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.