James and I just returned home this afternoon from a little trip down to NC. My dad turned 60 on Saturday and had his party on Sunday. We drove down as soon as we could after I got off work on Saturday evening and got in to the folk's place at 1AM, Kayla curled up between us on the truck's bench seat ( Read more... )

I nest when James isn't here at night. With our six pillows (four that are traditionally mine and the two that James tends to use) situated in a little U-shape with extra blankets wrapped around me and between my knees ( Read more... )

So Becky is back from her vacation, and we have a new wonderful barn worker Fidel who is absolutely amazing. Hypothetically speaking, one might imagine that with our second rider back and improved barn help that we would be getting things done more efficiently and finishing our work at a more reasonable hour ( Read more... )

We had two "new" horses come in last night to Fox Ferret. Technically they've been at our farm before but they were sent to Maryland for a few weeks to be worked with by my boss' daughter. The horses are Boojwhacked, a gorgeous chestnut gelding that looks like the epitome of all things racehorse, and Henry, a tall and skinny, nervous gelding with a ( Read more... )

Only two more days of work this week. Two more days of being the only rider aside from my 75 year old boss. Becky comes back from her vacation this weekend so starting Monday, hopefully things won't take as long to get done. Though her being gone led to me riding more of the horses and Bruce suddenly coming to the realization that I'm a good rider ( Read more... )

I have recently discovered the wonderful world of hot tea. Ever since starting at work with Bruce, he's made me a cup of tea every morning (well, 5-6 days out of my 6 day work week). He's made some Tetley's tea of some sort, a French Vanilla, and even just normal old Lipton tea, but for some reason it always tastes amazing when he makes it ( ( Read more... )

I struggled to fall asleep last night. Not having James around kind of puts me on edge and it's hard for me to settle in to bed. I ended up watching The Duchess on TV, then starting Rain Man with no real intention of watching it as by that time I was pretty ready to fall asleep. I turned the sleep setting on the TV to an unnecessary 2 hours and ( Read more... )

Living in Cochranville, Pennsylvania has definitely been a relaxing change of pace. I'm truly glad James and I decided on renting a house rather than an apartment, though truthfully there were no apartments to be had in Cochranville, population 5000. The house is undoubtedly more expensive, but allows me to be only 5 minutes from work and to keep ( Read more... )

I did some rummaging in some semi-unpacked boxes recently and stumbled upon my celtic dragon tarot deck. I spent some time skimming over them and enjoying the art and tonight I decided to do a reading or two for myself to try and sort through some chaotic thoughts of mine ( Read more... )

The boss hasn't so much as raised his voice at us in a few days. I'd like to to think he's coming to his senses about how he needs to treat his employees, but the fact that every time I have to interact with him I'm holding my breath and waiting for him to find some reason to yell at me, is a bad thing ( Read more... )