A difficult time and attitude

I usually don't head into anything that tries to thwart me. I decided to forge ahead anyway and continued to maintain a positive attitude despite all obstacles. I believe attitude can change anything and I proved it right this weekend when I drove my daughter and her horse to a weekend horse show at a nearby fall fair.

On the day of hauling, my truck's rear view mirror broke off of the window due to the extreme heat inside of the pickup. I need to glue it back on. Later that day the overdrive button started flashing, the speedometer wouldn't work and the 4x4 buttons kept trying to engage, which made my transmission clunk repeatedly. I didn't know what to do about that at the moment except carry on, it was too late to take it to a shop.
When I tried to hitch up the trailer because it was time to go, I discovered that someone stole my hitch. I live out in the country and when something goes wrong and you need some help, the neighbors help out all they can. Three hitch tries and loans later we were off and running. The hitch we ended up borrowing didn't work, I was dragging it in the dirt road every time I hit a dip. Donna, who was traveling in her own truck and trailer with her own horses was traveling with me to the fair. She came up with the idea of placing my daughters horse into the very back of the trailer to see if that would take the weight off of the hitch. After a mile on the pavement going slow had decided that that wasn't enough. I bottomed out. 2 more hitches later, (my son's hitch worked and my electrical problems turned out to be a fuse blown) we had to head back home. Donna's running lights weren't working on her horse trailer. Can you believe it? She couldn't haul in the dark without her lights. (her lights were fixed once she got home)
4 a.m. the next morning, exhausted already from the events of the day before, we head out. Running lights, check, horses check, daughter check, coffee, check, hitch, check. Away we go in the dark.
What a beautiful sunrise coming across the Shuswap Lake. A photographers dream. Golden light hazily streaming across the skies, mountains in different hues of green, boats and trees mere silhouettes.
Our problems or dilemmas still weren't over though. Donna's horse trailer must have suffered a flat during the trip. Upon turning into the fair grounds the one supporting the full weight of the trailer due to the flat popped. She was running on rims on one side. We unloaded the horses and Donna's two horses decided to want to try to kick each other. Guess what happened? No horse or person was injured, nor did any kicking occur, but the one horse backed into my truck door so hard that my door has a big dent that probably won't be able to be popped back out.
We had fabulously hot weather, great for boating or lake type playing, but not for horses. The heat was hard on all horses involved, we pulled from a couple of classes to rest our horse. Shade and water was a must in between classes and I must have suffered slight heat stroke. I am so exhausted, today (our first day back home) I've been sleeping off and on all day long and I tire easily
Donna's trailer tires are not fixed yet, but two other friends hauling and having the same type of trailer loaned her their spares.
You see, all of this could have made the weekend a really bad weekend in a person's world. We could have chosen to become angry or sullen, but my daughter and I, as well as Donna, decided to make the most of it. Emily and I enjoyed our time there, she and her horse won various ribbons and I made new friends.

Attitude can make or break your day. How you choose to respond to any outside stimuli decides how your day is going to go. It's all up to you to make each day a great day despite the challenges presented before you.

 

And during the whole time at the fall fair I couldn't help thinking about how many people readily helped us when asked. How absolutely grateful I am to their willingness for helping us out. What generous hearts.

Relevancy of meta tags

Meta tags.
What am I talking about?
These little snippets of code help promote and properly display your website in the search engines. Without meta description, your website will have a random sentence from your website placed with your site address when someone searches and comes across your site.
For example, my friend's website doesn't have any meta tags, and when I searched blind bay furnishings, this is the description that came with his web address: 'We also offer a range of tents and tipi's with or with out furnishings to create your own decadent western retreat. The shop can add to this with a wide range of ...'
Yes, he does indeed make tents and tipi's but his main work is furniture and if I am looking for hand made furniture, do you think I'll be tempted to open up this website? Not particularly, because I'm not interested in tipi's right now and this site only talks about them in their description.
This description can be found half way down the front of the home page, and there are worse descriptions out there than my friends web site has, but this is what the search indexing bots found for a description because he didn't provide one in a meta tag.
Meta description is important, and so is meta keywords. Without keywords, your website won't likely place as high in the rankings of searches. Actually, even with keywords, your site may not place high (and that's a whole other subject), but keywords are a definite help and tweaking them once in a while to improve your site's search placement is highly recommended. Meta keywords are very important. There's almost a science behind keywords. A person can hire a business who specializes in finding key keywords or a person can brainstorm with family and friends to come up with a variety of words that relate to their business and provide their web designer with them to be added into the code.
There are other meta tags that should be in the header of your website but these two are by far the most important.
How do you know if you have meta tags in your code? If you had a professional design your website, chances are, they are in the code, but ask that person or business if the meta tags are in place and if so, what keywords were used? You might have a few more that could be added into the code that you feel are important.
If the website was designed by someone who used a template, chances are that the meta tags are missing. Templates are just that, a template. A few tweakings here and there and the person has your website placed together. I'm not knocking templates, I think they are a great polished look, also ably to be quickly put together for immediacy. But with quickly put together websites comes with potentially glossed over code and that can leave you low in the search pages.
If you wish to see for yourself whether you have your meta tags in place, open up your main page on your browser. left click the view tab and click the source or page source. It will open up your code. At the top part of your code there should be a head tag. Even if you can't find the head tag due to cluttered code writing, you still should be able to see something like this somewhere close to the top of your code writing:
meta name="description" content="This is where the description for your website would go."
meta name="keywords" content="this is where your words would go relating to your website, these words help the world find your website during their search "
Now there are lots of other meta tags a person could add, but these are by far, two important ones. If you're uncertain whether you have meta tags and wish for me to have a look, leave your website below in the comment field and I'll have a look for you.