3 day weekend

What a gift that is! We got the grocery thing done last nite after work so now it's 3 days of doing whatever I feel like! And to start things out on the right note I watched Fellowship of the Ring and stitched after everyone else went to bed. I got alot done on Imbolc's cape. Today I'll watch Two Towers and work some more on her, and tonite I should get more progress done watching Return of the King. With a marathon like that i should get Imbolc into the biggest Qsnaps. She's very close now. It's still zero or below outside so not much horse training going on lol. But spring is coming, sooner or later, and better weather to be out in. We had 8 calves born so far this week (we have a herd of 50 Black Angus beef cattle) and my DH hasnt been getting much sleep cuz they like to be born at 4am it seems. This morning's arrival needed some tlc so into the basement he came with a heater blowing on him, and me at the stove thawing out colostrum while DH dealt with the mama, cuz it was a heifer and a hard delivery. We bought a new group of bred heifers last fall so it's a guessing game how they'll do calving. But this afternoon baby is fine and mama was checked out by the vet so she'll be alright. It's always good to hear that, and mama took right to baby and claimed him so they'll be fine. So far this season we've had 1 cow that wants to kill any human stupid enuf to get within 50 ft of her calf. She's on the short list, and as soon as things settle down she's outta here. DH wont tolerate aggressive cattle, and when she calved last year she wasnt near as bad, but obviously she gets worse with age lol. The others he can walk up to and pet and mess with thier calves without them fussing cuz they know him (lol me is another story, I am NOT a cow whisperer) . So the next month or so is gonna be busy for him so I probably wont see much of him when I'm home from work, cuz he'll sleep when he can. Oh well, it's just a temporary thing and he'd rather be farming than anything else. Next week should hopefully see the arrival of my show horse tack, headtall, reins and breastcollar. It's so cool looking, it's leather, light oil finish, with Texas star gold and silver conchos and loaded with silver spots too. Twista and Rohan will look awesome in it. I plan to order some matching conchos from a leather factory and deck out a saddle blanket to match. In the meantime I got a plain black leather show set and first chance I get i'll be taking that to the Amish to get spots and conchos put on it. I like to have my horses look fancy ;) , once they get out of the training gear. Twista will be ready this summer but Rohan is just a yearling yet, and Whiskey will be a yearling next month. But I like to get them thier own personal stuff. I spose I better go pop a movie in for the kids and one for myself and have some quiet time. Off to the stitchin now! : D