Thunderwolf Ranch

Surgery

How things work out some times is such a pain in the tush!  On Monday I got in the mail the ok from our insurance company to have more surgery on my still broken leg , I was so happy.  The key word is WAS.    Why was? 

Well...... last night Shannon brought home the paper work for the up coming year on our medical insurance.  Guess what ?  They changed insurance companies.     UUGGHHH.  I am glad we went back to our old insurance company, but did it have to start on 12-01-08???

Now we have to start all over with getting the insurance to approve for my new surgery.   I want this over and done with.  My leg has been broken for a year on the 27th of December. 

God Bless, mj

I have been tagged!!

I have been tagged !!

Rule~ 1. Link the person who tagged you.

Rule~2. Post the rules on your blog.

Rule~3. Write 6 random things about yourself.

Rule~ 4. Tag 6 people at the end of your blog.

Rule~5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their Blog.

Rule #6 ~ Let the tagger know your entry is up.

I was tagged by :  http://www.homesteadblogger.com/avravounou/

6 Things about me :

1. I love animals and have many.

2. I am a young grandma. I am 39 years old with 2 and 1 more on the way.

3. I did not know how to cook or clean when I moved out on my own .

4. I love to grow veggies and can them.

5. My husband never know if we will have a new critter in our house when he comes home, .

6. I love to read in bed snuggling one of my dogs.

People I am tagging:

1. is  :   http://www.homesteadblogger.com/profiles/walkinginhisgrace/

2. is :  http://www.homesteadblogger.com/profiles/kjprice616/

3. is :  http://www.homesteadblogger.com/gabbie427/

4. is :   http://www.homesteadblogger.com/hopefulheart/

5. is :   http://www.homesteadblogger.com/abigasfarm/

6. is :   http://www.homesteadblogger.com/countrygirlsheartstr/

That is all . Hope I did it right.  God bless, mj

Here piggy ,piggy, Kristi and Ee

I am sharing pictures of Kristi and her pet sow Ee.  Ee is from our old sow Tuna.  Kristi picked Ee out as soon as she was born.  She told us with her cute little smile and batting her eyelashes " this is my baby".   With that cute look how could we say no.   Her brother begged Kristi so much to let him have her, but Kristi held firm on it, NO!!

This is Kristi and Ee when Ee was about 3 weeks old:

Don't they look cute!!

Here is Ee on her 1st birthday.  Kristi made her a birthday cake :

Here is Kristi playing with Ee at night:

Here is a head shot of Ee next to Kristi:

Kristi hurt her knee one day and the Dr told her no horse back riding for 2 weeks.  So what does she do??? See for your self :

A real piggy back ride!!  We took a picture to show her Dr. her "New ride".   Our Dr. knowing our family ( a bunch of smart butts, Dr. is also one)  just laughed and went around showing the nurses and other Dr.'s her new ride!!!

Here is Ee's mom Tuna:

Last we have some of Ee's puppies (babies I every baby a puppy)

One more. This is Ee with her children Tommie and Heffa:

We still have Ee and Tommi , but we sold Heffa to a neighbor.  We did not have enough room in our freezer for her.

God Bless, mj

Thanksgiving funnies

Here a few cute Thanksgiving funnies my mom sent me.

Have a blessed day, mj

Christmas gifts, I saved a bundle

I found a great deal on a few Christmas gifts.   The coupon mom sent an e-mail out to people about a dinner deal.   The deal was you had to pick out as many restaurants as you would like and buy gift certificates to.  The normal price is $10.00 for a $25.00 certificate.  But the sale price was $2.00 for a $25.00 certificate.  So it ended up that I paid $24.00 for $300.00 worth of gift certificates.  What a deal.   We got them for a nice steak house.

We think it is a nice gift.  We got 2 for Michelle and Gill cost $4.00 for $50.00.   We got 2 for my husbands brother and his wife cost $4.00 for $50.00 .   We got 2 for my sister and her husband cost is $4.00 for $50.00.  We got 1 for our 4-H horse leader as a thank you for all her help, cost is $2.00 for $25.00.  And we have 1 left for $25.00 that cost $2.00.

You guys might want to look into this site of the coupon moms.  We think it is a nice gift to give.   What parents does not like a nice dinner out for free????  And what a deal.  Today we all are trying to save money and still have a nice Christmas.  We did that for a few people.   We need to keep our eyes open to great deals that the family we love.

God Bless, mj

Grandma is dying

We are going to go see Shannon's (my hubby) grandmother in the morning.  We went to see her about 2 weeks ago.  We did not think she would make it this long but she has.

Grandma will be 82 years old on Monday.  She has been going down hill for the last year.  Only 5 % of her heart is working.

I am going to miss her.  I love to hear her tell of the good old days.  She talks of the times when her and her hubby grew food to feed the family because they could not afford to other wise.

To hear of how the went from town to town picking veggies and fruit. To the lessons her mother taught her. How they survived all this hardship and still helped other out.

We all feel blessed to have her as long as we do/did.  The start of this year the Dr.'s told us to see her because she will not last much longer.   Grandma is still here.  We are even more blessed because we got a picture with grandma and 5 generations!!  Our grand babies made the 5th generation.

Mom called us to tell us she is much worse and passing out today.  So we will go see her. Mom says grandma will be here for a few more days, she thinks.

The world is a much sadder place when we lose people with such history that they can and do share with us.  When the world was a nicer place, people cared and helped each other out even when they had nothing them selves. 

I miss my grandparents.  My grandfather went home almost 14 years ago and my grandma went home 6 years ago.  I loved to sit a listen to them tell me about the good old days.

God Bless, mj

Our eyes were opened

Hubby and I talked last night about the girls and how spoiled they are.  How it came about was we had the roof repair man come over to look at the leak.  He asked why we wanted to build a large house at our ranch.  I told him the home that is there  is only 1082 square feet and this house we live in is feeling smaller to us because we would like the grand babies to have a room just for them.  How many square feet is this house he asked?  1500 square feet.  He said his family of 4 live in a 865 square foot home.  ( I feel bad for looking at a 4200 square foot home). 

Then our daughter Shayna drove up, he asked if that was her truck? I looked at him and said yes.  He just looked at me.  He then asked if Kristi will be getting her own car?  I said yes ,as soon as we can find the truck we are looking for.  Then the girls started talking about what kind of 2 horse trailer they want because our 4 horse is to much from them to  haul just 2 horse or pigs.  The man asked me if we were going to buy them a 2 horse trailer?  I said yes.  He then had a look on his face that said they are spoiled.

It really open my eyes!!  They are really spoiled!!  Most children in a family do not each get their own trucks or a horse trailer.  They would use mom and dads.  They will share a horse trailer though. We do need a two horse trailer, it is not just for them.  When we go to horse shows it is a waste of gas to haul a huge 4 horse trailer with just an Arabian and a pony.

So last night we talked and it was really an eye opener for us both to see that our children have never wanted for anything.  My husband has worked very hard to give us what we need and more.  But we realize we need to change some things.  To see it through some ones else's eyes was the opener.   We are going to change some things.    I am not bragging or anything like that just sharing my growing some more.  It was just a real eye opener.  I mean a real eye opener !! 

God Bless, mj

Thanksgiving Trouble

Do you think a husband should talk to his wife about who is coming to Thanksgiving  dinner before anyone else(his mom)??    I found out from my mother-in-law that my husbands cousin , her hubby and 3 children are coming to dinner.   I asked hubby why did he not tell me me?   He told me I was making a big deal over nothing.   I said no ,but as your wife I should find out from you not your mom leaving a message as to who is coming to dinner.   As it is his mom is telling me when she will be here staying in a hotel , for how many days and when hubbies grandma will be here(our house) and how many days she will stay with us for me to care for !! 

  I can not care for his grandma by my self, the girls will have to help.  My leg is still broken after 11 months, I have to have more surgery, I walk with a limp and am not anywhere near as strong as I was.  How am I to pick up and carry his grandma in and out of the tub to giver her a bath and pick her up when she falls??    I love his grandma , and will do my best.

Oh well, God Bless, mj

We found a house

We found a house we like.  It is a 7 bedrooms,  4 baths 4200 square feet and on almost 3/4 acre, only for 350 thousand!! , we are in California remember.   We were emailed it and just loved the pictures and how it sounded.  We went to see it and it is two house not one house!   Ugh!!!    Why do they not tell you that when you are looking at a few to see?   They know what you want, so why do they waste my time??

We are going to look at another one, but this one is smaller only 3 bedrooms, 2 bath and 2300 square feet , but it has the land we want. 

We are just looking at this time as we still have our ranch and love it there.  We will see where and if God wants us to move, but we keep looking.

God Bless, mj

Pictures of Marty's life

I am posting more pictures of Marty.

Marty as a pup:

As a young man:

At Disneyland :

Different Christmas pictures taken at Disneyland:

Him with one of his puppies:

As you all can see we love this guy a lot!!  Marty was a part of all our lives everyday.   I am still developing  rolls of film.  As I find pictures of him I will post them.

We miss him so very much.

P.s here is one of the poor guy dressed as Snow White:

He just love to be with us and his sisters, even if they painted his nails and dressed him up as a girl.

God Bless, mj

Pictures of Marty with the grand babies

This past week has been very hard.  It is empty with out Marty here. For the first few days I hardly got any sleep, like 6 hours in for days. E very time I would close my eyes I would see him.  When we took  him in I did a a lap blanket and I have had it in my bed with me to try and help.  I still smell him on it and I love to snuggle it, but it also make me miss him so.  On the 13th Janet my best friend for 25 years came out with her daughter Mya and it has helped, but they miss him too.  This is the first time in 13.5 years that he was not here.

Here are a few pictures of Marty with HIS grand babies:

Marty with Maddie and Jeffie riding him:

As you can see he loved those babies of his.  I am still looking for more pictures of him we have found a lot but a lot more are still waiting for us to develop them.

God Bless, mj.

Thank you for all you prayers and kind words it helps more than I can say.

Thankful for today 11-08-08

Today I am thankful for my husband who keeps giving me hugs and kisses because he understands.   I did not sleep last night at all.  I went to bed at 9am this morning.  Hubby knows why I can not sleep and tells me I did not disturb him even though I did.  He just keeps showing me his love.

I am also thankful for Hope, Marty's daughter, I see him in her.

I am also thankful for Faith, Hopes daughter, granddaughter.   It comforts me to see him in them both.

God Bless, mj

My 1st son Marty died today

Marty was born on 1-17-1995.  He went home on 11-07-08.   Marty was almost 14 years old.   He has lived a full life and life full of love.   Marty came into our lives in March of 1995 as a 6 week old puppy.  At the young age of 7 weeks old Marty started telling me before I went into anaphylaxis shock.  It took me a few weeks to put two and two together.  When it clicked I began his service dog training.   Marty passed his service dog test at the young age of 11 months old.   Marty kept warning me before I would go into shock and he also warned me that the baby's (Kristi's) breathing was off.   Marty has saved both of our lives numberses times.  Marty gave me the courage to get out in the world again.  I was in the hospital 2-5 times a month and was afraid to go any where.  Marty fixed that, he was my warning to my shock and a warm body with caring eyes saying it is ok mom I am here for you, I wont let you down, he never did. The way he would stop in front of me because he smelled a chemical that I was allergic to, so I would not go further.  I never trained him for that, he just knew. Marty was also a big part of my healing with the loss of my grandfather Bubba.  I never got over his death even today almost 14 years later, I just learned to live with out him here until God calls me home.  We trained Marty to do tricks but not your normal ones.  He would bring you a soda get the phone, get one of his sisters when we asked him too.  You could tell him their name and he would go get that sister.   At the young age of 13-14 months old Marty yet again saved Kristi life when a neighbors dog jumped our fence attacked Kristi by biting her neck, making the front page of our paper.   Marty love to go to Disneyland.  He loved to go on the rides.  Marty was on the news for Disneyland as the first dog to go on the new haunted mansion decorated for the Nightmare Before Christmas the first time they did it.   Marty was Shayna favorite ride partner.  Marty has also been on other news programs and other news papers as well as magazines.  My favorite one is of him at Pismo beach buried up to his head in the sand with his human sisters laughing at what they did. He always enjoyed swimming with us all, even in the ocean.  Marty has always paid extra special attention to Kristi.  He would have her hold on to his tail when ever we went any where.  If she dropped his tail he would stop and turn and look at her until she grabbed his tail again.  Marty was married to Cheyenne for 12 years.  They had many children, how have been excellent pets for families and as well as service dogs.  Marty has always loved puppies and babies, he saw them all as his.  Marty has been the best babysitter for our children and grandchildren.  Marty has loved his human sisters.  They have tortured him.  They have dressed him up, painted his nails,  Michelle used him to keep the other dogs quite so she can sneak out.  Marty has touched so many hearts with his love and friendship.  Many people have come over the last few days to say good bye to him.  We decide to stop Marty's bloodline.  There will be no more puppies from his line, other than as a grandfather to great-great-great grandfather.  Our lives will be less full with out him, but we will see him in heaven one day.    We are happy to know he will be with Jesus and his wife Cheyenne playing in the wonderful garden Jesus has made.

P.s. We just got home from the vet office.  I get there people are waiting and they ask what is wrong with him?  I had to carry him in.  I said nothing just is old and it is his time to go to heaven.  I call out to Linda (his office woman) say he is heavy and go into a room.  The people are shocked that I could do that.   My vet has been my vet for 25 years.   He comes in and I ask him, Robert(vets name) is it time he looks him over and says yes.  I ask him if it is the right choice, he says yes. Kristi gets down to say her good byes and she hurts her eye and Marty in his last moments is still trying to care for his sister by moving to her and try to help her.  The love he has for that baby is amazing.  Kristi leaves the room.  Shayna and I stay.  Robert gets ready I say wait please.  I move to his other side and put his head in my lap and hold his other hand as Robert sends our son home to God his creator.  I stayed and told him over and over how much we all love him and we will see him soon, I stay until I was sure he arrived in heaven.   As I got up to go , I see him laying down and I say " ok, Marty lets go" like I always have when we are going some where.  I am so used to saying that.  It took me a second to remember he is not here with us anymore then I cried even more.  I took me forever to leave him, I just couldn't.   I told Shayna I need go or I never will.  I gave him one more kiss and told him how much I love him and walked out.  Marty is in heaven and his body will be coming home in a few days.  It is verry odd to come home with out him.  We now have 6 dogs on earth with us.

God Bless you all thank you for your prayers.  Could you please keep them going for us for awhile.  We all need to heal from this.             God bless, mj

You may not agree with me that animals do not go to heaven, if so please keep that to yourself.

Voting with the girls

It was so neat this year with all the voting.  Shayna was old enough to vote and did.  She was pleased to see some of the things she voted for pass and upset that some did not.  She really wanted the no more gay marriage to pass and it did.  She really wanted the ban on schools being able to take young girls to have abortions to pass, but it did not.  She does not understand how they can not give an aspirin with out a parents ok, but they can take them to have abortions???

Her dad and I also voted to stop those both.  Kristi had to pick a proposition to give a speech on in Friday school and she did.  But what is neat is her eyes were opened to so much.  She paid very close attention to the whole event.   This was a great time to be a homeschooling parent.

God Bless, mj

Thankful for today

Today I am thankful for the freezer dying.  It made me cook about 30 lbs of deer meat.   The best part is Marty ate some!!

I am thankful for having daughters I can trust to run around and do my errands so I can cook the meat and dinner.

I am thankful that my husband has a good job.

I am thankful for the love that Marty is giving us all during his last days.

I am thankful that by best friend Janet is coming out next week.

Most of all I am thankful God loves me.

P.s. For my nutty daughter Shayna who bought her cat Moose a tie to wear!!  Yesterday he was dressed as a cowboy.   The poor cat loves it too.

God Bless, mj

The freezer repairman kills Wolves

One of our freezers died last Friday.   We had to throw out about 40 lbs of fish my husband caught on one of his Mexico trip.  The pigs and dogs got a lot of meats and breads, they were in hog heaven.  We saved some stuff by putting it in the garage freezer and left a few things in the broken freezer with dry ice.

Well today the repair man came and tried to make friends with the wolves.  He asked about Arthur if he was pure?  I said yes he is just short.  What is the other wolf mixed with he asked ?  Then went on to tell me how in his country he loved to kill wolves !!   Hellooo, you are trying to make friends with my wolves as they are trying to get you.  Maybe they since that he likes to kill their kind.  This man was putting his hand next to their run!!  There is a huge beware of dogs sign on the run, I told him Arthur not friendly to people until he gets to know them.  Faith just melts when any one gives her loves, just do not hurt Kristi when she is around!!!   The wolf run is in our back yard where you can only get to it from the family room back door. 

So he tells us that the freezer need a certain part and it will take 3-5 days to have it come in then a few days to come out and put it in.  It will be a different guy not the wolf killer, thank God.

God Bless all, mj

Grand-babies and Marty

Michelle went to daddy's work today with her friend to pick up her friends boy-friend.  Shannon gave him a job.  Michelle is rude when she is there.  She has the my daddy is all of yours boss and treats the people that way.

The good new he was told while she was there is that the Grand-babies are coming home in 2 weeks!!!  Yup the are coming home early!!!  We are so happy, we miss the little buggers!!  So here are the cute little words they say ; like Maddies lub,lub (love, love)  and Jeffie has to be in his pot (spot on Bubba's shoulder where he loves to sit).   It is so funny we miss them so we talk like them!

As for Marty he was doing better (thank you for all the prayers).  Today he will not eat at all.  My best friend Janet is coming out on the 13th to see me with my other daughter Mya (ok she gave birth to her, but we claim each others children as our own).   We were hoping that Marty will be here to see them but I do not know.   This is soo verrrry hard!   We will keep him here with us until he is suffering or in pain.   He is not at this time, thank you God.

Marty has touched hundreds of lives.  He has touched my family in such a way that no one could ever fill his paws.   I feel blessed to have one of his daughters Hope who is now 9 years old and one of his granddaughters Faith with us.

I ask for more prayer for Marty and us.  We can feel it.  Thank you so much for them all.

God Bless, mj

More surgery

I have more surgery coming up soon for my leg.   It is not to remove a screw like we all thought, nope.   It is to remove a almost 1/2 long bone spur that is on my ankle, ankle bone to be exact. 

I have to be awake for the surgery!  The Dr. will numb my skin and clip off the bone spur until it is down to the right size.  As soon as I know the date I will let everyone know.

God Bless, mj

The games she plays

The games she plays.  Michelle is the one who I am talking about.   She does these  stupid little games to get to us only it does not!  Michelle gets frustrated when we do not play her games.

Like today Michelle called about an hour before we were to leave for church to invite dad and I out to lunch with Gill parents.  We would have liked to go to met Gills parents but Michelle wanted to go out at 11:30.  Our service starts at 11:30.  Michelle knows this as it has been at the same time for the last 12 years!

And like the time she called us to go to her sonogram 2 hours before it.  Other people knew for up to two weeks before.

One thing is we are kinda worried to get to close to Gill's parents, because there is a chance this baby is not his.  There are two other men who can be the father.   

Michelle would break Gill's parents heart if this baby comes out someones other than their sons.  They have gotten very attached to our grand-babies.  They have given Michelle a home and support her and the Grand-babies.

We love Michelle but we are there for the grand-babies right now. Michelle can do what she wants.

God Bless, mj

Update on Marty & Disneyland , Church, school

Today Marty is doing better.  I think it is from all the prays we are receiving.  Thank you to all of you.

Marty is eating today and he is keeping it all down.  We are feeding him raw turkey.  He is also getting bread.  I know it is not a round diet, but please count in the supplements all my dogs get. 

We have decided to wait to decide when to send him home.  As he is happy, eating , drinking and not in pain.  Any time one of those change we will send him home.    We do not want our son to suffer.

Today we went to Disneyland to have fun for my birthday. (I get another day there when the grand-babies come home)  It was fun and kinda sad at the same time.  This is the first time in 12.5 years that Marty did not go with us .  So the whole day was different.  We still got to walk up the exits, but a different rote than we take when Marty is there.

Hubby and I had so much fun with the babies (our girls).  We did five rides and then it was time to go.  That might be short to some but, please remember this is my first big walking trip in almost a year.  I did well.  We stopped two times. Once with us all and the other while the babies went on Space Mountain.  We spent about 2.5 hours there. That was enough for me.  I started to get sore , so it was time to go. I just wanted a day of fun with my family and I got it.

The babies (our girls 16 yrs, 18 yrs) are going back tomorrow before we go to church.  We are not too happy about going to church at this moment.  Let me explain.  Kristi is on the worship team and is the lead singer.  She serves on Sunday night and Wednesday night.  The worship team had practice Monday night and Kristi missed it due to Marty and we had a family talk.   Kristi very rarely misses serving.  They told Kristi because she missed practice she could not serve.  We could accept that if this did not happen.  Kristi's friend who is not on the worship team , nor does she serve with them , or go to practice gets to serve???.  We do not understand.  If Kristi can not serve because she missed fine.  But it is not right to let another person who has not put the time in or go to practice to serve that night.

Some times I do not understand the politics of our church or home school.  We have a set of rules and we all should abide by them.  But if your parent is a leader they look the other way.  An example is to dress modestly.  There was a leaders daughter who was allowed to wear a shirt so short you can and did see her crouch with no panties, she was also allowed to wear blood read eye shadow around her whole eyes with matching black eyeliner very heavy plus with matching lipstick with black spider webs drawn on it.  There was no problem, they said she is a teen when we said something.  But we got talked to because one time Shayna shirt showed almost an 1/2 inch of her belly when her arms were raised high.  Hello, I do not want to see her parts!  I am a female I know what I have I do not need to be showed! 

I know it is just part of this world.  Like the government teacher.  She is soooo opinionated.  She tells the children her view and they are to take it.  It bugs Kristi and I.  She is so pro-female too.  How she puts it is she would vote for any female for president just to get a female in the office and yes she has said that.   We are to vote if we chose to for the one who we feel will meet our needs, not just because of their sex. 

This teacher needs to give the facts and let the children decide what they like and don't.  Ok I am done , no more soap box for me.

God Bless, thank you for all your parys, please keep them coming. Mj