Family Matters ...
First off I am happy to say that tomorrow will be the half-way mark of 3 weeks into my stall rest and I'm starting to feel more back to normal. I catch myself "bouncing" now and then and in the last...
View ArticleFrustration
I really want my own farm. I've hit the wall as far as where I board my horse. The footing in the arena is horrible (wet, slippery, hard-packed dirt that was getting too dangerous for horses to work...
View ArticleI will take my subject line from a song ...
Actually, I don't think I will because I probably shouldn't admit what I'm listening to. I was ok coming out of the closet with my Barry Manilow fandom, but now my 9-year old daughter has managed to...
View ArticleRamble on ...
Yesterday was the first day in month that it was nice enough outside to get out and plant some bulbs. I still have two weeks left of "stall rest" so I needed my daughter to help me move pots to the...
View ArticleLet's talk about potatoes and germs
I feel like I'm living during a pandemic. My poor boss got really sick yesterday morning (the pukey kind), I've been fighting off a cold and woke up with a sore throat, headache and general "ugh...
View ArticleBack in the saddle again ... literally
I went out this morning to take care of Maiden and have her do some work but it was so crowded at the barn there wasn't room to lunge her. There was already someone lunging a horse and two people...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle Part Deux
I'm taking the afternoon off from life because I'm feeling fatigued, achey and just plain bad. I'm pretty sure I'm hormonally challenged and it's quite bad this month which is probably due to my age....
View ArticleI'm old ... plus horse teeth and rain rot
Yesterday was my 46th birthday and I was freaking out a little about being so old but now that I'm two days into it and feel about the same and since I didn't magically wake up completely elderly...
View ArticleAs of today I officially can never eat my horse.
I finally got around to getting Maiden started on her Adequan - which is an injectable medication that will help her with arthritis in her knees and help repair the joints. I gathered all my first aid...
View ArticleBack to a life of leisure ...
Aka back to the life of unemployment. I got laid off on Wednesday because apparently there was a girl who really wanted my job and had been asking my boss to find a way to get rid of me since the week...
View ArticleEmergency Dismounts
My way of relating to life has always been such that I've been ready to bail at the first sight of danger (emotional, physical or otherwise) and in most instances have had one foot out the door "just...
View ArticleOccular migraines
Apparently, I had an occular migraine yesterday. I was wondering what had happened and after much googling of a variety of terms such as "geometric shapes in field of vision" I finally found my...
View ArticleThe good, the bad, the very sore feet
I woke up early this morning and had awful insomnia, worrying about taking my daughter to Disneyland for the first time, worrying I would ruin it for her with my dislike or crowds, theme parks, roller...
View ArticleBut Volacoraptors eat eggs ...
We were having breakfast on the hotel patio yesterday and some really annoying boys and their much worse dad were being stupid and screaming at the birds and being everything that bugs me about...
View ArticleIs a dream a lie if it don't come true - or it is something worse?
You know it's bad when I start quoting Springsteen.I pride myself in my ability to just keep trudging along - I get knocked down and I get right back up, brush myself off and keep going because that's...
View Article... that sends me down to the river though I know the river is dry.
The song I'm quoting (that's been stuck in my head now for two days) is The River by Bruce Springsteen. When I was a tween (before the word "tween" had been invented) my brother idolized Bruce...
View Articlecoyote tracks
I'm going to have to start carrying my phone with me when I walk the dog through the woods in the morning. This morning there were muddy tracks coming up out of the marsh, crossing the boardwalk, then...
View ArticleClose to too many pets ...
We're not quite to the point where we're the Duggar family of pet owners, but we have a lot now. And I am drawing the line lest we end up having our house destroyed (or our wallets) by them. On...
View ArticleMuch going on
There has been much going on this lack week. I had my own case of "colic" on Monday when I came home from the barn and was hit by horrible stomach pains that doubled me over then resulted in...
View ArticleBugs in the Machinery
I was trying to read news on my laptop while sitting on the couch just now and the tiny Australian Shepherd (newest addition to our family) decided she absolutely needed to right this moment sit on my...
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