What is your 'pure joy'?

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What moments or activities do you find bring you pure happiness?

My newest joy is this-
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If anyone is wondering, no, it's not ~just~ horseback riding...
This happens to be my Hippo, nervous, spooky, sensitive gelding.
He's constantly growing into a far better horse than he was when I first got him a few years ago.

Recently, I've been flinging myself up over his back and just laying there. Like the first picture shows.

Today, I decided to push my luck and sit on him! I lead him in to the dog yard, where there is just a hint of grass left.

Up I went, trying not to shake like a leaf! He ignored me, kept eating his wee bit of grass, slowly taking a few steps here and there for some new grass.

*squeeaa!!!* Boy am I as giddy as a schoolgirl! So happy! :weee:love:bow:celebrate:woot:clap

He is a lot more calm and confidence when he's got a lead on and even upgraded to spooking in his spot and not actually moving an inch! Even when not caught, if he's with me, he will only spook in his skin and not fly off like a chicken.

If only you guys could of seen what he was like before! I don't think I ever really believed I'd ever be able to sit on him, with really no way to control him or not fall off. (((note, there's no saddle...or bit in his mouth)))

After about 8 minutes, I slid off, got the camera, hopped back on and took the pics. Then I slid off again, put the camera away and then hopped on for a few more minutes of awesome! I'm sure there was a giant, stupid grin on my face, too. Maybe I posted that before as well, few months ago, that he would of ran away if he had seen or heard the camera! But I worked with him some about it and now he doesn't mind the flash, weird noises it makes or that it's very shiny.

I'll eventually be asking DH to lead him while I'm up there, in my helmet and protective vest, praying he doesn't buck and if he does, that it's small, a one time thing and that I don't fall off! But for now, I'll keep hopping up there just to sit and enjoy him not bolting, bucking or whatever else a nervous horse might spring up on you!

So that would be my new bit of pure joy and happiness. What is yours?
 

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That just made me grin from ear to ear!:D
I can see you you smiling and wanting to squeal with joy but dare not!
What an accomplishment! :clap :celebrate :weee :thumbsup

I don't train horses but I do train dogs. I would say that would be mine. Not a whole lot of training with LGD's so not quite like what I use to do. I am tempted to breed my GSD just so I can have some dogs to work with. Alas I am getting old and don't have the stamina.:(
Next... my goats! Especially Cici, Kelly and Ruby!:)
 

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What an awesome story! :) I can see why you find so much joy in riding - well, sitting on your dear gelding. :celebrate How patient you are!!! :bow

I had a pure joy moment earlier this week. We closed on our five acres last Friday. DH and I went to feed the poultry after we finished with closing. It had rained earlier, and was dreary and chilly when we got there. So, it was a bit anti-climactical, to say the least

But THEN . . . . Monday morning dawned - a bright sunny day! We drove the 1-3/4 hours to the farm, and sat on the front porch with a cup of coffee listening to the rooster crow! As I sat there, looking at the beautiful woods, with sun shining through the tree branches, I got tears in my eyes, and gratitude in my heart, for where God has brought me from . . . To THIS! Yes, that is pure JOY!!!
 
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Love these stories!

My "pure joy" is easy - my grandkids!

There are plenty of other things that bring me joy also...watching a little goat take it's first breath, freshly hatched chicks, the first row of pea sprouts popping up in the spring...

The list could go on and on...I'm easily pleased, lol! ;)
 

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Simple things regularly bring me happiness. When I was a kid, just 6yrs ago, these things wanted to do just that, but the teen spirit said "no".
I love when a doe has her kits and all grow well and are fed.
I love when my sheep have their lambs and I want to hug the moms, but they give me the stink eye, lol.
Love when my planted seeds start to grow.
Love when I have time in spring/summer to just lay in pasture, staring at the clouds and the sheep and horses graze calmly around me.
It's just wonderful!

More people need to let the simple things in life warm their hearts and fill their dreams!
 
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I love goat babies. I love watching my turkey hen hatch and raise her babies. Actually I love all babies.
I love walking around the farm and snapping photos of the animals just hanging out and relaxing. I also love that first cup of coffee in the morning before going out to feed everyone.
 
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