What a DAY!

December 3, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
I awoke at the crack of post dawn about two hours before my normal awakening time of 9:30am…or sometimes 10:00am.  I gave up two hours of beauty sleep to start cooking.  Cooking!?  It's a word not usually associated with the person you know as me. My senior fitness class at Anytime Fitness in Pleasant Hill is having a pot luck Christmas Lunch today.  I had signed up to bring a food.  I struggled out of bed and into razor sharp consciousness.  Undertaking a cooking experience is fraught with danger for…

No Greater Honor-Mention from Dr Patrick Handley

December 2, 2013Posted inAmazon book, Miscellaneous, Missouri Fox Trotter, Parelli, Susan FoxTrotter-book title in Amazon
Dr. Patrick Handley's Facebook Page about Humanality: "Insight of the week: I received a wonderful message from youthful, 70 year old Parelli student Marilee Donovan. She thanked me for the positive, strengths-based orientation of the Humanality report and commented about how she was just now, at this stage in her life, discovering her true self and unleashing many of the personality strengths she had suppressed over the years. Marilee is embracing the RBI strengths of her personality (as well she should) and embracing her softer, more introspective side. I really…

Why are you here? What are you doing?

August 28, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
Memorial service today for  Bob Chrisman.  Turns out, he affected perhaps a million people's lives.  Affected them in a very postive way.  He cared about each person he knew and came to like.  He truly cared. The moderator of the memorial service told us that Bob's circle of friends were separate and apart.  He had different groups of friends and in most instances, the circles didn't intersect until he was in Hospice...and just now at his memorial service. For instance and for me the most moving testimony to Bob's influence…

Bike Shop

June 24, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
Pleasant HIll has been added to the Katie Trail!  The Katie trail is a long long gravel chad trail that has been put on an old railroad track.  There are no grades over 1%.  That means when you ride a bike, there is no coasting.  We don't have that problem with riding horses on the Katie Trail.  Sadly, this portion of the Katie trail isn't open to horse back riding.  The Nerve! Pleasant HIll has increased local businesses by one.  We've added a Bike and Coffee Shop.  So, the other…

So Much to Tell…So Many Words to Type

June 23, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
Adventure One - this morning The back story is my recliner.  My recliner is one of those power lift chairs.  We bought it so my mother could get out of a chair.  She left us in 2007, so we must have had this chair a couple years before that.  I've been sitting in this chair every day of my life that I live at home.  I soak up my mother's DNA and use it as a Mom reminder.  I love the chair.  The chair has been telling me it might…

The Concrete Journey

April 23, 2013Posted inMiscellaneous
Concrete and horses have been long in our human journey. Both the Parthenon and Hoover dam are made of concrete.  Humans have been using both horses and concrete to advance civilization.  The Parthenon had those Roman chariot races for the movie Ben Hur.  Hoover dam has no connection to horses, but it probably has more concrete than any structure on earth. The Romans knew that adding horse hair made concrete less liable to crack while it hardened. In Florida, I learned a new appreciation for the inanimate talent of concrete.  In…