Tag: Coffee

My kingdom for a horse!

May 20, 2016

Here I sit, the keeper of five horses, and my biggest wish is for another one!  Feel free to send a “WTF?” in my direction.  On some levels, it’s certainly a crazy idea – but on another level, I cannot think of another answer to my conundrum.

A Week of Firsts

May 16, 2016

Some firsts are big – first date, first kiss, first job, first car, and (of course) first horse.  Other firsts are small and personal – not seeming like much to an outside observer, but providing a glowing feeling to the person involved.  This week provided several of those very small firsts, marking personal victories and … More A Week of Firsts

Progress!

April 4, 2016

Not long ago, a Facebook friend posted a challenge to describe your day in just one word.  Most of the responses were, sadly, somewhat predictable in our modern age: things like “Stressful”, “Frustrating”, and “Depressing”.  There have been many points, in the past couple of years, when my response might have been the same.  But, … More Progress!

Scratches in the dark

February 13, 2016

I work in the public sector – a place where “civil servants” are well known for arriving exactly at their start time, taking an immediate coffee break, working their day, and staying not a minute past their eight hours.  Though I don’t fit that mold, my job has typically adhered more or less to a forty hour … More Scratches in the dark

Fighting Winter blahs

January 11, 2016

I used to love winter.  Admittedly, I’ve never lived anywhere with snow to shovel, or ice to break in water troughs daily.  Winter for me has always been gray days, fog and rain.  Spending my early childhood in the region around Seattle, this was winter and I loved it even well into adulthood.  Of course, that was when … More Fighting Winter blahs