Views from the Tower

My kidlets and I have been busy, busy over the past week and haven’t been home very much with guitar lessons, a road trip, some Letterboxing, hiking, attending a Paint Horse show, a rodeo, Polocrosse practice, Pink Ponies T-ball, volunteering with the horse rescue, and visiting with friends. Ranchman John has been out of town most of the week on business, so I’ve been doing all the animal care, driving around and kidlet care around here, too. I am wiped out! And so very tired.

But when we have been home, there are always interesting things to view from my tower, like……….

The Twinlings, Jax and Jem, tractor-trekking with friends.

  

We recently found a very large, 10’ long branch torn off of one of our big juniper trees that line our driveway. We hoped it was just caused by some of our strong winds that move in before a storm, but one of our neighbors is in the middle of a major landscaping remodel and has dump trucks and semi-trucks coming to his house on a daily basis.

And we share the same address, although we are on opposite ends of the road and his address ends in ‘lane’ and ours ends in ‘court’. So, of course, we shouldn't have been surprised to discover that some of the trucks are finding their way up onto our driveway….and causing damage to our trees and driveway.

  

But I get so happy when I see groups of horseback riders riding past my house.

 

Though I must admit that it saddened me to see them riding right over the same spot where dear Rojo took his last breath not very long ago.

As the sun went down and they turned back for home I enjoyed seeing how relaxed the horses and riders were riding beside our county road. Even relaxed enough for one gal to try out a few trick moves and a man to chat on the cell phone.

I’ve never felt comfortable riding across our county road, where it’s not uncommon for motorcycles, large trucks and many speeding cars to go zooming by….with no concept of driving safe near horses.

These riders and their horses are much braver than me (and my mare, too).

And here’s another group of riders riding in front of my house, on a different day.

Baby Doll is spending her days grazing and out on the leased pasture over on the ridge. She’s part of a herd of four and it makes me happy seeing her enjoying just being a horse.

 I’ve also seen some really beautiful skies from my tower, too.

 

 

Good Night Moon.

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