Between Christmas and New Years Eve

To all our friends, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This next year on the ranch, we are hoping to do some really big things. Mostly, we want to attract new members and get the co-housing part of our community in order and get our homes built. This is a multi-year project, but at the end of it, we'll have the community that we have dreamed about. This will include our indoor arena which we are calling the "Red Horse Arena".

There aren't too many horse co-housing communities out there, so if you're interested, or know someone who is interested, please get in touch with us.

Another big change is that we now have Willa's Aunt Edie here to stay. She was no longer able to care for herself and was in a Long Term Care facility in Washington. But all she really wanted was a home to stay in. So we decided to have her here, and we are all so glad she came! It was a lot of work in order to get her here with at least enough of her furnishings to make her feel at home, but we did it. However, we didn't get much done with our Christmas decorations this year. I had hoped we could do more, but it didn't happen. We do have a few up, and I must say, that in spite of it all, our Christmas this year seemed to be a really special one!

The animals are doing well this winter. Though winter set in early (we had negative temps the week of Thanksgiving), everyone seems to be wintering very well. Mostly it's been warm and wet, which is the kind of winter I prefer. The Dream River was flowing for awhile, and after this week, I think it will be flowing again. Boss, however, is getting very old and feeble. He's been showing signs the last few days that this is the end for him, so we won't be surprised if something happens soon. But after all, no one lives forever and he's 15 years old! That's very old for a greyhound.

I'm very thankful for everyone who has helped at the ranch this last year. Truthfully, we couldn't do it without you.

Again, I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and for this next year, I hope that your dreams will come true! May it be a blessed year for one and all.