Summer’s Birthday and other comings and goings.

Summer is two months old today…
She has shed a great deal of her foal coat and is becoming more and more a liver chestnut with signs of having a flaxen mane and tail like her sire- Rusty.


Today was as beautiful as the day Summer was born, with the sky clear and temperature mild, even a bit cool overnight. This weekend we are in the upper 50's at night and low 80's during the day. Feels great.


To celebrate Summer’s birthday we had a round of root beer floats… Mmmmmm that was good.







After our root beer floats we went out to pasture to play for a while. I did get a good video of Summer and Aunt Misty coming when called and will put that on YouTube next time I get to Custer Law Office, for now there is a short clip at the end of this blog posting.





To save allot of hot air -bragging rights- I will just stick a few pictures in here of our baby…

Strolling with Auntie Misty

Hey that's my hat...

We started today with a cup of horseshoe stand-up coffee and having to put on our housecoats, it was cool this morning. Looking out our bedroom window, we watched Derby and Nugget napping in the early morning sun.

Heads or tails? Your call.

The Dynamic Palomino Duo
are about as closely bonded as any two horse can be.When on the trail most people can not tell them apart.
We are always being asked... Which is who?

To start our day of birthday celebrating we had a nice hot bowl of yellow grits for breakfast, fed and watered the penned horses, and headed for town to pickup the Double Deuce. School begins Tuesday morning in Milton-Freewater.
After we got back from town Kittee saddled up Derby and continued to work with him on his jumping training. I realize that this picture doesn't show much of a jump, but prior to bringing out the camera, he did make a couple of really nice jumps over the rails.

Derby really has more tricks in his bag than we know what to do with. Appears this guys has done allot in his pre-McKuster Ranch Life.

Yesterday was a day of rest and a chance for Kittee to re-connect with the ranch. She was out grooming the mares in the riverside pasture, and then brought Rosey up to the barn for a bath and a bit of pre-show handling.
Rosey’s horse shows will start in a couple of weeks, with the Walla Walla County Fair and then the Eddie MacMurdo Horse Show. This will be the first time since June that she has left the ranch to show her lovely Arabian bay figure. The rest of Saturday we just laid low, as I am still taking care of/healing my broken ribs, punctured lung, and busted sternum.

I knew that was gonna hurt...

I did get in three acupuncture treatments that last week for my battered/bruised muscle pain and that really did help. A couple of those treatments were with electro-needles, which is a deep micro-massage in the injured muscle tissue. That works wonders and I am beginning to get around much better now.

Since it has been a couple of weeks since making a posting to this blog, I will go back a ways and try to catch up on the comings and goings of Kittee and Dale.
The week of the 10th through 15th Kittee made a trip to Arkansas to visit with her dad -"Pop" and stepmom -Gerd.



































































We talked by phone most everyday and on Friday they were to go to Fred’s Fish House.

OH how I wish I could have gone to Fred’s Fish House… right after their dinner they sent me some pictures to help relieve the pain of no Fish Houses/ Fish Camps in our Oregon neighborhood.

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While Kittee was in Arkansas, I had a couple of days in Pendleton at school bus driver’s summer camp with the MidCo Bus Company. Last Saturday our newly formed Walla² Fly Fishers had a Fly Fishing Fair at a nearby Walla Walla winery, which made for a day of fly casting, tying, wine sipping fun in our neighborhood.


I was able to do a little casting even with busted ribs, but most of the time I sat and tyed flies and walked around taking pictures, eating a great lunch, and sipping vino. The Waterbrook Chardonnay did go well with the grilled salmon that was served for lunch.


Other than these activities I just laid low for the week, licking my wounds, petting Summer, and resting before the next school year rolls around.
OH yeah, last week was wheat harvest (seems a bit late this year) around McKuster Ranch, which move some elk and deer out of the wheat fields across the road, and gave us some additional Sunday morning wildlife viewing from the breakfast table.


Usually Summer will run or trot to me when I call... today she was not into having her picture taken. Here is an 8 second video shot of our Summer.


And that’s the way it is around the ranch --- Dale