Equuisize
Well-Known Member
So much has happened in the past 5 months since the November 7th floods wiped out our
home and business but life has finally settled down to a roar...... I am able to access the
computer again and am looking forward to catching up on everyone's lives and seeing how
the everyone's 'kids' are doing.....
Before I do any catch up I want to THANK YOU ALL, THANK Cheyenne, (Sterling) for all the
support you gave us during this tramautic time in our lives. The auction Cheyenne put together
and you all supported so generously was soooooooo appreciated by us there will never be
words to express, totally, our thanks and feelings. The money Cheyenne forwarded to us, from the auction proceeds, was used to pay the board on our horses. Which in turn meant that we didn't have
to comtemplate the thought that maybe we'd have to sell them....... Not having to worry
about loosing 'my kids' kept my mind together as a life without them was not fathomable on top of
everything else. It would have been one loss to many.
The flood wiped our whole community out. We are waiting now for the county to buy us out. At the slow rate that the bureauacy moves we hope that will happen in our lifetime.
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But in every tragedy there is some good and in our community we lost no human lives and we all got our pets out and that is something we chose to concentrate on.......it could have been worse.
In the meantime we are, I guess, enjoying retirement, if that's what you'd like to call it. More like an enforced retirement. It was odd to be homeless and unemployed and fearing like we might be a step away from a cardboard box in an alley somewhere.......but the generosity of human spirit shone though and
so many people came forward to help us, it boggled our minds.
Some friends offered us to live in their bunkhouse on their horse property. It was 500 square feet and looked out over their horse pastures and it was lovely.....500 sq ft never looked so good and it was on high ground --- a new requisite for any property we look at in the future. It was quiet, calm
and peaceful albeit a bit rustic. Michael got to rebuild some muscles, he forgotten about, by chopping wood as it only had a wood stove for heat. We were content and happy there while we kind of regrouped our senses.
An old friend our ours just passed on April 1st from cancer.....our plan with him was that when he got to the last stages was that he would have come lived with us, as we had a single level house. The flood of course took care of that plan..... So we moved in with him. In his final disposition of his estate he gave us his house. We are no longer homeless....... It is a gift of such monumental proportions that we still haven't absorbed it .
Funny how things work out.......doors close and windows open.
I guess we have to believe that everything happens for a reason, that we flooded so that we were available to care for him and let him live out his final wishes, which was to die at home.
We hope to see some settlement of the issues with our home and business but for now we are settling
into a routine again, ponies are all fine, our Chevy puppy who has moved 3 times in the past 5 months has been a rock about all the upheaval in his 10 months of life, he brought us so much laughter and smiles with his silly puppy ways.
So that is my catch up news and I hope over the next while I can catch up with all that has gone on with you all.
Once again, THANKS, for all your positive thoughts and input... You will never know how much it meant to us to know you were out there, in your corner rooting for us.
You will always remain in our hearts for the spirit of your generosity and graceful way.
home and business but life has finally settled down to a roar...... I am able to access the
computer again and am looking forward to catching up on everyone's lives and seeing how
the everyone's 'kids' are doing.....
Before I do any catch up I want to THANK YOU ALL, THANK Cheyenne, (Sterling) for all the
support you gave us during this tramautic time in our lives. The auction Cheyenne put together
and you all supported so generously was soooooooo appreciated by us there will never be
words to express, totally, our thanks and feelings. The money Cheyenne forwarded to us, from the auction proceeds, was used to pay the board on our horses. Which in turn meant that we didn't have
to comtemplate the thought that maybe we'd have to sell them....... Not having to worry
about loosing 'my kids' kept my mind together as a life without them was not fathomable on top of
everything else. It would have been one loss to many.
The flood wiped our whole community out. We are waiting now for the county to buy us out. At the slow rate that the bureauacy moves we hope that will happen in our lifetime.
But in every tragedy there is some good and in our community we lost no human lives and we all got our pets out and that is something we chose to concentrate on.......it could have been worse.
In the meantime we are, I guess, enjoying retirement, if that's what you'd like to call it. More like an enforced retirement. It was odd to be homeless and unemployed and fearing like we might be a step away from a cardboard box in an alley somewhere.......but the generosity of human spirit shone though and
so many people came forward to help us, it boggled our minds.
Some friends offered us to live in their bunkhouse on their horse property. It was 500 square feet and looked out over their horse pastures and it was lovely.....500 sq ft never looked so good and it was on high ground --- a new requisite for any property we look at in the future. It was quiet, calm
and peaceful albeit a bit rustic. Michael got to rebuild some muscles, he forgotten about, by chopping wood as it only had a wood stove for heat. We were content and happy there while we kind of regrouped our senses.
An old friend our ours just passed on April 1st from cancer.....our plan with him was that when he got to the last stages was that he would have come lived with us, as we had a single level house. The flood of course took care of that plan..... So we moved in with him. In his final disposition of his estate he gave us his house. We are no longer homeless....... It is a gift of such monumental proportions that we still haven't absorbed it .
Funny how things work out.......doors close and windows open.
I guess we have to believe that everything happens for a reason, that we flooded so that we were available to care for him and let him live out his final wishes, which was to die at home.
We hope to see some settlement of the issues with our home and business but for now we are settling
into a routine again, ponies are all fine, our Chevy puppy who has moved 3 times in the past 5 months has been a rock about all the upheaval in his 10 months of life, he brought us so much laughter and smiles with his silly puppy ways.
So that is my catch up news and I hope over the next while I can catch up with all that has gone on with you all.
Once again, THANKS, for all your positive thoughts and input... You will never know how much it meant to us to know you were out there, in your corner rooting for us.
You will always remain in our hearts for the spirit of your generosity and graceful way.