Many Preparations
There is a very strong sense of preparation around here. The trees are all fully undressed for winter. The squirrels are working like mad to do everything it is they do to get ready. Cyndie arrived home last night with a car full of holiday-looking groceries, bulking up our food stores in feastly proportions. The neighbors have been firing their weapons and probing the darkness with spot-lights on scouting missions for the big hunt. There are new food bowls, litter boxes, and various feline devices showing up in advance of the scheduled arrival of two (hopefully) mousers coming this weekend.
I don’t have any idea how to prepare for what it is I am in for here. Most of my being is struggling against succumbing to the belief that we have bitten off more than I can chew. I have moments of calm acceptance of the challenges ahead, and then I have the rest of the time, wherein it seems each issue I begin to consider appears involved enough to command all of my attention, all of the time. And for each issue, there are ten more beside it, and ten more again, beside each of those.
Time to take some breaths, and not in the bedroom, where it smells like the mouse poison has claimed a hidden victim.
I need to prepare myself for the many successes we will experience in our endeavors here. It’s only been barely a month since we arrived. It will take a while for me to get over the initial shock I am experiencing. Luckily, I have Cyndie to carry me along. She helps me re-focus away from my concerns of failing, to look toward the goals we intend to achieve.
I’m going to visualize how great it will be when our bedroom doesn’t smell like a dead mouse anymore.
Relative Something 
When you get your horses, the first lesson you learn is to free your mind of issues. Horses do take issue with issues because in their world they don’t exist. Hence, as long as nothing is an issue, everything works perfectly. So all you have to do is to see perfection, oddly enough, and enjoy the ride:-)
Ian Rowcliffe
November 16, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Yes! I know that well, from Cyndie’s tales of horse interaction. Thank you for reminding me!
The addition of horses will be the sweetest step in this process.
johnwhays
November 16, 2012 at 9:33 pm
You bet: the ‘icing on the cake’! And quite literally they will take things to a completely new level, creating a wonderfully dynamic community around them – as you have witnessed and become a apart of with respect to our horses. Sweet beyond sweetness!
Ian Rowcliffe
November 17, 2012 at 6:16 am
and don’t forget you have many more than just the two of you supporting this adventure! I’m so excited to go visit the cats with you this weekend. Thanks for letting me join in on all this fun!
elysa
November 16, 2012 at 8:12 pm
That is so great to hear. Thank you, and thank you.
johnwhays
November 16, 2012 at 9:31 pm
You can dream of the day you get to quit the day job and focus on your great, new, exciting life every day.
It will happen!
(If Judy & Scott can do it,so can we!)
Mary
November 16, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Maybe sooner than I planned…
johnwhays
November 16, 2012 at 9:31 pm