As a kid I drew many, many “farm plans”. I really had no idea of good farm planning but I did know that I loved being around animals, was comfortable with some solitude, and just knew I wanted to have a horse and a dog and raise my family on a farm.

Life sometimes doesn’t go exactly as planned by a young girl but I have spent most of my life on a farm and/or in rural areas. I have spent most of my life with horses. Not that I am any kind of expert on horses. I am a student at best.

But I do love them.

As I loved the years I got to have a house full of 6 children and a barn, corrals and pastures full of critters. Those were the best days of my life. We all worked together, never had enough money but took the kids on a holiday to BC every summer (on the operating account) LOL.

We had a dairy. We milked around 50 cows every morning and every afternoon. This isn’t optional. I kept graphs of their production and records of their reproduction. When computers showed up, I was right there among the first using more operating money to buy a computer that cost more than good ones today and was obsolete within the week.

There was something really cool about learning a technology right at the beginning. The first computer we owned didn’t have a hard drive. Whatever you did do you had no way of storing so you had to do it again tomorrow. Sounds insane? Pretty much was in hindsight.

There were some years where the bank interest became suffocating and Dave and I both had to go to work. Funny how things turn out but I got a really good job at the Shell Caroline Plant mostly because I knew something about computers. 12 hour days including travelling. But Dave and I managed to make enough money to survive the exceptionally high interest at the time and avoid losing the north quarter.

When the term job was over and the internet arrived, I was keen to see what other people were doing and after much searching, found a couple of horse folks in the U.S. We all agreed the biggest problem was finding other horse people. So… each of us started a site to promote horses and horse people and related businesses. The other two only continued for a while but Northernhorse has been a very popular horse website in Canada and actually the US and much further since 1995.

Making me feel old. Well, I guess that is OK. I am old. I consider it a privilege denied to many.

So this is just a little “journal” I am keeping for myself mostly. I am an old woman who is living a blessed life on a ranch in Alberta, Canada. I got to share my life with 6 beautiful youngsters and a good man. Now Dave and I share it with a few horses and are enjoying watching the grandkids grow up and now some of them with kids of their own. It is interesting how some traits just keep on going through the family.

I wish everyone could have as good a life as I am enjoying. The little girl’s dream came true. She is so fortunate and grateful.

Lynn