This article is being dictated to a speech recognition program. I'm doing this hoping that it will prove to be a useful alternative to using the keyboard. This now Thursday, January 1st, 2004. It is now new year's day. To day I feel pretty well. Yvonne seems to be feeling better. Yvonne seems to be feeling better. I have been able to complete some chores such as feeding horses. I don't give them bales of hay, but I do give them grain. I can fill up their water buckets too. The horses are doing fine. October has gotten his horse blanket off and I don't dare try to put it back. If I tried to put it back, I might get hurt again. For that reason, October will have to stay cold until someone else can come to put his blanket on. Tough luck. Later today, Jackie is supposed to come back to stay for a bit. There isn't much else to report today. Unfortunately, this machine does not understand the HTML tags. For that reason, there'll be no fancy formatting in this article. Besides, my last attempt to include illustrations failed miserably . For some reason, the illustrations looked fine on my editor, but then looked terrible on the article itself. The pictures all were in the wrong places. You might have noticed that.