Wednesday, July 2 2003
9:48 pm
Me & the dogs are on the bed watching my “show” (OLTL) and David is in the shower. I had to take one, too, because the humidity had sweat pouring – okay, trickling – off of me when I was in the field garden, after 8:00 pm. Planted row #4 of corn, right on schedule. Watered a few things and pulled some weeds.
Just after 8:30 saw David in the agility field with a couple of people. He called me over and I met [T] & her daughter, neighbors that live in the house next to [M] & [W]. They are involved in 4H and have 2 dogs into agility. They saw our equipment from the road while on a walk. We had a nice chat, and found out they’d like to have David build some agility equipment. Talked about doing that in exchange for the daughter to “pet-sit” if we go away for a couple days now and then. We’ll see how it works out.
Earlier today [R] & [H] putted over on their ATV, and *took tours of the misc. gardens. They have offered to water and watch over the plants while we’re gone on our trip July 9-19. [R] is very knowledgeable about plants, and especially helpful when it comes to identifying weeds vs. flowers. Turns out I’ve got some work to do in the backyard flower garden…
Also found out some interesting tidbits about our property in general, especially that a road used to run through it, and that we have a Bartlett pear tree.
@ noon, Took the trailer to Mt. Gilead to get licensed, but got the runaround re: the title.
After returning from the trip to Mt Gilead with the trailer, David filled it with water & did some maintenance. Then we backed it into the storage shed, powered up, hit the slide-out, and I vacuumed & started cleaning the cupboards. We took a break together, and that’s when we started talking about taking the trip without the trailer because of all the nights we had planned at other people’s homes.
It was the first time I’ve seen David in such a state of “I can’t believe I didn’t think of that”. Anyhoo, now the plan is to go with just the truck, and bring the tent for the one or two nights we’ll be on the road. Pretty funny that we just changed the plan.
-- The bugs, mostly flies, were annoying today. The horses seem really bothered. Think we’ll buy some fly repellant for Sam & Beanie.
-- Pav has gas and is smelly here next to me on the bed. What else is new.
-- The dogs did really well meeting [R] & [H], and [T] & her daughter.
-- The other day David saw “that damn chipmunk” leap from the pole, up and into the birdfeeder, where he sat munching happily. We took pictures.
-- Called Dad & talked to him briefly about our trip, which I forgot to mention yesterday.
-- It’s 11:00 pm now, time for the evening news.
*took tours of the misc. gardens: In hindsight, crazy idea to get [R] all the way out to the field garden. They were both in their 80's, and she had so much trouble walking in general. [H] went and fetched her cane while I mindlessly led her down the hill and across the bridge and out into the field. What a goofball!
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