This afternoon, I was utilizing a few spare minutes in the schedule to run over some tricky lines from Mozart's Te Deum, one of many Mozart pieces that the...
The earliest trees are starting to turn, beginning God's annual painting of autumn. I am very closely watching my two baby sugar maple trees this year, but so...
(Yes, it's posted on the morning of the 4th. I just collapsed when I got home last night instead of even switching on the computer.) Yesterday was one of...
A great improvement over yesterday. This morning, I visited my newly assigned second permanent client on the aide work. This one will be harder work than the...
Of all horses I have known in my life, none has had more intelligence and perception than Missy. My little mustang, the sentinel of Erdenheim, first to notice...
How sweet Deb. I can understand the connection you have with Missy, I have it with Cisco. She is always in the room with me even when the other dogs aren't. ...
My second permanently assigned client on the aide work is a shared client, and I split her hours with another aide. This is because she is a 7-day-a-week...
You are a jewel Deb, but then we all knew that. Susan ... From: Deb To: erdenheim@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:21 PM Subject: [erdenheim]...
A long but productive day. It started with an early aide shift, this one fill-in on an old man who is blind and in a wheelchair. While getting his breakfast...
Pulling into a McDonald's this afternoon on the way home from church, I found myself inside in line behind an entire busload of deaf kids, with patient...
If there were ten commandments of farm life, one of them would be, "Thou shalt feed the animals upon first opening the door each morning." It doesn't matter...
The field immediately south of Erdenheim is a hay field during hay season, a cattle pasture at other times. It's similar to Erdenheim topographically, the...
It's funny how smells can be tied to memories and feelings. This morning, I was on an aide shift with one of my two permanent clients. She asked me to cook...
Today, after the weekly ritual of buying grain and after working and grooming the horses, I had the ceremonial last mowing of the season. It's always...
Another of the 10 Farm Commandments cut in stone as far as the animals are concerned: Thou Shalt Arrange Good Weather. The people are clearly responsible for...
Quite a last 24 hours. Some days, while the dragon doesn't win, he puts up quite a good fight. Yesterday, I did two aide shifts, then headed into the city...
You might live on a horse farm if . . . Someone at a public gathering approaches you with a plastic bag and says, "I made fruit salad today, and I saved all of...
Kids! They were like ants at a picnic, swarming in, totally intent on their mission, ignoring any signs that their attentions were unwelcome. I ran into the...
I've seen kids like that Deb, and I can say I did not for a minute allow my own son to act like that. I have told/warned him that if he presents me with...
As her aide, I think you should have put your foot down. You are very diplomatic and could have cut the little brats to the quick in a nice way! JMHO Bonnie ...
Ever since the day that a storm ripped off half my roof and rolled it up like a giant's sleeping bag, I've kept a wary eye on the roof and the ceilings at...
... very diplomatic and could have cut the little brats to the quick in a nice way! ... Actually, Bonnie, I probably couldn't have. I've always been afraid to...
First was the mental image, the dream. Then the anticipation. Finally, in the last week, the actuality. My baby sugar maple trees, bought with part of the...
I had a far-too-close encounter of the wild kind last night, or technically this morning. I was driving home in the wee small hours when a large deer erupted...
I was working with my second client this morning, and we were, as usual, chatting while I cleaned things up. She mentioned a favorite book, one I hadn't read...
Horses in the mist. My first movement on getting out of bed in the mornings is always to go to the window and look toward the pasture. There, the horses will...
Remember the burr oak beside the driveway? The one that the trailer movers had to spend all sorts of time trimming with an electric knife, because the man...
The moon had a double image last night. Amazing. I rolled over in bed in the middle of the night and glanced automatically out the window to find the moon...
Driving into the city today, I passed a farm along the interstate which specializes in visitors. It has the massive pumpkin patch, the corn field, the...
