Summary of the last few weeks. Rather than bore anyone with the mundane of our ordinary lives at home, here it is in a nutshell: Non-stop Doctor’s appointments, shopping, yardwork, chores, sewing, and loading up the RV. We finally got started back on the road today. We had planned on getting up just before 7:00, but I accidentally set the alarm for just before 6:00, which we didn’t actually mind, because we had gone to bed so early, and we wanted to get out so much, we jumped out of bed and started getting ready to go. We were headed up the driveway just after 8:00. We had one stop in McMinnville at the Farmer’s Coop to pick up some heavy duty wormer (Hubby’s worried his horse is getting too thin, and thinks it might be worms), and considering how many horses they were around in Charlotte last month, better safe than sorry. We usually worm them twice a year (per our vet), but Hubby’s been reading up on worming and wants to increase the schedule, which is fine by me. Next we grabbed gas at the new Kroger station and breakfast at Burger King, before heading out to Dale Hollow State Park, just over the TN/KY border. This is one of those manmade lakes that TVA built to provide electricity to everyone living in the sticks (including us!), and there’s a lot of very nice parks around the edges of the lake. We arrived right around noon, checked in, and headed out to the horse camp. There are three loops that are all campgrounds that allow horses, but the only accommodation they provide are several hitching rails in each loop. There really aren’t even enough trees within the campground to use for a highline. Fortunately the loop is surrounded by woods, so we found a couple of trees in there to set them up. The only problem is it’s on a hill, so the bobos will just have to stand at a slant while we’re here! The site we reserved had a really short driveway, so we really couldn’t fit in without seriously blocking the driveway, but the site next door (#7) had a longer driveway, plus we could angle the truck a bit so that it would just about be clear of the road. We called the office (cellphone service is fair, but seems to be on an extended and even roaming service) and confirmed we could move to #7, so gradually we got everything set up. It’s a typical state park, though, with highly manicured lawns and groomed camping areas, with a bathhouse that doubled as a tornado shelter. Pretty quiet though, there were a couple of campers (sans horses) in the loop, but they left before the end of the day, and just one other camper came in, a long livestock trailer that was also sans horses. We did see a couple of riders go by, though, so we know there are other campers with horses here in the next loop over. Had to park the horse trailer in the middle of the loop, next to our neighbor’s boat, because the sites themselves are too small, and not very level. Hubby missed the mark a little setting up the RV, we were balanced left to right, but we have a pretty serious list to the front. We were too tired to worry about it, though, we just wanted to relax as much as we could. We had replaced most of our hoses with those new little Pocket Hoses “As seen on TV” while we were home, and I wanted to put the automatic waterer on the horses water tub so we would have to drag it up the hill all the time, and to keep it full and heavy enough to prevent the horses from kicking it down the hill, but of course the old hose that was left on there had become all corroded, so it took some effort and a little heat to finally break that loose. Eventually, though, we got the system worked out and set up. We even brought out the lounges and sat under the awning for a while. The weather is simply perfect, not a cloud in the sky and only in the low eighties, with lows in the low 60’s, couldn’t ask for better. Plus these sites all have 50 amp service, so we should have everything we need here, including air conditioning when the temps heat up over the next few days. Of course, being a state park, it’s a bit more expensive than we usually like to pay (including an extra one time, $2 charge per horse), but it does have all the mod cons, and we’ve had such a busy winter and spring, we’re not going to worry about a few extra bucks here and there. I’m sure we’ll make up for it by spending time in a national forest somewhere, where we can get the Golden Passport rate of about $2.50 a night : -) Anyway, we finally got everything settled in, then crashed for the rest of the day, determined to be rested enough to ride tomorrow. A cocktail, a shower, dinner, a movie, a brandy, and off to bed, our usual evening routine, SO glad to have a new back yard to look at!
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