I’ve been using this analogy a lot lately. This is how I sometimes feel about the BLBP. And this is how I feel about getting things done around our place.

In the song They Built the Ship Titanic to Sale the Ocean Blue, the lyrics say that the iceberg hits the ship. Pete picked up on this right away, noting that this is a causal fallacy. The ship hit the iceberg.

I pause because I can’t extend the analogy. I can try. Other forces have impinged on the book project, making for very up and down times. Today, for example, I went into the former banquet room of the historic Eagle Hotel and saw that I had a lot to do. The place was in a state of complete disarray. The deck chairs, they were all over the place. Susan, who is a volunteer extraordinaire, soon walked in the door and we got the books ready for the upcoming quilt auction. Then, after she left, I alone began straightening up, beginning in the back room and working my way forward.

This was my way of rearranging the deck chairs. The question is, was this worth the time? Was I keeping the good ship BLBP from doing a header? Hard to say. I sometimes do what I like to do, not what I don’t like to do. Is having the place tidy going to make any difference?

I don’t know. I don’t have a life vest, nor do I have a survival suit. But then again, I might have a life vest. Pete spent part of today working on the finances, which is something that I could never do.

Actually, I think about this a great deal. If I put my mind to it, I probably could deal with the budget. It would be slow going because such things don’t come easily to me. But it’s like this – I am of the mind that anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it. Of this I truly believe. . .

There were, for example, moments in time when I was having a hard time with Raudi, and I even considered selling her. Instead, we purchased Tinni, and in riding him, I became confident enough to ride Raudi. I was her first rider. She did okay with Pete yesterday, but not great. It is now easy for me to say that Raudi and I would have done better than she and Pete had I ridden her. However, there is some truth to this.

Raudi has her opinions – this is what Susan Harris, the Centered Riding instructor, used to say. And she’s right. She gets it from her sire, Vikingur, and her dam, Gergun. They were both willful horses. Raudi just got the gene.

And I rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic in educating her.

Pete could, when he came off her yesterday, been hurt really bad, but he was not. And he can now add this story to Raudi’s rather lengthy file.

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