Ahhhhh I love the rain - I get so inspired on gloomy days? Anybody else like that?
BUT I also just got drenched trying to bring the horses inside the barn - they didn't seem to care about the water coming from the sky so I stood outside with them for a while seeing and feeling the moment as they do. No rush, no stress, no worries - just grazing, grazing, grazing.
The temperature is warm, the air smells fresh, I listen to the horses contentedly chewing the grass as the raindrops gently massage my head and shoulders. Turning to quietly slip away so as not to disturb their natural balance, I step squarely into a pile of squishy brown, (which changes that fresh air smell to something much more natural) at the same time I drop my ringing cel phone right into a flowing stream of water. As I reach down to pick it up, my playful baby goat rears up to successfully butt heads with me which knocks me on my gr-ass.
By the time I get up to the house I'm soaked from head to toe and smell like the wrong part of a farm. When is this damn rain gonna stop?
Workers on the farm are referred to as "farm hands" but we have "farm paws". Teddy, farm manager, is preparing to make his daily rounds collecting browse for the other animals whose diets require it.
Beagles are definitely alllll about the nose! They smell their way in and out of trouble. We have had many beagles land at our farm with the same perplexed look...."can I stay with you?"- a beagles next question is always... "when's dinner?". This is "Rally" & we're exhausting hope of finding her family. In the mean time she's welcome to stay with our family as long as she needs us.
Presenting the awesome committee that made the 2010 Kettering Mayors Charity Ball possible!
