Work is piling up!
I haven’t blogged because I have been on deadline for print articles. Two articles will be coming out soon in Cat Fancy and I have the opportunity to educate the public in a cat article featured in a non-cat magazine back east!
I have also had some major life changes lately, but then who hasn’t. Death is a strange creature, and once it hits someone special, you have time to reflect, evaluate and take stock of your own life. I am no longer a part of a website that I helped to cultivate for over four years, and almost like a death, I feel a sense of loss. But there is also a great relief from being lifted from the burden that surrounded the running of the site. With better doors of opportunity opening up around me, I feel lighter in my soul.
I took Leah for a really long walk today in the forest. We were out over 2 hours. A clear-your-head type of walk, a mental inventory of what is important, a review of personal values and a time of goal making. No critters disturbed us except for a large bird of prey. All the deer have scattered because it is open season for them with compound bow hunters. 
I hate hunting season. Very few of the men tracking these gorgeous animals need the meat to “survive.” A macho game among men, one that I wish they would abolish.
The fire is still raging near us. The hope is the flames won’t jump the lake and threaten the other side of town. I wanted to wack some weeds this morning, but I feared running the equipment, as dry as the ground is one spark could be fatal.
I managed to also spend time with the horses. Boy are they gorgeous boys. Racer has grown so big and his big brown eyes are still so trusting. Even after all the crud we put him through during his founder episodes, he is still bonded to me like no other creature ever has been. I miss our walks in the woods but I dare not take him out. His coffin bone is still rotated and it could slip even under the best of circumstances. So now he is a pasture pet and I don’t spend near enough time with him like I used to.