Been Gone

You may have noticed that I've been pretty quiet this month (and some of last month).  Well, for the last few days I've been super quiet. Why? Because I've been on vacation. And oh what a wonderful vacation it was!!!


We started a new tradition of going to the Black Hills at the end of September to see the fall colors. We'll get to continue this tradition until the kids are into serious school and we can't take a day or two off any more from all their activities. But until then, we will go.


And how could you resist these colors?

This view was driving back into Spearfish Canyon after being at Roughlock Falls. Beautiful. That's all I can say. I love going to the Black Hills in the fall. Quiet, beautiful, and serene.

And then I come back to the paying job, the Sanctuary, and reality. Dont' get me wrong, it's not bad but to not have any worries in the world is fantastic (even if it is short lived).

But the paying job has me hopping too. I know I shouldn't talk about work but it does interfere somewhat with the Sanctuary. They've extended my hours so that I can get more done. I guess I'm that productive. It's a bit of a juggling act because not only do I have to juggle my work life, home life, and sanctuary life, I also have to juggle my work life between two MASSIVE projects. So I sometimes feel like all I'm doing is chasing after all the balls that I seem to be dropping. I'm not complaining, it's just how I feel some days.

So with the paying job adding hours and piling on more work, I dont' feel like I have as much time to devote to the Sanctuary like I want and need. So I guess that's sort of why I havent' been blogging as much or putting posts on Facebook. I hope I can get more organized now that the giving season is starting. How can it be fall already? The last I looked, we were going into spring.  I think maybe now the Easter decorations finally came down. But now it's time for Halloween decorations and then Christmas decorations. I wouldn't even decorate if it wasnt' for the kids. But kids are my #1 priority and so I devote my free time while they are awake to having fun.

Now that the days are getting shorter, the kids seem to be willing to go to bed earlier so I can do more paper pushing in the evenings, if I can fight the urge to simply curl up and go to sleep when the kids go to sleep.

This adulating this isnt' as much fun as its' cracked up to be. :-)

And I'll have to find Chaos's halter. Sometime between the time we left Saturday afternoon and when we got back Wednesday night, Chaos decided to jump a fence and get in with the mares and Junior. Luckily Mayhem wont' tolerate his attitude and pushes him around. Which surprises me because he's second in command in the big herd. I guess Mayhem will be top mare. But it's maddening to know that Chaos jumped the fence. It means I need to get the electric fence up better and make sure it has a better charge to it. That horse stresses me out some days. And of course I was doing so well trying to keep the thistles and cockelburs at bay this spring/summer but then all hell broke loose at the end of July and all of August (and I lost September) that the cockleburs won the battle. When I say all hell broke loose, it's nothing bad. It's the standard kick in the butt that I get every year when all our running whallops my butt and I get behind on all the stuff that needs to get done around the place. Its just a fact of life around here.

So that's why I haven't been around and I probably wont' be around much later either. I'm going to try really hard to get back to a standard program starting in October (umm...self, you realize that's only three days away right?!...ACK how can October be three days away?!!!>!) Yes, I am going crazy.

And now I'll press the Panic Button to ensure all panic will resume at the Sanctuary. Panic in getting all our projects done before the snow flies. Anyone want to help? We have all kinds of activities. You name it, we probably have it on the to do list.