Temultuous Weather & Heat...............

Well, we've had some rotten weather this past week. The town of Eagle, just about 12 miles straight north from here had an F2 tornado level about 25 houses & damage an additional 100 more. Also Old World Wisconsin was leveled. Old World Wisconsin is a working settlement history place of Wisconsin one can visit. Unfortunately there are a lot of horse properties there as well as the Palmyra Horse Park, part of the state Lower Kettle Moraine preserve runs through there as well. This also happened in the dark at about 9:30pm, which makes it harder to see it coming. Steve and I were going to get out there and help with the horse properties, but haven't heard any word as to escaped animals. Our Doc's office is in Eagle and I had called there and our nurse said there was one huge horse property which lost all their livestock. I'm not sure if that is true because there were a lot of horses and barns there and I haven't had anything come across my email about it, usually something like that does. The above picture is of that same tornado touching down in Muskeego, a little north west from us.

Another storm two days later and this huge tree of our neighbors came down about 6am in the morning. I had to crawl under to go down and feed the horses and goats.............

but Steve made short work of it. Got to love a decent chain saw and it did no damage, thankfully!

The girls haven't been impressed with all of this weather and it heats up during the day so much. The humidity is unbearable. Wednesday, both Jeremiah and I were dripping in sweat after he trimmed the girls and all I did was hold them.

I should have realized, but wasn't thinking. In the evening after the girls were trimmed, I noticed Kola had a touch of sunburn on her nose, so out came the aloe cream and now each day before turn out the spf is applied in abundance on both ladies' noses, anything pink! Poor girls!

On a funny note, Stephen and I released the goats the other day, just for fun, and discovered that Kota has a natural herding ability, remember 8yrs of city life and he and Spot work quite well in tandem.

Happy Father's Day

Stephen enjoying his Father's Day gifts! For those of you who are Dad's to children or critters alike. For the our Fathers, Husbands, Brothers, Sons............Happy Dad's Day! You give us strength and stand by our sides..........

To the world

You are one person

But to this person

You are the world

Happy Father's Day to my loving husband, Stephen!

It's Been Busy.....................

Around here lately. It has been raining a lot and I finally got out into the yard to mow and of course one shot with new blades on and the rest of the season, striped lawn because I managed to bend one of the new blades on an unseen rock, Oh Well! The girls have gotten into their routine and since I have some vacation time right now, I may even do a little riding as I haven't gotten to it at all yet this year. My rose bushes have gone absolutely mad and the last photo shows the dismantle phase of crappy, rotten, attached to the house shed. I cannot wait until it is gone. He's doing an awesome job and it's coming along quite nicely, but with a few set backs as in the load baring wall of the extension doesn't really have a functioning joist holding it. Surprise! So that will have to be fixed ASAP! And when this job is done, we'll get a quote on painting the house, which it desperately needs. One thing at a time. We've gotten a fare whack of weed removal done and now just to spray it all! So we have been busy. Also Zoe is home now and needs feeding! LOL!

Great Idea ICE (In Case of Emergency) Pass It on

ICE - 'In Case of Emergency'

(I hadn't heard of this before today- so I'm sure there are at least a few others who hadn't heard about it.)

Apparently this is a standard procedure all paramedics follow at the scene of an accident when they come across your cell phone.


We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.

If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this 'ICE' (In Case of Emergency) Campaign the concept of 'ICE' is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As cell(mobile) phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE' ( In Case Of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the number you have stored as 'ICE.'

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2, etc.