Front and Center
Well here it is, its August. School is starting for some, others have that last few days reprieve from climbing out of bed and heading off to the classroom. Pretty soon the leaves will be tossing themselves off the trees, the days will shorten and the cool will be in the air. Up to a certain point I look forward to those days. The feeling of preparation for winter. That dreaded season of cold and gloom. The preparations remind me of a bee busy at its hive. stirring things around, squirrels making things ready, putting them all in the proper places. The warm feel of Indian Summer (no pun intended) will be around the corner, pumpkins showing up all over the place, cornstalks placed ceremonially by peoples front doors. We all gather our nuts to store away for a long winter ahead.
We here at the rescue will soon be doing the same. Trying to prepare for a long winter ahead. Gathering our 'nuts' if you will to store up for the horses to get through the long winter months ahead. In some sense my dread has already started with trying to make sure even now that supplies are stored like the squirrel in a tree. We have much needed hay to still get, bags of feeds to place in the loft barn, supplements to stock and many other chores that I wont get done this year. I so wanted to have the hot water heater in and a sink to wash things as well as to soak beet pulp. Seems that isn't going to happen.
With our preparations comes the events we are holding here. I have been working with Nancy on the flyers if anyone wants to print and pass out. We will be at the OK State Fair this year again, the whole season. I look forward to being able to speak to folks about the rescue as well as hopefully get some interested in adopting. So we are welcoming volunteers to help September 17-27th. Next is the Haunted Barn on October 24th. YES, I made sure with the schedules I had that it wasn't in conflict with the OU/OSU games. Following that is our November Work Days. 6-7-8th. Anyone coming from out of town let me know so we can arrange to make sure you have place to stay.
Dec 5th is our Santa 4 Horses... Bring the kids along and a gift for the horses.. We will post that on the website soon.
All that said I would like to encourage those who can to help us to build up our General Fund. My hope is that we can do some of this before the holidays are upon us and people feel the tightness of the belt even further with the economy like it is. I have not had much response in getting people to go to the Affiliates or General Store online. We will keep those up in case anyone wants to visit them. We are always searching for new places to fundraise and get the money coming in to help keep the doors open.
We appreciate all of you who stay involved with us and continue to help us with our efforts.
RT
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