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As I'm sure you all know, yard work, gardening and landscaping is good exercise and hard work. You're outside in the sun, flexing your muscles, bringing beauty to your little strip of the earth. What can go wrong?

Last May I received a notice on Facebook that a business called Social Beadia was having its second annual bead retreat at the Beachmere Inn located in Ogunquit, Maine. I have many warm memories of my childhood where I grew up in the quiet town of Scarborough. I decided to sign up for the 2017 bead retreat so I could not only learn more about my hobby but visit where I used to live, play and, best of all, ride horses.

Life is never constant when one lives with animals. I have learned to go with the flow, to let them lead sometimes, to watch and interact with them as guides instead of always feeling like I am the higher power.

As if the  mirror on the bathroom wall doesn't tell me often enough that I'm aging, there are occasional falls and trips and pains to drive home the fact that I'm not twenty­ two anymore.

A week after my trip to Auburn University's Small Animal Hospital with my Border Collie, Tommie, I was again on Interstate 65 heading north. This time my three dogs and I spent Valentine's day getting a diagnosis for Bodie and his continuing problem with blood flowing out of his urine. 

Words have escaped me for the last six months or so, my mind as empty as the bottom of a well after a summer of severe drought. So much has happened yet so little really, in the grand scheme of life. My Dad's death, the third pillar of our family of four, has hit me hard, even though we never were close.