Hi Babe!
Woke up early just as it was starting to rain here, and it ended up raining most of the day. Pistol and I went out to breakfast at a nice little grill she likes, then down to a place called Pet Creations, which had the least expensive hay. Pistol wants some hay for her Halloween hay ride, and Tractor Supply was getting almost $11 a bale! Here we got it for about $8 for coastal, which I guess is typical around here. Couldn’t find any haymakers advertising, so it was the best we could do. Anyway, while we were waiting for the rain to slow down enough to load the hay, we wandered around her shop, where she had lots of critters, birds and fish. She was actually feeding the birds, and it was incredible. Apparently for the first year of a tropical bird’s life, the mother actually feeds it, so now the shopkeeper has to do it until they’re old enough. That entails mixing peanut butter with water and some powder, putting it into a syringe with a small rubber tube on the end, then putting the tube all the down the birds throat and squeezing the syringe. It sounds and looks a little horrifying, but the birds were more than willing, in fact, eager, to have their gullet filled that way. Amazing the things you can learn every day! As the rain started to let up a little, we took a quick trip down to a little family hardware store to get a plastic drop cloth to cover the hay (I forgot to bring my tarp), and chatted with the owners there for a few minutes before heading back. We had to wade through water in the driveway to get to the trailer box that had the hay, and it was still sprinkling, but we managed to get it covered before it got very wet. When we got back to the house, I put my tarp on top as extra protection, glad I did because there were numerous downpours through the day. Happy to report, though, that the sealing job I did on the awning apparently worked, not a drop underneath it, it was dry as a bone, yay! I spent some time on Pistol’s computer, showing her how to use Google Earth and giving her all of my data about horse camps that I have on mine. Then she went to take a nap and I came back and spent the rest of the afternoon and evening holed up in the trailer. The rain eventually stopped late in the afternoon, though the sun really didn’t make it out before dark. Watched a cute movie, have taken my shower, now it’s off to bed! Good night, sweetie! Love you!
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