Struggling To Find Ourselves

…Get dinner started, I think.  And reboot my laundry and maybe the dishes.  I need to get some reading done in another book that I’ve been working on for months too, as well as a BUNCH of typing stuff that’s off-line (for the most part).

You all have a GOOD weekend, if I don’t make it back in here.  Take care, stay warm, and God Bless!!!

She really hated getting mail sometimes.  In addition to the reviews thing that she hadn’t done yet, she also had an ad for family health insurance that she didn’t need. She had no family to “protect”.  As she continued her climb into the mountains, she wondered why the companies that send these advertisements out don’t research who they are sending them too a little better, so they would actually be sending the advertisements to someone who MIGHT actually be able to use them.

Yep, my son and I have been EXTREMELY busy with books the last few months!!!  You can probably tell that by looking at my sidebar and seeing what we have read.  And that’s not even a complete list, at this point.  I have about 15 more to put on there that we’ve read, and I just haven’t gotten on there yet!!!  I will PROBABLY end up making another page for our book lists, rather than put the entire list in my side bar.  What do you think?

God Bless!!!

As she rode her mare out of the ranchyard and towards the mountain pasture where her cows were kept, she realized that she hadn’t done the Hydroxycut reviews that had come in the mail yesterday.  “Oh well”, she said out loud to herself.  “It will still be on the counter when I get back tonight.”  And, with that, she rode on in silence with her mind racing among the things that she needed to get done at home.  As she rode further and further away from the house, though, and as the mountains started rising directly in front of her and her mare started having to work a little harder because they were going uphill, her mind started settling down a little bit, and she was able to enjoy the fresh, brisk air and the sweet smell of sagebrush on the small breeze that she felt.

I finished reading Joshua in my Bible a little bit ago!!!  We’re moving right along, don’t you think?

Other than that, not much going on here so far this morning.  Got my son to school, and have to be home most of the day because I am SUPPOSED to have a delivery guy coming that I have to sign for, so I need to try to be home that for that.

Will get dinner going here pretty soon, so it’s done before I go pick up my son from school this afternoon.  That makes it easier to make sure he has something to eat before he has to go to his Father’s tonight.

Have to take care of some stuff here on the computer, which I’m working on right now.

Other than that, and a bit of cleaning, I don’t have a whole lot planned for today.

More later…maybe…God Bless!!!

Everything felt right this morning, as she swung up into the saddle.  Her mare felt good underneath her, the jeans felt like she felt like she was born in them even though that they weren’t the “fancy” alli brand with the sequins and stones set in them.  Sequins and stones and pretty things like that had NO place in her life at this point.  The cows and the horses didn’t care what kind of jeans she wore, and she had gotten the impression that they weren’t real impressed with shiny things some days!!

…the book of Joshua in my Bible reading this morning!!!  Yep, we are moving right along, even though it hasn’t been quite as consistent as I’d like some days.

The Pastor at the church across the street has been doing a couple of pretty good sermons in the last 3 or 4 weeks!!!  I’m GOING to HAVE to do entries about them one of these days, but I’m NOT sure when I will get that done just yet.  One of these days, though!!

God Bless!!

Yep, she figured God had given her her own little piece of Heaven on Earth in the land that she lived on.  Nobody bothered her much.  There weren’t the problems that most of the people who lived in “civilization” dealt with, like pressure to be pretty, or thin, or use diet pills even if you didn’t need them. She didn’t have the pressure to be famous or go with the rest of the crowd.  She didn’t have the pressure of trying to impress the boss to get that payraise that she so desperately needed.  There were no telephones where she lived…VERY few roads, none of which were paved….there was no television to distract you from the things that needed done….there were no people pulling you this way and that way, to do this and to do that.  It was just her, and her mountain, with God, the cows and the horses, and the beauty that God had bestowed upon the land.

…this last week, just before the weekend, to check in on a friend….and found out that she has moved and left no forwarding address.  Her moving is NOT really all that surprising to me…I had figured it was coming…but her not contacting us and letting us know IS surprising.  I guess all we can do now is pray for her and wait and see to see if she contacts us again at some point.  If she doesn’t, I will be SORELY disappointed…but that’s life, I guess.  People seem to have lost the knowledge of what it means to be a friend, even if it IS long distance.  No, this wouldn’t be the first time that this will have happened if this friend doesn’t contact me…and it probably won’t be the last.  After awhile, you just kind of get used to it, I guess.

More later, maybe….God Bless!!

Yep, that’s what she led…a different way of life than most everybody else seemed to these days.  That thought flitted across her mind as she threw her saddle on her best mare and started cinching it up.  There was a days’ worth of work waiting to be done and no one else to do it for her.  She enjoyed her life, for the most part…the solitude of the Canadian mountains and being miles from her nearest “neighbor”…the beautiful landscape that beckoned her to get out of bed each morning and greet the day…the work with her horses and the few cows that she had.  Sure, there were things about it that she didn’t really care for much, but the parts that she loved MORE than made up for those moments that she didn’t really care for.

One of those moments that she really didn’t care for was when she had to go to town for supplies.  It didn’t matter if it was supplies for her, or horse supplies, or even cattle supplies, town always made her feel like the Earth was overcrowded and she couldn’t WAIT to get her errands done and get back up the mountain to HER place…to HER little piece of Heaven on Earth!!!