Well, here we are, into another weekend with SOOOOOO much to get done, and SOOOOOO little time!!!

I finally got laundry caught up from being gone last weekend.  We went to an out-of-state wedding.  It was a little different than the other Catholic weddings that I’ve been too, but it was nice!!!  I pray the newlyweds can make it work and be happy together for a long, long time!!!  God Bless you both!!!

Other than that, not much going on here.  Waiting for the weather to warm up a tad, so I can start working with the horses out here.  I still have some of the horses here that were here when we moved in that I would like to get rideable.  AND I have another guy that has a herd of registered horses that would like his gotten to where they are useable.

We will be butchering some animals long about April or May, so that will be bit of a time consuming project for one of the days in the not-so-distant future.  And we are looking at butchering another batch probably long about August or September, if things go right.  It will be SOOOOO different to not have to buy meat at the store!!!

Other than that, just catching up on some stuff this weekend and getting ready for what needs done this next week!!!  Looks like quite a bit of travelling for me, but it will be profitable!!!

God Bless You on this quiet, cloudy weekend!!!  And thanks for reading!!!

It’s been almost a month since a friend of mine died.  I have been trying to figure out what to put in a post dedicated to her, and have yet to come up with anything that I think is suitable.  I’ve been listening to song words, thinking I could post a song for her…..and I’ve struck out there, at least for the moment.  Poems and short stories are the same way.  And as for composing something on my own…..well, let’s just say I think it would be MUCH better it I just added some comments after the song words or whatever.  But, it’s getting to the point now that I’m wondering if there IS anything out there that would do her justice.  Will keep working on it for a few more weeks, and I MIGHT come up with something to post for her.  Only time and patience will tell, I guess.

God Bless Your Weekend!!!

Ahhhhh, what a prompt this week…..milestone!!!  ALL of us have ALOT of milestones in our lives, so it’s difficult to talk about just one.  Forgive me if I talk about NUMEROUS ones!!!

I guess the biggest milestone I can think of right now is that I am working on some important personal issues, and I have come further than I ever figured that I would….with the help of a couple of VERY important people in my life!!  THANK YOU to both of you, for taking a chance to be friends with me…..AND for being there when I need you!!!

Another milestone that we are working on is being COMPLETELY debt free!!!  It will take a couple of months, and it will require some sacrifices on our parts, but it WILL be worth it in the long run!!  I have never really experienced being debt free, except for before I got married and incurred debt, but I am SOOOOOOO looking forward to seeing how it feels!!!  Needless to say, it means working more hours, and another job or two, more than likely, but in a few months, we will actually SEE our progress!!!

One of my other personal milestones is going to be accomplished over the next few months, as well, and that would be the fact that I can actually get PAID to work with horses!!!  I’ve always figured I MIGHT be able too, but didn’t have the connections to.  Now, though, I DO have the connections, and WILL be taking advantage of them as SOON as the weather will cooperate just a little bit better!!!

Ahhhhhh, sooooo many to list!!!!  Sooooo many possibilities!!!  I might just have to do another entry to list some more!!!

God Bless!!!

As much as I don’t normally mind Winter, I have to say that I am MORE THAN READY for ALOT of Spring-like temperatures!!!  All of the snow from the Winter has started taking it’s toll on ALL of the animals because everything is still so wet and muddy and too cool to be outside much on most days.

One of the mares that I’ve got here that no one can get close to is limping slightly this morning.  It’s undoubtedly because she has mud and manure and ice packed into her hooves, and last night was cool enough that whatever thawed and got soft yesterday during the day refroze last night, including what was soft and unfrozen in her hooves yesterday.  At THIS point, there’s NOT much I can do for her, other than keep an eye on her and make sure it falls out of her hoof in the next day or so.  If that doesn’t happen, it COULD be REAL interesting trying to get close enough to her to get a halter on her, and then getting her to trust me enough to get her foot off the ground to clean it out.  Let’s just say that she’s got the woman who owns her (and some other people) scared to even go in her stall.  I’m not scared to go in her stall, but I haven’t progressed far enough with her to be able to touch her…yet.

Needless to say, some Spring-like temperatures would help me DRASTICALLY in working with some of these horses….including Miss H.B., which is the one that has everyone else scared of her.

All I can say is…..Hurry up, Spring!!!!
Blessings!!!

Ohhhhhh, what I’d give for a day of Spring-like sunshine and warmth right now!!!  I find myself wishing my mare hadn’t died 2 or 3 years ago, as well.  If she was still around, I could saddle up and go for about a 5 mile ride, and sunshine would just make the ride a WHOLE lot more therapeutic for me!!  I’ve missed riding since she’s been gone, and yes, I do have some horses here that I need to work with, but it’s not quite the same as my mare, somehow.  Don’t ask me why, other than the fact I don’t know these horses as well, and obviously, I don’t trust them quite as far as I did my own mare.  Trust like I had with her can only come with HOURS of working with the horse and being around them.  Maybe, by the end of this Summer, I will trust one or two of the ones out here enough to just saddle up and go, but at this point, it’s a matter of not knowing how they will react even being out on the road.  I know…one step at a time.  But warmth from sunshine and my mare sound SOOOOO wonderful right now!!!

Have a BLESSED weekend, all!!!

On my last entry from a few days ago, someone left me a comment that we should be happy about being in our time, and things could be worse, and may very well become worse.  Basically, they were saying that we shouldn’t dwell on lost values and such in society.

Values make UP our society, in alot of ways, in my opinion.  If the world has no values, then what will we become?  A society of liars, cheaters, and beggars, more than likely.  Eventually, if we have no values, then we will have no society.  People will look out for only THEIR interests.  And they won’t care who they hurt in the process of getting what they want.  The values that society has lost is a subject that I believe we should take VERY seriously.  Of course, we are all allowed our own opinion.

As for being happy in OUR time…..Yes, we should maybe be happy to live in our time.  I agree on that.  We are living in a time that is TRULY spectacular!!!  The internet age, even with all of it’s downfalls and traps.  The age of space exploration.  Some of the photographs that have been taken by the Hubble Telescope and other cameras of space are DEFINITELY a fantastic thing to see!!!  The age where medicine is advancing faster in some areas than it ever has before!!!  Yes, this is DEFINITELY an age to live in!!!  And I have to say, in SOME ways, I am glad to be alive in this age!!!

I agree that, as the world loses more values and integrity, things WILL get worse in society.  But I believe it will be those of us with values and integrity that will help stem the flow of society towards the darker side of things.  Those of us who try to keep some of “yesterday’s” values alive when everyone else seems to have lost them will be the ones that will hold people accountable for their behavior and their lack of values and integrity.  As things get worse in society, I believe it will be the people WITH values that will survive the best, because it will be those people, and ONLY those people who will be able to be trusted.  And those who can’t be trusted will, eventually, find out that they are on the losing end of things.

I appreciate ALL of the comments on my last entry!!!  And, I appreciate the difference in opinions in the comments!!!

God Bless!!!

Ahhhh, WHAT a prompt to write about!!!  The good, ol’ days, without internet….without television…without telephones, fax machines, and e-mail.  The good, ol’ days of being snowed in, and not worrying about being snowed in for a week, ’cause you knew all your neighbors were snowed in too.  The good, ol’ days of kids being outside playing whenever it was daylight and they weren’t in school, instead of sitting in front of the television or game system or computer for the national average of SEVERAL hours a day.  The good, ol’ days when families actually ate dinner together and played together and prayed together.  The good, ol’ days when husbands and wives actually spoke to each other instead of being on separate computers doing separate things.  The good, ol’ days when wives and/or mom’s actually COOKED dinner and their “goodies” from scratch.  The good, ol’ days when “thank you” wasn’t a foreign word in our vocabulary.

What a wonderful prompt!!
God Bless!!!

…on the day before my Mother’s birthday, and on the day that, according to the last phone call I had, they were going to take my ex-Mother-In-Law off of life support this afternoon.  Kind of ironic (is that the word I want?)…this whole situation over the Summer with my ex-Mother-In-Law.  I’ve been there and done that with another member of my family.  About the only major difference is the fact that my ex-Mother-In-Law has been in the hospital for the last several months, and the other member of my family that I watch a similar situation unfold was only in the hospital for 2 days.  Of course, by the time this other member of my family went to the hospital, they already had the infection in her blood stream, so it was basically already too late.

Kind of interesting, this morning here at home.  After the phone calls to let me know what was going on, I tuned into a church service on-line, and guess what the sermon is about….Closing the doors to the enemy.

My ex-Mother-In-Law, from what I’ve been told this morning has a VERY slim chance of living after they take her off of life support, but there IS a chance.  We aren’t totally giving up hope and praying for her yet.

More later….maybe….Blessings!!

Yep, I think that is what I’m currently on, in a way.  A quest….to find some answers to some questions that keep coming up…about ALOT of different but little things.

We have a few less horses now, as the woman that owns them came and got several of them here a couple of weeks ago.  That will make it better on our back pasture as it tries to re-establish itself in the early Spring.  I am still (at least for the time being) planning on working with 4 or so of the horses that are still here when the weather warms up a little bit.  That plan may or may not change as we get into Spring-like weather and decide more of what WE want to do with our property in our first Spring here, as well as other things going on.

I need to do some Spirit-searching too, at the moment.  I need some direction as to which way to go in SEVERAL areas of our lives.

It snowed a few days ago….just before Christmas.  It was NICE having a WHITE Christmas this year!!!  Too bad the windchills have been below zero, and it’s been too cold to go out and play in it!!!

Hope you all had a BLESSED Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year!!!

We had our first snow of the year yesterday…..SUCH as it was.  Now it’s just what most people would consider cold and miserable.  If you had something to do outside today to keep you moving, it actually wasn’t too bad if you could get out of the wind and didn’t have to get wet. 

We didn’t actually get enough snow here at the house to say that we even GOT any, but it was a nice thought for awhile.  Not getting enough snow to say we got some is actually NOT a new thing for us in Kansas.  We’ve only had a couple of GOOD snows that actually stayed around for a couple of days a couple of different times since we moved here over a decade ago.  Kind of miss the snows that we used to get when we lived closer to the West Coast when I was growing up!!!  Yes, they were cold, and wet, and if you have 6 or 7 feet of it to try to work your way through, it WAS miserable at times….but I still miss it.  I love being able to catch the scent of pine and cedar trees on the brisk, still Winter morning air.  I love the way the brisk air feels….how alive it makes you realize you are when you breathe it or when you first step out into it and see your breath.  I love that touch of warmth the sun teases you with some days when you KNOW it’s not even warm enough to melt the snow.

Someone asked me a question today that I told them I would have to get back to them on…..Where would you like to go?  After being outside just before that, all I could think of was mountains and snow.  Now is that bad or WHAT?

Oh well….enough babbling at you tonight.  Blessings to all!!!