Scary Technology

While measuring feed each night I watch the news on my little "entertainment center" at the barn. That is how I know exactly when the space shuttle would pass over on four different occasions. The human race has come a long way in the last 30 years. Modern technology is getting very scary to me!

Remembering Noogie

It was three years ago on January 24 that Noogie died. I have been quietly and unknowingly grieving for him all this time.

As of this day, I will lock my love away for him in my heart.  I will continue on and try t take better care of those still with me.

Most of the horses here are just passing through, but Noogie was my son.Such a silly name for such a silly boy.

It's True

The very best things in life really ARE free!

Things we need right now!

The Eye of the Storm wishlist:

1. A 4-wheel drive pickup truck, at least good enough to pass inspection.
2.  A wireless laptop PC
3. About 200 feet of outdoor 220V electric wire.
4. 200 feet of outdoor conduit tubing that can be buried. To be used with the electric wire. This is for our well pump.
5. Any kind of horse fencing.
6. A microscope.

All donated items are tax-deductible. If there are any retired electricians out there with a shop full of any of this stuff and would like to give this to us we will be very grateful.

The Wonders of Radar Weather Reports

One night while I was watching the weather report, they mentioned that in three minutes the town next to ours was going to be hit with a white-out. I ran outside to see it moving up the driveway! It was so amazing!

As it passed over me I was completely covered with soft, powdery snowflakes. I threw back my head and faced into the wind, so soft and cool. I have never before experienced such a thing!

More on Communicating with Your Non-Human Friends

My brother has a new girlfriend.  We don't light candles at our house (I live with my brother - pretty sad, I know) for fear that my cat, Pip, could catch on fire.  The girlfriend likes candles.  Sure enough, Pip's tail caught on fire (he didn't even know it).  So now he is banned from my brother's apartment.  Being he is "just a cat" and unaware of how close he was to getting hurt, let alone burning the house down, he now pounds on my brother's door, howling his despair, "I thought you were my best bud!  What did I do wrong?  I love you!! Please let me in!", until I go down (I live upstairs) to tell Pip to knock it off and that he just has to put up with my company instead.

He purrs very hard, looks at me with his huge, wistful, sad eyes and allows me to carry his limp 19 pound body upstairs.  I explain to him that his best bud doesn't need him anymore.  He is so sad, but seems to understand.  I am trying to spend more quality time with Pip at the end of the day but I am a poor substitute.

P.S. After writing this, Pip is now allowed back into my brother's place, as he misses the cat, too.  There are no more candles.

How to Communicate with your Non-Human Friends

Pay Attention!! Animals only have bodily functions to work with.  They can't cuss you out, give you the finger, or slash your tires.  They can only holler at you or poop on your bed to let you know that all is not right in their world.  Now figure it out!

The negative energy radiating out of Gabriel, our stallion, can mean: "feed me"; "my water bucket has poop in it"; "I'm cold"; "I'm hot"; "the bugs are biting me"; there's a clod of crud in my sheath"; "I have freaking ticks on my thigh next to my junk and it's bugging me"'; etc.  After hours of my shouting "Shut up! What is wrong with you?" I do indeed figure it out.  Gabriel says "What..are you stupid?  I've been telling you this for hours."

I am so used to my animals communicating with me every single day that I don't even think about it anymore.  My horses really do love me, I know that, I know that I am their leader and they would follow me through fire.  But they also know that I feed them, and sometimes their communication is just too loud!  Thirteen horses screaming at me every time they think it's time to eat is just too much. 

Visitors will say, "Oh, look how much they love you! They were so quiet until you walked in!"  Trust me, it's not love.  They know I'm the food mama and because of that they greet me with a thunderous joyful noise!  I not so joyfully thunder back, "Shut up, you selfish bunch of babies!"  And they do.  So most of the time, if I pay attention, I can figure out what they want, but there are many times that I am just plain stupid.