Wednesday, August 25, 2021 – Ride and Beach with Sandy

Hi Sweetie,
A pretty good night sleep, it seemed a bit cooler, then chores, breakfast, and then Sandy and I saddled up and headed out around 10:00. It rained hard several times during the night, but was all gone by morning, though, of course, all the trees were wet so we got the occasional sprinkling as we went through the woods. Before we left camp, though, Sandy had some kind of problem mounting Apollo, not quite sure what happened but she evidently overshot him and fell off on the off side, bruising her hip a bit. She got back on, of course, and we had a very nice 9.25 mile ride, at just three hours, so it worked out. Apollo has been much more fleet of foot lately, perhaps because of the pad in his shoes and maybe he’s finally gotten over his sore feet from months ago, but whatever it is, he has been much livelier lately. So a very good ride. It was a lot cooler in the woods, so once we got back, it wasn’t long before we put on our bathing suits, grabbed Lola and headed for the beach, where we stayed for nearly four hours. We took our small flotation devices and floated around for quite awhile, which was lovely, then layed out on the grass for a while, reading and napping until after 6:00, when we headed back. I stopped at the water spigot to fill up the barrel, then got to camp where we fed the horses, heated up leftovers from our Irish pub meal yesterday, had a bit of ice cream, watched a movie, then headed to bed. We tried to get the kitchen table down to make into an extra bed, but it was so stuck in place we couldn’t budge it. She learned from last night that it’s too stuffy in her car, too buggy if she opens a window, so she actually slept on the floor of the trailer last night. Tonight she’s going to take a cushion of the dining room bench seat and put that on the floor instead, hopefully that will be more comfortable for her. Anyway, heading to the showers and bed shortly! Good night, darlin’! Love you!

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