Hey Darlin'!
What a day! Up before dawn, out the door before the sun came up, and never stopped running the whole day! Hard to describe all the activity today, it was pretty much non-stop all day. After doing the preliminary setup at the trailhead, I rush out to start checking the signs, and was astonished that the place where the signs had been sabotaged was even WORSE this morning. Someone had completely removed the HORSE sign, took out the Bikers signs, folded it so my arrow couldn't be seen, drew in an arrow pointing in the opposite direction, and placed it once again in a spot that would have directed the bikers up the horse trail. Unbelievable! I had to make a new Horse sign, and fortunately had a broken stake I was able to make work, and fixed the biker sign so it was back to normal, and fortunately, that stayed through the day and no riders got lost at all. We had some trouble with hikers because I didn't put one sign out on the hiking trail that sent them in the right direction, mainly because I thought my supervisor was going to lead the hikers, but he never went out for some reason. We had a little chaos in the pavilion because we didn't have anyone to introduce the presentations, and thus organize the hiking group (though I thought that would be taken care of by the forest people), and we were a bit shorthanded with me out running around in the woods fixing signs and delivering food, then later helping hikers get back on track. But we had well over 200 people attend, though it will be awhile before we have the final numbers, and the raffle evidently did well, too. All of the horse folks seemed happy except one woman who claimed the entire orange short trail was knee-deep mud (it wasn't), but I was told this woman always complains about everything, so I pretty much ignored it after that. I don't mind constructive advise, but I know there were only a few wet spots on that trail, and if her horse doesn't like mud, tough. It's a forest with wetlands, what do you expect? Anyway, we had dozens of horse trailers, and had to use a neighbors field for overflow, the turnout was great, most folks enjoyed it, so I would say it was a resounding success. We cleaned up the trailhead afterwards, and you would never know we were even there! We were finished by just after 5:00, I dropped off Art who helped me with the final cleanup, then got back to camp. We had a full campground, so I walked by and met everyone, then came back and all but crashed. I'm the only one who has anything left to do, I need to go out tomorrow and get all the signs and markers down in the UTV. Art offered to come with me, so I'm hoping we can get it done fairly quickly, though it will still take a couple of hours at least. I'm ready for bed here shortly! Exhausted, but satisfied, and glad that the asshole trying to screw us up didn't succeed! Good night, babe! Love you!
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