Some People

Some people are wonderful. We have super volunteers who give all they have to help us. Sweet Mallory who is going onto the 6th grade just brought more money that she has earned and raised to help with AnnaBelle's surgery. Her folks are teaching her great life lessons. Tina, Leah and Carly work hard at making Home At Last a success. Laura is a dedicated friend and volunteer who is always there for us. Christeen, Carolyn, Loren, Harley and Bill are our newest volunteers and are proving to be invaluable. Helen and Ron run a Thrift Store for the benefit of Home At Last. Our Board serves without compensation and give their time, money and energy to us.
Friends give support and kind words. FaceBook friends have been most generous. Our vet and farrier are dedicated to the critters here. Our family has been right there for us always. We have sponsors who faithfully donate to the horses. We have folks who send donations to the Thrift Store.
Tractor Supply Company is most supportive. Folks who pass give generously because they care about the animals. Spaulding Flies and Wilson's Worms make our life so much easier. Our foster families provide great homes for some of the horses.
Home Tech Charter School has been very generous with their time, talents and their class projects have given us much needed funds.
We want to thank each person who has sent good wishes, money, items and have spent time and energy helping us. If I failed to mention you, I'm sorry but here is a big THANK YOU for you.
Once in while we have some people who just don't get it. Tonight at 8 PM a couple opened our closed gate, came in and were reaching through the electric fence to pet the horses. It was feeding time and fingers could look like food( Is that where finger food came from?) Any way they had no respect for the closed gate, no respect for the fact that the horses were hungry and no respect for our time. They wanted to know if we sold or rented out horses. NO and NO!!
Other people seem to think we are here for their convenience. Our time means nothing to them. We try to be gracious when we have visitors, but honestly, folks, having 70 equines takes most of our time. If you have an appointment please be on time. Please, realize the sanctuary exists for the animals first and foremost. We are not an attraction for your kids to go racing around.
Once we had a woman drop off her preteen at 9:30AM in the rain. The poor child had no coat, no food and no idea what to do. Of course, no one could be reached by phone. At 4:30, grandma came to get her and was quite upset when we told her we didn't do child care.
Enough ranting. Today I paid to have more picture storage so tomorrow we should have pictures. Today we also went to another estate sale to get items for the Thrift Store. Robert Ulrich and Judy Briscow are so good to us. They always let us have the items that didn't sell. Thank you. Aaron and Amy helped us pick them up.
We love what we do and we love most of the people we come in contact with. We appreciate the efforts others make. We value what folks do when they help others. We truly believe that each person becomes better by serving something other than self.