Four score and three Octobers ago.......

Hello everyone,

 It seems ages since my last blog.  Life, as we know it, must go on.  It has been a wonderful fall.  The weather has been so beautiful.  Foliage is gorgeous.  Natasha and Tom drove around today and she took pictures.  I love this picture.  It kind of tells it all.  We have been so blessed with all kinds of visitors.  It was wonderful to have our friends Lisa and Scott come up and camp in their camper.  I crack up about that.  Then my in-law and Tom's uncle and wife came up for a visit.  That was really nice.  Doug, Tom's youngest brother, and his family came up and we had a nice time seeing the eagles.  I don't know if they are still there (the eagles, Doug and family are back in CT).  Then my friend Luiza and her hubby made the long trip up and we spend a wonderful afternoon together.   

Three Octobers ago, we bought the property.  A year ago we were just about to move into the barely liveable house (if you can call it that).  I am so amazed about what has been done in a year.  Yes, there is a ton of work to do and the house is not finished (by a mile).  But our living conditions are so far improved it is such a far cry from last October.  I remember we were just putting up insulation last October, still waiting for the windows to come in.  Ugh, to think we moved into the house when we still had boards down and they were moving all around us.  Things have changed, for sure.  We just procured a vanity for the bathroom

Happy third anniversary.

Yes more counters!

through our friends Scott and Lisa.  This is now our newest counter in our kitchen.  Luxury!!  We have now discovered that we indeed like having a sink where we can look out the window.  Of course, these sinks don't work, yet.  Still working on it!  Sean started arranging his room upstairs, kind of like Natasha did, so he has some room to work on his paperwork.  Logan is still spread out upstairs with Legos everywhere!

School is also going quite satisfactory, I think.  We are actually able to sit down and work in the house.  We are not cramped in the shed or trying to make our way over moving floor to a place to sit.  We are also getting together once a week with another family and doing science experiments/fun.  The kids do their stuff and then run around after, while us mothers visit and pray for each other's families.  How cool is that?

Misty

 
On my front, all is well.  I still get to see my cow friend Betsy (or I think it's Bessy) every other day.  I'm not sure if I shared this bit of info with you but we have become quite tight.  Every time I get there, she moos for me to come and scratch her neck.  I am not kidding you.  I have shared this with my parents and they had a really good laugh about it.  I laugh every time she comes and moos when I'm there.  And it is rather loud.  If she is at the other end of the pasture, she has been known to run up to the gate to get her scratching.  It cracks me up.  Anyway, there is another animal making itself known in my life.  Her name is Misty, and she is one of the horses we cared for early in the summer, if you recall.  She is rather a little difficult (hehe, yes, difficult) and my friend Heidi asked if I could ride her once in a while.  Well, apparently Misty really had a good time being fussed over by me.  Those who know me, know that I like difficult horses (a lot!).  So I get to go and play with a crabby mare and tell her that she better be nice.  I used to tell my horse, Thunder, that every time he put his ears back.  And he got the message.  It was so funny because I was doing that with Misty.  She didn't get the memo yet, but she will.  So I get to ride her while the weather is nice.  Tomorrow (Friday) is another day for riding.  So that is quite pleasurable.  After Heidi and I ride, there is another chance to pray for each other and our families.  So double blessings.

Tom is going ahead with his bus driving training.  It is going quite slowly.  But he got to drive a bus the other day and not crash it.  He had a good time.  He also applied at the local Shaws supermarket.  They were hiring, and he thought it might give him more choices.  We will see what happens with that.  Sean is getting quite busy with his own clients.  He has had the chance to be the farrier at a horse show up in Woodstock.  He has gotten quite a few clients and is trying to juggle them and working for his boss still.  At times there are conflicts and his business has to come first.  He has clients that are now regularly calling on him to come and service their horses.  He just came back from a job where the horse had broken its coffin bone, so they were shoeing the horse to heal that injury.  I guess the client is very happy and so is the vet.

The hoof

 I am pretty glad he is doing a great job.  But then again, he had a really good example to follow when working with horses.  Yes, you guessed it: me!  But I jest, I really do.  Natasha is enjoying her work and she mostly works at night.  She is taking courses on line and has recently started Chemistry.  To my huge, and I mean huge, surprise, she loves it!  Who would have thunk it?  Not me!  So she is doing that on line and she is taking a photography class (hence the really nice pictures here) and something else and her Herbal Remedies class, which is very challenging.  She has to get the biochemistry of her elements she is dealing with.  This she is doing on her own, without anyone standing over her shoulder explaining things to her.  Sometimes she comes to me in frustration and asks me a question, which I, in tern, force back onto her (mostly because I can't remember my biochemistry stuff that well anymore.  It has been 20  years after all).  Logan, as I said, is doing well and is making friends and having a great time with them.  I am glad.
 

We are well prepared for winter.  Tom stacked 7 cords of wood this year.  We helped here and there but it was mostly him and himself.  They had a good time together.  Sean and Tom were out there the other day, tossing the cut up logs, seeing who could throw them furthest.  It was a little too much testosterone for me and I stayed out of it.  Logan did join in the fun at some point.  Guys!!!  Tasha and I were busy reading out books.  That is the civilized thing to do.



Have a wonderful remaining fall.