Some New Year's Ponderings

Well it's that time again. Time for thinking about the New Year and the one that's passing. I've decided that things can be categorized under three headings.


The Good
My family, especially Mr. Tommy. The animals, both domesticated and wild that fill my life with joy and amaze me everyday, My friends, my health, the watershed, my house and garden, my art, my car, my job. Actually, the list is endless.

The Bad
We're having a real winter, snow, ice, freezing temperatures, the whole nine yards. The deer who have never had to deal with this, are starving. I've seen behaviors I never thought I'd see.  I haven't been blogging about this; because, quite frankly, I thought it was too upsetting. I'm feeding them more and it's helping somewhat. I've gone to a number of different sites and asked for advice and the only unhelpful thing I've learned, is that starvation is nature's way of keeping the deer population down. One pius jerk actually told me that. This is same person who was ranting a month ago about the horrible hunters. I don't know, but to me a clean shot is better than slow starvation. I have to confess, I actually told him that. I guess one of my New Year's resolutions should be to keep my big mouth shut.
 
The Ugly
I'm a clutterer. Yes, I'm a clutterer and it's driving me crazy. It's not so bad that I need to call Clean House and have the whole crew over to lecture me about my mayhem and foolishness, but I am living with clutter and it's going to go. I bought a book called, "Clean Your Clutter in One Week." One week! maybe one year is more realistic. But I am going to tackle this problem in one season, this one. You guys are going to keep me honest, because I'm going to report every Sunday how I'm doing. Starting with this one.

Anyway, Happy New Year. We're having a blue full moon tonight and if you think about it, go outside later on, look up and make a wish. And my sincere hope is that all of your new year's wishes come true.

Holiday Grumblings

Have you ever noticed that you are constantly making tradeoffs throughout the holiday season.  I'm going to this party, so I'm not doing something else that has to be done anyway. I'm running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, shopping, wrapping and decorating, so I'm not keeping up with the friends I did not see at the parties mentioned above. Gee that bit sounded like a work related memo.

The big trade off for me is feed the deer, who are extremely hungry or see Kitt, the most patient forgiving horse in the world.  So guess who loses.  The weather isn't helping things, either.  Apparently, we have a window of opportunity today.  It's sunny, so I'm going to be doing all the errands I didn't do yesterday, and won't be able to do next week, because we have a party every night. Grumble, gripe, whine, complain. 

I am so ready for January, when I can sit, work on my needlepoint, read some books, I've been meaning to, catch up with friends and maybe, weather permitting, actually get to spend some time with my horse.

Peace on Earth

May the joy and peace of the season be with you and your family now and throught the year.

OMG It's a Monster!!

Well, like I said in the previous post, we had a blizzard. There's a good two feet of snow out there. So I waded out to feed the deer, who as you might expect were waiting for me. It was so funny.  I was wearing my white down jacket and a hat.  To say the least, I was covered in snow. Pixie and Charlotte stared at me like they couldn't believe what they were seeing.  And then, in unison they jumped, did a fast turn and ran away.  And I do mean ran away.  They were out of there and didn't come back for at least 45 minutes.  I guess it was the hat.  :)

We're Having a Blizzard

We have about 18 inches of snow and it's going to keep on snowing until tomorrow morning. I'm going to try and go out and feed everybody a little later on.  I don't know if the deer can even get here, but I'm going to put out some food just in case.

When I was looking out my kitchen window, I saw a robin and I find that troubling.  I wonder why it didn't leave with the others earlier this fall. Oh well maybe he's the bird that has taken up housekeeping in my robin house.  I'll wade through  the snow when I go out to feed the deer and leave something especially for him.

Anyway, peace and love to all of you.

Ye Old Stink Eye

Who knew a couple of whitetail deer could make you feel guilty. It's the holiday season and I've been a bit late putting out the snacks, parties and all of that stuff. So when I got home yesterday and went outside to trot out the food, Charlotte and Pixie were waiting for me and they were not happy.   Talk about the stink eye followed by the "just where have you been, missy?" look, followed by the hiss and the tail flick.   They told me.

They were of course not too done in by the huge indignity of my transgression, not to come trotting back two minutes later for their treats.

Girls, really now.  I heard you, but it is the holiday season, so some slack should be cut.

His Name is Harmony Jack

I invite all of you reading this to go to flikr and check out the Horsewhispers photostream in order to understand the power of love.  I've name him Harmony in honor of the special relationship between a person who would not give up on a foal who should have died. This stag is always there for the fawns, always. I've named him Jack, because it's a nice, masculine name.

Hey there Carl, this bud's for you!!!