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One of Bo’s friends has a horse stable in her backyard, he had mentioned about getting the horse manure for my vegetable garden before but I’m just not so sure about it, might be okay for flowers, grass and trees, I guess that wouldn’t be so bad, but for vegetable garden, I might not be able to think pass the manure part when I eat, this one is caught in action.
Seeing these horses made me think back to my first and only time riding a horse. This was over 10 years ago, my company had an outing for the supervisors and lead persons to go horseback riding and since I work closely with them, I was invited to come along. When we got to the horse stables, the owner asked me if I have ever rode one before, I said no, but I had experiences riding a water buffalo when I was little. Everyone started laughing, I looked around and didn’t think it was funny, and sure enough it’s about the same to me. I had no problem steering the horse, it’s the same concept as steering the water buffalo.
Bo’s friend used to have 8 horses, but since the economy take a nosedive, she had to get rid of some and only has 5 horses now. She has several Mustangs, they are often referred to as wild horses because they are free-roaming horses. She only has one Stud (male), the dark Grey one below, he is fenced in by himself because she doesn’t want them to breed, and the rest are Mares (females). She is offering riding lessons for those that are interested, and right now she has one little girl. Lee is interested in taking a riding lesson, I recalled she loves riding on the horse at the county fair and this might be good for her.
Last Saturday my younger sister Sue asked me to go Antique shopping with her. She has been renting a booth at this Antique place for over 2 months now, and wanted to show me what all she is selling. I think I’m more interested in seeing if it’s a reasonable place and that her overhead is not too high for her, monthly rent on these booths is very reasonable for her and the price range is depending on the size that you get, the bigger the more expensive but hers is in the middle range. The place is nice and decent, sits by a busy main road not too far from the mall.
Sue is a crafty person, I think most in our family are. She knows how to do chair, sofa, pillows, drapery and refurbished old furniture. Sue and I used to work for my GI Joe sister (she has a reupholstery business) when we were in High School and she had to do all the grunt work such as stripping old sofas and chairs, doing touch up on antiques, and I on the other hand had to do mostly sewing of pillows, cushions, and drapery, I’m a bit neater than her back then. I think those early years built a good foundation for her, and she is good at what she is doing, she made several chairs for me in the past.
She is selling the red Kimona silk throw pillow for $60 each, and the Asian pattern poly and down fill is $40 each, some of her other pillows are $35. Her workmanship is excellent, in the last 10 years or so, I can’t bring myself to buy store brand throw pillows or drapery because they’re so cheaply made, I made my own drapery and other items.
I visited PaNoy’s garden on Sunday and I’ve to say that it’s very impressive, a true gardener.
The first thing that I look for was his most prize of all the flower, and this is what I found, but I’m not seeing any bulb/capsule nearby.
His garden sits behind his house, his yard is huge in comparison to my little garden, it’d be a dream come true for me to have a garden this big.
Bo has been bragging about his friend’s pond to my second sister and I, and we finally had a chance to visit her yesterday. The pond sits behind her house in wooded area.
Her pregnant cat drinks water from the pond waterfall.
This post is for my oldest sister. Things are a lot bigger since the last time I posted photos of Dad’s Small Garden, and second sister’s fish pond is doing really well, her water lilies look healthy, and the leaves are big, unlike mine that barely made it to the top, I’m thinking that it’s because my pond is a lot deeper than hers.
This is her fishpond.
This is mine.
Dad’s garden,
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