Why are you here? What are you doing?

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

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

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

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…

Dr. Paul and Austin Smith

These are the two men of the three men who greatly influenced my young life with horses in Osceola, Iowa.  I just found this treasure of information of Osceola, Iowa residents!  I've been searching for information about Austin Smith for years and years.  This fell into my vision today!  Enjoy... Recipies for Living by Fern Underwood Osceola was known in the mid-century just past for at least two breeders and trainers of Palomino horses. One was dentist, Dr. E. W. Paul, whom Mickey referred to as one of Osceola's most…

Joy for Your Soul

It's an invisible thing.  It lives within your body.  It's named often, mostly during a religious event.  It has never been imaged in an MRI or found during an X-Ray.  But it's there at birth and no one knows when it exits at the ending. Soul Soul sister....Soul brother... Save my Soul... Pray for my Soul etc Nathan Granner sings and the audience is deeply moved.  I've seen people at his concerts tear up and cry.  He sings; People cry.  People feel like they've been hit with an invisible 1000…