Sleepless in Missouri

Getting up at 3am has been good for my daily production rate.  I've gotten a lot done that needed to be done and I've wanted to come back to my blog and once again resolve to keep adding to it more often.

Well, from the looks of things, it's been a while since I've sat down to do any blogging.  Life gets in the way of my journaling obviously and this nonsense must stop!  Writing is passion of mine and always has been.  I'm sure my friends moan when they see another email come in from me.  Before they open it, I imagine they first, ignore it.  Next, they sigh and look past it.  Next, they groan, slump their shoulders and move on to the next email in their spam folder, then, knowing they can't avoid it any longer yet with a strange anticipation, they pour a cup of coffee, or glass of wine, close their eyes, hold their breath, then...click!  The dreaded email opens!  Peering out of one eye, they peek to see if it's another novel from me or a brief howdy do.  My brief howdy do's are several paragraphs long, always.

Today is my long day at work running a busy clinic but knowing I have the next six days off is a breath of fresh air.  Spring is here and there's a lot of work to do outside but I love being outside and getting things spiffed up again after a long winter.   Over the past weekend, we replaced the fence in the paddock that the horses had destroyed leaning over the top to nibble the grass on the other side.  Even horses believe that old myth.  We polished off the finishing touches to that project yesterday by re-hanging the gate.  What a nice sense of accomplishment!  After that, Jon attached the harrow to the 4-wheeler and drug it over the dirt to smooth out the surface that had big, hoof sized holes in it from all of the spring time rains, snow melt and mud that followed.  The horses are banned to the pasture now until after we shear the alpacas tomorrow as we'll need the paddock area for them.

Time has slipped away once again.  Time to get ready for work.

Until nex time...