my own retreat

I have made two attempts to take a creativity/photography retreat this spring:

1st one:
was for May 24 - 26 at Grasslands National Park in Val Marie SK
it was named Scribble Splash Stitch - Explore all the Colours of your Creativity - CANCELLED due to not enough registrants!  I was disappointed with this one as Melissa Dinwiddie from California was the instructor.

2nd one:
was for June 7 - 10th at the Calling Lakes Centre in Fort Qu'Appelle SK and it was named Poetry Through The Lens Photography - just got an e-mail that it is CANCELLED due to not enough registrants!

3rd one;
 and I am still hoping is a go... is a Singing Camp from July 15 - 19 in town here and 2 instructors from Vancouver are coming to provide a learning workshop about our voices.  I am to prepare a solo from a song I would love to be able to sing (YIKES!)  and I first deleted the e-mail as the SC Oratorio Choir members included me on this camp for singing.  What is the worst that can happen? well I look at it this way.  I may not be the best singer, I know that for sure, but I may not be the worst.  The old saying goes " there is always someone who will be a better (singer in this case) and there is always someone who will be not as good as you (singing only).  June 15th is the deadline so cross my fingers!

my spring/summer hiatus is good and I must remember that I am on a retreat everyday anyway and the awareness that this is what I am doing already has just been presented to me.  I am creatively painting rocks and hope to have each rock painted with a letter on it spelling  - K i r k v i l l e -  
I will place these completed painted works of art outside as a display.  This is very enjoyable and relaxing for me and simple to create as rocks are so forgiving because you do not have to draw perfectly.

I am still writing 3 pages every morning and alot of mornings I am up and down and it takes me 2 hours to write those 3 pages (distractions, need focus ha!).  I do feel so good when I am done!

So, I am going to treat my time this spring and summer as my own creative retreat!

(made with flowers and only in Holland!)

bottle these days up...

spring is so special in the country

and the mornings are the best for me

the feeding time for Summer and Sylvie Sylvester is pronto 

as soon as I awake, which is still between 6 am and 7 am and it is a parade

to the barn with the food

the rest of the day is supervising the yard and activities going on

this years potato patch has just been planted

 the first truck ride up into the coulee pasture

for some fencing repair work

I received a crocus from Mantracker as I was

driving the tractor along the fence while he fixed

and adjusted and replaced posts and wire

i just want to put these moments in a bottle and keep them forever!

what has your long weekend this May been

like?

How Are Things In Glocca Morra? ...

• i have been busy retiring!
• and running around town doing errands
• cofacilitating the Griefshare program on Thurs nites
• treating a Sarcoid (benign tumour/lump on the young horse Brooks, with my oils)
• and travelling to the southeastern part of the province to visit close friends and some family 
• viewed 5 acreage listings in the Yorkton area (just because we were down there and well it is always good to check the listings for price, value, and check our enthusiasm for it all (ha!)

to be honest it is weird and wonderful and kind of a blur, especially due to the spring being here now and Mother's Day.  I am learning all about and loving my Young Living Essential Oils and realizing the wellness and power of them. There is alot of information and alot of families getting excited about using this alternative and old method of using pure plant oil for sore muscles, cancer, respiratory issues, bug sprays and additives for food flavouring, digestive disorders...so much more  that pure oils can contribute to our health.  

things in Glocca Morra are good and busy....

i will be attending a "poetry through the Lens" photography retreat from June 7 - 10 and gearing up for

that next...

new game plan

new game plan..... staying on this acreage for 2013 year, moving away is not working for us right now, leaving my job and hubby away during the week is enough, i have a hired hand for the winter to assist with animal chores so i can sneak away to the condo ....figuring out the budget now...really is that necessary (yup!) until I can find some "Donna" money this winter...it is all pretty exciting just with that...I make plans and sometimes it changes and sometimes the plan goes forward. That is the challenge and the journey.

i am a believer

i received this pendant as a gift in a very surprising way

as a friend at work quietly handed this over to me;  knowing that I love  and need this type of quartz stone.

Please allow yourself to be reading below what the rutile gemstone means as far as healing properties.

i have made quick decisions and moved energy and just have been

quite decisive and feeling that things are good with my solutions

since I have been wearing this stone!

call me crazy but when you have a meaningful earthly product

around your neck and you are aware of your day

you will believe in the gemstone energies.

thanks to my dear co-worker Kandace

(I will miss your knowledge and quiet

demeanor)

this is a rutilated quartz pendant

Rutilated quartz is reputed to be an:

•  energizing stone that helps get energy moving on all levels.(me)
•  mental focus
•  attract love and stabilize relationships (Mantracker and I are not liking being apart)
•  effective for getting things moving energetically.(yup!)
• Emotionally very helpful in uncovering the causes of mental issues and hang-ups
• can diminish fears and be excellent at assisting with decision-making processes.  ease loneliness and relieve guilt 
• used metaphysically to help one get out of a rut with their life (me)
• stabilizes emotions and mental processes,
• clarifying thought patterns and emotional reactions. (helpful for me) 
• is said to increase one's self-reliance and ability to find one's own way (things are becoming clearer)

do you own a gemstone?

those long legs

this weekend we dusted the shedding fur off the horses as much as we could

and had a long afternoon of riding

and retraining the horses. Now that spring is here and the

winter hiatus of standing around the bale feeder is changing they need some refresher time and adjustments in their thinking.

Tom was out riding Rocky, which was his older brother's horse.  I was watching him get frustrated with Rocky as he was doddling down the lane and didn't want to leave the yard (typical) because his friends were all still in the barn.

Tom has long legs and his brother was 6' 4" tall and he could wrap those legs around

Rocky pretty easily.  As Tom started to give Rocky a few jolting reminders that he needed

to keep moving forward;  I casually happened to say ... "ya that's it "Graham" ....uh I mean Tom keep him moving forward".

I know Tom was ok with my "name slip-up" but it really was a deja vu and it is always a beautiful feeling for me to watch Tom ride this horse.

Any special moments of deja vu in your life?

Geese on Ice

Kirkville pond today....