Thursday, June 15, 2022 – Firmed Up Marker Plan, More Paddocks Mowed

Hello My Love!
Well, the day started out not very well. I had a terrible night sleep because I was so livid with the fact that our local FWC guy, who is ostensibly the overriding law enforcement guy here, showed up unannounced, uninvited and unwanted, and started harassing my campers, including giving out two tickets to a father/son pair that had been the model of cooperation, quiet, cleanliness and all the things I really appreciate in campers. They were helpful and friendly with their neighbors and as far as I was concerned, ideal campers. But along comes this LE guy, well, I don’t want to get into the details, but his behavior was strictly harassment, and it totally spoiled the nice, friendly, quiet atmosphere we’ve enjoyed out here all week. His issuing two tickets two folks in that manner was just uncalled for, and left a very negative feeling amongst everyone else here. Just when I was getting back into a positive place after that father/daughter couple made everything so tense, now we’re back at it again because of this. Anyway, I only slept a few hours and not surprisingly, woke up cranky. Took awhile to get going this morning, then James called and said he was coming out to chat, which was good because I had some things I wanted to discuss about the permanent post markers, but of course, we had to talk about the LE guy as well, as well as the issues with the well pump. Suffice to say he also thought the LE guy was over-aggressive, and to my mind, so arbitrary, considering the number of times I’ve asked him to write tickets for much more egregious infractions which he refused to do, and often refused to even show up. Grrrrr! Anyway, it was a good meeting, and it now looks like I’ll have ALL the materials I need to finish the trail marking system within two weeks! Yay! No half measure, which I was worried I would have to do, but it looks like we can do it once and forget about it, yay! I ended up trying to read in the afternoon, but kept falling asleep, watched a little TV, then had dinner.early. After dinner I hopped on the tractor and mowed a few more paddocks, the ones with the worst ragweed infestation, plus pulled out a bunch by hand, so I’m hoping I have a handle on it now. Fed the horses, did my rounds, where I got another earful about the harassment by the FWC guy, finally got back home at 8:00. Took a long, cool shower, watched an hour of TV, now I’m off to bed! Good night, my darlin’! Love you!