Rosey is V months old

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Rosey turned 5 months old this weekend. Again I use the Roman numeral V to reflect on Rosey's Varian Arabian lineage. We still find her to be a beautiful baby, that acquires and requires allot of our attention and affection.
This morning, as I stayed in bed with a cold, Kittee was out bright eyed and bushy tailed with the horses. By the time I got up Kittee had bathed Goldie, and was ready to bring Rosey into the wash station.
Rosey was a bit reluctant to stand in the wash station so Kittee and I lavished her with finger rubs and brushing. It wasn't long that she was quite satisfied to stand and take all we had to offer in the way of loving attention.
Measuring our fast growing filly this morning we find that she is now almost 11.3 hands tall. She is still being imprinted on a daily/weekly basis to be handled with ease for the rest of her life.





We found posted to the Jay Gross website the picture made of Rosey last weekend with her BLUE Ribbon and crystal platter. If you would like to check out our

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show photo you can follow this show photo link and enter Exhibitor #309.






The rest of this week has been rocking along much as any other. Friday evening Kittee made a pecan pie, and we headed for Dale and Cheri Cosper to watch the '08 candidate's' debate. Thursday I got gutter guards around most of our newly refurnished home, which we are very happy with. This past week I removed all the old door knobs on the exterior doors and replaced with door handles. Much nicer and will be easier to "handle" our comings and goings as time marches on.
The Fall Equinox sunset was right on time this year, and set in the same position as years past. It sets due west in the same crack of the river canyon wall on the south side of the river each year. Gives one a feeling of consistency in life.

















I have found that living in Oregon, close to the elements of nature/ the universe on a day-to-day basis does help to center a soul on the consciousness of the Great Spirit. The Alpha and Omega always being very much the same in the circle of time. After all, look at what 40 days in the wilderness did to JC Superstar.

Several nights this past week Kittee got home in time for us to sit by the backyard fireplace, watch horses, the sun set, and the Milky Way along with the Big Dipper appear across the evening skies.

This past week the evenings have cooled, and a ranch coat and Mackinaw feels good while sitting by the fire with a spot of McKuster Ranch cider. To go along with horse herd viewing, this week each evening we have noticed the annual coming out of the autumn Blue Butts has begun.

Year in, Year Out, the cycle, the circle of life - BEING with the Great Spirit, the Creator of All. We find ourselves most fortunate BEING here with these elements of life, earth, wind, water, fire, critters; great and small.

This next week, if my cold subsides I have plans to jump in the river and fish most afternoons after school. This is the grandest time of the year to play in the river and this past week as we were enjoying the backyard fires we witnessed quite a few evenings with giant October Caddis (Dicosmoecus & Neophylax) flying overhead.

This is life around the ranch this week --- Dale