A Few Years + 6 weeks = 997 pieces

Well here's my finished puzzle. I just love the picture and the subject. The horses in the picture remind me of some horses we have owned. My favorite stud, Mr Valmont (whom we called Skipper); a young gelding, Vegas Playboy; a real nice mare, Cody Barred; and my favorite horse of all time (a leopard appaloosa) Dragon Moon Fire.....I called her Dundee. After a nationally known barrel horse I saw on tv.

Dundee is a wonderful horse to ride on a warm summer evening. She gets a little jumpy, she has even been know to tip me off a few times. But she is wonderful, she has a real smooth, stretched out trot -I tell everyone she rides like a cadilac. She isn't the prettiest horse, but she always gets everyones attention with her striking color. I have bought young beautiful colts in hopes of replacing her. But I always go back that cadilac ride.


So, thanks ma for the puzzle, sorry it took so long to finish. Next I will try and glue it together and mount it for framing. So nobody else tries to put it together with the frustration I had in learning I had lost 3 pieces.

Next, well I did get another puzzle for Christmas ......and I have a Cross Stitch picture ....and I found 2 more books from the Left Behind series ....and I have the DaVinci Code to read ....and I could go to Arizona and soak up some sun ....and gee I better get busy.

What's a Perfect Day

What's your idea of a perfect day? I got this email that said * I read this article that said the typical symtoms of stress are, eating to much, impulse buying, driving fast. Are they kidding? This is my idea of a perfect day*
M-M-M eating, shopping, speed- a perfect day. Well yup is all sounds pretty good. But what really is a perfect day. The sun rise in the warmth of summer could start a perfect day. A beautiful North Dakota summer sunset could be the end of a perfect day. But, what's inbetween? Kindness from a mate of freind, a feeling of accomplishement, having a relationship with your god, it can be many different things to many different people. But perfection is the most of the most, the best of the best, the top of the top. I find it very hard to say what really would be my perfect day. I guess I live a life of just average day. Some better than others, the good days aren't even all that memorable. Days I like do include family and freinds and sometimes even strangers, I never do strive for perfection. - signed, just getting by

Life....it's all about the kids

Yup, it's true. Life is all about the kids. What's happened to us? Kids....they laugh out loud. They giggle at small things. We adults, sit in judgement, follow the rules, giggle under our breaths, never laugh out loud. It's not proper. Have our mammers, and ediquette gotten in the way?

My wish for you this year is for you to live life...live life to it's fullest. Laugh out loud, giggle often.

Here is a picture of a few of our grandchildren and one of our great-grandchildren, just living life, and enjoying the small things. Something we should all try and do more of.