Happy New Year - an icy and relaxing start. including the Msketers

All the best for 2021!

Our New Year started with an ice storm. Not very surprising, it is winter in Michigan, after all. I had hoped that we could work the horses in the outdoor arena a bit, but the ground was and is frozen. At least their turnout is OK, and the boys hang out mostly around the hay bags.

So, while the boys enjoyed their buffet I cuddled up and watched old movies I found on YouTube: Edgar Wallace in German, and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in English. It was like slipping back in time, these were already oldies when I was growing up. I did balance it out with some 2020 episodes of "Tatort". I think I'll like the oldies better.

JP dug into his artist side and is working on our farm sign. The old one fell apart, so JP bought new cedar wood, cut and carved the outline, and is now painting it. It'll be beautiful!

JP creating our new farm sign
The Msketers (spelled like this so it could fit on our truck's license plate):
Saumur, Chambord, Remy, Teddy
And yes, there were four: Athos, Porthos, Aramis, plus d'Artagnan😊

*The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires [le tʁwɑ muskətɛːʁ]) is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice.

Set between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he is befriended by three of the most formidable musketeers of the age – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three inseparables" – and becomes involved in affairs of state and at court. [Wikipedia]