Well, last night was flood warning & the creek that run's down the back of my property along with the runoff stream from my neighbors farm that runs through my farm is filled to overflowing. The thunder & lightning was the biggest challenge with all my doggies. I had all 3 of the ones upstairs in bed with me & so restless, I got absolutely NO sleep.

The weather when I first moved here was a few thunder storms last summer, then the drought hit......& everything died out.

Since I got back here just before Christmas:

I have had 6 inches of snow in one storm (a lot for here....everything halts).

We had tornado warnings & I was in the basement all night with my doggies with that IN FEBRUARY.....no one has ever heard of tornadoes in February & there were 15 that touched down in the area. I lost a tree with that wind....but it's down in the woods, so it's not something I have to take care of immediately.

We had an ice storm & there were a few broken electric wires on that storm.

I have leaks in my basement that I don't know where they are coming from.....it's not even on the side that the wind is blowing the rain in from.....so have no idea about that....will need some help to solve that problem.

The lightning & thunder were horrible last night with all the flooding.......my doggied were so restless, I couldn't get any sleep. Everytime there was a rumble, they landed on top of me & Leo was so restless, trying to find a place to hide. This photo is his way of coping when there is no place to hide.....if all else fails....push the radio from the night stand & hide in it.

It's the most wonderful place to get involved in....maybe it's the small town community or whatever, but it's awsome. I am going to volunteer with the 4H & help out with a trail ride group at one of the farms. We have a new group that is forming to pull all the trails in Kentucky together & map them out using GPS systems. The government it checking one out to me & I have been invited to go out with one of the farm owners that has miles & miles of trails that they want mapped out......She has a trail horse she is willing to loan me to ride with her. The governor is just signing the trail bill into law, so we can get funding from the state & even the feds to pull all the trails together & maintain them...they are aiming this for completing by out 2010 FEI Equestrian games that are being held here.

We have a wonderful womens group of riders that I have gotten involved with...it just formed 4 months ago & we already have 24 women in it....that is where I met the trainer I am planing on taking dressage lessons from & having her train Izzy when I get her here.....I went to a dressage clinic with that group just the other weekend. There is a sub group that gets together for a couple of trail trips to Tennessee during the year......beautiful trip....they invited me once I get my horses here. I have met more people here in my short time here than it seems in all my 54 years in California.

I am going to a poetry reading today at the library.....a local poet Laureate from Kentucky & then next weekend, they are having a tea at the library honoring Mary Todd Lincoln...featuring favorite dishes of the Lincoln's. This is for the Abraham Lincoln icentennial celebration here in Harrodsburg. Our town was founded in 1774 as the first permanent English settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains & where the parents of Abraham Lincoln were married & lived. They have the restored log cabin where they were married at the restored fort here in town. I never really have appreciated history as much as when I am in the area where is all happened. (it was the same with Italian history....until I stayed in Rome for 5 weeks, I never had any remembered any of the ancient roman history....after that......I was immersed in the history throughout the ages)....it's the same living here in KY....it all comes alive with all the civil war enactments & historical areas to wander through.........

Kentucky is so beautiful...each season is amazing & each day unfolds new magic.

Gotta laugh at Leo's coping skills however.....they are California doggies trying to get used to a huge change also.