It’s MOWING day... all day I think.
Well.... as soon as I get started. :~)
Well, I don’t envy you. I hope to heck it’s cooler there than it is here. We’ve been in the mid-90’s for over a week and the humidity has just been awful too. The horses stand around every evening and almost beg me to spray them with the hose while I’m refilling the trough. Between the 5 of them, they’re making a sizable dent in a 150 gallon tank of water nearly every day and if you run your hand over their bodies they feel like they’ve got plaster of paris sprayed on them, but it’s just salt deposits. I’m really pouring the salt to them too. We’re supposed to get a “cool” front coming through tonight so the temps should drop down in to the low 80’s by the weekend. Brrrrrrr! ;o)
HaveFaith, BladeRider and I are supposed to be going on an organized ride tomorrow with a mounted ministries group up in TN, but I think we’re going to get rained out so we may just get together and have a shopping trip up to the Mennonites instead. I’ve been wanting to go to this harnessmaker’s shop who works in Biothane and see if he can make me a spare breast collar like the one I’ve got. I may see about getting a smaller western girth made than I’ve been able to find in any of the catalogs too, plus I need some more odds and ends like snaps and straps and stuff and they’re much cheaper up there. BladeRider’s been wanting some new saddle bags and I think HaveFaith’s been needing some new horse blankets, so we may just make a day of it. It doesn’t matter if it’s raining when you’re shopping!
Saturday Frog and HaveFaith and I were supposed to go on an organized ride but due to the weather we decided not to chance it. Frog and HaveFaith went to the Mennonites and I stayed home and did yard work. I mowed all the yards and the small pasture and weed eated 3 acres of fence line. I was dead when I finished about 7:00 that night. I think I am getting to old for all that work, at least in one day. Next weekend I need to spray the fence lines with Roundup. Sunday, was indeed a day of rest for me! As it turned out the 60% showers that they projected did not materialize so it would have been a good day for a ride, but I am glad I got all that done.