Science Experiment

My turtle tank has turned into a science experiment. A very very cute one! It started out with just Speedy Gonzales and Shelley but it just bloomed from bloomed. (or got out of hand depending if you ask me or my dad)

So Shelley is no longer shy she is quite photogenic! Take out the camera and Speedy hides but Shelley is all Ow Aw! I've been trying to catch them doing what I call the Superman pose! they get up on the beach and lay under the heat lamp with their back legs straight out not touching the ground. But they hid when I get near with the camera. (but take my word for it... SO FREAKIN CUTE!)

(i found this on google my turtles stick out both legs though... much cuter)

(here is another good one!)

But back to the science experiment. So my dad bought some feeder fish for them to eat, but they have turned out to not be little blood thirst turtles.... yet. And so these feeder fish that have turned out to be guppies are now reproducing! I have a bout twenty baby guppies in my turtle tank! SO FREAKIN CUTE!

And a day before they arrived I got a big snail and a baby plecostomus to keep down on the green algae build up.

They are all one big happy family in my turtle tank :D

(pics of my turtles)

Kitty Love

I have a large cat, and not because she's fat just tall, long, thick even. And very very white, with no color of any kind. I've had her sense she was 6 weeks old, I got her from one of my best friends when I was in 5th grad (now currently in second year of college). Her name is Chiquita, nina chiquita is little girl in Spanish. And when we got her I was having problems coming up with a name and my dad said well bob (our other cat) is going to like the little chiquita and that became her name.

When she was 7 weeks old when I let her out of the house for the very first time and she brought me back a live blue jay (yes the bird). It was flapping like mad, and my mom was even more mad screaming at her and what naught. We saved the bird and let it out side and we decided Chiquita could handle out doors just fine and she became an indoor out door cat. The problem was the safety to the wild life went down consider ably.

One day my mom complained to me that my cat (and she stressed that she was my cat) was staring at the humming birds at the feeder to much. I laughed and said there was no way she would get one. I was very very wrong at that moment one flew by her face and she whipped her paw out and snagged it! Not only were we surprised she was so surprised she fell off the porch rail but didn't drop the humming bird! My mother yelled at her and she ran off with the bird and ate it or something.

My mother didn't like my cat it turned out and threated to kill it and other such things. Me and my dad reasoned that it was her instincts and there was no way in hell I was finding my cat a new home. Who would sleep on my bed with me? (she still does)

Through the years we'd find dead birds, mice, raiser snakes, and moles all over. Mom didn't mind the moles she put my cat in the green house once to scare them off and the next morning there were 2 dead moles and my cat. Recently the dead animals had slowed down a bit and I though hmmm in her old age (going on 10) she's slowed on killing. Again I'm sorely mistaken, she just brought me a token of her love for me in the form of a dead mouse. Isn't she sweet I really love my kitty.

This Ginger is all squishy in side, full of kitty love lol

D'awww

I had an older horse named Moment she was a little Arabian mare 22 years old and just plan gorgeous. Sadly I out grew my baby girl she is also very small, about 900 lbs and almost 14 hands tall. 900 lbs is big but not big for a horse and an average quarter horse is around 1200 lb and usually over 15 hands. A hand is how a horse's hight is measured, a hand is roughly 4 inches, you measure from the top of their withers (front legs) to the ground.

Well sense I grew out of her and she was getting a little older I went in search of her perfect home and I found it! Her new owner is a 10 year old little girl who is obsessed with horses and has never had one before. She is spoiling her rotten and taking better care of her then I was. This little girl is very happy with Moment and wants to ride her in a 4H horse show. I got Moment when I was 9 and rode her in CGA gymkhanas for about 6 years and won about 5 buckles on her and a bit of money, even at state level. She is an awesome horse (I wish I could clone her and make her young and taller and I'd be the happiest person in the world).

So I went over to their house the other day to give her some lessons for the 4H horse show she's going to be in tomorrow. She had a friend over for me to help to and every time the little girl who didn't own her, Moment went into baby sitting mode (well she baby sits the other too) no matter how much this little girl kicked moment barely trotted. The one time Moment went faster with this little girl she got nervous. But when Senadra (owner) rode her moment was full of life and trotting even galloping for her.

I'm just really excited for tomorrow I get to see my baby girl carting around a 10 year old little blond haired blue eye girl with a smile from ear to ear. If they win something that would be great but I think no matter how they do the girl is going to have a great time! And Moment can do all the patterns with her eyes closed so all Senadra has to do is hold on lol. And I'll be there to help. They haven't gotten a horse trailer yet and I'm halling Moment for them to the show and help with little pointers :)

Your Ginger has gone soft.... :-)

Rodeos

So I went to the California Pro Rodeo Association State Finals tonight it was a pretty good rodeo. But lets face it anyone who frequents rodeos like myself go for the hot wrangler butts, the barrel races, and for the big finish the bull riders (who have great wrangler butts). And we use the roping events to get up and use the restrooms, get food, sodas, and of course beer! You have to love the drunk cowboys who get up on their bleacher seats dancing like they have a pole to dance on.

Tonight they had a barrel run of 17.97 seconds! That's a really good run by the way. I also saw a bull rider get stomped on and another one head butted against the metal bucking shoots. Oh man and there was an amazing roping horse that as soon as the lasso was around the neck of the cow he/she reared up and snapped the rope so tight the cow was on the grown before the rider could get to it to tie it... that's an amazing horse.

But of course the skanks that show up at the rodeo to look well skanky and drink to much probably didn't notice that. I mean seriously these girls have a pound of makeup on at a rodeo.... and tube tops (I have a great tube top that I look awesome in that I wouldn't wear there), and skinny jeans so tight they make their butts go flat (my skinny jeans are tight in all the right places and well don't make my ass go flat lol). I just don't get them, you'll get hit on more frequently there with wranglers and boots.

Also I'm not going to let the guys slide. If you show up with a brand new cowboy had and brand new boot with no scuff marks on them it's just sad. I mean did you go cloths shopping for one night at a rodeo? I'd rather see you in shorts and flip flops (my boyfriends usual attire). I guess I'm just a people watcher and I notice what people do to much... problem is it bugs me.

If you haven't gone to a rodeo your Ginger suggests it :-)

Adrenaline is the worst feeling ever

We've all felt it before, your about to tell your boyfriend/girlfriend you love them for the first time and you get a mini heart attack (true story), strange dog barks at you, cooking in the kitchen and a friend is standing there waiting for you to notice (true story). Or maybe your doing something you maybe shouldn't be doing (hehe NO experience in this...). Your heart starts pumping and your limps get all jello feeling, and your just have to do something!

I consider my self a non risk taker, I hate roller coasters, don't like to fly, not to big on boats, and motorcycles luckily I've made a promise to a friend to never get on one so I'm in the clear. Yet I ride horses a lot sense I was very small. Well Mr. Frodo my horse has some hoof problems so I can't ride him as often as I usually do. I don't know if I've mentioned about how I'm really bad at not being able to tell people no. So this slightly older lady at one of my horse competitions asked me sense I have extra time would I mind working with a horse of hers. And of course I say sure bring her on over!

The first day I had this horse at my house I took her out to give some love; brush her, pick her feet, and put some wound spray on some scratches she had. I only got 3 out of 4 feet picked up, about a half hour to brush and braid her tail cause she was so scared of me it was ridiculous. So I call up her owner.

me: "so how long have you had Destiny?"

owner: "two months, and I've ridden her three times"

me: a mental oh shit moment

Well today I was going to ride Miss. Destiny and I had adrenalin surging through me before i even had her lead rope on!

But to be honest it went really well, she stood still while saddled her up and swung myself up in the saddle. I understand how the owner is worried about her, she does spook at lots of things (like a bad on the ground no joke). If your a horse owner and your horse does kinda make you nervous and all she/he needs is a little time go find someone to mess with them. If your lucky you'll find someone like me who always has a rule of them it can't be as bad as Rudy which is a mustang I trained from start to finish, and believe me there are people out there like me willing to help.

(Destiny) (Frodo)

wear your helmet thought! lol your Ginger :-)

Welcome To Emzy's Zoo

... this should be in a banner above my drive way like when your driving on a country road and big ranches have their last name and their brand's mark above the gate. I have horses, dogs, cats, chickens, some birds, a guinea hen, and an aquarium. Well I have a new addition to my animal kingdom I am now the proud mommy/owner of two baby red eared slider turtles.

They are adorable, zooming around their tank and bask in the light from their heating lamp. How I got them could be considered a funny story, or so I've been told. I recently visited my aunt Tenny in Los Angeles which is about an eight hour drive for me sense I'm in northern California. Well my dad's girlfriend, my aunt and I went to the shopping district in LA. When you drive to the fashion district you suddenly arrive to blocks and blocks of little shops. There isn't any room for street parking so usually you pay about 8 bucks to park in some indoor parking that are actually plentiful around it's not like one or two crowded parking garages.

Cloths are cheap and so are shoes! There are different areas to the fashion district all the men's clothing in one area and women's in another. You can buy anything clothing wise from tank tops, the most sexual lingerie I've ever seen, to wedding dresses. No joke I saw a gorgeous wedding dress (Beware Troll Man ... I kid) and I was tempted on some lingerie but I was with my aunt (I like to go to Rocky Horror Picture Show). Any way you basically walk the street and look in, if something catches your eye you go in. Most every one is speaking Spanish but everyone knows English so no worries and some are also speaking Chinese.

So I'm shopping when some man sets a little tinny carrier in front of me on top of some clothing. I look inside and there are the most adorable little turtles on the face of the planet, so I bought them! For 7 dollars! Including the carrier! And another dollar for a baggy of food! My dad didn't understand how I came back from the fashion district with turtles. Problem? I don't know anything about turtles I've never had one before so I went to Petco and Petsmart. Petco by the way is having a sale I think till the 19th of this month on tanks a dollar a gallon! So I got my baby turtles an aquarium and they seem like happy little turtles :D

I do how ever need help naming one of them, I have a shy little girl turtle in need of a name so if you think of a good name leaving me a comment. I also have a very friendly little boy turtle who likes to make laps around the tank named Speedy Gonzales.

hope you all enjoy your pets as much as I do mine, Lots of Love your Ginger.