Little Things In Life

The other evening I was late in getting out to do chores (which seems to be the norm as of late). But as I was puttering along getting everyone’s grain and hay ready for the evening, I noticed the moon. It was absolutely gorgeous. Had I been on schedule, I would have missed the big bright orange moon shining down. I enjoyed doing the rest of the chores in the orange moonlight. It seems a little odd to have a harvest moon in February but I’ll take it.

This morning when I went out to do chores, it felt like I was surrounded by thousands of tiny diamonds. We had a thin layer of frost and with the yard light shining, the ground simply sparkled. Even going into the shadows of the barn, the ground still sparkled. Everywhere I looked, I saw tiny diamonds glistening.

Sometimes the monotony of chores drags me down but then I experience little things like the ground layered in diamonds or the sky filled with a pumpkin orange moon. It’s those simple things in life that I look forward to. There’s so much drama and so much commotion that it’s nice to “discover” and appreciate the small things that we sometimes take for granted. Had I not been out doing chores that evening a little later than normal, I wouldn’t have seen the moon. This morning, had I stayed in bed (which I so desperately wanted to do), I would have missed the sparkling grass. So the next time you’re trudging along doing your routine day, something as simple as a warm breeze upon your face may just brighten your day.

In other news, not that there really is anything exciting going on at Borderlands as of late, the blind pen refuses to pull their heads out of the round bale in the mornings. The only time Babe, Thor, and Queen surface is in the evening when they demand their grain mash and alfalfa flake. Earlier in the week we put a new bale in and pushed the old bale to the fence line for the big herd to rummage through. They’ve pretty much devoured the rest of the bale, besides having their normal morning and evening hay. I sort of like having that little bit of extra food sitting out for those that get the munchies in between breakfast and supper.

Today is the last day of warm weather and then we are getting blasted with cold air. Of course it’s all relative. What I would call cold this year was probably a heat wave last year. We are supposed to dip down below zero Friday night and it doesn’t appear that Saturday’s highs are going to be any better. I hate going from the predicted 41 degrees for today’s high to 17 degrees for tomorrow’s high. It’s just so hard on the horses, especially the old ones. I may scurry around and blanket the older ones (and Rain). We’ll see what the weather is like when I do chores tonight. At least the highs are still above zero degrees!