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42. Thanks for the kind words.

We are grateful that we were given the opportunity to do this.
Ever since we made the decision to Take the Leap in 2005
The Fates have been good to us.
It is like we picked up a benign Tail Wind,
and things just fell our way.

When we look back, and think of all the things that could have gone wrong, and didn't.
we feel very lucky.
Like most of the people in the USA, we are just one accident, one illness, one frivolous lawsuit, one mistaken arrest,.... one simple twist of fate away from losing everything.

We try to remember this, and find gratitude for every single day we can do this,
and if it all falls apart, we will have the memories and gratitude for the experience to comfort us.

My Wife says that I have not been honest in my Photo Posts at DU.
She says I only show the "good stuff", and compose my photos to show everything in the very best light with the best background.
She says that I haven't shown the failures,
the crops that were eaten by insects,
the chicks that died from respiratory illnesses,
the ones we had to euthanize for congenital deformities,
the young roosters we had to "cull",
the brown, burnt fields from the drought and heat waves of the last two years,
the Bee Colony that died of starvation two Winters ago because we weren't paying attention,
the fruit trees that died from trunk borers because we didn't know to paint the trunks,
the dead deer, gut shot in hunting season, that seem to find their way to our little pond to die,
the sweat and exhaustion and disappointment.

She has a valid point.
That IS very much a part of the whole.


Thanks again for the kind words.