There are many different storms in life, most of which we all manage to get through. And it's not so much whether we can make it through, but how we ride the waves and come out at the end. Knowing and trusting God makes it so much easier to get through the tough times while not losing hope, faith, trust, or love.
After the snow day last Tuesday, we got sun shine on Wednesday, but the wind was still blowing. Our drive was plowed 2 times Tuesday and once Wed. morning. All three times Andy (the plow man) was here I was outside. LOL He must think I am crazy. Joe talked to him about where to pile snow so that we have better access to the barn. He did a much better job, but it keeps drifting back across in front of the barn. Because of the cold and continued drifting and blowing of snow, our riding lesson for Wed was moved to Friday.
Friday morning we had fog and frozen frost but the sun broke through the clouds later in the day. There was still a lot of snow and ice on the ground and it was cold, so I was worried about our late afternoon riding lesson. I was more concerned about loading and unloading here and at Marj’s cause I did not want the horses to slip and get hurt or scare themselves getting into or off of the trailer. That would make them completely lose their trust in me.... so I wanted to be sure they could safely do this. We ended up going to the lesson and having no problems with loading and unloading. We had a great time. The horses have barn fever and were full of energy. Amiga got tired after several laps of doing her gated trot. Actually my legs got tired too. So we walked awhile before gating the other direction.
I found out Friday that I will be able to retain part time status for next year. Woot woot! One less thing to worry about. I developed a little "tennis elbow" from all the work I did on Tuesday; shoveling, cleaning stalls, and moving bales of hay. Then Friday I helped move saw dust and had the riding lesson that I am now a bit sore from. They were calling for snow flurries Friday night. For awhile it was snowing to beat the band. It didn't last long and gave a renewed cover of clean snow over everything.
Carol and her two Border Collies came for a visit over the weekend. They were here most of the day Saturday and Sunday. We always enjoy ourselves together, as does Kaysha with Carol’s two dogs. We mostly just hung out and talked….but did go for three long walks, watched TV and took Grandma’s chairs apart. I am going to re-upholster the chairs. As you can see below they are in major need of repair.
Carol took lots of great pictures which follow.
Kaysha excited to see our guests arrive.
Abbey Ike
Tie
Chuck sunning and chickens foraging.
The barn cats were not near as excited to see Carol's dogs as Kaysha was. They shot up the barn wall and perched on the rafters until the cost was clear.
I was glad to see they would be able to escape if a predictor came into the barn.
Grandma's chair
We didn't have school today because of Presidents day. But I needed to go in to school to print and xerox several things, so that was kind of looming over head. I did NOT want to change out of my PJ's, get in a cold car, go to a cold, dark, lonely school to work, get back in a cold car to come home and spend 45 min of driving time round trip. I debated adding on upholstery shopping to make it seem more worthwhile. As it turned out.....I never went into town.
I have been catching bits and pieces of the winter Olympics. Carol got me started on it. It has kept me from house/farm/school work, but has been a welcome distraction. All the figure skating events are my favorite. When the commentator tells the stories of these skaters, I realized most of them have had to weather one storm or another.....but they all made it through and were there at the Olympics! And actually, this year's Winter Olympics had many "storms" or mishaps of its own.....but unfortunately not enough snow.
A quote off Facebook: "The object is not to wait for the storm to pass. The object is to learn to dance in the rain."
I look forward to spring sun shine and flowers, but not the rains. I'll try to be happy and enjoy what ever we get.
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