EW no more

EW is Entertainment Weekly Magazine. I have been a subscriber since the 1980's. I can't stand how useless it has become. For one thing, we don't have TV so half the info is useless, not their fault. But now they have filed the magazine with drug ads like a Readers Digest. The rest of the magazine contains large photos and hardly any words, most refer to "on-line for more info".

EW online is great if you have high speed band width. Out in the Ozarks, we are still using dixie cups with strings thanks to Century Link keeping us in the dark ages.

The magazine has become old, tired and lost its audience, the multi-media consumer i.e. -me!

So I am donating my EW's to the Senior Center where they belong. I am cancelling my subscription after almost 20 years. I will have to seek out my own sources for new music, books and movies; but at least I won't have to flip through drug ads doing so. A magazine should not make you feel old while reading it. Bye Bye EW you won't be missed in my mailbox.

Upside Down Maple

Being sick and trudging out into the snow is hard enough. Harder still is when you have a horse on her back in the stall. Maple our 8 month old weanling fell asleep against the stall wall. She was on her side unable to roll over to get up. I got back to house and had Alan come and lend a hand. He calmly stood by her head and tucked her front legs and rolled her over. No ropes, no pulling just horse weight all rolled over and up again. And there stood a feisty know it all Maple again.

This photo is a summer shot of Maple and the stall before hay was added for the winter.

Horses can do silly things even in large open and cushy stalls. Maple is running all around in the snow and pretending nothing silly happened.

Snow Zombies

Today Alan and I are taking turns napping, feeding the animals and trying to get over the flu. I can't sleep at night, fluid in the lungs and coughing. During the day it feels like we have helmets over our heads, hard to hear, we have no energy to do anything. We are snowed in and just do not have the strength to go outside to plow the drive. I was able to go outside to feed our horses, it took a while.

Though we are sick inside, the snow has fallen and the world outside is quiet and peaceful.

Flu Zombie

On Monday I was a ball of pain, in bed trying to rest. But my head pounded like an anvil and a gorilla and I got no help from meds. On Tuesday I was at least upright and doing far chores. Today I am a phlegm coughing zombie with no energy, but chores are done. Now my husband is a flu zombie trying to survive the onslaught of illness. At least we have meds, fluids and each other. Only if the farm could feed itself on these type of days. We are doing the right thing by keeping away from other people and not spreading the bug around. Hope to get well soon.