Pause In Life Brings Renewal

A New Beginning

Turning down a new road? Looking at the finish? A new adventure? or just coming home.  Actually this is my entry way to my country home.  Traveled it many times, know it by heart.  Familare, comfortable re-assuring, as I enter it and continue down to the home resting place for my whole being, flesh and mind.

This summer the vet traveled down my perfect lane, my perfect life. He gives me bad news I do not want to hear.  "Your beloved 37 year old Morgan has colic and has to be put down."  Hawk was our grand daughter's horse that we had bought her.  She had to be called.....  We wanted to help Hawk, not let him die.  With no improvement by night fall, the vet came back and ended Hawks missery, his life. Katelyn was able to say goodby. So heart wrenching.  A pause in our lives.  No trurn around.  Grief takes time. Almost two months have gone by.  

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Ginger cried out in her own grief for a week.  Calling, calling, endlessly running frantically back and forth searching for Hawk. I cried myself missing Hawk almost as much.  I told Dick we need to find a home for Ginger or get her a pasture mate.  Horses are a herd animal and need another for safety.

Because I had so many health issues last year, my kids demanded no more horses!  So I said yes, no more horses, unless......   I get a paint, free, and delivered right to my door.

Within a week look what arrived at my door, free and you can see she is a paint.  :)  A little mini-horse just the right size.  And above all things.....her name is Miraculous, and on her registration papers, her father is called Miracle!!

Now who can say  God does not answer prayers.  When Katelyn was around 8 yr.  we talked about answered prayers.   I read her the passage Matthew 7:7-8  "Ask, and it will be given to you;  seek and you will find, and to him who knocks it will be opened." We held hands and prayed in Christ's name for a pretty painted horse.   Katelyn had made me a little card with the cross on it and wrote the passage we had read.  Gave it to me as a surprise.  I have kept that in my Bible all this time and wondered why that prayer was not answered.  Now I know.  The time and place just was not there.  Miraculous was born 16 years ago and was given her registered name.  God already knew His time ahead when I would receive her.  She was bought for  $1,200.00 but the owner chose to give her to me free.  Now I smile every time I think of it.

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Miraculous has adjusted splendidly living here with Ginger.  She is so sweet in disposition and an easy keeper.
     Fall makes it grand entrance to Wisconsin, a pause between the hot fast moving summer and the long cold winter ahead.  Vegetable garden is all put away, and rototiller with fresh earth showing again.  It will be seeded with rye seed to keep weeds back and give the earth nourishment when it is again turned under preparing for another season.

Sumac are in full color of reds.  

Zennias are the only thing left of vegetable garden
It been cleaned up of all left over plants and rotitillerd by Dick
I love to plant Zennias by seed to be used for bouquets.

Grape vines cover the arbor down by the barn.  Dick's metal art 

greet us with DREAM, LOVE, AND PEACE.

I dreaded giving up our warm, sunny flower filled summer, 

but now find myself contemplating all that ac-curd , all

that needs changing, and a quietness only a cool fall 

day can bring in folds my soul.

 Peace,

 Love, 

Dreams

A New Beginning   

Kate