Winter Woes!

If anyone is following the Gimme A Dream Web Log or any of the others that I author, then you know I haven't been online very much these past few days. I have had all sorts of troubles here which probably all stem from our glorious weather.

February came in like a lion or January went out like one. We had a severe ice storm of which I took pictures and posted here a few days back. Then we had a monstrosity freeze the next day. Then I had trouble with my baby Sammy who was a very sick little filly, for a while. The next day we had another ice storm and now another freeze.

All the while this was going one, the power lines were being iced and whipped by the wind until some lines broke and pole broke off. Power failures became a daily occurrence as the wind did it thing and as Hydro crews worked all through the days and nights trying to put everything pack together and hold it together in the raging freezing temperatures.

Today I finally let the horses out to the field to forge out of the stacks and much to my horror, they all, including Big Dream walked on top of the snow bank. Horror because I envisioned them breaking through and breaking a leg of cutting it so severely that they would bleed to death. I have spent the day with the big woodsman ax, chopping and cutting through the snow bank out to the field so that the horses would be able to return safely.

In the meantime, do you see the break in the tree tops? That is my driveway and those trees are 25 feet if they are inch. The snow bank is about two feet from the very tops of the lower end. And that is the bank that the horses walked on, the section of it that stretched into the field. Needless to say the fence is buried completely along this side.

To make matters worse, the four wheel drive loader/snowblower can't break through it, the ice on top of it all, it's that thick. And guess where the truck is? You got it..., right in the middle of the first and the second drift from the main road, in a section as clean as a whistle. We can actually drive about 50feet between drifts and probably drive over the top to reach the road, but the truck might break through and we can have that..., lol! Of course we could play it for the General Lee..., and whistle Dixie!

Please give generously to your local cancer research foundation. With everyone helping, we will find the cure. It is there, waiting to be found!

In the meantime, why not join the Winter Rose Trust Fund. Become a member and help support a good cause.

Nuts About Ice

Wings Of Desire (Pink Wings)

It is the hearts and the desires of all the world to find a cure for cancer. Slowly, ever so slowly, mankind is making progress. Through the generous donations and volunteer work, cancer is being slowly pushed back, hopefully into oblivion within my time.

The Wings of Desire were a part of the Provincial Old Home Week Equestrian Competitions of Prince Edward Island. The competition, “Dare To Wear Pink” category, is run on several different levels. All the proceeds, entry costs for both the competitor and spectator go to breast cancer research.

The western novice category last summer was won by my niece. She worked hard to find pink items to use and she wasn’t shy about wearing them either. Her horse, Casper’s Haunting You, is a grey Newfoundland pony and is not a stranger to th show ring, but my niece decided to enter him in the western pleasure, whereas he had always been shown in the English pleasure category. These are some pictures from the competition.

My mother, my niece’s grandmother, succumb to breast cancer turned lung cancer, on October 30th, 1982. This “Dare To Wear Pink” is for her memory. My dad died with liver cancer, on January 6th, 1991. Both were young people.

Winter Rose Trust - Trust in Phil Planet - Cancer Survivor