One of the most beautiful things about living out in Tiny Town is all the animals you get to have access to. We are surrounded constantly by horses, cows, pigs, dogs, cats, birds, chickens, deer, goats, sheep, insects, rodents, etc. The list trails on forever. It’s incredible the amount of wildlife that lives among the houses out here. Our favorite, by far, is the horses.
July 4th in Tiny Town, USA doesn’t have a big parade or firework show, they don’t even really do much in the way of celebrating as many of the residents will go out of the valley into the Big City to party. I am used to throwing a giant shindig every year that includes my famous hot dog bar, games, crafts for the kids, etc. Since we’d only moved a month before this, I didn’t feel like I could throw our annual bash and I was severely disappointed with the lack of festive activities for Independence Day.
My mom made a last minute decision to drive 4.5 hours to celebrate with us for a couple days and before she arrived, we went out and started a new tradition: horseback riding!
I’m finding that trying to incorporate traditions from my old life in the City to life out here in Tiny Town is harder and more frequent than I expected. I really anticipated it going more smoothly than it has, but alas…
New traditions are grand though and I’m excited to see if we can continue going out to the horses and spending time doing that over the 4th. Then, we’ll come back and do our big party thing. We just have to tweek things sometimes.
How often do you realize that in your life?
I heard once on a movie the line: “We are all just one small tweek away from getting everything we want out of life.”
I’m hoping that rings true for Tiny Town.
Mermaid Out of Water 