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Horse Show

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Saturday I got to see April ride in her first horse show and it was different and fun at the same time.

I have never seen a horse show competition ever in my life. Only on the internet and on TV. I wanted to go show my support to April and of course see the horses. I wasn’t sure what to expect even though April told me. I didn’t know that the audience sat in the middle of the arena. Thought that was interesting.

Another reason why I say it was different is how everyone acted. Now I understand this is all about the riders. But I felt a bit uneasy and like what should I do? Feeling. This is why, April had to be there at eight and the show didn’t start till nine. The instructor wanted April to be there early to help out. When we got there I went in with April to see what it was like in there and hopefully meet some people.

Once inside it’s like they all had everything done. April really didn’t do much. I was going to sit outside in the car and wait till nine. I felt like I was in the way. As I started to leave the owner told me to stay just stay off to the side. So I got sort of nervous and I felt awkward just standing there while other people worked. Also no one introduced themselves. I had to ask April who was who and even now, I can’t tell you what there names are. Thought that was strange.

As the show draws nearer a lot more people started to show up. We were concerned if Linda (April’s mom) would make it. She is one of those people who says they will and then never shows up. However she did come at the last minute. Next time I will take a pic of the arena. It’s hard too because I was sitting in the middle. But they do have a lounge that sits up a little above the arena and I will sit there next time.

I will have to sit up there because I am allergic to horses and hay. I thought I was fine but the next day, my face puffed up and it hurt. Sitting in the lounge would have been better for me because it’s away from the horses and hay. Lesson learned.

April was in three events and she placed in all three. She even got first! She would say “I won’t get first.” I would “Yes you will.” And she did! Blue is first, red is second and yellow is third. She even got a statue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She did awesome! It was cool to actually see her ride then just in a video. She was really going! I saw the confidence she got after her events. The next show is going to be awesome.

 

 

 

 

Love this pic because she looks at me and smiles.

I am still unsure how they score it. What I gather it’s a lot like bull riding. The animal and the rider get a score then they are combined. In horsing riding they have an event called Pleasure. Does the rider make the riding the horse pleasurable. I thought that was interesting then the horse gets the ribbon.

We stayed for a long time but it was getting to the point where we and few others where the only ones left. It was fun to watch them but it was time to go.

When we were about to leave April said goodbye to the owner. I was hoping he would say to goodbye to me too but nope. I thought that was awkward a bit. I know there were more events as we left. I don’t know I expect people to react to one way and they go another.

I have to say the owner is compassion about his riders and horses. Just I would say not everyone else. Which is good to have that compassion about that.

 

Life

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Saturday we had a crazy storm blow by. Hail rain!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn’t that crazy and as soon as that storm pass it got sunny and melted all the hail. We have been having some crazy weather lately.

Sunday was Father’s Day. Jeff was awesome! He cooked for two days and it was a wonderful meal! We had Indian tacos and Jeff first time made guacamole.

 

 

 

 

I don’t like guacamole but it was really good on the tacos.

 

 

 

 

 

I fried the tacos this one looks like a heart. Funny.

 

 

 

 

So good. Unfortunately it rained a lot and we couldn’t sit outside. Our house is a bit tiny for that many people but it all worked out.

 

 

 

 

 

When we could sit out side these birds were just hanging out. We have never seen these type of birds before. Jeff took the pic at the right moment.

Tomorrow I am going to be at April’s. She is going to compete in her first horse show on Saturday. I can’t wait to see her and the horses.  Also there will be music and we get eat some chili as well. It will be fun!

Happy!

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On Tuesday June 13th I made my personal best of exercising. It’s exciting and makes me feel really happy about it.  I walked for forty five minutes for exercise. I found out that our road sort of hits a dead end which I didn’t know. It just stops and goes to the busy road so now I know that I can only go so far down the road. That means pretty soon I won’t be able to keep going down our road. My only option is doing the trail.

What I really want to strive for is making the road and the trail all into one big walking route and adding my favorite part walking to the lake. The lake part would be the end. I love walking to the lake for a couple of reasons. One it’s nice and cool walking that way since there are few houses and mostly trees. Two it’s pretty! Sometimes I see wildlife. One time I saw and Eagle fly down and grab a fish. It was awesome!

I am trying to train myself to walk a marathon. My first marathon would be five miles if I can find one. Then I want to do ten miles and so on. Would be so cool. But first five miles of walking. I know I can do this. Plus walking around isn’t boring like being on a treadmill.

Also I am becoming stronger! My goal is to become strong. I want to be able to pick up a dog food bag like it’s nothing and I am almost there! That is twenty pounds and my next goal is forty pounds. The pellets for the stove is forty pounds a bag. I want to be able to pick one up like it’s nothing.

You can do this Danielle!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life

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It’s here! Yes our pellet stove is in and ready for the winter!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff did such a good a job making the base. On Friday we had a guy come and put in for us. Now we can have heat for winter and not have to pay so much for electric heat.

Saturday sucked a little. We lost all of our electricity for hours! It was too hot for this. We took a drive in the truck for AC and decided to go to some rummage sales. I saw this one in our bulletin paper. It’s funny because I usually just recycle that thing but this time I really looked at it and saw a rummage sale that was supposed to be huge! So we went over there and it was really disappointing. That ad should have just said “got kids? We have kids stuff.” Because that is all it was.

We did see a sign for a different one and went there. This rummage sale was like oh here is all of our junk and we aren’t going to price it.  I had to ask for everything “How much is this or that.” How are they supposed to make any money? Anyway I did find some cool things: 

 

 

 

 

Check out this small bottle. It used to have perfume in it and it smelled like old lady perfume. But it’s glass easy to clean out, air it out and now it smells like nothing or soap. Either way it doesn’t smell like perfume anymore. I am going to use this for crafts.

 

 

 

 

Oh isn’t this cool?! It’s a light switch cover. I thought it was unique. I wanted to put it near our back door but….it doesn’t fit. Sad! It’s so cool! Now I am not sure what I am going to do with this. I don’t want to throw it away.

 

 

 

 

This is a cool box but wow it smelled SO bad! I bought four of these boxes. I had to throw them away. Phew!

 

 

 

 

This is what was inside the boxes. They are neat tiles. I guess they are for hot plates or you hang them up. I am going to only keep two of them and put them in a display holders. The hanger on the other side doesn’t look that strong to hold on the wall and they are too pretty to use them for hot plates. Two of them came with emboss paper but they smelled bad like the boxes. Definitely in someone’s wet basement forever because that is what they smelled like.

I only spent five dollars and fifty cents. I wish there was more rummage sales and I like to look at other’s people stuff. Ha! I was hoping for stuff for crafting but maybe later, summer isn’t over yet.

 

 

Life

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Finally! Today we are having someone come in and pipe our pellet stove. Another piece of making our living room come together. I will take pics and show you on Monday. All we need after this is new carpet and new windows and that room is complete. Also we will not have to have electric heat for the winter. Savings! I like saving money.

Kinda funny that we are getting out pellet stove now. It’s been so hot out! Wisconsin what is going on? It has been in the 70s and 80s. I think this is the hottest it has been in a while. However I have a nice tan going on but it sucks to work outside when it’s so hot out. Not really a super warm weather person. No hot state for me even though I don’t really like winter. I rather be cold then hot. Can always layer as we always say.

 

Life

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I feel lazy right now and I don’t know why. I should feel energetic since I got up this morning at six for a walk. My poor Koko can’t go for long walks anymore. It’s his hips. Now we can only walk down the street and back. But not Scotty he could walk for miles. I hate when dogs get old.

I hung out with my mom this weekend and she didn’t bring up Memorial Day. Yay! We were supposed to go to the Botanical Gardens in Green Bay. However it rained all morning so we decided not to go. They took me out for breakfast and we went to Julie’s Cafe. It was so good! The pancakes are as big as the plate. After that we went to check out Meijer which is like a Walmart layout. It’s new so I said I wanted to know what was it like in there.

I have to say I was disappointed the food is expensive compared to Woodman’s. The stuff they had wasn’t that impressive either. They had a section of clothes for big people but they weren’t in my opinion great clothes. I did buy a plant. It’s laughable that is the only thing I bought there.

After that we went to Hobby Lobby. I haven’t been there in ages. I was excited to go there. I love crafts! I bought some yarn and some hoops that I have looked everywhere for. I want to try and make dream catchers for the dads for Father’s Day.

We did go to some others stores but found nothing. Then we went swimming that was fun since it was in the eighties outside. I spent literally all day there but it was fun! See now that is how our relationship should be. I come to see her because I want too.

Life

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I thought my relationship with my mom was going smoothly lately but this weekend it changed….again. Ugh! Yesterday was Memorial Day and I told mom we may or may not come to their house. We decided not to go to their house and stay home. I got the third degree from her and she even was trying to tell me that dad was guilt tripping me.  Ridiculous!

I don’t understand why we have to go to everything. It’s not like anyone talks to us or cares what we have to say.  All mom does is care what the grandkids are doing. I have tried over the years to talk to her and all she is says “When the grandkids aren’t around, I’ll listen. Okay?” or “Not when so many people are around.” So….why should we go? Just to sit around and do nothing? Dumb.

Also when my mom called we had just gotten done ripping off the siding of our house and it was hard! There was these nuts that were stripped on to the house. I had to use my whole body and strength to get the board off. I was so tried and exhausted so I wasn’t in the mood to argue with my mom. I plainly told her we are not coming and all she does is hangout with the grandkids. She said my siblings are all going to be there. I told her they if they want to see me they know where we live. Ha! I was in no mood to be sympathetic to her. Also Jeff said he has never heard me talk to her like that. I told him when your exhausted things happen. Ha!

I watch people on TV and see how close some families are. They don’t know what my mom is like. Sometimes people say family is important. But does anyone have to put up with guilt trip after another. Then go to family functions to be ignored?! That is ridiculous! I bend over backwards for my mom but my siblings don’t. It’s because I don’t have kids. I get treated so differently because of that reason. It’s unfair.

Take Corey for example his family rarely comes to their house unless it’s to drop of their kid. Sure mom complains about it but doesn’t guilt trip him like me. She definitely sees me more than him. SO why do I have to be guilt tripped into seeing them. And it’s not like we don’t go over there or go to family functions ever. We go all the time. So what? We don’t go this one time and it isn’t even this one time. We didn’t go over there last Memorial Day. We didn’t get hassled like we did this year.

I am just mad. It’s dumb how she has to guilt trip me to do things with her. Since we go see them a lot. I would saw we see them more that they are only 45 minutes away than hour since they moved. And that is another thing we helped them move. We do all kinds things for them and they get angry at me because we didn’t go on Monday. On top of that I  will be spending all Saturday with my mom. How many of her another kids are going to spend all day with her? I do it because I want to not because have to lay down guilt.

I vented now I feel better.

I finally made some slipper socks. They were hard and I decided I don’t like making them. The heel part is the hardest.

 

 

 

 

Koko wouldn’t move so he got in my sock picture.

 

60th Bday

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On Saturday we went to celebrate my Aunt Joanne’s birthday she turned 60. I was a little surprised that we were invited to her party and I thought there were going to be a whole lot of people.

This is the aunt who never has enough food on Thanksgiving but for some reason had so much food for her birthday! It’s ironic because there was so much food and not that many people were eating yet at Thanksgiving we always complain there isn’t enough food. Ha!

She rented out a hall for her birthday and I was surprised that there wasn’t that many people there. I thought for sure there would be a ton of people that I didn’t know. There were people I didn’t know but not as many as I thought.

When we got there and when we left she was very happy for us to be there. I thought that was strange. Is she getting more sentimental as she gets older?

Now I can’t prove it but I always thought that my aunt thought I was either really lazy or a bit stupid. Really! I only think that because I get this look when she asks Jeff if I have a job yet. And she talks in this tone to me somethings like I wouldn’t understand what she is saying. I don’t know why she does that. Like when she invited us to her birthday party it was Easter at my parent’s house. Her tone on letting her know through my parents it was like do you understand? Like yes I got it, I am not dumb.

Well anyway we showed up and stayed for a couple of hours. And she liked our gift we got her a Kwip trip gift card. She even gave me a kiss when we left?! What is going on? Strange.

 

Windows

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We decided this year we are going to replace all of the windows in the house. We have seven windows and they are all bad. Last year we thought about it and had Window World come out. Now this was last year and I can’t really remember the salesman or their windows but I do remember not being impressed with them. 

Next Feldco came out. Jeff wouldn’t admit that I found them and I think that is funny. Lately I have been tapping Judge Judy. I love Judge Judy she is sassy. Anyways one of the commercials was Feldco. They came out and I was impressed with the salesman he was very nice and personable. He didn’t make us feel uncomfortable at all. I liked their windows and the hardware on them. Also something I didn’t think about they brought up was when a window is installed it’s usually wood or white on the outside. The salesman said that these days people pick color to accent the house. We never heard that before. He suggested green like our roof and we totally loved that idea. The price wasn’t too bad but still wanted to get other quotes.

 

 

Tundraland Windows.

I say this because they are a scam for sure.

First I want to share a funny story. Jeff and I were chatting about windows and I said “Isn’t funny that the sales people aren’t young.”

The next day the salesman was a young guy. Ha!      Now not so funny:

Think of the ways to scam you out of your money for windows and all you have to think about is Tundraland Windows.

First of all the guy shows up in a very expensive vehicle. I think that is fine if you are doing well and you want to show off a bit. However you are going to people’s homes to sell them something maybe drive a normal car. It shows you can relate a little. Next the salesman proceeded to tell us he was a military vet who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. After that he boasts about Tundraland and his boss and what they do for military vets and all kinds of charity. In my opinion is great but that has nothing to do with windows.

Also if you have to boast about the charities that is just stroking your own ego. Someone who boasts about that, loses some of my respect for them. How about just donate and get a good feeling doing it but not tell anyone. Or tell someone so they have the information to donate as well but don’t boast about it and make it part of your sales tactic.

Next he boast about all the awards that they have received. Again do I care about this, no. It’s not like I am going to look up all of their dumb awards or have any care about them. It was like twenty minutes about their stupid awards they received.

He had the stare into your soul look. Do you know what I mean? I hate that and makes me so uncomfortable. Some people who talk to you they stare into your eyes for long periods of time and it feels like they are staring into your soul. Creepy! I dislike when people do that but I can tolerate it.

Finally after an hour of bullshit he finally got to the windows.

Blog as you know I am shy. We have chatted about that. He made me read in front of him and Jeff about argon gas. I can in front of Jeff but in front of him too. And I know he knew I was shy because the whole time he kept trying to get me into the conversation and me made me read that. Right there he lost me. I got nervous and my ears got hot. I did it but later I thought why didn’t I refuse? Sometimes I don’t think about that stuff in the moment.

After that he showed us his windows and boasts about them and the hardware. Then he took out a heat lamp and showed us the differences between low-E coating to block the heat from the sun. That took too long in my opinion to show us that.

So after all the testing the windows and telling us about the windows. He asked us what we think they are worth. Jeff and I aimed high and still it wasn’t high enough. It was outrageous what they wanted for seven windows! This is about how much they wanted for seven windows eleven thousands dollars. I almost passed out! Eleven thousands dollars! Holy shit!

Then he did sleazy sales tactic. “Oh let me call my boss to see if we still have the deal going on.” He gets on his phone and you can hear the guy on the other line “Oh yeah go ahead and give them that deal.” Come on! I wasn’t born yesterday. They knocked off two thousands dollars. So are the windows worth eleven thousand or nine thousand. Oh here another move “Well the time I pull out of your driveway this deal ends. I can….knock off another thousand dollars but this will end when I drive away.” So now the windows are worth seven thousand dollars.

See this, what bunch of shit.

We told him at the end of that, that we would not make a decision yet. Then he pulled out all these licenses “Oh I am a license contractor and I do this or that. This company is the best I have ever worked for.” Blah blah blah is all I heard. At this point I wanted him to leave. There was no way I would go with Tundraland. They aren’t trust worthy AND there is no way for the consumer to know what windows are really worth. Someone who has to boast about how good they are and uses these tactics to make their customers is sleazy and not worth it.

Just beware of Tundraland and the tactics they use to get you to buy. It’s best to shop around and in this day in age we have the internet. The reviews for Tundraland are good and yeah he added that like a million times. What I do is trust my instinct about someone and their company. Too bad Tundraland thinks this the right way to show their windows.

One more thing he never left his card and the first price of what he quoted us. Also we got no booklet or anything to think about their product. Basically if you don’t make a contract with them right there and then you get nothing to look at. So once he left all I thought about what a shit salesman that guy was and good thing he didn’t leave anything I would have recycled it anyways. Maybe that is why they don’t leave anything.

Next!

Tuesday we had Wisconsin Window Pros come out. I am impressed! No cheesy tactics just the facts. He got right to selling the windows. No awards or charities. He did talk about how well people like their product they have to do that. The price was like this OMG! How about less than five thousand for seven windows. The salesman was straight forward and only took an hour to talk about his windows and he can also do the green trim on the outside. He even left some information and emailed us the next day on the exact price.

Even though I liked Feldco, I think we are going to go with Wisconsin Window Pros. I will let you know who we choose.

 

 

Life

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Mother’s Day was okay. Kim and Corey’s house is very small and their backyard is the same. It was nice that it was hot out and we could sit outside but it was crowded. I guess it’s perfect for them since they are tiny people. However you know you have a small house have it where everyone can fit like mom’s house. Also what is up with Kim wanting to have Mother’s Day at her house? She never spends this holiday with us.

It was nice she provided the main meal but she was strange about that. She got hotdogs and hamburgers but she was like ‘don’t cook them all’.  Jeff and I were like that is strange. Why not? You can eat them later I knew that what Jeff was thinking because I was thinking the same. Also when we have get together we leave all the food out so everyone can munch if they want, she put everything away after we were done eating. Oh and she made Jeff a drink but wouldn’t make me a drink. Not sure what is up with that.

Chrissy got mom some pink flowers that was nice. However I win! Have to compete with the siblings. I made handmade flowers and got some sticks, painted them, glued buttons on the tops of the sticks and put the flowers on them. Jeff helped with the painting and gluing. I went to the Dollar Tree got a vase, three packages of glass rocks and made a bracelet out of rubber bands for a decoration around the vase.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn’t this cool! I am super proud of myself. It took so much time though. However best Mother’s Day present yet.

I can’t help I love to create. Ha!

I got really burnt. I was thinking since my siblings have kids that someone would have some sunscreen. Wrong! I should have put on some suntan lotion before. My face, head and arms all got burnt also I was so tired when we got home from the sun.