Hi Babe!
Had a better night sleep, woke up with a 7:30 alarm, and after chores and breakfast, got Flash saddled up to go ride with Rod and Nancy, my new neighbors from last night. I was down there a little after 9:00, as we had decided to go early because of a forecast calling for temps in the high 80’s. We managed to get on the trail by about 9:30, started out on the Shore to Shore trail heading north, then eventually left that and meandered around a bit. Nice woods, but nothing too exciting. At one point we headed cross country for awhile, but that petered out and we headed back to the road, and the Shore to Shore, and camp. Less than six miles, but it took nearly two hours. Needless to say, they have quarter horses, but Flash was really good about staying with them, even when we were out front. Not a bad ride, just really short by out standards. When I was downloading the route onto Google Earth, I noticed that they have some trails marked out, so I’ve planned a route following them, a bit over ten miles, which I’ll try on my own tomorrow. Once I got back, I tried to nail down UPS on my package, and finally did get a new password so I could log onto their website, something I haven’t been able to do in nearly a year, but I decided to wait to see if the driver was able to delay his delivery until after the post office opened, and lo and behold, he did! I got a text that it was delivered just after 1:00. I called the post office and they confirmed my box was there, so I headed over there. I decided to take a different route, with a lot more gravel road, and it was okay to get to the post office. I got my package and headed back, following an alternative route, and the one that Google maps had suggested, and what a mistake THAT was! There was a quarter mile that Google announced was called “Country Road”, but it turned out to be nothing more than an OHV trail! I almost didn’t make it through! Lots of sand, very deep, pretty narrow, and my wheels were spinning, but I kept moving, and managed to JUST make it! Whew! Adrenaline got going on that one! Made it back to camp, opened my box and got busy. First job was to replace the doggie screen door, Lola managed to break the plastic a while back, and of course, it was aging, too, so it was necessary. I also ordered a new fence charger, the old one quit awhile back, but the one I ordered didn’t have a battery, because the battery was still good on the old one and I was going to use that one. Wouldn’t you know, I couldn’t find the old charger to save my life! I cleared out every compartment, every drawer, everywhere I could think of looking for the darn thing and couldn’t find it. I even climbed up to the attic thinking I might have put it up there for some reason, though I couldn’t think why I would. Of course, while I had the ladder down I had to beat on it a few times to try to straighten it out, not sure it helped, but I got out some frustration with my rubber hammer! I finally decided that I must have just gone on a cleaning frenzy and threw out the old charger with the battery still in it, but that just doesn’t seem like me. Finally, I took one last look in the basket on the breakfast counter, which I had already done twice already, and there I found the battery. I can’t understand why I didn’t see it the first two times I looked, but it made more sense than me throwing it away! Anyway, that wasted some time, but at least I was able to get the battery installed. Now I have to charge it up by either leaving it in the sun for three days, or with an electrical outlet for 8-10 hours, so I’m going to try to do both. Have it plugged in and in the sun until it’s charged. Or I just might put it on the cell phone charge, that might work for eight hours too. The old one didn’t have the AC option, so I really like that feature. Anyway, it was a nice day, albeit fairly hot, but comfortable in the shade, we had a nice ride, and I got a lot done. Couldn’t ask for more than that out of life! Settled down for the evening to the sound of rolling thunder (once again, the forecast was WAY off!), followed by a good hard shower, then cooler temps and a few more hours of sunshine before dusk. Ready for shower and bed! A good day! Good night, sweetie! Love you!
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