Quiet Summer Day

If I could ever find batteries, I would be able to show you our exciting news. Pictures speak louder than words in this case. Until then, I’ll keep you in suspense.

Because of the intense heat, I haven’t really done anything except fill water tanks and try to hide in the house. We did make a run last night. I found some water totes on Craigs List that were a good deal so we hopped into the non-air conditioned old Ford and puttered on down to pick them up. Mike wants to use them while we are on our yearly (and much needed) vacation to the Black Hills. He’s afraid that if we have weather like we’ve been experiencing, that the tanks will run dry before we can get home and neither of us want to ask someone else to lug hoses to tanks and sit there watching tanks slowly fill. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the weather will be cooler and we won’t have to worry about any of it. Power of Positive Thinking!

Queen has really perked up in the last few days. I let the fillies out on the road pasture and put Queen in with. Queen loves being surrounded by these little girls. It’s so nice to watch her and see the delight. I feel bad that I had to keep her away from the fillies for so long.

We are getting a break from the oppressive heat today. Thank you Mother Nature. I always freak out in the winter time about the weather but I don’t seem to as much in the summer (unless it’s a storm). I don’t want to complain too loudly about the heat because in six months I’ll for sure be complaining about the bitter cold. I guess that’s what makes us hardy (or crazy). I don’t know how long we’ll have this break. I caught word on the radio that the heat will return tomorrow and bring storms.

I’m hoping next weekend will be cooler so we can return to working on the open front/leanto/call it what you want building. We started working on it months ago and the project stalled out with everything else going on. I can’t believe that it’s already mid-July and I’m nowhere near getting everything accomplished that I thought I would get done.

The herd has been hanging out in the leanto or the shade this past week. I haven’t spent much time with the horses to tell you any stories. Hopefully tonight I’ll be able to tell you at least one of my exciting bits of news or possibly yet another adventure.