Hi Babe,
Got up early with the alarm this morning, making sure I told Jeff we needed to get out of here by 10:00. I had everything packed and ready to go by 9:45, only had to wait for him to get/do a few last second things, which, of course, dragged on, and on. It was more like 10:50 by the time we finally headed out. Sigh... Anyway, it was a beautiful day and we had a nice drive up, but when we arrived, I was surprised because I had specifically asked if there were trees we could highline the horses on (and thus didn't bring my portable fence), but the only few trees we could find were right by the roads in there, so it was a matter of parking by the side of the road and highlining them in a tiny space between the trailer and the trees. Did not like that! Eventually, we made a daring move. There was a hill about ten fee high where there was a large pile of windrow (apparently this whole area HAD been trees, but they recently cleared it, and the pile was at the top of this hill.) Well the slope seemed just safe enough for us to drive up it, which I did, and we managed to park on top. There's a small clump of trees left where we put up our tents, and I strung the highline from the trailer to one of the trees in the pile, which worked just fine. The only trouble here is that there are a couple of sections of really soft sugar sand, and I almost got stuck once, but there more ground cover closer to the road, so I'm being careful to stay on that side. I took a quick run out to the grocery store for a couple of things, then had a glass of wine before going over to the dairy barn for Open Mic night, where after a series of musical numbers and cowboy stories, I jumped up to do Man from Snowy River. I'd been working on that for the last couple of weeks, and I thought I had it down pretty good, but you know how it goes the first time in front of the audience. I had my cheat sheet in front of me, and I ended up having to use that a couple of times, but I think it went over well. All dedicated to you, my love! If you had been here, I know you would have done it instead! Anyway, that went on for several hours, then Jeff and I headed back to camp, lit a bonfire to warm up before going to bed, drank some more wine (Jeff was drinking like a fish, I suspect he'll be in not great shape tomorrow morning), and finally retired to write and read before turning the lights out, which I'm about to do now. Love you, babe, good night!
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