Today I sit at home in a quiet space. Mike when to church and I stayed home. I feel bad about staying home, but my face is a combination of black and blue and swollen red from the beating it took when my face made contact with a foal raising her head really fast. I was bent over putting more feed in her feeder when she suddenly raised up, smacking me square in the face. I saw stars, thought I would cry, and pass out all the at the same time. I was so stunned that I thought about crying out for help, but not only was the wind blowing 50 miles per hour, my half deaf husband (really, not being mean) was in the house and wouldn't have heard me anyway. So I staggered back and finished feeding, all while feeling blood rush down my nose and from my mouth. When I got back in the house I was happy to see it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but my gums were bleeding above my two front teeth...Never thought I would consider that I might have to sing "all I want for Christmas is my Two front Teeth" ever again. Considering I have such a high prejudice over people with missing teeth I was very relieved to find that they were loose, just bleeding and skinned up. I immediately got ice on my nose and my mouth, but needless to say it still swelled up and I feel like I was in a cage fight to the death. Poor little mare didn't mean to do it...purely she zigged when I zagged. It's the first time in 30 years that anything like this has happened to me...ouch.
Today it is so cold and Blustery. I can't remember a morning it has been this cold in Texas in...well, I can't remember. It reminds me a little of when I left Iowa, thinking the weather would be better in Indiana and we got a huge ice storm with temps at or below zero just a month or after I moved there. The water froze on the troughs and we couldn't go anything except take buckets of warm water out to the horses because it was too cold for words. Finally the troughs overflowed with the warm water we had dumped on the troughs to melt it and then we had to carry buckets out to offer water every couple hours. Everything was in a state of emergency...made us happy we had hot dogs and eggs in the house.
Last night we had our holiday dinner with Mike;s family and it was really great. Good food, good fun, good family. We stayed way too late and slept way to little, but it was totally wonderful. I love being part of this family. It was so much fun to play with Xandra and William (my grandchildren) and hold the baby, Jonathon, though I think he does not like my perfume bc I couldn't get him to quit crying. I'm fairly good with babies usually, but I didn't have the right moves yesterday it seems.
I'm heading out to feed horses in a few minutes, but it's so cold. I'm not looking forward to it. I'm making some hot water up to warm their bellies with their mashes. I usually carry a bucket around to each other their buckets, but I think today I will bring the buckets in and then take the buckets back out to them rather than have to be dressed up like an eskimo toting heavy, wet feed around. It's been kind of a weird, round robin kind of day with one task reminding me of another. I have been paying bills, canceling subscriptions to save money (trying to figure out how to get my drop box files over to one of my other 2 gmail accounts so I can save myself the money I have been spending on drop box each month. I have to take violet out periodically because she is kennel confined. She is really good about telling me when she needs to go out.
I had to make the unfortunate decision not to travel to Missouri for Christmas. With all the money we spent on the dog, we just don't have the money to travel. Plus we have to take Violet anywhere we go and our family isn't particularly dog friendly. So, we will have a quiet Christmas here at home and finish getting me moved to Purmela.
Heading out to the cold...
Today it is so cold and Blustery. I can't remember a morning it has been this cold in Texas in...well, I can't remember. It reminds me a little of when I left Iowa, thinking the weather would be better in Indiana and we got a huge ice storm with temps at or below zero just a month or after I moved there. The water froze on the troughs and we couldn't go anything except take buckets of warm water out to the horses because it was too cold for words. Finally the troughs overflowed with the warm water we had dumped on the troughs to melt it and then we had to carry buckets out to offer water every couple hours. Everything was in a state of emergency...made us happy we had hot dogs and eggs in the house.
Last night we had our holiday dinner with Mike;s family and it was really great. Good food, good fun, good family. We stayed way too late and slept way to little, but it was totally wonderful. I love being part of this family. It was so much fun to play with Xandra and William (my grandchildren) and hold the baby, Jonathon, though I think he does not like my perfume bc I couldn't get him to quit crying. I'm fairly good with babies usually, but I didn't have the right moves yesterday it seems.
I'm heading out to feed horses in a few minutes, but it's so cold. I'm not looking forward to it. I'm making some hot water up to warm their bellies with their mashes. I usually carry a bucket around to each other their buckets, but I think today I will bring the buckets in and then take the buckets back out to them rather than have to be dressed up like an eskimo toting heavy, wet feed around. It's been kind of a weird, round robin kind of day with one task reminding me of another. I have been paying bills, canceling subscriptions to save money (trying to figure out how to get my drop box files over to one of my other 2 gmail accounts so I can save myself the money I have been spending on drop box each month. I have to take violet out periodically because she is kennel confined. She is really good about telling me when she needs to go out.
I had to make the unfortunate decision not to travel to Missouri for Christmas. With all the money we spent on the dog, we just don't have the money to travel. Plus we have to take Violet anywhere we go and our family isn't particularly dog friendly. So, we will have a quiet Christmas here at home and finish getting me moved to Purmela.
Heading out to the cold...
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