Addictions

My addictions: I don't smoke and with the prices of tobacco these days that fact just thrills me.
I don't drink I think I owe that to my mom. She brain washed me as a child. Telling me that they had to dip the rats and their waste out of the beer vats before it is bottled. Which is good. Liguor changes to sugar so for a diabetic it is not a good thing. I figure if I did drink or do drugs I would have nothing to show but a life in the gutter. Yes, I am easliy addicted.
Now, food humm one wonders if you have to eat to survive how can food be an addiction.
I suppose is not so much that food is bad for you. It is just what some of us have grown up with comfort foods. Which we turn to when we feel bad or out lives are going the wrong way. Then there is Chocolate. That is almost like a drug. I don't crave that to much either. My big food problem is potatoes. I could live off them, again they turn to sugar. So I have been trying to limit that addiciton.
As for men I don't feel I have to have one around me all the time In fact I lived without one for almost 7 years. Amazing hun? I do have to admit living on a farm it is so much easier to have some help around.
There are friends I find myself easily addicted to. I find myself dropping important things I need to do. Just to run by there sides when they need someone to talk to. I am not sure that is a bad addiction.
Here is my big addiction.....HORSES, I admit it I am a horses-alcoholic.
Today was beautiful 70 degrees in November. Amber came over early and an old friend came in from out of state. I rode Beemer. What a wonderful animal. My friend rode Raven. Raven is the love of my life but, Beemer he is awesome. I would be confident enough to put a 3 year old on this horse and turn them loose on the road and they would be safe.
Amber rode Chico. We all had a good time.

Today I am going to give Beemer up for Amber to ride.
I will go back to riding my goofy Arab Raven. I know what she is going to do in any given situtation. I have been riding her for the past 14 years.When I bought Raven I had my daughter in mind. She didn't like Raven so she became my horse. Vickey had Babe. Babe was the first horse Vickey broke she was half Arab and had such a wonderful personality. I regret letting that horse go. I think about her every time we ride. Vickey loved that horse so much. I had every intention of buying her back. The people I sold her to were not very horse savy and she died with in a month in their care. We have the memories of her that will last a life time. The picture is of Vickey when she was a teen ager. I think the age of 11-21 is the age I remember my children at their best. Then they grew up and no longer need a mom.

Got a mosquito that is begging for attention...