at the Caleveras Museum on the way home J It was really cool to see all the goods from years ago.

Then back home to continue work... LOL J Never stop I tell you! Have a look at the pics on facebook from today!

Tazzy!