Hi Darlin’!
Got up right on time and quickly finished packing up, with Apollo once again jumping into the trailer before I was ready for him, I had to back him out to close the partition, silly horse! Said goodbye to my new friends and headed off to Alabama by 8:30. Despite the dire forecast of severe weather, I only hit light rain for about 30 minutes, the rest of the time it was mostly cloudy, then the sun came out right about the time to arrived. Got checked in, then proceeded to the campground and decided to go to the top of the hill again, about where we were last time. It was a little muddy, so I had to be careful turning around (there’s not much room here to do that), and I cut around a couple of sites in order to accomplish that. Just as I was about to clear a water spigot (I was a good foot to a foot and a half away from it, so I was sure I was clear) but when my tire hit the edge of the concrete base, the whole thing sank into the mud and the spigot got jammed into my wheel well. I couldn’t get it loose no matter how hard I tried, so I ended up just dragging the whole darn thing out! Of course, that broke the pipe, so some water was coming out. I called the office and reported it, and within two minutes a whole crew came up to work on it. They had all the right equipment, driving up a big Deere shovel, and they had the whole thing repaired with a new spigot in less than an hour. Incredible! Glad they understood the nature of the accident (you could see my tire marks, it was unmistakable that I had cleared the spigot, just not the concrete, and who knew it would move like that?), so no worries. It didn’t take me too long to get everyone settled in. I put up the electric fence for the horses in the woods so they would have more room instead of a highline like the last time we were here, got out Lola’s GoDogGo machine and filled her swimming pool with water, so she went fetch crazy for a long time. Got the grill out as well so I could have a nice little steak tonight, and was sitting out under the awning in no time, looking like I’d been here a week! A nice couple drove up, Pam and Mal, who live locally but had only day-ridden here, never camped, but wanted to check out the campground for the future. They work at a local stable that has access to 100 miles of trails, but with no campground, would you believe! They loved my trailer (what’s not to love?), and we chatted for quite a while, very nice. After they left I fired up the grill, had my dinner, fed everyone else, and settled down for the evening. Of course, I gained an hour after coming into Central time (which I like much better at this time of the year), but I’m tired from the long day, so I’m heading to bed and shower, seemingly early, but right on time with my body clock. So, I’m off! Goodnight, my sweet! Love you!
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