Hi Everybody who still reads blogs:
Hope everybody is well. It's been a long time since I last posted. I've been busy. Well just wanted to say hey before my computer hogging family gets back home.

Tuesday:
I had alot of fun on the campout girls. Tuesday morning I woke up with my face itching. I went and looked in the mirror. It made me jump. I was obviously having a reaction to something. The right side of my face was red and my eye was swollen. To the couch,drink some Benadryl, lay down. I slept pretty much the entire morning. I finally realized when I woke up that it was poison ivy. Drink some more bendryl, eat and sleep, for tomorrow hopefully it will be better. I am not going to work tomorrow for I am now behind in school and I would probably scare the animals as well as their owners.


Wednesday: My poison ivy had not gotten any better. I was not a very happy person because I had to miss going in to work. So I decided if it was not better by Thursday I would go to the doctor.I had been putting hydrocortozone on and it had been giving me some relief. I was totally fed up with sleeping all day an effect caused by the benadryl.

Thursday: I got up and put cortozone on my face. Come to find out I started having a reaction to it. So I went to the doctor today and got some medicine. It is already looking much improved. Hopefully I will be back to normal and not looking so puffy faced by this weekend.

Caleb is acting like I have the plague. Ya'll know what, he told me I looked like? The duds who serve Imhotep off the movie " The Mummy". What a loving and caring brother I have.

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.