Nathan Thomas Olner

Today is my sons birthday. It seems not to long ago that there was initial scream of him being born in a Manchester hospital in a land now across the sea.

Today i drove my daughter Katie to play school. The last of the winter frosts on the car and ground with low flying fog crossing the country roads as we drove. Its not that long ago i used to walk the Manchester streets with Nathan on my shoulders also to play school.

Katie reminds me allot of Nathan, She looks like him in many ways, blue eyes and Blondie hair. Happy children laughing in delight. As you can tell i miss him like crazy and cant wait to see him at the end of may. Nathan is the clown of all my children. Often goofing around . He has a very dry sense of humour and is very quick with comebacks and jokes. My other son, or as a Chinese actor once said "Number 1 Son (Matthew), is the thinker always thinking over what was said or the problem in hand.

Life for me now is so different to how they knew me, Hunting, Hawks, Dogs and Bees i sometimes wonder what they make of it all and in lost of ways i cant wait to share it with them on a more personal level.

The weekend has been packed with Bee's and dogs and unfortunately Zoie got pushed to one side. Had t pick up a Bee hive from a house in Grant and then take the Dogs and the cat to be spayed. HSUS have finally come up with something that's useful. Oklahoma has a spay network. HSUS have shut down there animal rescue facility here in Southern Oklahoma and have taken a different track. Rather than find homes for all the litters of puppies, Kittens and abandoned animals they just Spay them. For $35 dollars you can get your animal spayed. Turns out Lilly ( the springer) had already been spayed but Emma and Kat are a little sore tender today. I am assuming because of all the negative publicity with putting down unwanted animals and finding them homes its now cheaper to do the spay network. The logic is less animals giving birth to unwanted babies then less animals running around.

I also spent some time scrubbing down the mews and cleaning things up a little. in a few weeks I'm going to call it an end to the season and start keeping Zoie out in the mews.




Happy brthday Nathan, Can't wait to see you soon.