Christmas time or looking back at life.

Christmas was this past week. Where did this year go? I feel like it just started and it is over, strange how that happens isn't it? Ya blink and your kid is grown up into a young man or woman, you blink and your dog is old, you blink and your husband has gray hair on his head if he has hair at all. I get to thinking of the song from Fiddler on the Roof where he is singing When did he get to be so tall, I don't remember growing older when did they? Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset swiftly fly the years. One season following another laden with happiness and tears.

One of the nicest things that happened to me this year is that I am now in contact with the brother of my childhood best friend. Dar was killed by a drunk driver just shy of her 32nd birthday and just after my 32nd birthday. Her dear sainted mother was killed in the same accident. Since I haven't been to Montana (home) in many years I had lost contact with her family and it is great to at last be in touch with someone from her family again. Her brother was a huge crush of mine when I was quite young. We were several years younger so he never had eyes for me but I sure pined over him. LOL He is happily married now as am I but thinking back I giggle about it now.

My 40 year class reunion will be this next summer. I am trying to get more fit before I decide for sure if I am going or not so we joined a health club this week. I walked for four minutes on the treadmill which was a miracle in itself as a year ago I could not walk more than about 30 feet without extreme pain from my low back. Found a wonderful pain managment team in Boise that has given me injections along my spine that has helped a tremendous amount with that pain and so now I can at least move again. YAY

Friends, new friends and old are a part of life and living and it is wonderful to get back in touch with ones left behind in a rush of life and living. Life is good.

Amy

Our miniature mare Amy picked a day to die and we found her dead out in the field with no outward way to know what happened. She was only six years old and only 26 inches tall at the shoulder and without you seeing her size you would have thought a photo of her was a full size horse. She was so lovely and white too as a cremello color.

We loved this little darling and she loved us. I have been sad ever since we found her and can't seem to wrap my brain around the fact that she will not be banging on my dryer vent anymore to tell me to come out and give her some horse treats. She won't be opening gates anymore so there is no need to double lock our gates anymore. Thankfully we still have our other two minis and I have my Haflinger mare too to love so life does go on. Our bright little Amy will not be forgotten though.

Well I sold Mom's car today. I have had it as my main transportation since 04 when Mom passed away. We finally bought an 06 Nissan Frontier with only 8,000 miles on it and it is my dream vehicle so Mom's car has to go since I have no use for it. It (Mom's car) is a 95 Ford Contour maroon color with automatic tranny, air and no other bells or whistles. I have always hated how low it sits since I had double knee replacement surgery and hip replacement too so it is hard for me to stand up from that car and even to sit down in it. I just drop into the seat and pray I don't fall through the floor onto the ground and end up all folded up on the ground under the car. That would not be this Mom's best day that's for sure!!!!!!!!!

The gal that bought the car paid half down on it and will pay it off by working in my yard and house for me. I will not let her take the car till she gets it paid off. With only 60,000 miles on it that car has a lot to give her.

I started weeding around the koi pond and got a portion of that done but pooped out before I got the part done that I gave myself as my chore for the day. Guess I thought I could bite off more than I could chew which tends to be the norm for me since all the surgeries lowered my speed from{ full steam ahead into ---pour the coals into this old gal, she is about half dead but she is trying to start}.

Hubby called and will be home tomorrow night. I guess I have to clean the living room tonight from my craft project I was working on in there. He isn't appreciative of when I have stuff on (his) chair and right now it is not only on that chair but on the floor, the couch, a card table and the coffee table.

Life is good!

Muddled Meanderings

Today I started a blog. I don't know for sure where I will go with this but I can be sure to put plenty of my pictures of flowers and hostas. I am a hostaholic along with an itch that I call Ponditis. I always itch to have more and more ponds, so far we have two including a half acre natural pond that measures about 70 feet wide by 275 feet long and it is in our front yard.

My hubby of 35 years and I enjoy working on our yard together and sometimes we even get a project done!!!!!! Most of our projects remain unfinished till we have the money or the equipment or the energy to continue on to the finish line with them. Our health issues too have dug into a lot of not finishing things but we persevere and eventually finish them. We tend to be calm and collected about everything in our lives which is a good thing, we think. I wouldn't want to be a type A person and try to be me.

We have horses, mini horses, sheep, a steer for our freezer, 3 GIANT dogs, 2 little dogs, 19 year old cat, koi fish, goldfish, tons and tons of blue gill, some catfish, unknown other fish, muscovy ducks, and hopefully soon Sebastopol geese. We are pet, pond and hosta poor much of the time. We truly enjoy life to the fullest and plan on some traveling when hubby retires next year.

Life is good.