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Bruno is so cute!!!!!
It is a shame for this country to use our dead military personnel as a pawn in this political issue.
Uncle - I, personally, think that changes were and are needed to the medical system of this country. I think it is so sad for people to go begging for medical care. I read a story after story of people with serious conditions trying to get medical care and being shunted to one side due to lack of funds/insurance/etc. Although I am not convinced that Obamacare is the final answer to this situation, I feel that it is a step in the right direction in that it shows we care enough about our fellow citizens to search for the answers for adequate healthcare access for each person in this country.
Since the grass is going to be dying down, the horses Penny is with, who were separated from the others because the barn owner felt they were getting too fat, will be going back with the others on the bigger pasture. If Penny goes, too, then I have to deal with the same situation where I was injured last year. I don't want Penny to be in the pasture where that horse is, because then, when I want to get her out of the pasture, we'll be in the same situation that I was in when he ran me over and hurt me. I really don't think it's unreasonable to not want to repeat the scenario.
The plot of where Penny will go thickens. I answered the barn owner's e-mail yesterday with this:
"I'll have to think this over. Penny gets frantic by herself. Maybe if we tried it, she'd get used to it, and maybe she would colic out of distress. There's no way to know. Certainly she could go out with your herd at night, but during the day, she would get very upset. Is there another horse you could keep with her?
If she stayed with your herd during the day, I might be able to handle Pete if I took a whip into the pasture every time and chased him far, far away. Would your herd be kept up near the barn during the day? Crossing that creek when it's full is more than I want to do.
Another option I considered was to see if Deb has room and keep Penny there for the winter. This would cost me a lot more, and I might have to dip into meager savings, so I'm not anxious to do that, but I might have to do it if Penny's welfare is at stake.
I'm racking my brains, trying to think of the best option. Help!"
And this morning, she sent this:
"This would not be just a winter thing so if you want to go to Deb's, a permanent move would be the thing to do. Honestly your decision to not let Penny be with Pete has been hard on her for an entire year now. She still continues to cry for that group when they go out to pasture. just the other day she was tossing her head at them repeatedly and circling and looking longingly at them from her pasture...As far as colic after all this time being upset, I doubt that would happen. She would only be a wire away from the others Plus I suggested her being able to be with them at night which is a hell of a lot better than never being with pete. You are so afraid of Pete that you have been blind to what Penny wants. Pete was acting like a horse, and didn't knock you over on purpose but he definitely acts differently when she is in heat then when Freska was. This is not all Pete's fault. Your horse rubs all over him! Maybe it has to do with where they fall in the herd order but it doesn't matter because I am going to put my horses together because they belong together and I no longer want them to be mixed with boarder horses, At least not during the day when an owner needs to get to them. I can't continue to let a boarder dictate where my horses are and what horses they are with. I do not want to separate Ali from her herd she has very strong feelings for. She also really likes king and Pete. Penny could care less about Ali, Flame and Wrangler. She was very content in the other group but I have given this a lot of thought and I need to do what is best for all the horses not just one. I also feel like you have gotten more and more worrisome and it is very hard to deal with. This thing between you and heather and the confusion about the feeding and pills is annoying. I am the adult, I am in charge and I know damn well that your horse is being cared for excellently. You told me that you were searching all around for Penny's feed and asking where it was. To Heather that was confusing because she thought you wanted penny to have it right then and there We have let you know when the pills were out and we have let you know when she needed more feed but all of a sudden you are worrying about it...?. We are in a switch of roles because you and heather have been confusing things! I have been moving Shelly back into the feeding schedule also because we now need to give out hay at 3 pm and Heather has NOT been feeding the horses at 3 for most all of this week. Instead she has been only opening gates and letting them out for me around 6 pm. Honestly I have no idea why you put those pills in the payment drop box...You have always been an overly worried horse owner, all the other places you were at have said the same thing about you, and yes I have talked to them all about you, you can be a challenge to please because you stress about everything and don't ever sway from your opinion. I am at a tired of it point... And this afternoon, why didn't you take her into one of the three pastures out back and brush her? Why do you always have to have her loose in my yard? OR why didn't you bring her through the back gate and around by the wooden horse feeder? This was the first time since you have been there that something was parked there like that. My husband and father in-law wanted to take all the wire and put it in the that old car they were scraping...it was a good thing to think of doing and I was thankful they did. There is a lot that happens on a horse farm that you have no idea about and I keep my feeding arrangements to myself because of the way you second guess everything and the last thing I need is you trying to tell me how to feed the horses. maybe it really would be a good thing for you to go back to Debs or somewhere else. I would be fine with taking your mention of it as notice that this will be her last month here."
It sounds like she wants me to leave. My fussiness over feeding Penny is that I insisted that she feed Penny twice a day. This is standard operating procedure at every barn where I've boarded Penny. It's well-known that feeding horses smaller meals more often is better for them, and some fancy barns even feed 3 times a day. I was also blamed for confusing her daughter. Heather is learning disabled, and she gets confused a lot. I was in the barn one day to check how low Penny's feed was getting, since I planned to go to Ithaca, where I buy feed, and if it was low enough, I wanted to pick up another bag while I was down there. Is that unreasonable? When Heather heard I was looking for Penny's feed, she got confused and thought I was saying to feed Penny then. As for leaving the pills in the drop box for board money, I had been doing that for months, and not a peep that it was not what the barn owner wanted me to do. How am I to know it's not where she wants me to leave them if she doesn't tell me? All in all, it sounds like she's very angry at me for inconveniencing her. I realize I'm a bit nit-picky about Penny's care and feeding, but I think any conscientious horse owner would be. Penny does need special care, since she gets feed that's different from the other horses and has a pill that has to be consumed daily. They missed giving the pill to Penny one day recently, even though I had left pills there, and that becomes my fault for leaving them where I've left them for months. No one said they were out of pills till yesterday -- and they weren't, since I had brought them about a week ago.
As for them blocking the way out of the pasture, they were loading a car with lots of old baling wire. OK, I understand that this doesn't happen all the time, and I stood there figuring out what to do. Since I couldn't take Penny out of her pasture, and since they had just given the horses their hay, I went into the pasture and groomed Penny while she ate. They noticed my frustration and that I didn't know what to do, but I never actually complained that they were blocking the way. And why am I not to take Penny out on the lawn to eat grass? The barn owner does this with her horses all the time, and she never mentioned that it bothered her.
I think my mention of going to Deb's was threatening her, and she went on a rant. Maybe, even if it will be financially difficult, i should move Penny. It's a shame, since the price is right, there are lovely pastures and trails, and the mud is minimal, but this isn't the first confrontation we've had, and I think it's a little crazy. Even if I'm to blame for being too nit-picky, I think I'm not totally to blame.
"I'll have to think this over. Penny gets frantic by herself. Maybe if we tried it, she'd get used to it, and maybe she would colic out of distress. There's no way to know. Certainly she could go out with your herd at night, but during the day, she would get very upset. Is there another horse you could keep with her?
If she stayed with your herd during the day, I might be able to handle Pete if I took a whip into the pasture every time and chased him far, far away. Would your herd be kept up near the barn during the day? Crossing that creek when it's full is more than I want to do.
Another option I considered was to see if Deb has room and keep Penny there for the winter. This would cost me a lot more, and I might have to dip into meager savings, so I'm not anxious to do that, but I might have to do it if Penny's welfare is at stake.
I'm racking my brains, trying to think of the best option. Help!"
And this morning, she sent this:
"This would not be just a winter thing so if you want to go to Deb's, a permanent move would be the thing to do. Honestly your decision to not let Penny be with Pete has been hard on her for an entire year now. She still continues to cry for that group when they go out to pasture. just the other day she was tossing her head at them repeatedly and circling and looking longingly at them from her pasture...As far as colic after all this time being upset, I doubt that would happen. She would only be a wire away from the others Plus I suggested her being able to be with them at night which is a hell of a lot better than never being with pete. You are so afraid of Pete that you have been blind to what Penny wants. Pete was acting like a horse, and didn't knock you over on purpose but he definitely acts differently when she is in heat then when Freska was. This is not all Pete's fault. Your horse rubs all over him! Maybe it has to do with where they fall in the herd order but it doesn't matter because I am going to put my horses together because they belong together and I no longer want them to be mixed with boarder horses, At least not during the day when an owner needs to get to them. I can't continue to let a boarder dictate where my horses are and what horses they are with. I do not want to separate Ali from her herd she has very strong feelings for. She also really likes king and Pete. Penny could care less about Ali, Flame and Wrangler. She was very content in the other group but I have given this a lot of thought and I need to do what is best for all the horses not just one. I also feel like you have gotten more and more worrisome and it is very hard to deal with. This thing between you and heather and the confusion about the feeding and pills is annoying. I am the adult, I am in charge and I know damn well that your horse is being cared for excellently. You told me that you were searching all around for Penny's feed and asking where it was. To Heather that was confusing because she thought you wanted penny to have it right then and there We have let you know when the pills were out and we have let you know when she needed more feed but all of a sudden you are worrying about it...?. We are in a switch of roles because you and heather have been confusing things! I have been moving Shelly back into the feeding schedule also because we now need to give out hay at 3 pm and Heather has NOT been feeding the horses at 3 for most all of this week. Instead she has been only opening gates and letting them out for me around 6 pm. Honestly I have no idea why you put those pills in the payment drop box...You have always been an overly worried horse owner, all the other places you were at have said the same thing about you, and yes I have talked to them all about you, you can be a challenge to please because you stress about everything and don't ever sway from your opinion. I am at a tired of it point... And this afternoon, why didn't you take her into one of the three pastures out back and brush her? Why do you always have to have her loose in my yard? OR why didn't you bring her through the back gate and around by the wooden horse feeder? This was the first time since you have been there that something was parked there like that. My husband and father in-law wanted to take all the wire and put it in the that old car they were scraping...it was a good thing to think of doing and I was thankful they did. There is a lot that happens on a horse farm that you have no idea about and I keep my feeding arrangements to myself because of the way you second guess everything and the last thing I need is you trying to tell me how to feed the horses. maybe it really would be a good thing for you to go back to Debs or somewhere else. I would be fine with taking your mention of it as notice that this will be her last month here."
It sounds like she wants me to leave. My fussiness over feeding Penny is that I insisted that she feed Penny twice a day. This is standard operating procedure at every barn where I've boarded Penny. It's well-known that feeding horses smaller meals more often is better for them, and some fancy barns even feed 3 times a day. I was also blamed for confusing her daughter. Heather is learning disabled, and she gets confused a lot. I was in the barn one day to check how low Penny's feed was getting, since I planned to go to Ithaca, where I buy feed, and if it was low enough, I wanted to pick up another bag while I was down there. Is that unreasonable? When Heather heard I was looking for Penny's feed, she got confused and thought I was saying to feed Penny then. As for leaving the pills in the drop box for board money, I had been doing that for months, and not a peep that it was not what the barn owner wanted me to do. How am I to know it's not where she wants me to leave them if she doesn't tell me? All in all, it sounds like she's very angry at me for inconveniencing her. I realize I'm a bit nit-picky about Penny's care and feeding, but I think any conscientious horse owner would be. Penny does need special care, since she gets feed that's different from the other horses and has a pill that has to be consumed daily. They missed giving the pill to Penny one day recently, even though I had left pills there, and that becomes my fault for leaving them where I've left them for months. No one said they were out of pills till yesterday -- and they weren't, since I had brought them about a week ago.
As for them blocking the way out of the pasture, they were loading a car with lots of old baling wire. OK, I understand that this doesn't happen all the time, and I stood there figuring out what to do. Since I couldn't take Penny out of her pasture, and since they had just given the horses their hay, I went into the pasture and groomed Penny while she ate. They noticed my frustration and that I didn't know what to do, but I never actually complained that they were blocking the way. And why am I not to take Penny out on the lawn to eat grass? The barn owner does this with her horses all the time, and she never mentioned that it bothered her.
I think my mention of going to Deb's was threatening her, and she went on a rant. Maybe, even if it will be financially difficult, i should move Penny. It's a shame, since the price is right, there are lovely pastures and trails, and the mud is minimal, but this isn't the first confrontation we've had, and I think it's a little crazy. Even if I'm to blame for being too nit-picky, I think I'm not totally to blame.
That is a tough one, SandySu.
Maybe the barn owner is just having a rough day???
I never heard of feeding horses only once a day. I definitely thought twice a day was standard. Three times a day would be a bit much.
Maybe the barn owner is just having a rough day???
I never heard of feeding horses only once a day. I definitely thought twice a day was standard. Three times a day would be a bit much.
Yes, I assumed she was feeding twice a day, and I carefully weighed the feed and poured the right amount into a plastic jar and marked where they should fill it to based on a twice a day feeding. Then somehow it got mentioned that she was only feeding once a day. I probably acted a little shocked and surprised, and I told her that twice a day was the usual, I wanted Penny fed twice a day, and I explained how it's better for horses to get smaller meals more often. I guess this was construed as advice about how she should feed her horses. I don't know. I know some kind of disagreement like this is never all one person's fault, but I really do feel rather innocent here. I didn't think my e-mail to her was as provocative as her answer to me.
As for having a bad day, she has lots of those, and I'm a little tired of dealing with her bad days and placating her. This time, I answered defending myself on all the points she made and asked her if she was asking me to leave. I wasn't quite sure, since she said my e-mail was giving her notice I was leaving, and I didn't mean it that way. Going to Deb's was only one option I mentioned. I think even the mere mention freaked her out, though. I think that is what did it.
Meanwhile, I'll call Deb tonight when she gets home from work and finished up in the barn and ask if she has an empty stall. She's a very agreeable barn owner, and my one big complaint about her place is the mud. Granted, Penny wasn't so fond of her pasture mates there, either, but she seemed content. She was bullied by the other 2 mares she was pastured with, but I think that bothered me more than Penny. What did bother me was that Penny wasn't allowed by the other 2 into the run-in shed, so she had no protection from the weather if she was turned out and it was bad. The barn owner would keep them in their stalls if she thought the weather might turn nasty, but you can't always tell in the morning what the afternoon will bring.
Nothing's ever perfect, and the relationship between barn owners and boarders is always a compromise on both sides, but boarding is easier for me than owning a farm and all that entails. I think, if Deb has an empty stall, this time I really will move Penny. With the tutoring income, I can probably just afford it.
He really is... he jumps on my head in the morning to wake me up! He sleeps on a foot stool with a blanket during the day in between my fiance's and my desks. He insists on it!
And in most cases if we have some meat that was cooked for supper ( carefully deboned and unseasoned) he begs and whimpers till I just have to share!
Sandy, I'll be praying for your situation and I hope that it gets comfortingly resolved!
He really is... he jumps on my head in the morning to wake me up! He sleeps on a foot stool with a blanket during the day in between my fiance's and my desks. He insists on it!
I'm sure you already know that we Volties love our fur kids. They are precious to us.
I tutored the kids again today. We had great lessons. In the car on the way there, I asked the little girl about her ballet lesson -- the first one was last Saturday, which is why we changed tutoring days to Mondays and Wednesdays. Somehow, the subject came up that her dance class was all girls. She said boys can't do ballet. I was quick to correct her. She said if a boy came to her ballet class, everyone would laugh. I said I hoped she would be kinder and not laugh. She was still unconvinced about boys doing ballet, so I promised to send her mom links to YouTube videos of men ballet dancers. I sent one of Baryshnikov partnering with a very lovely female dancer. I sent one of young men in their late teens or early 20s who were ballet dancers, but I wanted one of a little boy, and I found this one. You must watch it. The kids are amazing for ones so young!
I'll tell you more about the actual lesson later, but I just had to share this video.
I'll tell you more about the actual lesson later, but I just had to share this video.
OK, the lessons.
The little girl went first today. I decided that reading a book is the most fun, so we did exercises first. I think this is the way to go -- do the hard part in the beginning, winding down with stories. I had a short list of words for the little girl, words she didn't know from last time's reading. We went over them, discussing their meaning and pronounciation. We did a few exercises with opposite words -- antonyms. When she didn't know push and pull, I demonstrated by pretending to push her off her chair and pull her toward me off her chair. She giggled. Then I gave her an exercise she did so well that I didn't pursue it. It had a number of crayon pictures, simple line drawings she could color in, and in each a color was printed. She had to color the crayons in the color written in the crayon. She knew every color! She did them all correctly. No point in pursuing that. Although I had several other sheets of other objects -- flowers on one, socks on another, etc. -- I left them for her to color if she wanted. That was going to be part of her homework, but it was too easy, so I just said she could do them if she wanted to. Her homework is to study the list of words I had prepared and the sentences using those words. Even though I tried to make the sentences simple, I used words she didn't know, so those will get added to her list, which is growing longer than I dare work on in any one lesson. I guess at some point, we'll catch up to it all. I got 2 books out of the library for her to read, and she chose the ballet book first. It was about a little girl's first ballet lesson, and there were 2 boys in that ballet class, so I said, "See? Boys are in this ballet class. Boys can do ballet!" When they showed pictures of the 5 positions, we got up out of our chairs and tried them. Fifth position is hard! When we finished the ballet book -- Bea at Ballet: Rachel Isadora: 9780399254093: Amazon.com: Books -- I gave her the option of stopping or reading another book about colors -- The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse: Eric Carle: 9780399257131: Amazon.com: Books -- and she chose that book. She could read it by herself, since she could see the blue horse and the red crocodile, and know what it said. I think she really enjoyed both books.
On to her brother, who seems to have a lot less fun doing the lessons. I wish I could figure out how to inspire him!
We worked on the hard stuff first, which was his list of words he doesn't know, and their accompanying sentences. He had to do some fill in the blanks. We also worked on contractions. He isn't perfect yet, but he knew a lot more this time. When it came time to pronounce I'll, he pronounced it ill, which makes sense, doesn't it? But I explained how it was pronounced like I with just the end of the will sound. I told him a trick to pronouncing them is to think of the first word, I for I'll or I'm, he for he'll and he's, etc. If he pronounced it like that with the ending sounds added, he'd have it. I think this helped. In his word list was the word pearl, which he had trouble pronouncing and I had trouble describing. I asked him if he ever saw a pearl necklace, and he asked me if the beads were gold. No, they're white. I have a pearl necklace, so next lesson, I'll wear it. He asked if pearls were alive. No, but the oyster that made them was alive. He read a short thing I had printed out about how oysters make pearls, since this was something we discussed last time. His reading aloud is getting really good when he concentrates and thinks about it. He tends to get sloppy. Part of his homework is to read the pearl story aloud to his parents. He knew all the words and did well at it, so that should show off his progress and give him another chance to think about oysters and pearls. I had a book from the library for him, too -- Guji Guji: Chih-Yuan Chen: Amazon.com: Books He didn't want to read it, but I insisted. He did well reading that, too with only a few words he didn't know. I think he sort of enjoyed it in spite of himself.
I think the lessons went better than any time in the past. I worried a little that my concern over Penny & the boarding situation would get in my way, but I'm pretty good at setting aside thinking about stuff when I have a job to do. In fact, I often find it's a relief to be able to focus on something else for a little while.
The little girl went first today. I decided that reading a book is the most fun, so we did exercises first. I think this is the way to go -- do the hard part in the beginning, winding down with stories. I had a short list of words for the little girl, words she didn't know from last time's reading. We went over them, discussing their meaning and pronounciation. We did a few exercises with opposite words -- antonyms. When she didn't know push and pull, I demonstrated by pretending to push her off her chair and pull her toward me off her chair. She giggled. Then I gave her an exercise she did so well that I didn't pursue it. It had a number of crayon pictures, simple line drawings she could color in, and in each a color was printed. She had to color the crayons in the color written in the crayon. She knew every color! She did them all correctly. No point in pursuing that. Although I had several other sheets of other objects -- flowers on one, socks on another, etc. -- I left them for her to color if she wanted. That was going to be part of her homework, but it was too easy, so I just said she could do them if she wanted to. Her homework is to study the list of words I had prepared and the sentences using those words. Even though I tried to make the sentences simple, I used words she didn't know, so those will get added to her list, which is growing longer than I dare work on in any one lesson. I guess at some point, we'll catch up to it all. I got 2 books out of the library for her to read, and she chose the ballet book first. It was about a little girl's first ballet lesson, and there were 2 boys in that ballet class, so I said, "See? Boys are in this ballet class. Boys can do ballet!" When they showed pictures of the 5 positions, we got up out of our chairs and tried them. Fifth position is hard! When we finished the ballet book -- Bea at Ballet: Rachel Isadora: 9780399254093: Amazon.com: Books -- I gave her the option of stopping or reading another book about colors -- The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse: Eric Carle: 9780399257131: Amazon.com: Books -- and she chose that book. She could read it by herself, since she could see the blue horse and the red crocodile, and know what it said. I think she really enjoyed both books.
On to her brother, who seems to have a lot less fun doing the lessons. I wish I could figure out how to inspire him!
We worked on the hard stuff first, which was his list of words he doesn't know, and their accompanying sentences. He had to do some fill in the blanks. We also worked on contractions. He isn't perfect yet, but he knew a lot more this time. When it came time to pronounce I'll, he pronounced it ill, which makes sense, doesn't it? But I explained how it was pronounced like I with just the end of the will sound. I told him a trick to pronouncing them is to think of the first word, I for I'll or I'm, he for he'll and he's, etc. If he pronounced it like that with the ending sounds added, he'd have it. I think this helped. In his word list was the word pearl, which he had trouble pronouncing and I had trouble describing. I asked him if he ever saw a pearl necklace, and he asked me if the beads were gold. No, they're white. I have a pearl necklace, so next lesson, I'll wear it. He asked if pearls were alive. No, but the oyster that made them was alive. He read a short thing I had printed out about how oysters make pearls, since this was something we discussed last time. His reading aloud is getting really good when he concentrates and thinks about it. He tends to get sloppy. Part of his homework is to read the pearl story aloud to his parents. He knew all the words and did well at it, so that should show off his progress and give him another chance to think about oysters and pearls. I had a book from the library for him, too -- Guji Guji: Chih-Yuan Chen: Amazon.com: Books He didn't want to read it, but I insisted. He did well reading that, too with only a few words he didn't know. I think he sort of enjoyed it in spite of himself.
I think the lessons went better than any time in the past. I worried a little that my concern over Penny & the boarding situation would get in my way, but I'm pretty good at setting aside thinking about stuff when I have a job to do. In fact, I often find it's a relief to be able to focus on something else for a little while.
Back to the horse situation. I phoned Deb, the barn owner of the place I boarded Penny before where she is now, and yes, she has an empty stall, and she'd be glad to have Penny back. In fact, since she knows I've been having financial problems, she said she'd charge me $50 less than her regular board fee. I'm really tempted to go back there, in spite of it still being almost double what I'm paying now. Deb is such a sweetheart! She said she could put Penny in the front pasture with 2 very gentle geldings, and the mud isn't as bad there as it is in the pasture where Penny used to be. Also, I'd bring Penny into the barn by the front door, eliminating the need to unfreeze that sticky back door. It sounds like she's doing everything she can to have Penny back! So much for all the old boarding places complaining about me as the present barn owner said in her last e-mail.
Is there any reason I shouldn't go back? Sure, the money, but if I can afford it, then I should, right?
Is there any reason I shouldn't go back? Sure, the money, but if I can afford it, then I should, right?
Sandy, it sounds as if she's very willing to work WITH you. Which I think is very important in any type of relationship be it working, business or any other type of arrangement. She trying to make it easier on you in a lot of different ways and she doesn't sound like a cranky person like the current person you board with, but ultimately its your decision. If its within your means, then I say go for it.
I'll keep you and Penny in my prayers.
Celticluvr
I'll keep you and Penny in my prayers.
Celticluvr
I'm not a horse person but I wouldn't leave Penny where she is now. It would cost more but the present barn owner seems to have issues with Penny being there. You want Penny to receive good care that she may not get if you kept her there. This is just my opinion based on that email.
Thank you, Celtic and JoAnn, for confirming my thoughts. I really think, too, I need to get away from that place. It's a lovely farm, but I think the barn owner and her family are a bit dysfunctional. It seems a lot of horse people are -- me included, I guess.
Anyway, it's time to say good night, and just for the 2 of you, here are some flowers, one for each of you.
Anyway, it's time to say good night, and just for the 2 of you, here are some flowers, one for each of you.
Aw, thank you! Those are beautiful.
Good Luck with Penny and the children. My mom, (her name is Penny too,) is a ParaProfessional and works with Autistic kids and she tutors on the side so I've heard of some of the troubles that go along with it.
Celticluvr
Good Luck with Penny and the children. My mom, (her name is Penny too,
) is a ParaProfessional and works with Autistic kids and she tutors on the side so I've heard of some of the troubles that go along with it.Celticluvr
SandySu - If you can swing the extra money, sounds like Deb is the way to go. She cares and isn't over stressing and she wants you there However, I know how it is to have to keep the money in line so tough decision.
However, I know how it is to have to keep the money in line so tough decision.Thank you, Celtic and JoAnn, for confirming my thoughts. I really think, too, I need to get away from that place. It's a lovely farm, but I think the barn owner and her family are a bit dysfunctional. It seems a lot of horse people are -- me included, I guess.
Anyway, it's time to say good night, and just for the 2 of you, here are some flowers, one for each of you.
I always enjoy your photos especially beautiful flowers. Thanks Sandy!
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