Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

My Dad is having a back issue.  Apparantly, he slipped a disc, or something else,  a couple weeks ago and is having a hard time getting over it.  This has turned my 5'6" Dad into a 5'3" Dad at best.  It's actually painful to watch him walk.  However, many trips to the bone cracker in town is helping and we're hoping he'll be back to his tall self soon!!

I've been taking care of the chores while Dad is laid up.  Since I go to watch Ruby in the mornings I need to be at the barn by 5:30.  I don't mind this, however, if one is a night owl it is hard to get up before the dawn!  Yesterday as the radio man was waking me up I heard him say it was 85 degrees!  I thought I must've heard him wrong.  Like, I was hoping that would be the high for the day.

Not hardly!  It was a sauna out there in the pitch black dark.  Not pleasant.  We wound up setting the record high to this day at a whopping 108 degrees.  That was a little  happy birthday present to my brother who turned 34 yesterday.

I figured this morning would be the same.  I stepped out of the house and felt a strange cool breeze.  I couldn't believe how great it felt!  As I walked to the barn I saw the sky was starting to show a little pinkish hue.  By the time I got some feed divied up and went to the pasture they sky was a pinkish/orangey color that I can't describe.  The horses weren't up yet since they aren't use to the new breakfast schedule.  I hollered for them a couple times.  I went ahead and put out the grain and waited for them to make their dash to the tubs. 

That is when the magic happened!  I turned back around to see 4 head loping across the pasture with the beautiful sky behind them.  Wow!  I wish I had a camera!  I wish I could've gotten video footage! 

And then the song from the musical "Oklahoma!" popped into my head. 

"Oh what a beautiful morning!  Oh what a beautiful day!  I've got a beautiful feeling everthing's going my way!"

So far, so good!