"You're like a bat," a client said to me yesterday as I worked a home aide shift. I'd come straight from work and had a 3-hour shift at her house. She mostly...
One unintentional side effect of moving 400 feet of fenceline and enlarging my yard so that Mom's trailer could be located in the yard instead of the pasture...
Looking at Rosalind today and admiring her striking pewter-colored points and shading, I found myself thinking of Sabra, my first Siamese. Sabra was...
"What do you sing?" a coworker asked me last night. We were discussing the Singers at the time, she having asked me what my main hobbies were. I soon...
Supposedly, it's easier to destroy than to build. The principle holds true in many things, but I've always wondered about its application to fence posts. Not...
One thing that absolutely drives me nuts is laziness. I've been called many things in my life, but nobody has ever called me lazy, and laziness in anyone else...
Sorry for the hiatus. I'm having problems with my ISP. Fortitude has gone to military school. My first baby, my first big sale, Fortitude is now a 3-year-old...
Role reversal. Sometimes one moment crystallizes a realization. Sunday afternoon, I was driving back from church activities. Having worked all night Saturday...
"Kate has no patience," Mom commented last week as she watched the horses watch my bucket-laden approach. Kate, as usual at feeding time, was a whirling...
Rain. Long, hard, soaking rain in the last few days after weeks of drought. We're still behind, but it helped quite a bit. Today, it cleared off, and the...
My first book, as in the first extended story I ever wrote that was long enough to deserve the title of full-fledged book, was simply called Rocket. I wrote...
Tonight the countdown stands at P minus five days, where P is for practice. Singers is starting rehearsal again the day after Labor Day for the new concert...
I'm sat here remembering now!! Not often I do that! But being stuck on Dial-up is giving me the chance to actually write LOL and reply at length to folks...
The process of writing never ceases to excite me, like a kid in a candy store. There is a contest I want to enter, prize of $1000, for original horse racing...
Last night, I found myself in another conversation I frequently encounter, this time with a slightly different angle. I was on meal break at work (given that...
neat story Deb! Susan ... From: Deb To: erdenheim@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:09 PM Subject: [erdenheim] EJ: September 2, 2006 Last...
Message on my answering machine this afternoon when I got home from church. It was Fortitude's owner, who had been to visit him this weekend at stallion boot...
Missy has a cut/scrape on her left hind leg, several inches long. It's absolutely unstitchable and not deep enough to require it, anyway, just wide. No real...
Singers started last night. Rehearsal was set to begin at 6:30, but I got there 20 minutes early, and at least 80% of the group was already there. Everyone...
... sale? If so can you tell me where. ... We have several. I'm not sure what is still available; some may be sold out. I'm checking on that. They are sold...
I have two new kittens, tiny little mites who are self-possessed beyond their quite-limited days. They sit unruffled in front of the big cats who are hissing....
One of the problems with being such an analyzer is that I can't shut it off. Whenever someone says something to me, I immediately have to dissect what they...
From sleep to disaster in two seconds. I was asleep late yesterday afternoon when Mom came in. "Deb, Sadie has apparently broken her leg." I extracted...
Oh Deb I'm so sorry Susan ... From: Deb To: erdenheim@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:32 PM Subject: [erdenheim] EJ: September 10, 2006 From...
There is another angel over Erdenheim tonight. I am so sorry Deb. Bonnie Deb <debph1999@...> wrote: From sleep to disaster in two seconds. I was asleep...
Today had two major foci, horsewise. First, I called first thing this morning for the dead animal truck to collect Sadie, and then I had to wait all morning...
Finally, I have a permanent client assignment with the home health and services agency. It's only six hours a week, two 3-hour shifts, but hopefully more...
I bought grain today, and the grain store was out of the usual blend, so I substituted the nearest thing. When I fed tonight, Kate, first in line as always,...
Breeding weather, my first riding instructor called it. Those times when something is cooking meterologically. The wind is rising and has a wild, untamed air...
