Spent an hour or so in the arena watching some calf-roping practice, and I took Apollo in with me to get him used to the activity. He got pretty excited at first, but eventually he settled down, thankfully. Afterward, I made a nice sweet potato casserole for the pot luck dinner we’re having tonight, and at 4:00, we headed over to our hostess’ house to join in the activities. We chatted for a while with the dozen plus folks, family members and neighbors, then dinner was served, and there was more food than we could possibly eat! Delicious, and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. Just before 7:00 we headed back to the RV and settled down for the rest of the night.

After a week of hanging around the ranch, doing two audio conferences and otherwise doing business, we finally took a trip out to Prescott. Our little dog Billy wrenched his back last week, and though he’s been getting progressively better, we decided to go ahead and keep our appointment for acupuncture, which frankly, worked a miracle when he had a back problem a couple of years ago, and we wanted to help him out. He didn’t like this girl as much as the other one, however. Last time, the vet put one needle in the back of his neck and he practically dozed off immediately. This time, he got all snappy and upset, even barking through his muzzle, which was a necessity this time. He really misbehaved worse than I’ve seen him in a long time, even growling when the girl first came in, which is unusual. Despite that, we managed to get him through it, including using electro-stimulation. We just hope it helps, because it was pretty traumatic.

Having decided to stay for another month, Hubby and I had to go shopping, and because of the roughness of the road out of the ranch, we only want to do it once, so we headed out after breakfast to Anthem where the nearest Walmart is, with stops first at a feed store, an auto parts store, a mall for lunch, then on to Walmart. We were a bit delayed because of having to wait for Hubby’s prescriptions, so we got back at dusk, but managed to get the horses fed before it got too dark. Settled down for the evening shortly thereafter.

One of the activities they do consistently here at the Bumblebee Ranch is to host various charity event, and this weekend, they were hosting a few dozen blind and visually impaired kids. Kelly had asked me to assist, which I was happy to do, so I spent the afternoon walking and jogging kids around on a nice little pale palomino named Jasper. A fun day, and the kids seemed to have a great time.

Spent the day on the computer writing and doing other mundane chores like laundry.

I spent the day working on my next book, while Hubby watched news on the election and read most of the day, then we settled down for an evening of election returns.

Woke up to the sound of rain pattering on the roof, something we haven’t heard I what seems like months! Just a light rain, and when I stepped outside to make sure everything was covered okay, it had just about stopped, and there was a rainbow stretching from the middle of the valley to just over the horse trailer. What a great way to start the day. Skies cleared up as the day went on, and the temps dropped with a cold wind from the north, so we spent the rest of the day relaxing, cuddling up for warmth, and doing a little bit of prep work for our departure tomorrow.

Ran into town for some supplies, went to Tractor Supply for Nutrena Senior Feed, but they didn’t have the brand we wanted, so they recommended another feed store just up the road, and when I asked them if they had the kind of feed we wanted, the woman asked, me “Wet or Dry?” No one had asked me that before, and I had never realized there were two kinds, but sure enough, she showed us the difference when we arrived, one has much more molasses in it! We like the kind without molasses better, and know we’ve bought that several times, but other times we thought it was much stickier and couldn’t explain why. Now we know! The bags look exactly alike, except for the ingredients tag. The white one is molasses, the yellow one is dry, and it’s labeled as such, in abbreviated language. Learned something new today! Anyway, we got gas and took a Walmart trip (which had a very stupid parking lot, with an island just as you enter, which, if I had been towing the RV, would have been nearly impossible!) Back to camp for a nice evening, not worrying about Trick or Treaters out here!

Did a water run today, an easy job because their spigot down in the day use area comes out of the spigot at about 100 mph! Spent most of the day relaxing, finishing off a book I’ve been reading for some time on my Kindle, a fabulous anthology of 7 great Alaskan classics, truly a fabulous read! Something like 30+ hours, though it’s taken me a few weeks to finish it, just had to sit down for the last 2+ hours and get it done! A nice quiet day.