Today we awoke to find three and a half more horses on our property!

The "half" is called Sprocket and he's adorable. This was the view to our southern paddocks this morning. Check out Will's cheeky tongue!

...so how did this happen? I hear you ask.

Well yesterday during my first day at a new job I received a text message from my wife to say that there was a bush fire at the end of our street.

We happen to know the young couple at the end of our street due to being involved with horses and they'd asked whether they could keep their 4 fluffy babies at our place until the danger passes. For them, this was really a god-send as it's not easy to house 4 horses anywhere temporarily if their home paddocks become uninhabitable.

It turns out that the fire came mighty close to their property. It actually burned through some of their electric fencing meaning that their horses weren't able to be contained. Now, the thought occurred to me that our relationship with them proved to be very useful and as self sufficient as you can try to be in life, there will always be circumstances that occur that can't be mitigated against, avoided or predicted that require the assistance of others.

We are private and independent people but among all the efforts to pursue self sufficiency in the financial, health and prepping domains, it's important not to forget investments in the relationship domain also. This is an important component of a resilient life as you'll never know when you'll need to draw down on your relationship investments in times of need; times that can happen at any time for any reason.

Something important to consider! Thanks for reading.