Hope everyone is having a brighter day.
Joy - congrats on the requests! That's always good news.
MsJudy - I admire and envy you for your productivity.
MWare - I'm a huge baseball fan, but I won't give up on my Royals someday figuring out the game. I'm a diehard fan even with all the ridicule I receive.
Smish - wow, you're having a rough stretch. Glad to hear you're better, but chest tremors sounds horrible! And I could not be so calm about a fender-bender. Unless it was my fault, then it wouldn't bother me so badly. Hope your cat gets over herself soon.
Things have been fairly quiet here. Was gone for the weekend with my son to a conference. I'm still pooped. Then yesterday morning we discovered the horse was missing. We're surrounded by winter wheat so figured she hadn't gone far, but we're also on a major highway, so that was terrifying!
But the fields were due for cropdusting, and the first pass of the plane had her running for the barn! Fortunately, she was on our side of the highway, so all I had to do was grab the grandbaby and race for the barn.
Of course, I had to stand her, in her socks, on the wet grass and tell her not to move while I tried to get the gate open. She was terrified from the plane passing over right overhead, and the horse wanted to smell her, so that made her scream louder, and we've had lots of rain so the wheel on the gate was stuck in the mud and I'm a very weak person so I couldn't get it open.
So I put out some grain so the horse would stay away from the child, and finally got the gate open enough to squeeze through. Then I grunted and groaned and managed to get it open enough for horse to squeeze through, and all was well.
The worst part of the ordeal was that I had told hubby a week ago that he needed to work on the fence because I feared the horse would get out at a low spot. He blew me off, as usual, and then got mad because I was right. Last night he spent several hours out in the dark repairing the fence.
But my horse is safe, the child minded and stayed where I put her and survived the ordeal, and she and the horse are now better friends. And the fence is in better shape.
I am hoping for a very boring day today.