Hey Sweetie!
A good night sleep, got more chores done, had a few words with the non-horse camper next to me this morning. First time he hasn’t left before the sun came up, and he was surrounded by a plethora of horse trailers. One livestock trailer was even parked diagonally in front of him, since is was very crowded and not a lot of parking space left. So I said to him, maybe now he understood why he shouldn’t be camping in a horse trailer area, and he looked at me and said, What do you mean? Not the brightest bulb in the closet, I guess! Anyway, I pointed out that horse people have only a few places they can go, where he and his tent and little boat could go anywhere. He finally got the point, and packed up and left. I figured he would just move over to some other spot in the campground, but he left entirely. Maybe that was his plan all along. Whatever, afterward I saddled up Flash and headed out with a pland that was supposed to cover pretty much every trail that I missed this week, but managed to miss a turn and screwed that up. That’s okay, I’m staying a couple extra days and get the rest done on Monday. We ended up doing just over 19 miles, in just over four hours. Not a bad pace! We ran into a whole parade of jeeps, evidently they’ve recently opened up some of the trails to multi-use, including motorized vehicles, but they were nice enough to stop and let me pass. I ran into some more (or maybe part of the same group) at the primitive campsite where they have a water trough. Last time I came through here, there was a coffee container in the trough which I though might be for dogs to use (and we did!), but I figured out that it’s real purpose was to prime the pump. I tried to pump some more water into the trough and quickly learned that wasn’t happening without priming it, so I did that and finally made it work. We got back before 2:30, and then I spent the better part of an hour tweezing out burrs on Flash’s fleece saddle cover. It’s not that there were that many burrs out here, but that I had accumulated a LOT of burrs over time. I can’t even remember the last time I did that, it could have been years ago. I think I have burrs from every state I’ve ridden in during the last couple of years, all kinds of different ones! I put Flash out on a line that was anchored, hoping to train him to be able to graze like that without hurting himself, but there was one time he managed to get the rope around his back foot and got a little excited, but I was right there and I got him out of it before any damage was done. Apollo understands this system very well, but Flash seems to be having some problems grasping it. I’ll keep trying, hopefully he’ll get it after awhile, and without damage. Finally finished all my afternoon jobs, put Flash away, fed them, fed me, watched a little TV, won’t be long out of bed, since I have to get up early and meet Jane and Bob, our friends from Ohio, who we haven’t seen in quite some time. Signing off, saying good night, my darlin’! Love you!
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