Hi Sweetie,
Woke up before the alarm this morning, which I had set because I had an appointment to pick up hay this morning. Thanks to Karen, who I picked up first, we went to a hay barn behind the Tractor Supply run by Mennonites and picked up 20 bales at $4.00 a bale, best price I've seen yet! Looks like nice hay. I only needed 12 bales, but Karen needed the rest, so we picked that up and headed home, with a stop at Millers, which is a nice little farm store and meat market, with their own processing plant next door. Karen made my buy a donut, and the proprietress threw in a little cruller kind of thing, and OMG, they were fantastic! I only took one bite of each and decided to save the rest until later when I would make some coffee, just because they go so well together! Dropped off Karen and her hay, then put my hay away, including some under the gooseneck, so I had to get the skirting out since we have so much rain in the forecast. All that was done by 10:30 (see how much I can get done when I get up early?), then I did a few things on the computer before I finally saddled up Apollo for a 4.6 mile ride with Lola. We stayed mostly on the wide trails, but was sorry so much of it was on Confusion Flats, which is where they've laid down a lay of pea gravel, which I learned they just did about a year ago. At one point, just to get off the gravel, we took one of the renegade trails, and it took us exactly where we wanted to go without adding nearly the mileage if we had diverted the way I was going to. Anyway, it was a lovely ride, Apollo seems to really be getting fitter, he's walking faster, and at one point, when he got frustrated with a little mud bog we were going through, he actually broke into a canter to escape it faster! That's the second time this weeks he's gone into a canter, he's acting younger all the time! Good horse! It was another beautiful day as well, the weather has been just perfect. Once we got back to camp, I spent some time re-sanding their stalls to freshen them up a bit, then made my pot of coffee and enjoyed my donuts. It wasn't long before it was suppertime, and just as I was finishing feeding my horses, my neighbor Jane (and Neil) came over to ask me about my solar panel, and we ended up chatting for a bit. After finishing with the horses, I walked over and sat by the fire for awhile and we had a lovely evening socializing. Came back, did my dishes, now I'm ready for shower and bed! Good night, my darlin'! Love you!
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