Christmas IS COMING!

Yo! Whats up? I haven't posted in a while! I had fun in Oklahoma and on the way back we got to see our friends that live in Texas! But that was a long time ago and now I can't believe it's almost Christmas! Heyyyyy an idea just popped into my head! I think I will write a special post on Christmas Eve!! I can put Luke 2:11 on it and make it nice and festive. Comment if you like the idea. So on the agenda this week I get to got skating at great skate on Friday! I love ice skating but I've only gone roller skating once! I have, however roller bladed down our street once. Then, on Saturday I will preform our church's Christmas musical for the second time. Have you done all you gift-buying yet? I'm making most of my presents and I'm about halfway done. Did you notice the new stuff I put on my layout? I got the idea from THC! I think it's neat!!

PS: I hope that you vote on the Poll.

See yaz!
-A.lover

A hotel room

I'm in a hotel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico! I have to admit the it smells a little funny, but it's not too bad for a night! Anyway, I'm writing on my mom's laptop and tomorrow night I will be somewhere around Tulsa, Oklahoma, there I will get to see some relatives, and eat turkey with them!! We will stay until the day after Thanksgiving and begin our approximately 20 hour journey back home!! What a looooooonngg trip!! But only for around 2 days so it's not that bad. I'm kinda sad about Arlo ( Who I wrote about in the last post ) because he got an infection on his leg and now he has to take 2 capsules and 1 pill!! *unhappy face So I hope he is doing okay someone we know is staying at our house and taking care of him. I wish I would start feeling better because I have a hoarse ( Not horse ) throat but I am feeling better then earlier today.

That's it! Good night!
-A.lover * frown

Arlo The Muntant Lamp Shade

Hi I have to admit that yes, this title seams to be a little odd, ( even on Halloween ) but, most of my posts start with a funny sounding title to catch attention. But as you all know Arlo is my dog, if you didn't know that find my last post my clicking older post at the bottom right of the screen a bunch of times. Anyhow, Arlo is my dog and unfortunately he seamed to get a big scrape on the inside of the his back hind leg some time ago, no big deal right? I mean, Arlo gets cuts all the time and this wound wasn't deep, it was just wide. But nope, Arlo proved us wrong. After a while we began to notice it was healing. We didn't really know why but finally we did find out that Arlo himself was picking at his scrape. So what we did was use duct tape of course! My dad wrapped Arlo's leg up with duct tape so that he couldn't lick and chew his injury. Well, it seamed to work so after it had scabbed up nicely and some skin began to grow on it then me and Dad decided to take off the bandage because we though for shore that Arlo would not just tear up his skin and mess it up. WRONG he DID chew it up and after all that switching bandages and so on we were back at square one. After that Arlo
seamed to have figured out that he could tear off the duct tape very easily if he wanted to so every time we wrapped it he would make a hole in it. I might know what your thinking, that if we just bough one of those cones that you put around a dog's head to keep them from messing with that kind of thing then why go to all that trouble? But me and Dad thought that a cone would terrify Arlo soooo much we would try to work around it as much as possible. So as a last thing to do we made a nice, thick, padded bandage, then put a chunk of plastic over where the scrape was and taped tape over that, and THEN Dad had found out that Arlo didn't like the smell of permanent marker so he scribbled that onto the tape over the plastic over the tape that was over the paper towel padding that was over the cut!!! The day after that Dad took Arlo to the vet to get his rabies shot. While he was at the vet they told him that we would have to keep the scrape in the open air. So after all that bandaging we finally found out that we couldn't do that anymore! So Dad bought a bottle of bitter stuff made for dogs who wont leave things they aren't allowed to lick alone hoping that that would work. To make a long story short: It didn't. Oh GREAT just great, the only thing we could possibly do so that Arlo didn't get an infection and get sick was get or make a cone. So this morning Dad made Arlo a cone out of plastic coated cardboard. When we got it on to the now Cone Head as we call him he all he would do was back up and thrash around to try to get out of this device. after he had calmed down he just lied down and wouldn't really move. I had to get food which he LOVES and lead him around the backyard so he would get used to walking around being able to only see what is in front of him. He still gets stuck on things once in a while but he is doing much better!!
PS: what are you doing for halloween? I'm gonna help out at our church for Rock the Block!

-A.lover

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Knotts Berry Farm

Hello, I don't know if you knew but I went to California last month!! We stayed with my aunt's after hotel and Sea World tickets fell through, and then went to Knotts Berry Farm with some of our relatives!! It was one of the most fun times that I can remember and I still am sad that it's over. I wonder if other people get a time to be with fun people and do fun things like I get to do. I hope so! So yeah, we stayed at my aunt's house for almost three days I think. I wish I had pictures, but I was being pretty lazy about that! Anyway I had sooooo much fun and I want to say thanks to K-9lovr for letting us stay at your house, and I hope I see you soon!

-A.lover

Attack of the spiders 3

Please read Creepy Crawly Attack parts 1 and 2 before reading this post.

Creepy Crawly Attack III

Saturday morning, 9\12\09

Up and at um! rise and shine! Wow I was really tired!! I got up put on my jeans and T-shirt and my shoes and socks and decided to go out onto the porch where my mom and dad were sitting. I was still kinda scared about walking barefoot around the cabin, but what could I do? I was reminded as I started putting on my tennis shoes of all the dirt that had built up in them, so I decided to dump them out. As I came down the stairs from the loft I made shore to check the corner where all the 'excitement' had happened yesterday night. All was clear. I stepped outside in the fresh morning, said hi to Mom and Dad, then found myself and seat and started emptying the dirt and dust. I had noticed that someone had put the box right side up again and it had clothes spread out over the top. I thought it was my shirt and shorts I had been wearing the day before and I knew that Mom had taken my clothes and put them outside to get the smoke smell out of them. So I asked Mom if those were my clothes because I didn't really want them to be on the same box that held on of the biggest spiders I had seen! But no, they were just my dad's stuff and he doesn't mind that kind of thing. Then I remembered that we had joked about finding a spider leg in the door so I checked just to make shore, of course I found nothing. I sat back down and THC's mom came out. She talked a little and then started to go in through the other door that lead to the dinning room. "Oh, well here's our spider" I herd her say very calmly. I got up and ran over to where she found him. There he was sitting in another corner, of course he did look much smaller than in the house. So my dad came to look at him for the first time while THC's mom went back inside. So Dad finds the broom, which luckily was right there, and starts sweeping the little guy down the stairs. What could go wrong now? The spider was almost gone! But nope, I was once again wrong. Our eight-legged friend had gotten stuck, upside down, on a crack in the wood on the step!! It's hard to imagine how something that looked so big could get stuck on something so small, but hey, that's life! So finally, Dad did get him off the step by doing this: getting a stick and snagging the spiders front legs on it and carrying him up, of the ground until it fell off. After that we decided that he was far away enough from the cabin so we just left him there.
A little while later me and THC ( who unfortunately wasn't there when the spider was found the second time ) decided to go and check on him. I was kinda sad when I saw him because he looked like he had died. He was all shriveled up and very small looking. I think he might have had to much contact with humans. So we started taking pictures of him but of course, we couldn't get a good shot, but still, it was nice because he was staying so still! So after a short time I was going to say good-bye to him because we where going to leave but when we got there something surprised us very much. HE WAS GONE.

We though he must have been eaten by a bird, but with all the bad luck with spiders I can picture him crawling into the car... ( I guess we'll never know )

-A.lover

look very closely in the centur of the picture and there he is shriveled up!

THE END

Visit Totallyhorsecrazy.Blogspot.com to see THC's side of the story.

Attack of the spiders 2

Note: Please read part one of Creepy Crawly Attack before you begin reading this post.

Creepy Crawly Attack II
Friday night, 9\11\09
Whew! it shore was felt good to shower after getting in all that smoke!! After we had finished playing with fire and roasting marsh mellows in the fire pit my brother, THC, her mom, and I all decided we defiantly needed to wash up! I think I had just finished taking a shower down stairs and then going up stair to brush my teeth, when I slowly and carefully waddled down the soft, wooden steps. Step, by step, by step, by step, by step, by step,... I can remember clearly thinking of my really really sore feet and legs and knees when finally, I remember turning to the right and stepping of the last of the stairs. It seams like it went in slow motion as I started to turn my head, preparing to go sharp right, when my very own eyes detected something that was strung out, gray and black, very fuzzy and less than 12 inches away from my foot! I knew from very previous encounters exactly what it was. Yup, you got it, a HUGE ( or so it seamed huge ) spider was right there in the corner! It stood very still and looked like a cross between a Daddy long leg and a Tarantula, with long, and spaced out legs. The first thing I did was yell WHOA!! THERE IS A HUGE SPIDER RIGHT HERE!!!!!! and at the same time jump on the edge of the couch where THC joined me. Right after I said that did my mom and THC's mom come running to see what I was talking about. The spider hadn't moved and my guess now would be that he was as scared as me! I was still sitting on the couch which my brother had been sitting on before me when Mom said, "Wow! that is one big spider" and I'm shore the rest of us agreed! Unfortunately, Dad had just gotten in the shower so THC's mom got a fly swatter and the box that we had put all the trash that we could burn in the fire. The box was empty so she ( THC's mom ) put it on the ground in front of the spider, then attempted to tempt it into thinking the box was safe by using the fly swatter. I was afraid that the little guy would go in to the small crack in the wood behind him! But before you knew it he went into the box!! Once it was in, THC's mom tipped the box right side up and you could hear the spider's legs scampering about in the box so loud that a person might think a small rat was inside it! We opened the door and pushed the box closer and closer to it. ( It's probably a good thing the door is so close the the stairs because I think the spider could have crawled out if we had let him ) The next think you knew was that THC's mom had gently tossed the box onto the porch. But one thing went wrong! the box had landed with the open side facing the door, and the spider was running as quick as anything to the open doorway!!! "Ahhh!" we screamed. SLAM went the door! About five seconds after that we all started cracking up. THC's mom explained how she meant to toss the box facing the opposite direction. Then, I was told to finish getting ready for bed, and then get in bed and watch the movie me and THC had picked to watch.

Attack of the eight legged creepy things

Hi!! good to see ya! I was in Pason at the same cabin I've written about from Thursday to Saturday. ( You are probably wondering about this title, and no wonder!! It may sound kinda weird but I promise that no 'eight legged creepy things' ( spiders ) were completely squashed in this... Oh wait! I forgot about when dad... On second thought, I think I should start at the beginning.

Creepy Crawly Attack I
By A.lover


Thursday night, 9\10\09

We were There!!!! The cabin where me, my friend and blog Buddie THC, her mom, my parents, and my brother had just arrived. We had driven from Phoenix AZ for around three hours, when we got there we started to un-pack and put all of our stuff into the cabin. After we had finished un-loading and showing all the people who had not been there before around, we all decided to start walking up to the bunk-house which is right next to the cabin, and also where me and THC were planing to sleep for the next two nights. It was really dark as it usually is out in the woods as almost everyone but THC's mom who had stayed a little behind walked into the porch area and opened the door. You always have to be careful when you go into the bunk-house because you really don't want moths or any other bugs to come inside, so we quickly turned on the light and shut the door. Once we showed everyone around in the room THC's mom came in. Then some of us started to remove certain pillows and turn the sitting thing into a bed. All of a sudden, I moved a pillow and a small and very fast brown thing quickly crawled down between the wall and bed. "What was that!!" I said kinda startled. It had looked almost like a good sized cricket A couple other people had seen it too so we moved the bed around and then we saw it again! It was a big brown spider with a large body and very bent legs. This spider seam to 'crawl' rather than 'walk' unlike some bigger and slower moving ones do. As you may have guessed I was really creeped out! When I though I saw something on the rug crawling at me I completely jumped into THC's mom. I am usually not very afraid of spiders and I kinda like the small ones but this one I definitely did not like, maybe because it could move so fast. So my dad takes this tissue or paper towel and just put his hand over it and I though he grabbed it but then we couldn't find the spider anywhere! Finally Dad found it and it was dead enough!! After that Me and THC did NOT want to sleep in there!!!!!! So we settled down in the loft in stead.

PS: After that my brother found one in his room!!!

-A.lover

Oregon pictures and more

Wow! Oregon and Washington are pretty cool!! There are A LOT of trees and very thick underbrush compared to the brown and yellow dirt and more hot sandy dirt plus a little bit of Cati here in the desert! I have some pictures too so that maybe it will give you a taste of green!!





Unfortunately, it was actually kind of hot... even in the snow!!











The picture above is a snowboard\ski mountain and this is the area around it.












This is a cool picture of a water fall we saw called Horsetail Falls












Here we have a picture of the second highest waterfall in the USA. ( it has a name I just can't spell it or say it right )













This is what it looks like from the bridge over the lower part of the water fall above. We went hiking all the way to the top too!










This is a picture of the famous Mount ST. Helen's
volcano in Washington.

And here we have a place near Louis and Clark made fort whatever it's called and also near the pacific ocean.

And finally, The Pacific ocean!!!

Okay next thing to tell you is that my birthday this Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-A.lover

Cool stuff AND pictures!!!

Well I guess I should start of with what has happened, then to what has been happening and then move on to what is going to happen!! First is Church camp! It was okay but not as fun as it has been. Here are the pictures I have of that..........



.......Well unfortunately, can't put pictures on my blog about camp because of Identity stuff. But I can show you pictures of a certain cabin up near Flagstaff that I went to with on of my blogging buddies.

Here they are!





From top to bottom: The cabin, where we went fishing, and the creak ( which is to the left ) where we waded and fell into!

As you can see, It was tons of fun and much cooler up there then it is here!! You can also see that it was pretty green up there, do to the rain. Also, This is around the same area in which Camp is so this is kinda what it looks like up there.
Oh yeah, AND to add to that, my brother got back from his church camp up at Big Bear C.A. ( It sounded like fun )

Sooooo moving on to whats going to happen!! Well for starters, tomorrow is the 4 of July, and on July 13, Vacation bible school ( VBS ) is starting! Then, two weeks after that, I think we're going on vacation to Portland which is somewhere I have never been, and hopefully, I'll like it! Well then after that is my Birthday and then, six weeks after that, is yet another vacation to C.A.!! That's pretty much the plan of the next three months of my life!!!


Catch up with ya later!
-A.lover

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

June and July

Ok let me make all the updates quick!



1. I'm going to do a horse show on Saturday June 13 2009!!!!!!



2. Church camp ( which is one of the most fun things to do ) is starting up around Flagstaff AZ. on Sunday June 14 2009



3. Some people from my church are being missionarys in Mozambique, Africa this very second!!



4. VBS ( vacation bible school ) is starting in July!!



5. SUMMER!!!!!



So that's preatty much the 411 of this month and of July! I haven't written in a little while so that's why there is so much going on. I only posted one post in May and one in April, which is not very much!! So I'm trying to make this quick 'cause I only have 16 more muinets on the timer.



Bye,

-A.lover

Wow!!

Wow!! it's almost summer! ( I can't believe I only posted once in April ) I can't wait!!!!!

"Oh, summer when the woods were green!"

( That's from Chronicles of Narnia ) Oh yeah, I also can't wait for church camp! All of my best friends are going and hopefully for one we'll be in the same cabin!! I also can't wait for VBS!! The church choir that I was telling you about a couple posts ago was SO fun!! I even got a part in the drama so I got to do a speaking part!! It was cool 'cause now I know all the VBS songs because that was what the choir theme was! Oh yeah, one last thing before I go, tonight is the AWANA closing and me and my friends have cooked up quite a plan that we showed the rest of our group!

So it should be VERY fun!!!

-A.lover

Ohhhh so stuck!!

I'm so stuck on what I'm going to write!! I haven't even looked at my blog since my last post! ( I think ) The only thing that I've really been doing on the computer is writing a story on word pad!! One of my favorite books and now movies called the Chronicles of Narnia has really inspired me to write ( or type ) a story out. I'm not shore what I'm going to call it but it's sort of the same way C. S. Lewis' book The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe goes. I'm just crazy about those books now!! Even my favorite actor is Georgie Henley! ( She plays Lucy in the movies )

Wow today is the first day of spring?!

Hey waz up? you may be wondering why I put this title on here. I guess it's because I just found out that today IS the first day of spring. Of course, this post has nothing to do with that, and I myself who lives in 90 degree weather all the time from April to September ( I think but I'm not shore, I may be going overboard on that ) can HARDLY call this SPRING!! So I hope you can understand that is Arizona we have one to two seasons hot and sometimes warmish cool. But you know, I like it that way! ( I'm guessing that's a good thing too ) So, guess what? I REMEMBERED to bring my camera to the place where I ride!!!

So up there at the top we have the horse Jazz. I have written about her is another post too. Then, we have the new horse ( the first on on the right ) named Lady Socks! OK moving on now, we have Clifford a boarding horse on the bottom left, and wow his head may be big but I think he's really pretty when his owner is riding him. ( I'm not shore about what color he is )

Okay now underneath Clifford we have a horse that's been at Moon Reach Ranch for a long time but I never got a picture of her. Her name is Lady. So don't get her mixed up with Lady Socks. The last one is my personal favorite, and sorry that the picture's not the greatest. He may be small but to me, he has a BIG heart. Lets give it ladies and gentlemen to NEON MOON!

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30th Post of Animal Lover

Hi! today my grandparents went home from a short visit from Tucson. ( Arizona ) So yeah, they just came down for a night. It was pretty fun, they brought there little dog with them. I just wish Arlo could get along with other dogs!! he just dosn't know that they don't want to play!! Anyway, as the title says this is my 30th post. Where's the cake?!?

- A.lover

Today

Hi! I'm so excited for VBS! ( vacation bible school ) Although it's in July our church is getting ready for it. Speaking of church, we just got back from it! It's fun because I get to see my friends and other people that I know. Here's a funny thing that happened: while we were unloading stuff from the car this guy on a skateboard came zooming down our street! I know, I know, whats so funny about that?? Well guess what! his dog was pulling him!!! It was really funny and the dog looked like it was having some fun out of it too! My dad says that he's seen that guy before. The dog was like a boxer and it was brown and white. The guy also had a little black dog on another leash that was trying to keep up! Any way I'm thinking I'm gonna sign up for a church kids choir. ( I think the theme for it is VBS too )

So that's all that's been happening so far today!
your Blogger, A.lover

Whats new with you?

Hi there!! Whats up? I don't have to much going on right now I do have some news though, number one is that I'm a little sick. ( I think I got something from one of my friends ) The other thing is that I wanted to ask you how you liked what I changed on my blog, I change the title and I put a picture of Arlo on the front. Oh yeah! I forgot to say: ...Oh boy I really did forget what I was going to say... Oh I remember now, you know how on the last post I wrote what I thought the day would be like? Well it wasn't like that at all!! I won't go into all the details right now but my day was really very different then I thought it would be!!!

Well I'm signing out!!
-A.lover

Whats up for today

Good Morning! I hope you've been having a good day, since there is nothing much going on today besides AWANA ( Approved Workmen Are Not Ashamed ) at church then let me wright a list of things I want to do today. ( in order )

Lets see I've got my school today. ( I'm home schooled ) Then I'll eat lunch after that ( if I have time ) I think I will try to find a book that I got from the library and if I find it I'll read it. If I can't find it then I might go outside and play with my dog Arlo. After that at about 3:00 I will get all my AWANA stuff ready book, bag, bible, that kind of stuff then I will ask mom if I can get on the computer. I will probably be on there for a while until dad gets home then I will put on my shoes and I will have about five to fifteen minutes to feed Arlo in stuff like that. Then we will go pick up some of our friends and be off to AWANA there me and my friend that we picked up will find my friend D-Bug and THC ( Doodle Bug and totally horse crazy, they have blogs too ) and we will do the stuff at AWANA. then after we get dismissed. Then my dad will drop off our friends then we will be on our way back home it will be about 8:20 by the time we get there and I will make my own dinner then go to bed!!

So what will happen to you today?
- Bye, A.Lover

Pictures

Hello! today I'm going to show\tell you how to put pictures on your computer.


Step one: Go to Wikipedia on Internet Explorer and type in what you want to know about or get a picture of. ( in this case I got a picture of a goat )

Step two: Look at and then choose one of the pictures and then click on it (it should get bigger )
Step three: Right click on the picture and click save picture as... ( it should be in the grayish color box ) and then typ in what you want to call the picture.
Well then thats how you load pictures onto your computer and then you can press the picture button when your editing your post on you blog.
- A.lover

Colors

Ahhhhhhhhhh I love my colors on my blog!! I like Greens, Blues, Browns and sometimes Purples! I keep on thinking about changing the template/background but I think I like it just how it is!! My friends and I all like the same colors. One of them likes Purple and Blue. One of them likes Green, Purple and sometimes Brown, and one of them likes Green and Blue!! I think my favorite is Green too but I dunno... Tell me what your favorites are!!


-A.lover\G.lover
PS: I don't know why I wrote about
colors but I'm kinda bord...

I fell off AGAIN ( but it didn't hurt )

Hee hee! the title says it all! Yup I fell off again! ( if you don't know what I mean look at the post Ouch I fell ) Well do you wanna know what happened? I was riding Demi again and I think she has a behavior problem!! so I had to use spurrs! I asked her to canter from a trot and she went pretty fast! I have a problem about standing up and leaning forward in the saddle when she is going fast and so I did that. I was really wild up there it seamed! but from the ground it probably wasn't the fast. So I held on for a while but I lost both my stirrups and the Demi Turned and I slid off harmlessly onto the ground.

What a cool ending eh?
-A.lover

Neon Moon, Jazz, Romeo and Pixel Perfect.

Picture to the left:
A Gypsy Vanner horse.
( with foal )I'm kinda sad for Dbug right now, because I just herd that Moon Reach Ranch has sold Pixel. So I know DB, that he was your favorite but, here's is a picture of him and this could help you ( and me ) remember him. So anyways another thing that I wanted to tell all you readers about is Neon, Jazz and Romeo. Romeo is a bred called a Gypsy Vanner horse and is a border horse. Jazz is a slender dappled grayish brown horse that is an Arab, And then there's Neon. ( Or Neon Moon ) He is a six month old colt, and I think he is ether a Friesian Sporthorse pinto mix, or a Friesian\Pinto mix. He is my personal favorite out of everyone in the barn! PS: do you like my new colors?

Left: Friesian. Right: Friesian Sporthorse.

Keep the horses
on the brain!
-A.lover

Dog treats!

Hi, Whats up? Today I'm posting a recipe for dog treats ( people can eat them to if you put in some sugar ) called Peanut Butter n' Honey Bites:

• 3\4 C. flour
• 1 egg
• 1 heaping tablespoon of honey
• 1 heaping teaspoon of peanut butter
• 1\4 C. vegetable shortening
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1\4 C. rolled oats
• 1\2 teaspoon vanilla

Heat honey and peanut butter until runny ( about 20 seconds in the microwave). Mix all ingredients together and put onto cookie sheet however you want them and bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes ( makes about 45-50 biscuits ).
Hope you like 'em - A.lover