Sunday, February 28, 2010

b-day (sort of)

Well,for this year anyways... the last day of February will be as close as Sadie gets to her birthday. I tell her that she should celebrate it on the first day of March... but she says that her driver's licence states that it is the last day of February....





I know, confusing... but when your birthday comes just every four years... I guess you take what you get...and pick the day that you suits you best...






so, even though we don't have a February 29th this year... we still have to say....
Happy Birthday... Sadie Mae!!!!!!

be careful what you wish for...


I've been meaning to share this story for a couple of weeks now. I think it's rather funny and I know that some of you will appreciate it as well....
A few weeks back, a friend and fellow firefighter asked Ed if he could borrow our horse trailer. Seems he "had a couple of horses to move". Ed told him "yes" and then said that Robin would be coming for our trailer. I asked Ed who Robin was moving the horses for, and he said he didn't know.
Robin is a "handyman" if you will, so I assumed that he was just moving some horses for a client.. because I didn't think of Robin as "being a horse person".
About a week later, Robin asked again if he could take the trailer. We said "yes" again, and I told Ed that when he came to get the trailer, I was going to ask him "what was up". He arrived to get the trailer and brought his "better half" with him.. a nice gal named "Charlie"... "who's the horse person" I asked Charlie and she began to laugh...
"Well", she said.. "this horse thing actually started out as a punishment"... it seems that Charlie's young son (he's 11) got himself into trouble at school. Once Charlie went into the school and got the matter settled, she felt that some sort of punishment was due. She has a friend who is a horse trainer and has a small farm, and Charlie thought that maybe her son should go to the farm and work off some of his "bad behavior". So, he spent some time mucking stalls, hauling hay and the like. When the punishment was over... her son had decided that he liked this "farm work" and continued to help out, just because he wanted to. It wasn't long before he began to take riding lessons, and then last summer began to do some showing. It turned out that he is quite the little horseman and he did really well at the shows, almost always coming home with ribbons.
Now, as you can all imagine, he began to talk about "getting a horse of his own" and really learning to ride... and you have probably already figured out... that is why Robin needed our trailer.... to bring their horse home!!!!!
so.. what started out as a young man who needed "something in his life"... turns out that his punishment was just the thing... and like it or not (and they do like it)... Robin and Charlie have become "horse people!!!!"