Life

The last 6 months have been an absolute whirlwind and way busier than even I like to be but we sure did get a lot accomplished. It started with the trip to Burkina. I jumped off the plane at home and immediately we began the studio. Well, it is not completely finished, but it is very comfortable and usable. The kids love it. Adele began to try to get cleared for hip replacement surgery and we have ended up with them moving in and going through cancer treatments. Lastly, we lost our gelding, but gained a very large gentle older mare so now we have plenty of riding horses and now a new very roomy and warm barn and over 3000 acres and a dirt road to play around on. We have moved from having young horses that needed training to having well broke horses.
We closed the Hillsdale studio and immediately made up the numbers in our Imlay City studio. I finally bought a much needed dining room table and this week put a much needed new couch on layaway. Terrible economy and all.
Yes, it has been a whirl wind. Yes, there is terrible news all around us, and yet, I have a great sence of peace. It is great to be able to sit back and enjoy all the accomplishments. And you know what? Not one penny borrowed.

We are very tired though and in pretty good shape from all the manual labor.