My first day at the vet clinic was very interesting. I went in around 12:30. I told the receptionist I was there to work so she told me to go on back to the surgery. I went back to the surgery and walked in. Dr. Steven was working with a visiting doctor and a tech. They were removing a tumor in a boxer’s spleen. I was doing fine during the operation. They were cutting the spleen out I think and then they were starting to clean and stitch. There was blood draining off the table but I was doing fine. Then they started stripping off gloves and surgery clothes and that was all I could stomach I started blacking out. My knees were giving way and I thought I was going to puke. The Doc walked by and looked at me and said Joy you look a little white. I said I think I am going to be sick. He laughed and said don’t faint on me. So He got me a chair. I just sat there for a little while. The visiting Doc was laughing and walked by, said you’ll get use to it.
I little later Doc, his tech and myself went on a call to this house to do 17 coggins test on horses and 4 colt vaccinations.
It was great I really liked it. Except I did not like the part were I started blacking out

Joy

I just had to post this because it made me laugh.

O Lord, hear my anxious plea. Algerbra is killing me. I know not of 'x' or 'y', and probably won't until the day I die. Please,Lord, help me at this hour As I take my case to the highest power. I care not for fame nor loot, just help me find one square root.

Latin and grammer are also trouble. guide me through this daily double. And, Lord, please let me see One passing mark in Chemistry.

Lord, why am I such a dope in school? My teachers think I'm such a fool. One said, 'Son you're a horrid flop. You bent the saw and failed at shop.' My days in class are filled with remorse. I can't even pass the easiest course. I hunkered down and bowed my neck, But I burnt the cake and flagged Home Ec.

In English Lit, I studied hard,and read all the words of the Bard. But my mind is like a hateful Judas. It couldn't recall, 'et tu Brutus?'

Lord, will there ever be A toughter subject than History? Into the past I steadfastly delve, From Plymouth Rock to 1812. I learn of all those patriotic folk, From John Q. Adams to James K.Polk.
But test times come and I fall on my tail. Was it Patrick Henry or Nathan Hale?

Lord, must I offer an opology For three times failing Biology? Why is it I'm in such a fog concerning the innards of a frog? I push and strive and strain and grope To come to terms with the microscope. Lord, please forgive my derision, But who gives a hoot for cellular division?

Lord, I wish that I could vanish When the teacher calls on me in Spanish. And I promise, it's a cinch, I'll never learn a word of French.

Down in gym I take P.E Calisthenics will be the death of me. I have all the grace of a mop. I made an 'F' in side strattle hop.

Lord, is there anything I can’t flub? Will I ever be in Beta Club?

I have never found the key to knowledge, And my folks want me to go to college. Oh, such a thing I constanly dread. I’d as soon join the Marines instead. Lord, please give me a sign , that you’ve been listening all this time. If you will help, I’ll gice my all, And won’t even chew gum in study hall. Please lead me out of this constant coma, And give me a chance at my diploma. Let others fight about church and state. I pray only to graduate. Amen.

By Lewis Grizzard

Guess
What movie and book is this line from.

"Vanity working on a weak mind, produces every sort of mischief."

Hey
Not much is going on right now, just school ect.
I am taking care of my grandparents' chores for a week, which are feeding the dogs, checking the electric fence lines(I keep reminding myself that there is 110 volt of electricity running through those lines), feeding the 2 bulls that we are feeding out for hamburger(I really don't have a problem with not getting attached to the bulls. So I decided that I would go ahead and name them. Their names our Hamburger and T-bone) . I enjoy riding the 4wheeler in the morning. It wakes me up before I have to go start school. Well, I guess I need to go. I guess I will see some of you at Teen Night.

Hey ya'll

I have been contemplating getting a xanga. ( Boy that was ramdom)

Well, I leave for a NRHYA reining clinic this Friday. Then next weekend we leave to go to Abilene for the State 4H Horse Show I think I will be gone for about a week. Then we come home and leave to go to the AQHYA World Show in Fort Worth. Then the show season will be over.

I went and watched Pirates in theaters Friday.
I will list all the thing I liked and didn't like.

1. I love the humor in it.
2. I liked the action scenes

1. Had to many unrealistic creatures
2. It was way to long
3. It was to Lord of the Rings
4. Somthing should have been resolved in the end

Well I need to go.

Keep to the code.

Jlee

You Are a Boxer Puppy

Energetic, playful and good with kids. You've also got a wild spirit that can't be trained or tamed.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

The first day of the district 4h horse show is over. I placed 1st out of 3 horses in 2 yr old Western Pleasure. It starts all over tommorow. Beginning with working cow horse followed by reining. I will post more pics.

I hope everybody is well. Some of us had a stomach bug this weekend. Caleb and I were lucky enough to miss it this time. I have had a very busy week with getting ready for the 4H horse show and hay baling. Last week I baled Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday and I finished the last of the baling today. The pasture that I baled today was challenging ,mentally and phisically. Did I mention that it had a pond at the botton of the hill where I had to turn around? "Hair- raising" would be good word to describe it. I made a note to myself: the next time we bale that pasture I will let Caleb rake it.
Well I need to go and get ready cause where coming to Nac.

I really don't like pictures. As you can tell from my look. 

I'm an outlaw 

Last weekend. At my oldest Sister's house with some of my nieces and sister Erin. (left to right) you all readdy know me, Mary, Maddy, Erin and Kiki 

Dressing up one day and baling hay the next. 

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I placed 5th in horsemanship 

regal 

Hey ya'll I am trying to post some pictures but it's not working. I will keep trying.

So yesterday I was out in the barn with the horses. Regal had his head over the gate
and we collided when I raised up from bending over. I do not feel like Regal, was being aggressive. He apparently did nip me in the lip. So there is a nice little chunk missing out my lip. I had to go to the emergency room and get 3 stiches and a tetnus shot and the Doc put me on atibiotics in case of an infection. So I have a very fat lip thats the bad part the good part is i don't have to go to co-op today.

I finally got my costume yesterday to.
jlee

I am warming up Regal at the horse show I went to last Saturday. It not a very good pic, but maybe I can find a better one later. 

My Trip

I’m back. I had a very busy weekend in Arkansas. It started Saturday morning for me about 4:30am. I got up, got dressed, collected all my stuff that I needed to take, loaded the horse in the trailer, drove over to my friends' house, unloaded all my stuff into their truck and trailer and began our journey at 5:40am. We were about halfway to Pine Bluff when we felt something jerk the trailer. We pulled off the highway and discovered we had a blowout. Then Cash discovered that somebody had left the keys to the spare tire and the tack compartment at the house. So he had to beat the lock off the spare tire. Then we got back on the road hoping to make it before 12:00. We were supposed to be at the Team Penning arena around ten or eleven, but we found out that the Team Penning arena was about thirty miles away from the main arena. We got there at 12:00. Found some bolt cutters and cut of the lock to the tack room. We saddled and started warming up our horses .

Then we went in for our first round of team penning. It was so fun . Our team did very well the first round. We had 2 teams. The team I was on was all girls: Chloe, Claire and myself. Then the other team was Cash, Clayton and Claire. It was really fun going up against my friends. Then we did second go -around and we did very well that time too, but the boys beat us by 2 seconds. We came in second place and the boys came in first. Then we unsaddled, loaded up, and headed to the Reining. I thought we were just going to watch, but learned that I was going to do it. It was pattern 7 which I did not know at all. I had never even done reining before in my life. However, I had been practicing the maneuvers. I was eleventh in line. Cash was fourth in line, then Clair was 6th , Clayton was 9th and I was eleventh. Cash had a really beautiful ride. Then it was finally my turn. I walked up to the gate, spurred him into a lope, ran down the arena, did my roll back, ran down to the other end, did another roll back, loped to the center of the arena, slid to a stop, backed up to the center cone, did 4 spins to the right and 5 spins to the left. (That just stinks, I was only supposed to do 4 ¼ spins to the left.) I knew I overspun when I did it, but O well, anyway I won’t bore you with any more detail about the pattern, except when I was on my last run down/ stop, I looked down at the ground and saw a wad of money laying of the ground. I thought, O look, there's some money on the ground . Hey! There was money back there. I had a lot of fun. It was so exciting and I can’t wait for next time. O, this show was a qualifier to go to AQHYA World Show in Fort Worth.

P.S. About the money in the arena . Well, as I exited the arena, I passed my friend Clayton who was riding after me. I said, "Hey, Clayton, on the right side of the arena right by the center cone, there is a wad of money."He said," I’ll pick it up." When he was doing his fast and large circle, he saw the money and flipped off his hat not a foot away. Right after his run down, he got off his horse and picked up his hat and money. It was a pretty big wad of money. When he rode out of the arena, he said, "I earned 2 bucks out of that ride." Then we rode back to the trailer, unsaddled, loaded the horses, got in the truck at about 8:30pm and started our five hour ride home. At about midnight, we stopped and ate at Denny’s because we were all starving and then commenced on the rest of our journey arriving back at my friends house at 3:00am dog tired.
Well I have got to go and get a little rest .
See ya.

It looks like I am going to Arkansas next weekend. My friends, the Bridges, called and invited me to go with them to an AQHA horse show and do team penning. It’s also a qualifying show to the AQHA World show. I am really excited about this, but I am disappointed not to get go to your sleep over, Courtney. I will see you Tuesday

Well, I had a really great time learning folk dances today. We got home about 4:00 this afternoon. I went out and rode regal he did really well. I am getting ready for my first horse show of the season, April 1st. I am not doing much this weekend. It’s going to be pretty quiet. I am going to get up in the morning and ride and then we’re going to Kilgore.

Anyway I need to go.

Jlynne

It’s been a long time since I last posted. I have been quite busy. Last week I went over to my friends the Bridges house and rode horses with them. Its always more fun when riding with friends. Then I came home and had to work extra hard to get all my co-op school done before the next day. After co-op we went to the park and played football, what a blast. The weekend was a very relaxed one. I played Command and Conquer Generals a lot and cleaned stalls, groomed horses and just played around. I needed to disk the arena but it is still to wet so that is going to put me behind on my riding schedule. O well. Mom and myself go to pick up my sister in Dallas Wednesday. Can’t wait.
I am so random today. See you all at debate Friday.
Joy

Past Memories

I decided to tell about the time my cousins and a friend plus myself where 4 wheeler riding (mudding) in our favorite mud hole. Anyway was had gone through this one particular place in the pasture a bazillion times and was going back through it. I was driving the powerful orange 4wheeler with 2 other girls on the back that where screaming their heads off and I had just slowed down when we became bogged down. So the other girls got of and started attempting to push from the back while I gave it a little gas. No luck it would not budge. Then I got off to help and we all started sinking, we where up to the top of the rubber boots when the boy’s came to rescue us. But before rescuing us Christopher, my cousin decided to rain mud down on us helpless girls by going really fast past us spraying mud all over us. Then they came to save us. Josh helped pull my cousin Cara out of the mud, in doing so she came unstuck but her boot did not, one boot on, one boot off, she climbed up on the 4wheeler. While Josh was helping Cara, Christopher helped me out, then we went to help Ashley, our friend from Missouri. We pulled her out of the mud but as she was walking toward to the 4 wheeler she tripped and fell face first in the mud covering herself from head to toe.
My Aunt had stated quiet plainly not to go in the house if we had any mud on us. Of course we were covered in mud it was in our hair, our shoes, it covered our clothing and it stunk like cow mess and it was pretty cold. So we commenced haggling with our other cousin Eric who had not gone with us, to go in and get us all a change of clothes. Of course he wanted to know what he would get out of it but we told him that if he didn’t it would be pain of death, which convinced him. While he was getting the clothes I ran home and got us a change. When I can back Eric had just gotten out of the house with the others clothing. We could not go in the house to change so the boys changed in the well house which is 4ft by 4ft with a water pump in the middle and the girls changed in a little chicken coup behind the house, it was quite hilarious. My uncle had said if we wanted to keep riding his four-wheelers we had to wash them so we did. The we said good bye to Ashley. As they were pulling out of the drive way my Uncle said ya’ll want to go riding again, back to the mud, Christopher and myself were the first to the four- wheelers.

Caleb said "make sure that you tell them I was in the house with the sane people while you were gettin dirty."

Ok I finally took bree's quiz









You scored as Jane Bennet. You are JANE BENNET. You are sweet, kind, pretty and loving

I"M BACK

I 'm free, free, free yahoo! Well I am back. I tried posting last night but the internet connection kept disconnecting and I finally just decided to play Generals in stead. I thought this was going to be one of those saturdays when I could sleep till eleven but I got woken up at nine because my mom had a head ache and I needed to get started on washing clothes and the horses were kicking so loud I could hear it in the house.

Well I have to get started on that washing I spoke of.

SIGNING OUT but not for long
Joy

My new horse Forest

Today was a pretty good day. Shelby and myself sat with my great grandmother this morning then we came back to the house. We listened to my music, sang really loud and acted really goofy. Then of course I had to take care of all of my chores outside, cleaning all the stalls, watering, putting hay in all the stalls and then I rode Regal. Then I went in the house and made fudge which I don’t think turned out very good.
Anyways its been a good day.


I took the test on Evan’s blog. I was the Outlaw. I enjoyed it.

We had quite a busy weekend my brother and my nieces were up so there was a lot of noise.

We went to church yesterday and we were in the middle of our song service when I heard something that sounded like thunder, then I saw something that looked like snow falling. I said to Josh its snowing which I think was actually ash. Then the second and third explosion went off and it was really smoky outside. Mom stopped playing the piano in the middle of the song and all the men ran outside. . Anyway it turned out that a tree limb had fallen on power lines, right down the road from our church, starting a grass fire, blowing a couple of transformers and maybe some tires up. The church service was delayed for about 20 minutes or so. It’s not every day you go to church and there’s a small explosion.
That’s all the excitement that I have had lately.

Ok, so I am totally wrapped up in writing the speech for speech class. Mom thinks it still needs a lot of work but I have to move on to my other school, I have a biology test , I need also to work on my Frankenstein paper for worldview and what ever else.

Well I don't want to bore you. Today I really don't feel like I got much acomplished in school but I did ride both horses in the arena and I think Regal is doing much better in western pleasure mode. Regal is my 2 year old. O and I did sort of work towards the speech we have to do in speech class Friday.

Bye

Well my Tuesday started just like every other Tuesday. I got up late. Then fed the horses and moved them to their pens and pastures. Then I started school, biology, worldview and algebra then we left for co-op class where I take biology, worldview and speech. In worldview we are studying the worldview of Mary Shelley and her book Frankenstein which I totally dislike. I had to also decided what kind of speech I wanted to do. I decided to give a speech with method demonstration I can’t really describe it. Anyways Friday I have to write a 5 paragraph essay in class on the worldview of Mary Shelley. I am not looking forward to it. So on and so forth.
I have bored you long enough.

Have you ever seen a horse do something funny and then wonder what it meant. I have an example. My new gelding Forest was running around the round pen bucking and tossing his head and just letting it go. Anyways my coach said to me Forest is saying “I’M A MAN”. I thought that was so funny and after she said that I was watching him it really looked like that was what he was saying.
Well I need to go.

Long time

Well its been a year since I have posted on my blog.
I have decided to start it up again.