Nancy says to get a new posting on her blog and she sent over a jumble of happenings, mostly written on Sunday.\u00a0 The theme of all these things is that she is feeling better, growing stronger, and doing more everyday sorts of activities.\u00a0 Anyone want to go to garage sales with her?<\/p>\n
Our trip to bring the new horses home took about 4.5 hours.\u00a0 For a potty stop, we exited the interstate highway about 15 miles short of our pick-up destination.\u00a0 This short time coincided with the arrival of about 100 black leather-jacketed gents and ladies on motorcycles, upon questioning, Nancy found they were assembling to ride in a funeral procession for a local solider killed in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The Yakima paper carried the story the next day.<\/p>\n
We loaded the three horses and returned home, only Nancy left an hour later to play music. She puts it this way:\u00a0 Yesterday I turned around and went to town to play music at the Retirement Center where they are able to get up and dance and are in good shape.\u00a0 They always feed us too.\u00a0 Yesterday it was homemade potato soup, best I\u2019ve ever had, by a resident.\u00a0 These are apartments \u2013 where folks are living \u2013 \u00a0not a care-center.\u00a0 They do their own cooking and have their own apartments.\u00a0 We entertain them and them us every second Saturday of the month, at 2:00 p.m..\u00a0 It is really a rewarding experience for all involved.<\/p>\n
On the way home yesterday from playing music, I stopped at a yard sale and got for $2.00 total the best deals of the century !!\u00a0\u00a0 —\u00a0 Donation of a large roaster (to our riding club for baking beans); 3 pieces of clothing.\u00a0 A nice blue denim shirt for John and a reversible yellow vest (looks brand new) [made of waterfowl feathers and parts and a little down] we both can use, and a great corduroy coat for me, with new quality too, and big brown buttons probably worth more than $2 paid for all.\u00a0 Good day at only one yard sale that was on the way home.<\/p>\n
Sunday a.m. we snuck out the back door (dogs out the front) and walked to the new horses and fed them and then out to the others past the barn and fed them, and then walked up through the woodlot to the road for the paper, and on the way there, we encounter 11 deer.\u00a0 I did not have my camera along \u2013 too bad; but, really, we have dozens of deer photos and while some individuals are recognizable to us, they basically look like the deer that were here 10 and 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
We walked back down the driveway.\u00a0 That was probably six times as far as my original 1\/2 trip up the drive with my walker a few weeks ago.\u00a0 I am definitely improving, and no longer using the walker except in the grocery store.\u00a0 Not in the pasture nor even holding on to John.\u00a0 I\u2019m on my own.\u00a0 Well, I did take his arm to cross the small creek north of the barn, and while stepping on the edge of the plank to cross the irrigation ditch.\u00a0 That\u2019s where the older horses are getting their water now.<\/p>\n
This morning John worked with the new mare, Cheyenne, in the round pen.\u00a0 She had a halter on \u2013 we usually don\u2019t have them on except as necessary \u2013 and she would not stand for him to take it off.\u00a0 After 15 minutes going round and round \u2013 with many stops for reflection \u2013 her lungs convinced her brain that standing still makes good sense and then she got turned loose in the pasture.\u00a0 The young gelding, Breeze, allows us to approach him with only minor apprehension on his part.\u00a0 He is very curious \u2013 only 4 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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