paso fino horse//tm visited//new area manager was here//frd's daughters are going to concerts everyw
"A Paso Fino (gaited horse - gaited horses don't trot, they are a SMOOTH ride NATURALLY, Tennessee Walkers are also gaited horses but much larger) - when you show Paso Fino's at a horse show, they have to be shown at a gaited pace, with the rider, holding a serving tray with glasses full of champagne on top of it, on one hand and go around the show ring.
The reason is to show your horse's smooth fast pace, without spilling the glasses on the tray. Paso Fino's can go up to 30 miles/hr at a gaited pace, what a talented horse!
God, MY FAMILY, MY HORSE AND THEN ME.
"God gives you only what you can handle. The harder things get the stonger you become."
really miss being around horse country, but i'm way too allergic for so many years now. when you have a horse, you kind of don't need anything/anyone else actually. lol.
all quiet. only one of br's cats showed up last night. always makes me nervous when that happens. still have paperwork to do that i haven't gotten to. may attempt it tonight. our new area manager came by to visit and already looks wiped out. i wish he would clock his hours and pace himself. so many people in that position burn out after just a month or two. i keep warning him, like today, he didn't need to drive here. we don't need anything. don't go over 40 hours in a week. our company is a big company, they will take advantage of him.
we are loaded with pollen here. swept down the driveway last night and this morning there is more. what an odd year for allergies. we always have two "falls" in north florida but this year it seems different with lots of hots and colds.
saw tm yesterday for a few laughs. his nephew was in an accident again and not okay. and ap's friend that had kidney transplant surgery is very ill. it didn't go well, so ap is down there staying with her to help. she is only 32 and all that to deal with! wow.
he says his easter sucked. they went to tampa to see ap's relatives that she doesn't know well because she didn't get to see them much growing up and the relatives were still grocery shopping when they got there, (even though they insisted he and ap arrive two days early for easter. wth)? he says even going out on their boat trip sucked - it was a leased boat and they all rented cabins where the boat is docked. he was really mad because he took two days off from work (their insistance) and then it was awful. he also fell on his property and is seriously considering downsizing. he already has injuries and he keeps re-injuring. it will be a difficult move because he has owned that property for about 25 years. he owned it before it had a house on it. wow. surprised he kept it through two marriages though.
received photos from an old friend. her daughter's are a's age and dragging her to concerts. all of us used to do the club/concert thing long ago. omg! she also had stuff to say about the evil step and a former housemate of mine, which i didn't know about. i only vaguely recall the housemate showing up out of nowhere when i was away at school and it was like whereeeee, did you get this address from? verrrry odd. she was the kind of person that stayed at one stage of life permanently. her cousin leaving for school to get her masters, me going to more than one university and study abroad, her brother leaving for school out of state etc., she never comprehended. for her, life was very small and stayed small. to me that is scary as all hell to keep life small, i end up feeling like i can't breathe when living like that.
her sister, who was married to a drummer, got divorced and married his accountant. lol. on his side, he says, most of the time she and the accountant would talk non-stop anyway because her sister used to be an accountant before getting married. always soap operas.
the world is going full circle - back when i knew her, her grandfather lived downstairs from them in their bi-level house [on an acre, i never realized they had acreage, because the back of it is just woods. and they were city people who sold their two-family house in the city and moved to the edge of suburbs way north of where they lived originally. another surprise. they were able to live out there because her grandparents went in on the house with them. an ex of mine, his parents and grandparents did the same thing which is how they bought their larger home inside the city (also easier for babysitting if everyone gets along and respects others - (some people are so klepto that you can never live with, around or near them at all), plus there is always someone home and that helps when you have kids)]. now its her own parents downstairs, and she and her husband and two middle school kids are upstairs. hmmmm? creepy how life repeats itself.
the photo she sent is a stretch limo picking up her kids for a concert and sleepover and i'm looking at the photo and i'm like, isn't this your parent's house? what happened to your townhome? it was jarring, because there are a zillion identical photos from very long ago and she and her sisters and friends would be the ones by the limo or car, same lawn, same houses in the backround everything. whoa! lol. scary really.
to her going to clubs and concerts and being young, feels like yesterday. i was stunned. to me, it seems like a zillion years ago and i have trouble remembering lots of things, so many mini-soap-operas came after that. bigger ones actually and more complicated ones. though, i also have trouble remembering how to spell things as well lately and forgetting words and thoughts mid-sentence... so there could be many reasons it doesn't seem like yesterday. lol.
The reason is to show your horse's smooth fast pace, without spilling the glasses on the tray. Paso Fino's can go up to 30 miles/hr at a gaited pace, what a talented horse!
God, MY FAMILY, MY HORSE AND THEN ME.
"God gives you only what you can handle. The harder things get the stonger you become."
really miss being around horse country, but i'm way too allergic for so many years now. when you have a horse, you kind of don't need anything/anyone else actually. lol.
all quiet. only one of br's cats showed up last night. always makes me nervous when that happens. still have paperwork to do that i haven't gotten to. may attempt it tonight. our new area manager came by to visit and already looks wiped out. i wish he would clock his hours and pace himself. so many people in that position burn out after just a month or two. i keep warning him, like today, he didn't need to drive here. we don't need anything. don't go over 40 hours in a week. our company is a big company, they will take advantage of him.
we are loaded with pollen here. swept down the driveway last night and this morning there is more. what an odd year for allergies. we always have two "falls" in north florida but this year it seems different with lots of hots and colds.
saw tm yesterday for a few laughs. his nephew was in an accident again and not okay. and ap's friend that had kidney transplant surgery is very ill. it didn't go well, so ap is down there staying with her to help. she is only 32 and all that to deal with! wow.
he says his easter sucked. they went to tampa to see ap's relatives that she doesn't know well because she didn't get to see them much growing up and the relatives were still grocery shopping when they got there, (even though they insisted he and ap arrive two days early for easter. wth)? he says even going out on their boat trip sucked - it was a leased boat and they all rented cabins where the boat is docked. he was really mad because he took two days off from work (their insistance) and then it was awful. he also fell on his property and is seriously considering downsizing. he already has injuries and he keeps re-injuring. it will be a difficult move because he has owned that property for about 25 years. he owned it before it had a house on it. wow. surprised he kept it through two marriages though.
received photos from an old friend. her daughter's are a's age and dragging her to concerts. all of us used to do the club/concert thing long ago. omg! she also had stuff to say about the evil step and a former housemate of mine, which i didn't know about. i only vaguely recall the housemate showing up out of nowhere when i was away at school and it was like whereeeee, did you get this address from? verrrry odd. she was the kind of person that stayed at one stage of life permanently. her cousin leaving for school to get her masters, me going to more than one university and study abroad, her brother leaving for school out of state etc., she never comprehended. for her, life was very small and stayed small. to me that is scary as all hell to keep life small, i end up feeling like i can't breathe when living like that.
her sister, who was married to a drummer, got divorced and married his accountant. lol. on his side, he says, most of the time she and the accountant would talk non-stop anyway because her sister used to be an accountant before getting married. always soap operas.
the world is going full circle - back when i knew her, her grandfather lived downstairs from them in their bi-level house [on an acre, i never realized they had acreage, because the back of it is just woods. and they were city people who sold their two-family house in the city and moved to the edge of suburbs way north of where they lived originally. another surprise. they were able to live out there because her grandparents went in on the house with them. an ex of mine, his parents and grandparents did the same thing which is how they bought their larger home inside the city (also easier for babysitting if everyone gets along and respects others - (some people are so klepto that you can never live with, around or near them at all), plus there is always someone home and that helps when you have kids)]. now its her own parents downstairs, and she and her husband and two middle school kids are upstairs. hmmmm? creepy how life repeats itself.
the photo she sent is a stretch limo picking up her kids for a concert and sleepover and i'm looking at the photo and i'm like, isn't this your parent's house? what happened to your townhome? it was jarring, because there are a zillion identical photos from very long ago and she and her sisters and friends would be the ones by the limo or car, same lawn, same houses in the backround everything. whoa! lol. scary really.
to her going to clubs and concerts and being young, feels like yesterday. i was stunned. to me, it seems like a zillion years ago and i have trouble remembering lots of things, so many mini-soap-operas came after that. bigger ones actually and more complicated ones. though, i also have trouble remembering how to spell things as well lately and forgetting words and thoughts mid-sentence... so there could be many reasons it doesn't seem like yesterday. lol.
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I love Paso Fino\'s. My late wife\'s sister is a broker and deals only in Paso Fino\'s. She\'s also written 2 books about them.
Loved the Journal. XXOO
Time flies when you\'re having fun! I was so glad to get free of high school, but my best friend was not. She loved high school, and actively tried to stay in touch with people for a few years afterwards. The disconnect between us just because of that was weird. Now that she\'s older, and still living with her parents, she\'s less interested in reunions and such. Even though she\'s perfectly happy helping out her parents and not being in a relationship, I think it makes you not want to play catch up, if you know what I mean. Hope you\'re having a good weekend! *HUGS*
As a child, I always wanted a horse! Still do! Too sick to take care of it, but reading this journal made me crave a nice gallop once again!!
actually a horse can pay for itself, you half lease it out and then pay for a full board on it. you may want to consider it because you have grandchildren and they may want to take lessons. what a great family pet. never thought of that for you, but it could work. all meet at the stables kind of thing. at our house in maryland when i was a kid, i knew so many extra people because they worked in washington d.c. and would ride on the weekends. they used to board their horse by us and we didn\'t have a lot of space for it, but its very private when its not really a business, the land and barn needs to be used anyway, otherwise it gets in disrepair and you don\'t realize it because no one is in it. there are lots of great deals on horses, plus horse rescue, like an older trail horse or former equestrian college horse.
Darla, go to my journal, i\'m going to post the photo of a horse for you. its cheap and fully trained and a rescue!!
i remember thinking the same thing michelle, with this friend. her father gave her money for a deppsit on a condo. she lived in it for one year and moved back to her parents permanently. the condo was rented out, but stayed in her name. then she traded the condo, for her sister\'s townhome that her father had also put the downpayment on, she needed it because she had a kid....that was the last i heard. i didn\'t realize she had moved back to her parent\'s house again until i saw this photo. i think her other sister mentioned it and was outraged by it, then chilled and was like, our parents are old and someone needs to keep an eye. rolls reverse later on. but i still didn\'t comprehend that she was back at their house again. wow! life is weird. every time i have a friend like that, that never quite left their parent\'s backyard, i\'m amazed. but some people do live like that. i\'ve never figured that out. the adventure and independent aspect is missing?
xxoo