Hi Babe,
Not the best night sleep, but woke up with the alarm because the first thing on my agenda was a virtual visit with my knee surgeon, everything’s coming along fine, next visit is three months from now. Got the horses and Lola and me fed, then I went looking for Anthony, but he hadn’t come back from Nashville, so I grabbed a trash bag and my picker-uppers and started cleaning up the trash that was strewn everywhere. What a mess this last group made! Evidently there were a lot of law enforcement types, and while I support our men and women in blue, I must say that this group earned the moniker ‘pig.’ I never saw some much trash piled up, nowhere near a trash container! Anyway I did that for a few hours, got most of it done, though there are a still a few corners I need to revisit. Still no sign of Anthony, so I decided to take a ride and see what kind of shape the trails are in. I fastidiously planned a route, only to have it go bust on many occasions when the markings on the trails, and even the trails themselves, were not match anywhere. I’d forgotten how steep and rough so many of the trails here are, very challenging! I put on Flash’s new boots and they were perfect, and Flash worked his butt off today! After six months on flat sandy trails, this was a really tough day for him! All over the trails we kept finding yellow caution tape strung everywhere, though I’m sure it was for the jeep or dirt bike people, because there was very little in the way of downed trees. Well, I take that back, there are several areas where the trees are down and evidently have been for some time, so some trails have been permanently rerouted, except some of the old markers are still out there, so naturally the confusion caused some misdirection. I would LOVE to refurbish all the trail markers and do a new map, one that clearly distinguishes between the motorized vs. the horse trails. There were so many mismatched markers it was hard to figure out what trail I was on, much less what trail I was SUPPOSED to be on! It would take some time, but it would certainly be worth doing. Anyway, we finally got back to camp around 5:00, and I stripped down Flash to his bridle, then hopped on bareback and headed for the creek. He was hesitant, but I eventually got him in pretty deep. Not enough to swim, but I didn’t want to push him, it took me long enough just to get him belly deep! Afterwards I fed them, played with Lola in the water for awhile, even bringing my chair down to sit in the creek for a bit, and finally got everything settled for the evening. Hopefully I’ll find Anthony in the morning, I have so many questions to ask about the trails, and to find out what he wants me to do as his volunteer force. So I’m off to shower and bed! Good night, honey! Love you!
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