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Christmas :)

Well! What a time we’ve had this Christmas season. Busy, exiting, fun, heartbreaking (more on that later…) and a wonderful time!

First off, one of our friends from the cat rescue we volunteer with went to Florida for a week over Christmas and asked us to watch her cats…all 50 of them. We accepted. So we’ve been playing with, cuddling, feeding and generally contending with 50 cats since last Tuesday! We have also been scooping their litterboxes…all eighteen of them. I claimed the job of giving the cats their wet food on the days that I went, and it was quite the operation: ten cans of mushed up Friskies wet food to nine cans of hot water, stirred together in a giant bowl until well mixed, then slopped into about a million of those cardboard French fry bowls you get from chip trucks! The cats were very happy with me, though if you ever have to do that, I have one warning: don’t do it on an empty stomach (EW!),

Also, we took our computer in FINALLY to get it fixed. We had bad news. A virus had hacked into the computer and destroyed it. Literally. Our F-drive was completely destoryed- nothing could fix it. There were so many blocks and the computer was so frazzled nothing could happen. I was kind of worried because I have all my novels from the past four years on that computer, not to mention all of our pictures. I was right to be worried. The virus had destroyed everything and now all of my books, all my novels, all my works, except the ones I emailed to myself or have printed off, are completely, totally and unfortunately….gone. Permanently. I am pretty much heart-broken, but I’ve lightened up a bit. I’m rewriting some of the boosk that got lost and they’re actually better then the ones I lost! Which makes me happy

Christmas was wonderful. We had our usual seafood dinner (which dates back to my mom’s Christmases when she was a girl) and a lovely, peaceful Christmas Eve. I was actually able to sleep that night (well, most of the night, anyway) and on Christmas morning we awoke to our wonderful lit tree and dozens of gifts to be exchanged. My mom wrapped up presents of toy mice and Friskies wet food with catnip inside, and the kitties wasted no time opening them. My favourite gifts were new half-chaps, a book with four of Charles Dickens’ novels in it (I am officially a Dickens fan- the book at Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist in it- all the greats ), and a new riding helmet, the professional kind that’s covered with crushed velvet and that you don’t have to strangle yourself with to keep it on . I loved Christmas this year.

Now here we are.

How did your Christmas go?

Emma

Merry Christmas :D

May your Christmases  be white,
may your house be warm and bright,
may you feel God’s everlasting love
and may Jesus’ light shine from above.

And…

let it rain deer.

Merry Christmas to all…I know this is early but there’s no telling when I’ll get on the computer again before Christmas. Hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year!

Emma

Uggh

Well, I got sick and have been sick for the past week. But now I finally got well enough so that I could schlep myself out of the house and to the library for an hour. It is snowing a lot lately. Right now it is snowing a bit…this is the way Canada SHOULD be in December! Christmas is sneaking up on me just a bit too fast…this week’s delay has put me behind now, and I’m more then a little afraid to tackle the stores for Christmas shopping.

Just a quick post as I should probably remove my germy self from a public place.

Emma

Well. That was…a break.

Yes, I have returned, though probably not for long. My computer has decided to die, so it will no longer do ANYTHING- chiefly, starting up at all. This is alright- I’ve been writing my books by hand, and they come out much better that way- but it’s very aggravating. Partially because ALL of my stories are on said computer. Anyway!

Nothing has happened worth mentioning- I had my horse show in October and I did very well ^_^. I placed fourth in both my classes, which is good. Although I’m pretty sure judges just dislike me. Period. Anyway, I’ll post pictures once I can dredge them up from my mother’s emails…ughhh….

In cat news, we still have 12 cats. We’ve been volunteering as usual and we’re really hoping Melanie and our foster, Lilly, will get adopted over the Christmas holidays. Sigh…

But…CHRISTMAS is coming up!!!!!! and I’m sure we’re all excited….I’m hoping for a white one here, folks, though lack of snow is kind of scaring me. We’ve had flurries on-and-off for the past two weeks, but no snow sticks. Sad. Anyway, what are you doing for Christmas? Any traditions that jump out at you? My mom and I love Christmas…they sure said it right when the called it ‘the most wonderful time of the year’. And, it is, in my opinion, the most wonderful time in history, because mankind’s saviour was born.

Have a great December and Christmas!

Emma

Okay, I give up.

I am very, very, VERY sorry that I have not posted lately. My computer continues to act psychotic (I still have no idea what’s wrong with it- the operating system is completely messed up and we probably picked up a virus. Blech.) and we have been extremely busy. We’ve started school (well, we’re trying to finish up Grade 8 so that I can start Grade 9 in October- although I guess it’s more of a Grade whatsit. That’s a homescholer for ya.)

I also have a paper route, which I start today. Apparently, I am a ‘paper route engineer’. So professional.

Plus, five of our cats have feline upper respirtory, which is extremely serious. Their noses and eyes run and their lungs fill with fluid. In very bad cases, the cats stop eating, and our twelve-year-old, Cali, did just that. She hasn’t eaten in three or four days (ouch) and for a while she was so sick we weren’t sure she was going to make it. Luckily we got some medication for her and she’s perked up immensley. She still won’t eat though, but we’re syrnge-feeding her water so she won’t get too dehydrated. She really hates it.

Also, I have a new baby! Her name is Miss Lilly, and we’re keeping her for a month until she’s old enough to get adopted out. She is the tiniest little tabby kitten, and she is SO SO SO CUTE!!! She was found in the country in a garage…so sad…and brought into Petsmart on Sunday night while we were cleaning up. I, um, sort of coerced my mother into taking her home. Teehee. She has mild fleas and so we’re keeping her in our bathroom until her flea meds kick in (which will happen tonight) and until our cats get better, so she won’t get sick. She loves to be held and she is just a little purr machine.

AND, last but not least, I’m making tons of progress in my horseback riding. I’ve started cantering on Cerise (the horse I fell off of- oops, but I don’t care) and I’m also maybe probably almost definately going to be going into their schooling show this October. I haven’t shown since April…(that show was simply disastrous). This is her (sorry the picture is so tiny:

Well, that’s all for now. Sorry ’bout my lack of blogging, but I have been very, very busy. Hopefully the computer will be up and running soon, and then I will be on more.

Emma

Busy-ness. :P

Well….my  computer has decided to be stupid again and so it’s not working properly (again) so that is why I have been absent from my blog. I have had a lot of stuff happen for the past week or so, so I’ll start from the beginning.

The 25th was my mom’s birthday! She turned an undisclosed age, though she doesn’t look a day over 29 (that one’s for you, Mom, *winks*).  We went to see ‘Eat Pray Love’ at the theater and then went to dinner. (It was a REALLY good movie.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!

On Thursday (the 26th) my barn had organized a tour of a couple of farms in the area. We did, of course, go. Our first stop was a Standardbred breeding operation called Oak Knoll. Standardbreds are a breed of racing horse who race by pulling their jockey in a cart (I think it’s called a sulky) behind them. They either trot or ‘pace’- an incredible gait where both legs on one side of the body are off the ground simoultanously. 

Oak Knoll was amazing. They had brood mares with their foals in a field, and we were allowed to go into the pasture and give them all a good look-over and pet. My favourite was a little chestnut colt named Ferarri who was so sweet- when we were walking back to the gate,  he followed behind us. Adorable, truly. The barn itself, which was five years old, was very, very, scarily clean. Not a cobweb, not a piece of straw out of place…there wasn’t even any dust. It was so…CLEAN! lol. Here is a picture of all the people who went on the tour in front of the farm’s logo:

I AM in this picture, but I’ll let you guess. Although I’ll say I like purple. *winks*

We stopped at a little cafe before moving on to the next farm, Anfarra. Anfarra breeds cats, dogs and horses, and specializes in exotic cats, German Sheperd dogs and exotic coat colours in horses. The owner does something called ‘pasture  breeding’, which is very different from Oak Knoll, which uses artificial insemination for their breeding. They also run their stallions together, which is exceedingly odd. We saw Peruvians, who have very smooth, specialized gates. We also met a very handsome Bashkir Curly stallion; Curlies have a hypoallergenic coat, which is really, really curly (hence the name). Their manes and tails are curly, and even their eyelashes are curly! We saw cremello colouration, dun and one of the five steel grullos in the world. Coolness. This is a picture of the gang leaving Anfarra:

After we arrived back at the barn, we helped out with the evening chores. We brought in horses, gave them their grain and flakes of hay…it was tiring and by the end I was covered in straw, but I loved every minute of it. I brought in a feisty little mare named Rhizzon who was very upset with me that she hadn’t had her dinner- we arrived late from our excursion and all the horses were going crazy.

Saturday we had lunch with my grandparents to celebrate Mom’s birthday; Sunday we were in Petsmart again. Since the 27th, we have adopted out 29 cats! Melanie hasn’t been adopted yet though, but there’s going to be an Adopt-a-thon later in September, so we’re hoping she’ll go then.

Tomorrow we are striking out on a two day trip down south (which I’ll blog about when we return, if the computer cooperates). It’s also about a thousand degrees out AGAIN- 39 degrees Celcius with the humidity, which translates as roughly 102 degrees Fahreinheit. Hot for Canada, and hotter still for September.

I’ll sign off now. I figured I’d better post SOMETHING to let you all know I wasn’t dead

Emma