Thursday, January 25, 2024 – Bookkeeping and Water Fill for Ride This Weekend

Hiya Darlin',
Had a good night sleep, woke up to beautiful weather, did my usual chores and breakfast, then sat out in the screen room and started doing some bookkeeping. Ever since I lost my credit card back in September, I haven't been able to download my account to my bookkeeping program, and it's been a nightmare trying to fix it. I did a workaround, but it needed some help, and neither my savings account (for some unfathomable reason), nor my credit card account was balancing properly, so I had to go way back and research things, make a few adjustments, until finally I was able to get everything balanced. Whew! Then I got caught up on all the transactions since September with receipts, until finally, I was done getting caught up. During the afternoon, I heard from one of the organizers of the big Hokey Pokey ride this weekend, Tom, and he stopped by to drop off some 100 gallon water tanks and to arrange for my help to refill the water tanks along the trail. Evidently the forest service is too short-handed (or they're just passing it off to me, since I'm here anyway), so do that. Only problem is I can't drive their water truck, so I'll have to take mine with my 110 gallon tank, and Tom has another tank about the same size I can use, so hopefully it won't take too many trips. Should be an interesting day on Saturday! Meanwhile, we put the tanks out here, and I spent the next two-plus hours filling them up, as well as scrubbing the usual galvanized tank here at the trailhead just for giggles, so we're set here, except for cordoning off the crew and vet check area, which I'll have to do first thing Saturday morning, or late Friday night, more likely. Finally settled down for dinner and a little TV, a glass of wine, a shower and soon to bed! Good night, baby! Love you!