Moving Day, Episode Three. The eternal move continues. Mom's small and elderly Ranger is doing his best, but Morgan just wasn't designed for heavy loads like...
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends!" Thus did King Henry V exhort his flagging troops. This morning, I definitely felt like I needed a pep talk of...
There are places not to economize. I learned this lesson painfully regarding horse equipment with my second horse, an Arabian who went by the stable name of...
There's a cartoon I saw once that amused me no end. A large dragon, complete with flames, was stationed on guard in front of a fair maiden. Out on the plain...
Here are the pictures of our slain dragon. It was a full day's work, but it's amazing what two determined women can accomplish when they put their minds to...
"How do you define first thing in the morning?" The insurance agent, who had been scheduled to come look at the new trailer this afternoon to add it to my...
This morning was frosty but clear. As I exited the house to feed critters, the horses were simply too chilly and feeling too good to stand still, and they...
In a momentary break from work and planning what needed doing next, the electrician commented on the perfectly flat top of the ridge south of my house. This...
My trainer once had a student who developed some "creative" budgetting. This student was going over her expenses and realized that she spent $500 per month to...
A day of incomplete tasks. Those always annoy me somewhat, but all you can do is all you can do. The electrician had to cancel for today due to other...
The directions to Erdenheim are quite complex, but in all my years here, I've never quite given a set like I did this morning. "Glass company, good morning." ...
"That's it! I am absolutely not spending one more night sleeping on this thing, and that's final. I move in today!" So spoke Mom at 7:00 this morning after...
God got the lights switched on the first day. The electrician, not being God, has taken a week, but around mid day today, the lights went on in the trailer....
Just in case anybody thought I was exaggerating about living in a flea market at the moment. This is the library, my favorite room in my house and the...
Last night was the first night Mom spent in her trailer. Heat and lights were finally in place, and I had carefully gone over the bottom of the trailer...
There is a day every spring when suddenly the grass starts growing, almost overnight. One night, everything is winter brown, and the next morning, there is a...
The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand. They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand. "If this were only cleared away," They said,...
Yeller, Mom's old cat, spends quite a bit of time these days sitting in the window of her trailer and staring at the horses. Being an ex street cat from the...
History truly is a window to the past. The history of Erdenheim has been tracked back to the 1840s, and that is about as far as it is going to be possible to...
It's well known among horse people that there is no such thing as a free horse. Most offers of a "free" horse are actually taking over someone else's problem,...
Remember the burr oak tree which was trimmed by electric knife on the day the trailer arrived? Well, the saga continues. The trimmed branches were just...
Remember me, Monty? Well, I finally actually got to sniff a cat, just for a minute, anyway. Today, Deb was out growling at those cockleburr bushes again, and...
That was very funny Deb. Susan ... From: Deb To: erdenheim@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:39 PM Subject: [erdenheim] EJ: January 23, 2006 ...
Today, the Battle of the Couch was fought. Above all else, I have dreaded the moving and reassembly of Mom's couch. It came with her trailer, part of the...
A big mile marker was passed today in the moving process, and the end of the journey is in sight. The railing was put back on Mom's deck. We had to take the...
The crazy weather continues, like winter got sidetracked somehow, and I have spotted my first tulips peeking above the ground. Trees are budding, and...
The cats of Erdenheim are in feline heaven. For the outdoor cats, there are now two sets of stairs to entwine through ankles on, two front doors to frequent,...
Not April showers but January showers all day on the ridge today, although without the calendar, I never would have known the difference. It was a spring...
Yesterday's rain softened up the ground wonderfully, and in a shortened work session today after church, I took down a metal forest of T-posts that formerly...
