I had hoped to take a short ride on Apollo this morning, but despite a weather forecast declaring clear skies until next Monday, clouds built up and rain came down, so that obviously didn’t happen! We have a dialysate supply delivery today, so I thought if he came early enough I might still get a ride in if the rain went away, but neither of those things happened. I had already sorted out the back of the trailer for the delivery, so when the truck arrived, we got everything loaded in with no problem. But of course, more rain came in, so a ride was out of the question. Flash is still favoring his hind leg a lot, but the heat is mostly out of it, the swelling seems to have come down, and the raw skin has almost completely healed over, though I’m still treating it regularly, so hopefully he recover in short order. So in the end, we had a fairly relaxing day, though I did bathe Lola, washed all of her bedding and insect-bombed the truck, because she’s still carrying around fleas she picked up long ago. Hard to break the cycle once things get going! Did some house work as well, very productive, yet somehow relaxing day! I guess any pace slower than clearing out a house seems like a break these days! Fingers crossed I’ll be able to ride tomorrow!

Had another restless night, not getting as much sleep as I would like, but got busy as soon as I got up, setting up the screen room and putting up the electric fence so the horses could munch on the grass that was too long. Ellen had told me the person who usually mows the lawn was ill so I thought I’d help out by letting the horses cut the lawn in as large an area as possible, but later on, I was informed that portable corrals are not allowed, or at least a maximum of 12X12. Sigh… Two horses in an area that small will ruin that space in no time, but if that’s the kind of pasture management they want to do, so be it. (Bear in mind, the place was empty, except for the person telling me this, and she left shortly thereafter.) So tomorrow I’ll take it down again, or maybe make it 12X12 or so, just to satisfy their rules. Meanwhile, they did get a day of nice clover. Unfortunately, I noticed Flash was limping, the rope burn he got on his fetlock seems to be infected, so I treated it, hopefully it will improve by tomorrow. I ran out to the post office to ship out a book because of an order I received yesterday, and then to the store to get some grocery shopping done, getting back later than I hoped because of a delayed prescription transfer. Finally got back and got Hubby on his machine, did some more chores throughout the rest of the session, finally settling down for the evening much later than usual. I hope Flash is better tomorrow, I sure hate the idea of having to call a vet out here! I’ll just keep treating it and keep my fingers crossed for now!

With the high heat and humidity today, I had no energy or interest for doing anything outside, or even inside for that matter. We decided I deserved a complete day off, so that’s what we did. Other than essential chores, we spent the day watching old classic movies. Lovely to get a whole day of rest!

Got up early enough to run into town this morning for horse feed, and I also found a 20-gallon metal trash can I’ve been looking for at an old time hardware store in downtown Logan. On the way out, the fish fry host asked if I wanted to buy his leftover hay, and since I was low, I said yes. I had talked about that the day before with another one of that group who also said he’d sell me his leftovers, but I only have room for so much! Anyway, he sold me 5 ½ bales for the price of 5, and we loaded it up on the back of my truck on the spot. Got my shopping done, and when I got back, there was another even nicer bale of hay on my picnic table, which Hubby said the hay-maker of the group brought down to me. I headed up to pay for it, too, as that was his only available bale, and it was really nice so I wanted to definitely keep it. I tucked it away in the back of the trailer, which I’m now going to have to do with several other bales, since I’ve got too much hay for the back of the truck now! I managed to just get settled down and eat a bowl of cereal before a scheduled conference call with a freelance writer who might be interested in telling our “traveling with dialysis” story to a number of news outlets she writes for. We interviewed for about half an hour, and she seemed pretty positive about it, will let us know early next week. Then we finally settled down to a dialysis session, watching old movies on Prime (what a great selection they have!), just trying to keep cool. With 90+ degree temps and almost the same in humidity, it’s just too darn hot to try to do anything else that requires any energy! It seems this heat wave will break on Sunday night, just in time for our trip further north, so hopefully, next week we’ll finally arrive at the 70’s we’ve been seeking all summer, and so far, not finding! Can’t wait to get up to NY state, though, it’s been 70’s almost all along this summer. Next year, we’ll be up there or in Michigan a month earlier, that’s for sure! Not going to suffer this heat again! Love having a house on wheels, chasing the good weather!

Had a bout of rain overnight, and many, many more throughout the day, so other than the bare essentials of chores and dialyzing (another great session!), we spent the day quietly watching old movies on Prime. Two days of rest in a row, unheard of!!

I refilled all the water tanks this morning, and did a little computer work, mostly planning our next few weeks of travel, then I decided I needed to spend the rest of the day completely resting for a change, so Hubby and I binge-watched the Atlas Shrugged trilogy, which we enjoyed very much, and did nothing else other than essential chores. Nice quiet day for a change!

I did sleep a bit better in the quiet last night, then took a run into nearby Logan today and did some shopping essentials in the morning, had a great dialysis session with the Hubby in the afternoon, and had a nice quiet evening.

After a busy week and a long ride yesterday, I decided today would be sort of a day of rest, with just a load of laundry and a little bit of housekeeping and tack cleanup today. Lots of mud on everything, and it’s been a while since I did a good leather cleaning and conditioning on the Aussie saddle that I use on Flash (our other saddles are cordura, and don’t need much), so I pulled out the Lexol and got busy for a bit. With no dialysis today, that seemed like more than enough to keep me busy on my “day of rest!”