The Big Boys Are Back!

I'm not talking about the horses. I'm talking about the turkeys. I looked out this morning and the big males were back with the flock. Usually I have the hens and the juveniles together but today everyone showed up for their breakfast.


These are B.I.G. boys!

Momma deer caught me taking her picture this morning and we had a stare down. She won and I backed off. I took these pictures with my 300 lens, I have ordered a 500 and I am hoping you'll be able to count every eye lash with that one!

Mary over at Mary's Writing Nook has struck a cord with me as she has been writing about doing random acts of kindness. This has been something I have been trying to incorporate into my life since about a year ago when a lady was very kind to my mother at the mall one day. My mother has a pair of Crocs and was looking at the little buttons that go on them and found one that she really liked until she looked at the price and decided she wouldn't buy it. She left the store and in a few minutes this lady came up to her and gave her the little lady bug button with a smile and left.

Now this touched my mother's heart and mine too when she told me about it later. We have no idea who the lady was and will never know but that small random act of kindness will never be forgotten.

I had an opportunity to do somewhat the same thing a few weeks later. Now I am not telling you this to pat myself on the back in any way but to reinforce what these small things can do for someone else.

I was in the card shop and an elderly lady came in with her oxegyn tank in tow. She picked up a few cards and went to the check out counter to pay for them but her energy left her and she told the check out lady she would have to go sit down a while and could she come back and pay in a few minutes. She went out into the mall and sat down on one of the benches and I could see her from the store. I was next in line and asked the lady if I could pay for the cards and give them to the little lady that was trying to catch her breath and she said it was okay.

I took them out and gave them to her and just said have a nice day and smiled at her and left. I wish you could have seen the look on her face. It was so nice and she gave me the nicest smile back and said thank you so much. I hope I made her day the way it made my mother's day a few weeks before.

Again I don't tell you all this to make myself look like this wonderful person as I'm not but so that maybe it will inspire you to look for chances to do random acts of kindness and to make someone else's day a bit brighter! Thank you Mary for inspiring me!

In a nearby town we have a blind man named Dan who has one of the first seeing eye miniature horses. They have been on television and in magazines. This horse (and it is a horse not a pony) takes the man around town, through traffic lights the same way as a seeing eye dog will do. She is house trained so can live right inside. Her name is Cuddles.

She has even flown on an airplane in the cabin!

Here she is in full working harness. I have never seen her in person as I don't get to this particular town very often but would love to. You might see her on television some time so keep an eye out for her! Amazing isn't it???

We all love to get comments don't we? Well this morning one of my first blogging buddies KC over at Mindless Chatter Of A Busy Mom left me a comment that really gave me a good belly laugh and around here there is plenty of belly to laugh with!

On my previous post I had confessed to using my hairspray instead of my deodorant one morning and KC left a comment that said and I quote "when you style your hair you want it to stay in place...even if it's under your arms." I just thought that was a hoot, thank you KC for making my day!