Hi Sweetie,
Had a weird night sleep, had trouble for some reason, but finally managed to sleep through to 7:30, which seems to be becoming my normal time to wake up these days. I went around to move and feed the horses, but discovered the next paddock had two gates that were both bad, one was completely off the hook, so I had to take the time to repair those before I did anything else. It was a good learning experience, though, and once I figured out how to do it, it only took a few minutes to take care of it. Once that was done, I finished feeding the horses (though I tightened a few more gates while they were eating), pulled some more weeds, which I’ve learned are ragweed, and they’re apparently annuals, so I’m trying to pull out as many as I can so it doesn’t get worst next year. Finally got back and had breakfast, then got busy with a bunch of other little chores. I went out to put some arrows up on a few intersections of the trails nearest camp, but since I only have a few I didn’t get very far. On the way back in, I noticed the gate out to the trails had a loose clamp on it, which explains why the thing drags so much, so I decided to fix that too. I had to get some tools, then I was trying to raise the gate with the bucket on the tractor, and finally managed to get that done, so now it works much better. Unfortunately, as I was backing away from the gate, I ran into a water spigot, and that started a geyser of water. Fortunately, since I had mapped all the water valves a week or so ago, I knew exactly where the shutoff was, so I only had to turn off a few spigots along that stretch of paddocks, which no one is using now anyway, and there was a coffee can full of spare spigot parts in the shed, so it didn’t take me long to get it all fixed back up and turned back on again. Not long after that I was heading out to go shopping in town, picking up hot dogs and buns and drinks and chips and ice for the gathering tomorrow. Don’t know how many people are coming, but we’ll have plenty of food. Plus I’m planning on riding in the morning with one of the campers here, a woman who I met on the OTL. She was on her way to an event at Doe Lake, but was having some tire issues and decided not to press her luck, so she stopped here. Had a couple of non-equestrian campers come in, too, so I had to check them in. Finally was able to settle in for the evening, be soon in the shower and up to bed, so good night, my darlin’! Love you!
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