Fun at the ranch
Silent Auction
Pumpkin Patch
A Brief Pause
Posted on February 5, 2012
I think some of you should be stepping up to the plate and offering to do some blog posts for me. Clearly I am in need of some material. Obviously I am not making this a priority. Where are you, guest bloggers? Don’t you want to see some quality stuff on here? I have a feeling things will only get worse the next few days. Tomorrow I have to eat my way through the Super Bowl. Monday morning Grant is scheduled to get his tonsils and adenoids out. I thinking it will be at least Tuesday before I wow you with something.
So in honor of my poor time management skills and my lack of ideas, I declare a posting holiday until at least Tuesday. That is Tuesday of next year.
Maybe I’m kidding about the next year part. I’ll let you know.
Enjoy your nachos, chips, dips, veggies, cookies, and wings. I know I will.
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Falling asleep in my chair. I was going to have a little something new, but I just can’t hang.
So people, enjoy a third day looking at the lovely cow elk.
Happy weekend.
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Oh Wow–A Cow (Elk)
Posted on February 2, 2012
Members of PETA, this post is not for you.
People who do not enjoy hunting pictures, leave here and head on over to facebook. I mean it.
Adverse to camo? Exit the page.
Don’t like snow?? Shield yours eyes.
OK, you’ve been warned. I feel better after getting all those disclaimers out of the way.
Think it’s fun to see a father and son bonding in the great outdoors ? Take a look.
Like to hear about sweet people who donate really generous gifts to Galloping Grace? Scroll down.
OK, think way back to last summer. We had a grand event, our Auction Dinner. The thing is, I haven’t thanked near enough people who helped make it all possible. Tonight I’d like to thank Shane and Sage, a generous couple who donated a really cool item to the auction. It was a guided cow elk hunt at their gorgeous place. This hunt fetched a large sum for GGYR. Thanks so much to Jeremy who “won” this prize and supported the ranch at the same time.
From the looks of this picture, I’d say he had a successful hunt.
When I asked Matt S. how it went, he sent this:
Shane and Sage donated the cow elk tag. Shane and I guided the hunter and his dad. We saw lots of elk and some HUGE mule deer bucks. One of the bucks was later harvested by the Governor Tag Holder. Miss Sage made a wonderful homemade breakfast with all the trimmings. Homemade blueberry pancakes, scratch made buttermilk biscuits and gravy, eggs cooked to order and bacon and sausage. That gal sure can cook. Shane and I did all of the field work for the hunters, gutting loading, skinning, and cutting the elk up to be placed in there coolers to take home.
Thanks so much to Shane and Sage! Awesome!! Thanks, also, to Matt for helping make it all possible. And Jeremy, I hope you have many wonderful meals over this next year. I’m sorry I don’t know your dad’s name, but I sure hope he enjoyed his trip to NM.
More Auction stories to come . . . eventually!
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Volunteer Appreciation
Posted on January 30, 2012
Disclaimer! If you think you should have been at this event and didn’t know about it, we are horribly sorry! We tried to get the word out–put it on facebook and the website. Please accept our apologies and our thank-you for being a GGYR volunteer.
Saturday evening was Volunteer Appreciation Night. This year we held it at the Santa Ana Star Center with a night of rodeo watchin’ and snack bar eatin’. Yep, it was a real classy affair. That’s how Max and I are–very fancy and formal people.
Max started things off with a talk. Just look at the faces in the crowd. (More people to right and left that cannot been seen.) Wow–he knows how to engage them. Dan is playing Words with Friends on his phone, Frank is playing the smiling game with someone out of sight, and Jenifer is wondering how long she’ll have to keep her children quiet while Max talks. 
I’ll sum up what Max had to say. Thank you, everyone!
The cutie pie rodeo queens treated everyone to a tour of back stage. 
And then the real show started. Old Glory sure was a sight to behold. 
Max and I didn’t let anyone know the special surprise we had for them. We decided to go ahead and participate in the rodeo. What better way to say thanks than to entertain? Max went first riding a bucking horse. I thought he did really well. 
I went next. I suppose you all didn’t know that I’m really awesome at barrel racing, did you? Well, I am. These pictures should show you that. See how I got my horse Skeeter to tuck down real low? That makes us go fast!
And look how my legs came up. Boy howdy, I was flying!
I’m pretty sure I won the whole thing with a new world record time. Well, Skeeter helped. 
Max couldn’t leave well enough alone. He just had to try out the big white bull. As you can see, he didn’t stay on very long. Oh well. At least he entertained the masses. 
Max ended the evening with an interpretive dance number and was it ever excellent! I think he was trying to convey how critical volunteers are to our organization. Sorry for the crazy picture. For some reason his face didn’t show up???? 
All in all, a wonderful night. Thanks to everyone for being a part. Also, thanks to Dustin at Classic Pro Rodeo for being such a great host.
Oh, there might be couple of inaccuracies in this post. That’s OK. You get the idea, right?
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It Happens
Posted on January 29, 2012
Yet another reason I’m so glad I’m not a member of the bovine bunch. 
Public humiliation! (And I’m not talking about the riding.)
Love,
The Mature One
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Miniature Golf
Posted on January 26, 2012
Raise your hand if you’ve noticed how boring I’ve been lately.
Really glad I can’t see you.
Please let me remind everyone of a few facts:
- the ranch is closed
- there is no pumpkin stand going on
- same with the Christmas Corral
Are those good excuses?
Some of you might suggest I use past material–maybe one of the hundreds of photos I took to show you something that took place. Well, I’m experiencing a period of low energy and minimal productivity this month. Kind of doubt next month will be any better. One would think I should have taken a plethora of pics when I went to feed with Max the other day. I didn’t. Instead I tried to impress my husband with my ninja skills at pulling the wagon containing five bales of hay . (Max had a migraine, so I was his muscles.) A camera might have ruined the effect. The chickens were a riot. The ducks were adorable. The goats were curious. My camera was in the car.
Here’s what I have for you–wee ones playing a little golf.
Weren’t they better than anything I might have had to say?
Happy exciting day to you.
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Volunteer Dinner
Posted on January 25, 2012
Are you a regular Galloping Grace volunteer?? One that has gone above and beyond for the cause? Have you given up days, weeks, even months of your life helping us? If so, we’d like to thank you at a dinner this Saturday night.
Please send an email to Max at maxwade@ggyr.org and let him know you’d like to attend. As much as we’d like to have anyone who has ever helped, this dinner is for those individuals that help on a regular basis. So please, let us know you’re out there. We don’t want to leave anyone out.
Thanks to you all. Oh, and pretend I inserted one beautiful picture after another of our volunteers in action. (WordPress is not allowing me to put any in.)
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More Muddy Memories
Posted on January 22, 2012
From the archive of summers past. All shots taken at the Wade Family Ranch and not at GGYR.
There is a chance I actually showed these pictures (taken by my handsome hubby) once before, but I am a firm believer that flying poop deserves another looky. 
And Max deserves a little more credit for taking this whole gaggle of muddy kids to a poop pond by himself. 
And even more credit for remembering to take pictures! He gets me. He really does. 
Max did really well returning all the kiddos back alive, but some how Kelsey’s jeans didn’t make it. This is the last known photograph showing they ever existed. Did the pond suck them in?? Did they fly out of the back of Max’s pick-up? We shall never know. 
And this turkey. I hope someone tells him we’re so glad he and his family are FINALLY moving back to NM. 
Muddy memories–
Maybe the best kind!
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Serenity
Posted on January 20, 2012
As I put on facebook, Serenity was put down this morning. That beautiful girl will definitely be missed. Tonight’s post is written by Lisa, the one person who knew and loved her more than anyone else. Lisa, take it away:
If I had some personal insight of how challenging, devastating and life altering my ife was about to become in the years of 2006-2010, I would have never believed a soul. In which, I would lose my best friend, my Mother, due to a tragically undiagnosed Pancreatic cancer. Followed by more painful family tragedies and the loss of several family members to illnesses and untimely deaths.
No one could prepare me for not only the personal sacrifices, but also the extremely painful changes in my life about to occur. I thought surely God had given me more than I could handle. I had no time to prepare for these life changing tragedies. This was life happening right before me and completely out of my control. to be followed by a deep and dark depression that would almost destroy my very being.
A time in my life in which sadness had engulfed my every thought and emotions. I struggled everyday with this emptiness which now consumed the aftermath of my life. I longed for the days of wondering if I would ever feel like my old self again. My family and I had endured so much tragedy and loss during these last few pain staking years. They say time heals all wounds. But time just seemed to make my wounds grow deeper and bleed harder.
I was emotionally and physically exhausted. It seemed no one or nothing could pull me out of this dark hole I was buried in. But what worried me the most was, I was questioning my one firmest belief. My faith in God. It seemed I needed a miracle to bring my life back to any sense of normalcy.
Little did I know in the next few weeks to come, a miracle would come into my life in the form of a spirit horse. An abandoned, starved and nearly dead Palomino mare, just barely clinging to life. I found her wandering down the middle of a road. It was evident this horse needed someone to save her life. That someone was to be me. Not knowing at the time she would return the favor right back to me and help save me from my own grief. How a random act of kindness would turn both my life and hers from barely existing to living and thriving once again. And the ripple effect in which continues today, from just thriving once again. My journey with my horse Serenity brought new life experiences, new friends and new memories to replace all of the loss. From this experience, I am forever grateful for this miracle creature from God and the heavens above for the restoration process she brought back to my soul, my spirit and my faith in God. And finally the day, by the grace of God, to return Serenity home to the Lord above and set her free from her pain.
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January 20, 2012 at 12:43 pm -
Thank you everyone.This is the introduction page to the book I am currently writing about my journey with my family and Serenity. She was such an amazing horse. She really did save me in all kinds of ways.I know she will be doing amazing things in heaven.God bless you my sweet horse on your new journey
And thank you Max and Michelle and Family for everything you provided for her. The ranch is a very healing place. I am blessed to call you my friends. -
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Lou
Posted on January 18, 2012
I don’t have much for you today, but what I do have is a lunch menu for Lou Ferrigno, The Hulk. One of our volunteers (and that’s all I’m telling you in case Lou is reading my blog) witnessed his feeding frenzy with his/her very own eyes while sitting by him at Comic Con (did I misplace a modifier there?) Oh, it should also be noted that he drinks TWO GALLONS of water by NOON every single day! THAT is a lot of water!
The menu:
- TWO pounds of deli turkey meat (the entire package was consumed and not a piece of bread was in sight)
- two oranges
- two apples
There you have it. If you want to have bulging muscles and green skin, eat what the Hulk eats. I do find it weird nothing was mentioned about Doritos or Ruffles or chocolate chip cookies???
Gotta run–I’m way behind on my water consumption and it’s only 6:45 AM!
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January 18, 2012 at 9:23 pm -
I think I could do it…. especially if it is peppered deli turkey meat.
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January 20, 2012 at 8:56 am -
Cindy! You had to bring me down with talk of nitrates!?
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Rockabye baby on the tree top… get some rest.
Dan
You’re doing this in my honor aren’t you… making me look at that picture each day.