Good wishes for a wonderfully memorable day that you can look back on with joy for years. And may the year ahead bring the fulfillment of some of your dreams. ole joyful

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes. It was such a full day! First had to take husband to the wound care clinic and then to his family doctor and then back home again. Cheryl and I then picked up Amber and Alyssa and headed to Pizza Shack in another town and met with my son Randy and his soon to be bride Erica. Terri, Mandy and Alex could not join us. I bought the kids their meals and we had a nice visit and great food. I like that there I can get just a plate pizza, lots of toppings and no crust. I love the salad bar there too. Alyssa was happy to give me the birthday card from her and she decorated it with stickers of horses and flowers. She also gave me two small coloring books. Very nice day but so long and tiring. Well, I have to get ready to go running again today. Thanks everyone. Sue

Happy Birthday my friend. I haven’t been able to get on here for awhile. Had to jump thru hoops to get back on!!

Wow. I didn't expect this. Thank you all very much! I am doing fine. I absolutely love it here. We have been doing some repairs around the place, and Jody fenced off a space on each side of the driveway for my antique roses (which I am getting back into) and some native plants and of course a few waterlilies. I also have another big, fenced area just for waterlily tanks. Next week I am going to an antique rose event where cuttings are exchanged, plus speakers and a pot luck. Really looking forward to that. Here we have what they call "community water", and we are on that, but we recently had our own water well drilled and Jody piped water to all the pastures and all around. For the first time ever, I don't have to drag hoses. All pastures have water piped to them, even one far back that we won't use. It has an old barn and was the site of a blacksmith shop at the turn of the century (1900). There is a deep well there...locals call it a cistern. It is mostly wooded now...only about 6 acres. Some huge pecan trees and many squirrels live back there now, so at least I can provide water for them, even if I don't use it for the horses. The highlight of my day yesterday was discovering there is a wall plug in the feed room....probably in the tack room too...I haven't looked yet. Such luxuries/conveniences...I am not used to. I am as happy as if I had won the lottery. ;)