Monday, August 13, 2012

Second Weekend in August - Wrap-Up

Thursday night it rained, got nearly 3 inches of rain in just a few hours. The lightning was pretty awesome, too. I brought them in to feed, left them in until around 9. It did rain again, but the lightning was far off. It rained again on Friday, but cleared up for the weekend. I put extra hay in the run-in shed.

The weatherman was again calling for rain on Saturday, but it never materialized at our place. We had planned on doing some chores that could be done in the rain, but turned out to be a beautiful day. And he finished mowing all of the grass; front, back, side, pasture – everything. Max helped out with this, too.

On Sunday we went for a ride at Schaeffer Farm Park. We really like this place, and it is well maintained, too. After the horrible storm on June 29 there have been extensive clean-ups everywhere. This park is no exception. The amount of downed trees, big, big trees, is tragic.

There are also lots of ‘dry’ water crossings. Some of these bridges or boardwalks are only about 2 feet wide. Most have wire mesh tacked on them, too, so they are not slippery for the bikes. KC got on every single one of them. One was so flimsy that it definitely bowed under our weight and when Skip came across it, the bridge sort of flipped and scrapped his shank.

We love this park, but the bikers are not as courteous as in other parks. Some don’t give any eye contact as they zoom past. They’re in denial that we are even there. Our boys are fine with bikes, but do the bikers really know that? KC was on his best behavior, although when we first started out he wouldn’t stay on the trail and ran both my knees into trees. Eventually he woke up, got with the program and was a model prisoner. We had nice long canters through the soy bean fields, and we did let them eat the beans. I think this is stealing.

When we were going through the parking lot back to the trailer, a biker was sitting on his truck’s tail gate, eating a bag of peanuts. KC went directly to him, practically demanded the peanuts! The guy gave him two palm-fuls, how sweet is that! What a beggar!

Note to self: buy more Nutter-Butters.

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