The day started out with the sun shining. It began to get a bit overcast as I was brushing the horses, in preparation for our farrier Josh’s visit. Pete thought the appointment was at 10 a.m.

He came down to tell me that it was scheduled for 1:30 p.m. So he instead suggested that we go for a ride. I saddled up Hrimmi because I was brushing her. And Pete rode Tyra. I didn’t enjoy seeing Raudi watch us go. She wanted to go with us. This is the problem, having three horses and two riders. I was right in thinking that the trail would not be conducive to ponying Hrimmi, a horse who stops often when the ground is sodden.

The terrain is now mushy – this is a good word to describe it. It’s one step up from punchy.

We should be staying off the trails now because this way the ground can recover. But we had to get out.

We ran into a little bit of a problem coming off Suicide Hill – the ground there is very sodden, and Tyra went into the mud, almost up to her knees. So we did considerable backtracking before heading home, directly taking Raudi’s Raceway instead of Siggi’s Trail.

I was glad to get a ride in before heading on down to the hotel. Kudos to Pete for first meeting with Josh, when of course he did appear at his regularly scheduled time. And Kudos to Pete again for going to get hay. He did dodge the bullet – it was raining when I was driving home from the hotel. It was not raining when he was driving home from our hay dealer’s.

At the hotel – it was a good day. Three really hard-working volunteers showed up, and rather than clean books we restocked the shelves that previously held the books that became waterlogged when the ceiling pipe sprung a leak. There was considerable single-minded intensity of focus going on as we all worked together, as a team, me, Susan, and Alex.

They all left around 4:00 p.m., and I did little things. After, I went to U-Haul and began moving boxes from our little storage unit to our large storage unit. We have to get our books into a single unit before the month’s end so that we don’t have to pay an additional storage unit fee.

It’s all so much to do. I was feeling very overwhelmed before the volunteers came into the hotel. They did so much that I won’t have to go in tomorrow. We may go riding with friends.

That is, if it’s not raining.

Rain is a good thing – the lack of snow has prompted many to say that we’re going to have drought conditions this summer. Truth be known, none of us have any idea what the weather’s going to do. We are living in times of meteorological uncertainty.

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