Hi Sweetie!
Another great night sleep, which usually happens after a nice busy day like yesterday, sleeping late was a wonderful luxury. After breakfast, I saddled up Flash and headed down to where the two Janes and Pat were, and they weren’t quite ready yet, so I came back to the trailer and started to work on putting on my MTRA stickers. I’m not much of a joiner, but this is one group of which I’m proud to say I’m a member! I got the Michigan Trail Horse sticker on before the gals showed up, so I abandoned it and we went off. Pat was anticipating a few minor problems with her Icelandic, so we left ahead of the other two, and it wasn’t long before her horse, Bree, settled down and we were off! We headed north on the Shore to Shore trail, which seems to be about the only decent way out of camp, but it’s a nice ride through the forest for quite a ways. We passed a couple of other riders (my neighbors Doug and his gal), and just as we reached the rode, the two Janes caught up with us. We stayed on mostly roads until we reached Dollar Lake, which was a good watering spot, then made a nice loop around the whole lake, then back toward camp. We ran into one very rude ninja dirt biker who was all miffed because we were on the road (actually, that section of road was ALSO part of the horse trail), and was very obnoxious when we tried to explain that horses have the right of way. Anyway, for some reason, after that, Flash got a little excited (it could have just been that we were heading back to camp), but he started doing his little dancing canter in place, so eventually I asked to go in front, and when I finally hit a road, I let him loose. He ran for a quarter mile, then I turned him around and headed him back, again and again, until he finally seemed to let off enough steam to walk into camp calmly. He gets a bit frustrated walking all the time, so it doesn’t hurt to let him run and really get some exercise. Once we got back and I put him up, I finished off putting on the MTRA numbers, then had to fix the back end of the trailer. For the last few days, I haven’t been able to shut the right back door, and found that the reason why was that a piece of metal framework had come loose from the frame and was getting in the way, so I found a screw and tried to pin it down. The screw succeeded in pushing out the rivet that was broken in there, so I got out the rivet gun and put in a new rivet, and that solved the problem, good as new! Time to feed Flash, and by then, Gale the camp host and Jimmy, another board member, had arrived, and we chatted for a few minutes. Then I made myself dinner, watched a Big Valley, then carried my chair over to where the girls were, but they weren’t there, so I ended up chatting with Bob, Jeff B’s uncle and his wife for a bit. Got back to the trailer, read for awhile, now I’m ready for shower and bed! Good night, my darlin’! Love you!
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