Annevil

Once upon a time there was an cute bay horse name Georgie. He was enjoying the warm summer day, eating in the field and playing with his good friend Bonfire. He put his head down to take a bite of grass when realized he was missing one of his pretty black bell boots. This made Georgie sad, because it was getting dark and there was no way he was going to find his little black bell boot in the dark. After a few minutes the Feeding Fairy came, waved her wand, and gave Georgie a big bowl of beat pulp for dinner.
“Georgie, your missing one of your pretty black bell boots” the Feed fairy said.

“I know.” Georgie said,”i was playing in the field with Bonfire and I must have lost it. But it’s too dark now, I’ll never find it.” A tear started to weel up in Georgie’s eye.

“Don’t worry Georgie,” the feed fairy said, ” I know just the thing to make you feel all better.” The fairy bent over and waved her magic wand by Georgie’s hoof. Sparkles and a glowing white light wrapped around Georgie’s hoof and took the form of a perfectly white bell boot. George looked down to see what the feeding fairy had done and…

“HOLY CRAP!?!?!?! IT’S GOT MY HOOF THERE IS SOMETHING EATING MY FOOT!!!” George ran off bucking and trashing wildily to get this mytsically white boot off of his hoof. Just when he thought it was gone, he looked down again and saw it was still there. He took off running again, and from a distanced the feed fairy yelled, “Hey stupid it your new bell boot, what’s the matter with you.”

THE END.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - read a few pages
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (parts)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - one of my favorite books of all time!!!
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - I loath this book.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - read a few chapters, not bad, just got busy
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (4 books; Magician’s Son, The Lion, Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - the best ending of any book ever!
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (skipped this too :P)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - good, read it one and a half times
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Not too bad, considering I don’t read all that much,

I adore my horse! I went to the barn again on Monday. I didn’t ride, but i didn’t want to ride. I forgot to mention last time that when I got to the barn the horses feet still hadn’t been trimmed, which I ‘m kind of not happy about. I guess it was about two months ago, probably a bit more than two months ago, Deb and Mom, came up to me and asked if i wanted to get the horses’ hooves done. [they always talk me out of my opinion, i don't know why they bothered to ask.] At the time it had been 6-8 weeks from their last vist with the farrier, but, Bonfire’s feet were absolutely fine, and George’s were in good shape too. So Deb and Mom figured we could just wait. When they asked me about it, I said, well, they don’t need it, know but it they have to wait another 6-8 weeks, they’ll be in bad shape. They assured me that if their feet got bad between that time, and the farriers next scheduled visit, they’d call him out to do George and Bonfire. I figured it was a bit of wishful thinking on mom’s part and a lie on Deb’s. Because there was no way they’d throw off the whole farrier schedule for two horses. But I went along any way. George’s one hoof was completely falling apart. Bonfire was just a little long in the front, and his frog was looking a bit sloppy but other than that he was okay. Thankfully they were done today.

Also Bonfire had a big kick on his shoulder where George Kicked Bonfire. Apparently He went to go chase George away from something and George gave him a good shot in the shoulder. So it’s not like he didn’t deserve it, he chases George all of the time. Saturday it was very fresh and very swollen. So Monday, i wanted to go hang out with the horses, but not actually ride, because Bonfire’s should had been bothering him Saturday and his feet were making him trip a bit. Anyway…

Monday I went up to the barn with mom and we went out to the boy’s field to visit. I had brought the Swat, and Bonfire’s Beach towel out to the field with me so I could put a fresh blob of swat on his shoulder and have something to wipe the pink off of my hands with. It was really windy though, and the towel started blowing in the breeze and Bonfire and George both thought it was going to eat them. It was so cute. I laid the towel on the ground and knelt down on one knee. So Bonfire figured he wo0uld come check it out, and then he realized it smelled like him, so it must have been okay. Plus i cleaned his ears with it, which he loves and REALLY made it smell like him. Then we played peek-a-boo with the towel for a little while with both of them. Bonfire didn’t get it, and George, thought it was fun, until we would take the towel off, and he’s realize it was the scary towel that had been on his face. lol

So after some time of trying to get George to not be afraid of the towel we laid it on the ground and put some grass on it, and I tried to distract Bonfire at the other side of the field. Only he saw what mom was trying to do with George and thought he would help. George was still afraid to eat off of the towel, so Bonfire figured he’d be a good big bro and show him how it’s done. lol. Although then he tried to take the towel away from George, because after all it is his towel, and he didn’t want his little brother to play with it. I had so much fun.

Things have been kind of slow lately, but it’s given me a lot of time to relax, and I’ve decided to keep up the exercising over summer, because it’s the righ thing to do, I want to be in shape for when school starts again, and I want to get in shape.

Exercise
I’ve been doing the Billy Blanks’ Boot Camp exercises. There are 4 DVDs, so I can change it up. Basic Training (1 hour), Ultimate Training (1 hour), Abs (30 Minutes), and Cardio (30 minutes), and they came with these Billy bands to make the workout harder. The first one I did was Basic Training with the BIlly Bands. OMG I made it like 3/4 of the way through before I felt like I was going to die. It was Intense!! Then I couldn’t walk for a few days because my legs were so sore. lol. Once I was able to walk again I did the basic Training again, with out the bands and made it through the whole thing, it is such a good workout, and it works everything, even your arms (especially your arms), which doesn’t happen in a lot of workouts. I did the Ab workout last night, and it was another really good workout. So, I just have to keep it up.

The Barn
Went riding today. OMG it was sooooo hot and humid. But I <3 anytime I get to spend with Bonfire so it was worth it. Everyone was at the barn today. And the kids were throwing a party for Woody (deb’s dog), because Monday is his 1st b-day. But apparently it’s very close to their birthdays too. (they’re twins.) So they had ice cream cake for the two kids and the dog. lol. It was a lot of fun, we all got a chance to just sit around the aisle eating ice cream cake, in the middle of all the heat. Oh, and appeantly it was Amber’s birthday too. (Amber is Deb’s palomino mare.) It was a lot of fun.

Unfortunately Sunday night, I had spent at a fire. There was a HUGE fire  and a barn burned down. (it was just a hay barn, no animals- so no worries) but the barn belonged to the guy who just got put in charge of cutting and taking the hay at our barn. So now, because he’s down a barn, the owners of our barn are letting him keep the hay and equipment in the indoor. So the far end of the indoor is stacked with hay and straw. Luckily the hay wagons and trackers weren’t in there when I was riding. But they blocked off the far door so there is NO cross breeze in the indoor. Anyway it was kind of the last straw for Deb. She’s going to sit down with the owners and she said if they don’t agree to fix all of the things that are breaking at the barn she’s not renewing her contract. I can’t say I blame here. The have been broken since before I met Deb, the indoor had two pieces blow off in wind storms this year. but it desperately needs a new roof anyway, because it leaks profusely. As well, as a number of other things. But it’s gotten to the point where she can’t run her business because the place is falling a part and no one is going to pay board for such a place. So we’ll have to wait and see what is going to happen.