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!!