Caring

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The girls, Rosie and Pimmy, are chowing down after waiting for hours until my lunch hour. That’s when I can hurry home and give hay to the big ones.

Rosie is the boss mare and will share food with Donkey Pimmy but not with her sister, Sunni, who gets a hay pile for herself.

Neither horse objects to sharing with Pimmy. She often drifts between one horse and hay pile to another.

Throughout this year, I’ve worked away from home and kept the large animals in decent condition. It’s likely that we will cope with wintery weather for another month, so we’ll continue as we’re doing, but I’ll climb onto a horse once it warms up.

Now is a good time to start conditioning the equines and myself. I’ll work with them on my next days off and start doing some self-strengthening exercises. These aren’t wishes; they’re the plan. I’m serious.

I’m getting many hours at work and have been busy learning how to work in retail. It’s about more than correctly straightening and putting away articles. It requires a dimension that understands customers’ needs and wants. That means grasping elements of human psychology and understanding desirable end products.

Dear Friends: So, everything’s complicated; more for another day. Diana