Arghh communicating with small business owners is so hard

 My homemade hay bunk is failing and I saw a perfect feeder on Facebook Marketplace.   Hope it was not some scammer stealing pictures of someone who actually makes the feeders.  Demanded a deposit of half the price,  which was a bit ughh,  if I flaked out he'd have the feeder to sell to someone else,  but venmo has a bit of buyer protection supposedly, and the design is just perfect for my needs so I sent the deposit.  Now it is the 3 weeks and he is not responding to my queries.   I texted him and will try calling later today.

I may have crossed wires with the nice local mechanic.   I thought he was going to come and get my car to service yesterday.   When he had not shown by the time I was ready to head to work, I texted him and asked if he wanted to wait until the roads were dry.    He texted back that Thursday would work and "no hard feeling on my part".     So I will have to text him again and see if needs me to get the car over there.  I could have done that yesterday, but I thought he had offered to pick it up.   He has done that for other vehicles he has serviced and its really nice not to have to line up a ride back from the shop.  

Abe bucked me off again.

 If I keep him I think I may need to not ride with L for a while, which will be awkward since she has been riding Taj and I'm keeping Taj here.    But I need to stick to only walk and trot for a while with Abe.  One more time of getting me off might tip Abe into being an outlaw, and today he popped a big buck cantering up a hill and I was gone, no chance to do a one rein stop and interrupt the bucking.   I might need to just sell him or find a trainer to see if he can be brought back to being a nice riding horse.  

Such a bummer,  last fall and December riding him, he was so good.  And he stayed good this spring when I was riding with just F and Serena, which was just walk and trot.   I thought I had solved the issue of him getting too amped by keeping him behind Taj for cantering but it didn't work today.   And the bugger doesn't stick around when I hit the ground.   

Working towards getting my trailer tack compartment(s) organized

 I really struggle with keeping things organized.   But the gal that is riding Taj suggested I add some hooks to my little trailers tack compartment and that did get me doing a web search for tips.   I bought a set of hooks and a broom holder dealio.   I'll see if the broom holder works.  It has adhesive but probably also needs to be screwed.   Its such a chore to drill holes in my steel trailers that I try to avoid where possible.  

I saw two pictures of people putting basically cut down cattle panel against a wall and using zip ties etc to hang milk crates, adding carabiner snaps etc.  That looked pretty effective.