gottawonder

Today I am grateful for:

Getting a lot of things picked up again, with my husband. There was new crap on the front deck, yes, the front deck that we cleared off only a few weeks ago. With the installation of the wood stove, and putting the chimney on the front of the house, there was suddenly more piles of building materials and stuff dumped there.

So, I quietly addressed the issue, and we put some of it on the truck to go to the dump next time, and some things back to the wood storage area behind the garage, and some things back into the garage where they belong.

I even decided to put a pile of nice rails that I haven't used yet in the mulched garden around the house away behind the garage, thus making things look much neater.

I am really trying to cultivate a mindset of putting things away after each project, not just moving on to the next project and leaving all the crap in piles all over until some future date where there is just so much crap that no one can tolerate it, yet everyone feels too overwhelmed to tackle it all. If we just always put things away or throw them out as a way of life, maybe we can keep up with it.

My husband did seem very satisfied with how nice the yard looks again today, with everything picked up and put away for winter.

We looked at a set of tires piled in the quonset beside the garage, and determined that they are winter tires meant for my car, but unsure of why we have them since my current tires are all season tires. Not sure what we are going to do with these.

We both went to the pasture to work with Dandy and Wonder. They were a bit silly today and hard to get them to focus, so instead of working with them both together, I worked with them one at a time and magically got much better focus with them.

If nothing else, I think my husband enjoys just walking around the pasture, even if my work with the horses probably seems a bit tedious after a while.

Then I went to a get together at the barn, that was for the horse that was put down at the barn a while ago. We didn't end up talking about it the whole time, just a service/meditation together. The rest of it was just a nice social gathering to show love for the person who owned that horse, and for us all to be there with her in remembrance.

I felt like I didn't have any "real" food to take, since I forgot to do any special shopping for it, but I was able to put together a decent pickle tray and some crackers, thinking it would be a token offering, and surprised that every last pickle and cracker were eaten! Funny, since most of the time I take things to get togethers, I end up taking most of it back home again with me.

It ended up being a very nice evening, even if it was a bit WOO Woo. R has one of those "tongue drums" (which sound so beautiful) and everyone took turns playing it in a loose way, and I and another woman half jokingly half "why not" did some interpretive dance with scarves that ended up being sincerely enjoyable.

We read tarot cards together, which happens at most gatherings at the barn, which I feel isn't so much predictive as a way to open up thoughts and dialogue.

I was internally laughing all the way through my card readings, done by the woman who owned the horse who was put down. The cards were all about how much my internal light was radiant and glowing and touched everyone around me, and on and on about how beautiful my golden light and energy and basically right now anything I could imagine could come to fruition with partnerships and I HAD SO MUCH GLOWING ENERGY.

This was so freaking hilarious to me, because at that last event at the barn for fascia work, all R could say was how I was "full of dark energy" and how I needed to "really let go to be a radiant being" kind of stuff. Tonight's cards were saying that I was VERY ENERGETIC and how I was the being who was going to touch everyone around me with it.

Best of all, the woman doing my readings kept saying "I agree with these cards! Every time I'm around you, you are always so positive and full of energy!", and R was sitting beside me, looking thoughtful.

Well, I'm glad I went. I think me being there helped one woman integrate better with the group (she was kind of sitting off to one side with her kids, and not connecting, but I kept engaging with her until she was more connected with the group).

I also brought some levity to R's daughter L, who might otherwise have been a bit bored at times.

Overall I ended up feeling super comfortable there tonight, and really enjoyed being with everyone. It's taken some time to get to know everyone, but when you do, you feel like you do belong at these events.

I also got a gift bag from the horse rescue, because I took a video of River and I in our costumes to submit to their virtual Halloween competition (so, I entered two Halloween things with the same costume), and I won! So I got a nice bag with one of their horse calendars, a shirt with the Rescue logo on it, and a lovely scarf.

I came home and my Sweetie was still up, and he made me something more substantial to eat, which I appreciated.