WoopHoo it is raining

I hope it rains at home too and not just here at work.  Its been so dry.  My ride with P and Hector on Saturday was OK.  I had mis-remembered Table Mountain as being fairly barefoot friendly,  it was rockier than I remembered.  Oh well,  Hector has great tough feet, we were going to go pretty slow anyways cuz he's got some arthritis although I it seemed P had gotten it controlled.

I decided it was not going to rain Sat evening and did a round of weed spraying.   I can't convince myself to ask one of the neighbors to borrow their ATV and use the tow sprayer.   I like just spot spraying where the weeds are, but it means a large segment of the pasture is not going to get any spraying.

Sunday evening I did some trot and canter work on Tanza on the oil pipeline strip.   They packed it down so well it was not really the sandy/deepish footing extra workout I thought it would be but still was a good workout for his cardio system.   When I was walking him home I noticed again how bad the pasture fence is in the lower corner.   I should do a rough patch to make it a bit safer for having our horses out there.   I'll probably have to pay to have good horse fencing put in when its time to to sell the place, but if I did that upgrade now it would take a beating and might not add that much to property value X years in the future.   Thats my theory/excuse for dinking with trying to get trees started and spraying weeds around the place instead of putting in nice fences.  Trees and pasture improvement will take longer and fence replacement would start deteriorating and might not add much value after 5-10 years.

I really should call the neighbors before spraying in their yard

But I've forgotten to call at a decent hour twice now and just gone in when I've been spraying that side of our place and have leftover spray in the backpack.   I do know that they are not opposed to using weed spray as they have used their tow behind sprayer that they let us keep all the time in previous years; I've mixed up spray and ag dye for them out of my stash.     The goats heads are just rampant this year.  Perfect weather for them vs grass and normal weeds I guess.    Since I've gone a bit nuts with the spraying this year when I was in the cam boot and not riding and had to skip my endurance event I do not want dad and Toby bringing burrs over from there and reseeding our yard.

Plus they are great neighbors so I want to do them a good turn and help them eliminate the nasty burrs.  But I know I really should coordinate so they know to ask the kids to avoid spot X for a couple hours after I spray and so on.  

I am excited/nervous to meet P and Hector to ride tomorrow.   Nervous mainly because meeting at 8:30 to beat the heat and possibly pm storms and I always worry that I'll oversleep or not be 100% safe driving in my early morning brain fog.   But it will be fun to ride with company again.  I'm trying to mix it up and not wear out my welcome with B and her friends.  

Sis and her SO will here the following weekend.   I keep wanting to just impulsively go up to a ride in northern WY on the 28th and remembering "oh I can't, fandamily"   Its probably just as well, that drive saps my energy so badly and there is a local ride the first week Aug on Fri/Sat I'm planning to attend.   But reminding me that I need to make sure I'm living my life and not putting too much time and money into trying to be super awesome to family to point of resenting them.  They've had my back when needed, vs. just being constant takers but they sure don't put their lives on hold just to help me out.

Had a great weekend in WY

So sweet of B to invite me to join the group camping and riding up there last weekend.   I rode Tanza 4 times in 3 days.   We rode in a bit of rain on Saturday, and saw a huge bull moose which made it worth it.   B's horse is the energizer bunny.  He is 18 and was like 'come on Tanza' on Sunday when the 6 week layoff was catching up to Tanza and he was wanting to just take it easy.

My ankle was fine for riding.  YAY.   I was pretty protective of it for stepping in and out of my trailer and had the brace for walking on the rough ground.   I am going to have to up my camp cooking game with this group or make sure to bring liquor.   They do actual cooking of good meats when they camp.   My fave thing about endurance is that the ride usually provides the main meal so I don't have to plan it and when I go with sis, she likes to camp cook and at most I will bring some meat.

I actually brought steaks for this weekend but they had so much good food that I only had them cook my hot dogs since no one would have wanted the 2nd steak.  I had thought they were staying sunday night but they pulled out about noon, then B and I got going about 1:30,  we had ridden longer, had shorter drives home.   So I cooked the steaks on the gas grill at home and microwaved the last 2 ears of corn on the cob we had in the freezer for Sunday supper and dad and I got to eat well.

And I sprayed weeds Sunday night, Mon, Tues. and 2 rounds Wed morning.   Skipped today because it was breezy and I 'thought' we were having a meeting at work that they had wanted me to participate in.    No meeting happened, grrr, but there is more to life than weed spraying.

TIme to read books instead of social media on web

I go for the web stuff especially in summer because I don't want to get wrapped up in a good book and punt on doing yard work or riding.   But I am very cranky lately towards people posting any kind of "I don't do politics on weekends anymore", or "reading novels just for entertainment is a waste" or "my long laundry list of tasks completed today is"     Mainly I'm cranky because while I have been pecking away on something or other for yard improvement or routine housework the list of things I think should be done is so much longer than what I get done.