Did you know horses can't puke?

Tonight, Sandra's horse Cali got sick.  Apparently, she ate something bad, or ate too much too fast, I don't really know the details, but my brother always explains things in a simple way:  their guts have to keep moving or they will die.  So, if they get something "clogged" somewhere in their digestive track, everything stops moving.  They try and fix it themselves by rolling around on the ground, but that is the worst thing they can do, as apparently that can actually twist their stomach into knots, and that is when they really die.

There is only one way to help the horse, and that is to keep them moving, so tonight we spent 3 hours taking turns walking Cali around in circles so she wouldn't lay down and waiting for her to poop.  Then Grant went to the store and bought two bottles of Pepto Bismol and we fed it to her through a turkey baster.  Yes, we fed a horse Pepto Bismol through a turkey baster.  She looked really funny actually, with pink goo all over her lips she looked like some kind of cheap horse prostitute.

Anyway, all is good.  She pooped.

I hope we get a new turkey baster before christmas.

after four weeks of driving around listening to bad Quesnel radio, I decided today to make a mixed tape for the mini van.  I wasn't sure if it was going to work, as I didn't know if the archaic cd player would know how to read MP3's, but much to my joy it did!  So here is my first mixed tape I made, I made it full of songs I like to sing... I don't really know if it is much better than Quesnel radio, but in my world it is.

1.  I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - the Proclaimers
2.  Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin
3.  Life, in a Nutshell - BNL
4.  Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
5.  Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon - Neil Diamond
6.  What's the Frequency, Kenneth - REM
7.  It Falls Apart - the Odds
8.  Last Kiss - Pearl Jam
9.  Shiny Happy People - REM
10.  A - BNL
11.  Courage - The Tragically Hip
12.  You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
13.  Big Ten Inch Record - Aerosmith
14.  Love Shack - the B-52's
15.  Take it Back - BNL
16.  Fight for your Right - Beastie Boys
17.  You May be Right - Billy Joel
18.  Stuck in the Middle With You - Stealers Wheel
19.  Sex and Candy - Marcy Playground
20.  Barbie Girl - Aqua
21.  Wonderful - Everclear

it is a pretty random list of songs, and I would like to point out there are only THREE Barenaked Ladies songs in this mix (BNL will get there own CD)  It reminds me of Fred... Fred was the best Mixed Tape ever.

Moonlight.   Silvery glow over everthing, casting moonlit shadows, making the daisies glow....

I rode a horse today.  It is WAY more work than it looks like in the movies.  and the stupid horse ran my knee into a tree, now my foot falls asleep everytime I put my shoes on.  but it was worth it....

I hear someone walking upstairs... and I wonder if I woke them up.  I wonder who it is and what they are doing.  I hear the dog there, he is obvious.  should I go upstairs, or leave them alone??

Today was a relatively uneventful day.  I haven't been sleeping well, so I don't wake up until at least 11am.  Today it was raining when I woke up so I dyed my hair blonder.  Kesey has never been out in the rain, he didn't like it much... he got his paws a little wet then came back inside quickly.

When it stoped raining, I walked to the apple tree and picked a bucket full of apples (take THAT Granville Island Public Market!)  Now I have to learn how to bake a pie or something... The apple tree was far away, and I had to walk there.  I was exhausted after this excursion, but didn't have a nap.

I had pizza for dinner.

I need to find an extention cord.  Two actually.

That kinda says it all.

killer squids take over Tofino

So I am sure you are wondering what on earth I found in the old bag in my closet.  Get ready.... 3 coat hooks.  From Ikea.  The kind that you hang on the top of the door so there are no screws or holes.  Fascinating huh?  Well, for me and Colin, it was pure gold.  Six years ago, we found them at Ikea in a bin for fifty cents each, and we bought a few for the theatre to hang art in the lobby.  We only bought about 25 or 30, thinking we would just go back and get more when we needed them.  Little did we know that was the last bin of them ever to be created and they were discontinued.  We spent the next five years searching every home store, hardware store and dollar store in Vancouver for something remotely simular and have never found anything like them.  I didn't find it particularly funny that I found them in a bag in my closet, but that I knew exactly how Colin was going to react when he saw them.  Classic.
The drive home was fairly unevently.  Poor Kesey was a bit freaked at first and wouldn't stop meowing.  And he was panting... panting like a dog.  I have never seen a cat pant before, it looked hilarious.  Then he pooped... twice.  He looked embarassed and tried to hide it the second time, but I told him it was okay, I understood.  We drove home through the canyon, which is my favorite way (I hate the Coquahala) we were weaving and turning and up hills and down hills, fun right?  Not for poor Kesey... he came up to the front seat and got car sick all over the passenger side mat.  I think he felt better after that though.  Dispite having puke all over his face, he layed down and pretty much slept for the rest of the trip.


So now we are here.  I am really tired and I don't have a plan, so who knows what I will be doing tomorrow.