Hey Babe,
With both horses on a highline, no escapees this morning, thank goodness! My big chore for the morning was to deal with the water issue, after filling the horses’ water buckets I pretty much finished off the tank in the back of the truck. I still have about a third of a tank in the trailer, but I don’t want to run out completely. I did a few chores in the morning, including filling up both tires on the water trailer a bit higher, then Jerry showed up, and at about 11:00 I followed him pulling the trailer to the county highway department to get filled up. When I got back to camp, JD was there, so the three of us had a long chat. Finally I turned to the job of transferring the water, and I had to do some finagling to get the water in, what with water not able to flow uphill by itself, but I finally managed to get it done. I had to pull part way up the hill, lower the trailer jacks down all the way to the bottom, and add some extra hose before it was all said and done, but I managed. After filling up the trailer and the horse buckets as much as I could, I headed back to the highway department to top off again, then to the post office to pick up my package with the battery jumper in it (yay!), then headed to the nearest Tractor Supply that I could find that had at least two out of three of the kinds of feed I needed. I had to go over 30 miles to Pell City, and when I got there, I stocked up a bit on the horse feed. This was one of the few Tractor Supplies around here that refilled propane tanks, so I asked for that service, then waited, and waited, and waited, calling twice to find out what was happening, only to be told, “she’ll be there in a few minutes.” After thirty minutes (I was keeping track), she FINALLY arrived, but not before another customer got tired of waiting and left. Well then she looks at my tanks and decided that she can’t fill one of them because it was outdated, which is not true! I just had it filled, and I know I have another year on it, but I guess in Alabama 9 plus 12 is 20, which is the only way my tank would have been out of date. There was no reasoning with her, and not even a math lecture changed her mind, and I got so mad I grabbed both tanks and sped off. I still had shopping to do, and that half hour was the difference between getting back to camp in daylight or darkness, so I was NOT a happy camper! So I headed to the next Tractor Supply in Talladega, which I had been trying to call all day because they were actually closer to camp, but their phones weren’t working properly and I could never reach them, which is why I didn’t go there in the first place. So I drove another 30 minutes out of my way, glad to see the propane tank, only to learn they were empty! Grrrrr! They also didn’t have the last type of feed (Balancer) that I needed, so it was a complete bust! I left there empty-handed and drove to the Walmart almost right next door, where Lola and I ran through the store quickly getting the few items we needed, but the sun had already gone down by the time we came out. The only saving grace was that I was almost out of diesel in the truck, and they had it for the lowest price I had seen all day, $1.88 a gallon, so I filled up there for less than $60. Then I drove back in the dark, fed the horses in the dark, emptied the groceries in the dark, not happy! Finally I settled down to some ramen noodles for dinner and a movie about Edward Snowden, and now I’m ready to head to shower and bed. Whew! Glad this day is over! Good night, my sweet! Love you!
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