Author: Elaine

Helen Gets It

The View Needs Glasses

If marriage is an institution supported by this country then it must be made available to all of its citizens according to the law. If however, it is strictly a religious institution then a constitutional amendment determining who can and cannot have access to it is sort of missing the point. Religious freedom except for people who are not religious is a mutually exclusive concept. And if we keep going down this path the concept of a Christ-like Christian will become an oxymoron. And speaking of moron…

Getting Ready

I don’t do much to get the horses ready for winter.  Because the barn is built with two large stalls opening to the south, the horses are responsible for getting themselves under shelter in foul weather.  I don’t blanket unless I think a horse is cold, and some years I never put a blanket on a horse at all.  Early fall storms and late spring storms tend to be the only time an acclimated horse can’t handle the cold. 

I do keep a stock tank heater in the water tank during the winter.  The tank is in the barn, so the horses don’t have to leave shelter to get water during blizzards.  However, this summer one of the horses (probably Hap)  broke the stock tank heater.  Although the piece broken looked like it ought to be easy to replace, we couldn’t locate one.  So Saturday we bought one at a local feed store, and this morning put it in the stock tank.  Now the forecast lows of the low twenties for the next week no longer worry me.

Happy Moments

We live in a very conservative area, so last night I was taken aback when the young woman who was bagging my groceries started chatting about how happy she was over Obama’s election.  After a few seconds, I realized that she saw the Obama-Biden button on my jacket, purchased while I stood in line for the Michelle Obama Get the Vote Out Rally.  We agreed that the best moment was when the networks called Ohio, and that we both started screaming.

This was almost as good as when I realized that our northwest neighbors had put two Obama-Biden signs by their mailbox.  We only had one by our mailbox, and I didn’t think anyone else in the valley would put up anything but McCain-Palin signs.  I know there is at least one other Democrat in our precinct, because I’ve seen the name on the rolls, but the address is different than our neighbor’s. (Jack is registered Republican, since that is the only primary that counts here, but caucuses with the local Drinking Liberally group.)