Sunday Stills ~ Happiness

Sunday Stills is a place to hone your photography skills. Each week Ed issues a new “Challenge” that gives us the opportunity to pick up what ever kind of camera we own and try to meet the challenge. This week's challenge is "Happiness".  How can I pick just one?  This blog could go on and on with my favorite things that make me happy.  But because I am late in getting the post up, I'll just go with a few.  Which to choose, which to choose.....  Since this blog is horse related, I'll start there:

Of course Windy is one of my favorite things; my partner in all things horse. 

And the herd, with the dogs keeping watch.  (Are we keeping you up, Bo?)  I love going out to the pasture and just mingling with the animals.   

Horse trail riding.  The scenery, the views, the friends, the trails.

And horse camping.

My boys have forced me to become a football fan.  Support the home team! Note #55 -- That's my boy!  I'm even happier when we are winning.  It's been a challenging season to say the least.

McCain is the one in the center in white with his hand on another's head.  Not sure if that is legal or not, but he got the job done!  I'm very happy when he has good plays.

Case is #17 in gold, with red socks.  He is the one who has the ball.  Happiness is when he gets up from the pile and looks for me in the audience as if to say "how'd I do?"  This is how we spend our fall evenings!

And last but not least -- well, maybe so -- are my chickens.  They started out McCain's chickens and he lost interest.  So I adopted them.  They are pretty cool and very photogenic. 

"And these are a few of my favorite things....."

Miscellaneous

A friend referred me to this blog of horse Halloween costumes.  There are some very good ideas!  I especially like the hippie & the horse wearing bell bottoms!   And the clown at the left is too cute!  Windy would look fabulous as a bee!  Click on over to  Halloween Horse  for some great ideas!



More pictures from Cowgirl Weekend:

I rode Ginger in the games as Windy had a bit of a swollen ankle.  For this game, there were tennis balls that we were to get & transfer to another bucket.  Most of the gals picked up the bucket to get the ball, but being that Ginger is only 14.3 hh, I thought I had a good chance of reaching it.  I reached the balls okay, but ended up spilling the bucket. 

I did a quick dismount to retrieve the ball & held onto it in my mouth while remounting.  Needless to say, we didn't win this game.  We didn't win any of the games.  We didn't even come close!  But Ginger looks dang good, doesn't she?  She is Windy's dam.  No doubt where Windy gets her good lucks from!

Kathy took this picture of Joan (r) and me.  Joan is all cowgirl.  I liked the cowboy hat/helmet contrast.

Best wishes to my friends, Terri and Arron, on their nuptuals today.  Some of you may follow Terri's blog, The Horse in the Mirror.   Best wishes, you two, on a fabulous life together!