Today is the 2nd day of my 1st Christmas Break as a teacher, and I am loving it.
I have stayed up late and slept in.
I have a list of things to do that is a mile long, but I want to enjoy this first week of break.
I love being a teacher at Newport Junior High School.
My students are wonderful, and I have become very attached to them.
I am also staying very busy with my cows.
I now have 6 cows and 2 heifers expecting calves.
I also have one heifer that will get put in with the bull in the Spring.
We lost our Paint stud, Olena Winters, this fall.
He is the horse that Joey calf roped and pole bended on.
I also enjoyed riding him.
I bred two of my mares to him, and I am glad that I didn't wait until 2011 to get them bred.
I have a 2 year old Paing gelding out of our stud that I need to start working with.
I have not worked with him since he was a weanling, so it may be interesting.
I had not planned on ever working with colts again, but I want to at least get this horse started before I send him to a trainer.
I want to buy an older roping horse.
I would like to trail ride and start barrel racing.
I love riding the trails, but I also love the speed of barrel racing.
I have started looking at trucks.
I went to test drive a 2006 Ford F-150, but it wouldn't start, so I took it as a sign that it was not the vehicle for me.
I am going to go look at a 2005 Toyota Tundra sometime on break.
I need something that I can drive around the farm and pull a trailer with if I need to,
but I will probably drive it back and forth to Newport to school.
I hope everyone is doing well.
Have a Merry Christmas.
God Bless.
-Jonathan
