I woke up early this morning and finally got up at 7. Wandered around our room and found stacks of cards that you had sent to me over the years. Found your diary going way back to the start in 1992. Oh the heart pangs I experience when I read it! I smile yet feel so darned sad all at the same time. I am not sure what I was thinking reading the many cards ( and there are more stacks of them elsewhere) but my hope was that they would provide comfort. Maybe some day... not today. I actually think I felt heart pangs- a physical feeling in my chest. Could this be so? You were so expressive and free with your words. That was a big attraction for me.
Nelson invited me at attend a team penning day this Saturday as a particpant! Never done it before. I assumed he was inviting me to watch but no- its for particpation. That would be me on horseback, a herd of calves with numbers on their backs, I am part of a team of 3 or 4 not sure, someone yells #4 and we would all head down to the end of the arena and cut out 3 or 4 number 4's. Then we would bring them down to the other end of the arena into a pen. Sounds easy! I enviosn bedlam at this point! I had better get a new vision of a very cooperative responsive horse and quiet calves. This will be my first alone trip with the bus and 1 horse in our trailer down highway 54 across the Qu Appelle Valley to Beaver Creek Ranch. I am VERY excited. I have skipped right over any fear and have gone straight to excitement. Nelson is so good to me and he will coach me and I trust him completely.
Today is Lee's sisters Louise and Lynda's 65 th birthday. They came for supper and brought the meal! We baked a cake and they brought a key lime pie. Louise had reminded me it is important to keep these "Lee" connections going so Mary and Iris joined us too. Lots of laughter....
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