Hey Darlin',
Not a bad night sleep, but did wake up pretty early. Did my chores, had breakfast, then saddled up Flash for our first Otter Creek ride of the year. As always, it was a beautiful ride! We did about 11.5 miles, went down a couple of spur trails that I had never actually been down before, and generally just had a wonderful ride. Flash seemed to be raring to go, we did a lot of gaiting and even some cantering, though I lost my can of bug spray somewhere along the line. Seems to me I did that here another time long ago! Beautiful day! Once we got back, I spent some time in the chat room of Verizon trying to solve a problem, and eventually got out and put up a highline for the boys. Not supposed to, but it's just not right to keep my guys in a standing stall for two weeks! They seemed a lot happier, of course. Just before 6:00, Karen and two of her friends came by and picked me up, and we got into Lowville just in time for the parade marking the opening of their county fair, which is apparently the second oldest fair in the nation. She had already set up chairs, so we had front row seats to the voluminous number of fire departments from throughout the area, a couple of marching bands, horses and wagons, elected officials and, of course, plenty of tractors and business using the opportunity to be a slow moving billboard, not to mention most floats throwing out candy all over the street, getting swept up by kids and grownups alike. After about 90 minutes, we hauled the chairs back to the car, then walked down to the fair to wander and munch on a little junk food and walk through the animal barns. I kept the junk food to a minimum, hoping I didn't eat more than I burned today! Finally got back to camp just before 10:00 (we didn't stay for the fireworks, I think we'd all seen enough of those in our lifetimes!), gave the boys another flake of hay, walked Lola (one other camper came in just as I was leaving), and now am settling down for a cup of tea, a shower, and bed! Hoping I can sleep a little later tomorrow, getting tired of waking up before 6:00! Anyway, it was a lovely and different kind of day, and I was very glad to get back into the saddle. Good news, I haven't taken any pain killers for over a week now, mainly because I haven't been doing anything, but even with the ride and all the walking this evening, I still don't feel the need! Yippee! Hope I feel the same way in the morning! Good night, sweetie! Love you!
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