Hello Again, Hello!

First of all, while I would love to go all OCD on you, and put off posting anything new until I can do a detailed recap of the last five and a half months, complete with photos...I won't. I will heed the encouragement of my dear friend Lynn and just jump in where I am. But, I'm not so mentally sound that I can resist the urge to at least do a short rundown!

Our summer was full and busy with the usual canning and such. I'd take pictures to show you, but my camera is out of batteries. That, and I would have to actually get up. Both good reasons to let you take my word for it.

And we went on VACATION this year! I can't believe I didn't blog about it, because for our family, it was the best experience of our lives, to date. It was also the most expensive vacation on record, as when we got home from a week of riding horses, saddling horses, grooming horses, and feeding horses...you guessed it - we started buying horses. And as anyone with horses can tell you, when you buy a horse, you don't just buy a horse. The list of necessary accouterments is endless.

The last few months have seen my girls on horseback nearly every day. They're becoming such good riders, and I'm tickled slap to death for their Daddy, who has always been quite the horseman himself. How great it is that he can spend time with the girls riding horses and teaching horsemanship, instead of being schlepped to ballet recitals and such, which would be his own little corner of you-know-where.

Having the horses has added a whole new dimension to our little farm. And a lot more work. Which, I guess, is just one of the reasons I've been M.I.A.

Hopefully, now that I've got the blog all updated and even got myself a cute little logo (see upper left corner), I'll be able to keep up a little better (because I really do love to blog). And speaking of the cute little logo, I'll explain that in the next post!

Blessings,
Em