My Lost Ring Saga...Part II

After blubbering for an entire night and a whole day at work, I came home yesterday to find the proverbial needle in a haystack...better known as my wedding ring. I again looked in the house...nothing. I walked around where I'd been raking...nothing. We had been in the arena, but I honestly didn't think that it could've fallen off out there since so much time had passed from then until I'd noticed it was missing. Besides, looking in the arena was like trying to find a penny on a deserted beach. It's a sea of sand and divots and poop. I had to try though.

Kai'le and I headed off down the arena watching every step we took to see if something shiny magically would appear, but there was nothing. I had been cleaning horse poop out of the boxes and decided that would be my final look before giving up. I checked by the chute but didn't find anything. I checked where I'd been shoveling poop...nothing there either. Finally, I turned around, about to head back to the barn and there, covered in a thin layer of dirt was my poor abandoned ring.

I couldn't believe it. Of all the places I shouldn't have been able to find it, I found it in the headers box in the arena. I was so happy I almost started blubbering once again. I was also so nervous that I took it in the house and put it up for safe keeping so that I could finish my work outside. Now I can't remember where I put it...just kidding. It's back safely on my finger where it belongs. I'll be having it resized as soon as I get a second. From now on though, whenever I have to go out and work, it will stay in a safe spot in the house so it doesn't get lost again :-)

I think I may have to go and buy a lottery ticket now. It couldn't have been anything more than sheer luck that led me to find my ring.

I'm Heartbroken :-(

So, since last year I've lost 43 lbs. I've very happy about that and proud of what I did. One of the side effects however, is that my fingers have lost weight as well. My wedding ring has been loose for quite a while now but I am very conciously aware of it - and entirely too busy to have it resized. That was until last night...

Ryker and I had been working in the arena and then I had been raking up dead weeds from around the front area of the driveway so that we can burn them later. It was chaotic. I was watching Kai'le, who was riding her bike, and making sure she was watching for the cars that never come down our lane. I was watching Brodee, whose pants were continually falling down, so as a result, so was he. I was raking. I was busy.

When we got to the house - we gave the kids a bath. We picked up toys. We changed sheets and blankets. Took the garbage out. Did the dishes. Fed the cats. All the while I never noticed my ring was gone. Finally, we sat down at the computer to write some roping information and I went to fiddle with my ring like I always do...but it wasn't there. I started to bawl. I know it's just a ring, but's it sentimental and it's dear to me. We looked high and low in the house and where we could outside, since it was dark, but to know avail. We'll look some more tonight.

Hopefully, it will turn up. I had to strap a toe ring to my ring finger this morning because it's just too wierd not to wear one. I went so far as to order a cheap silver and cubic zirconia replacement in case it doesn't show up. If it does, I'll wear the cheap one for outside activities and my good one for inside (after having it properly resized of course). Either way, I'll have something to wear besides a toe ring until we find out if we need to start saving for a new one.

Who knows - maybe I'll just go get a ring tatooed on - then I'll never be able to lose it. Wish me luck - I sure hope we find it!

Back From Denver Means Back To Work

Well, I happily survived my trip to Denver. The flight there was great thanks to good weather, hardly any turbulence, valium and several glasses of free wine. I got an unexpected upgrade to first class, which I've never flown in before, and it was kind of hard to be nervous when there was a one year old little girl sitting next to me, smiling the whole time. I wasn't too sure the valium was working, I was still a bit edgy but nothing major, but I wasn't the blubbering idiot that everyone thought I would be after taking one. At one point however, I could no longer feel my toes, so I knew it must've kicked in.
Denver was nice, not what I expected. I left Boise in a snowstorm and when I arrived in Denver it was sunny and 60 degrees - an flat. I expected trees and snow capped mountains and instead arrived in a place that looked much like Boise. It was a nice city, and due to all the places that we had to be while there, I got to see a lot of it. I had fun with my co-workers and we managed to not kill each other, so that was a definate bonus.
Now that I'm home we have another couple of weekends before we go on vacation and lots and lots of work to do before then. This weekend we (mostly Ryker) rebuilt our pasture fence. The colts had pretty much laid waste to it last summer trying to get the goodies in my garden and it was in dire need of repair. By the end of the week we need to have the steer pen torn down so that it can be rebuilt as well. We were lucky to keep the 10 steers we had last year in it - there's no way in hell we'd be able to keep 25 in there without a major catastrophe.
For those of you who haven't seen it - I got the website up and running. It's www.luckystrykearena.com . I'm pretty proud of it and amazingly enough, it's had 475 hits as of this evening. Not sure who's looking, but I hope they continue to do so.
****Big news**** Coby and Stephanie are having TWINS!!! We are so excited for them. I guess if you're gonna do it - you may as well get it all out of the way at once! It's very cool. Also, Riley and Sunni were married on the 7th of March. Amanda has some really cute pictures of the wedding and they let Kai'le be a flower girl.
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