Did you ever feel like you would like to just curl up into a ball and hide from the injustices of the world?

That's how I am feeling right now. This move that is being forced on us is really hard for me to take. We have lived here for over 8 years, and boarded our horses on the grounds for nearly 20, now all of the sudden we have to get out. NOT FAIR!!!! All of this because of a lazy fairgrounds director that would rather play games on his computer all day than do his job, and is so incompetent that he has mismanaged his county funds to the point of being almost totally broke. The dumbest thing he is doing is shutting down the only thing on the fairgrounds that brings in any revenue, the RV park and the barn and stall rental.

We are moving to another town, 40 miles east of us. The little town is a good place to live and I am not upset about having to move there in particular, but we considered this home. We have spent a lot of money and time on our yard and garden, we have 2 apple trees, an elm tree, 14 rose bushes, 3 honeysuckle, a wisteria, not to mention 19 different herbs, strawberries and our vegetable garden. Some of this we may be able to take with us, but most of it will have to stay here, and knowing the county workers like I do, it won't be cared for and everything will die for lack of water. I am just sick over this.

At our age any kind of change is hard to take, but to be uprooted from of our home is devastating. I know we will survive this, we have weathered worse storms, but there comes a time in life when you just want to sit back and relax, and enjoy the end of your life.

I guess the Goddess isn't through with us yet and there are still things we need to do or learn, but boy has She given us a stinker of a lesson this time.

Well enough sniveling, whatever comes we will face and overcome, but I am going out kicking and screaming all the way. lol

Hope everyone has a blessed day and may the Goddess bring peace and joy into your life.

Eileen

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This started out as a comment to a blog a friend wrote, but the more I got into it, the more I realized this is something everyone should be aware of, so I decided to post it as a blog.

Some times I wonder about these animal “rescue groups”.   Last winter a very good friend of mine  was diagnosed with lung cancer and had to move to another part of the state for treatment.  She had 5 dogs and 5 cats and no one to take care of them so I volunteered.  We found out that her cancer was terminal and she only had weeks to live so homes had to be found for her animals.  I spread the word among our friends and one of them sent a “rescue group” to see me.  At first I thought they would be able to help us out, but after talking to them for awhile they started asking questions like, “does she have any other family", "are there any heirs", "how much property does she own", blah, blah, blah,….questions that had nothing to do with rescuing her animals.  After listening to this for awhile, I told them I wouldn’t need their services after all and they left.
Behind my back they went to our mutual friend, got Smoky’s phone number and started calling her, telling her I wasn’t taking care of the animals, that they were going to have to call the pound and have the animals put down because they were being neglected and in too bad of a shape to be adopted out.  Needless to say this upset Smoky to no end.  When I found out what was going on, I was furious.  I ended up going to the sheriffs department and getting an order of protection against these people, but the damage was already done, and although Smoky understood that what they were telling her was untrue, what little time she had left had been tainted by the cruelty of these supposedly compassionate people.  We did find a reliable rescue group who took the small animals and another friend’s son took the big dogs.  Unfortunately Smoky didn’t live long enough to know that we had found good homes for  all of her animals and they were being taken care of.

If  you ever need the services of a rescue group, please, please check them out before calling on them.  I later found out that these two women were well known in our area, and had, had many complaints filed against them.  
Their main objective was to get pet owners to “donate” money to their cause.  The animals and their welfare were way down on the bottom of their list of priorities.

1. DO YOU LIVE IN A HOUSE OR AN APARTMENT? RV

2. WOULD YOU SAY IT IS BIG OR SMALL? Comfortable and the kids can’t move back in.

3. DO YOU HAVE A WELCOME MAT?  No don’t need one.  This welcome explains our policy.

Here's Céad Míle Fáilte to friend and to rover
That's a greeting that's Irish as Irish can be
It means you are welcome
A thousand times over
Wherever you come from, Whosoever you be
. 
 
4. DOES IT SAY SOMETHING?  Only to those who choose to hear it.

5. DO YOU HAVE A DISHWASHER OR DO YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR DISHES BY HAND? By hand, no room for a dishwasher

6. HOW MANY PLANTS DO YOU HAVE INSIDE? Eight

7. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL PLACE THAT YOU PUT YOUR KEYS? In my purse

8. IS YOUR REFRIGERATOR STOCKED WITH ANYTHING? Well right now it’s looks a little lean, too close to payday. Hehehe

9. WHERE DO YOU KEEP YOUR BREAD? On the counter

10. IS YOUR BATHROOM CLEAN? Could probably use a little touch up

11. WHAT IS YOUR BATHROOM'S THEME? How do you spell R-E-L-I-E-F??!!  heeheehee, I can’t improve on this.

12. HOW MANY RUGS DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR DWELLING SPACE? Wall to wall carpeting from one end to the other.

13. DO YOU KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS? Yep, we are all race trackers and horseman. 

14. IF SO DO YOU GET ALONG WITH THEM? We are like family, we may have our little squabbles among ourselves, but we would lay down our lives for each other.

15. ARE THERE ANY STRAY CATS AROUND? Oh yeah!   People think barns = mice = a good place to drop off our unwanted cats.  We take them all in though, there are more than enough tack rooms and mice to go around.

16. DO YOU HAVE A DVD PLAYER IN YOUR BEDROOM? Yes.

17. WHICH ROOM WOULD YOU SAY YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME IN? Kitchen

18. DO YOU HAVE A POOL OR JACUZZI WHERE YOU LIVE? Nope, we don’t own anything we can’t pack and move with us.

19. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DVD THAT YOU OWN? The Quiet Man

20. HOW ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE CD THAT YOU OWN? The Essential Chieftains

21. WHERE IS YOUR STEREO OR RADIO LOCATED IN YOUR HOME? On my computer

22. DO YOU HAVE A COFFEE MAKER? If the rest of the world wants to live, they better hope I have a coffee maker.

23. DO YOU HAVE AN AREA DESIGNATED FOR ALCOHOL? No, I don't drink, leave that to the youngsters

24. HOW MANY TELEVISIONS DO YOU HAVE? 1

25. DO YOU HAVE STAIRS? Yep, I live in a three story house,  hehehe, two steps up into the bathroom and two more steps up into the bedroom

26. WHAT KIND OF STUFF DO YOU HAVE ON YOUR WALLS? Don’t have enough room on the walls to hang anything.

27. WHERE DO YOU KEEP YOUR TOOTHPASTE? Bathroom counter.

28. DO YOU HAVE A DEN OR AN OFFICE? Nope, unless you want to count my  computer desk in the kitchen

29. DO YOU LIVE CLOSE TO ANY STORES? Nope, we live on the county fairgrounds race track.  Just us chickens, cats and horses.

30. DO YOU HAVE A WALK IN CLOSET AND IF NOT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE ONE? Nope and Nope

31. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING HANGING FROM THE CEILING? Plants

32. DOES YOUR KITCHEN HAVE A THEME? Small, small and small

33. IS IT A PAIN TO DUST YOUR LIVING SPACE?  Nope, one nice thing about living in an RV, you can dust, vacuum and clean the whole thing in no time at all

34. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? Anything I can’t fit in the closets

35. DO YOU HAVE A GAME SYSTEM? Heaven’s no, wouldn’t even know how to turn one on

36. HOW MANY TELEPHONES ARE IN YOUR HOME? 1 land line, and one cell phones.

37. DO YOU HAVE A FIREPLACE AND IF SO DO YOU USE IT OFTEN? Nope

38. WHAT KIND OF MICROWAVE DO YOU HAVE? Yard sale special

39. DO YOU HAVE ANY FIGURINES OF ANGELS AROUND? Nope.  I’m working on a Goddess figurine, but it’s not finished yet.

40. DO YOU LIKE TO OPEN THE BLINDS OR CURTAINS OR KEEP THEM SHUT? Open, I like lots and lots of light.

41. HOW MANY COMPUTERS ARE IN YOUR DWELLING SPACE? Two,  My PC and my laptop.

42. WHAT COMPANY DO YOU USE FOR INTERNET ACCESS AND HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? Earthlink.   And price?   Well that comes under the heading of too much information.