ROAD TRIP!!!

Monday morning started by grabbing April and hauling her to the vet for a $25.00 glance by the vet in order to procure a health certificate for her trip home to Oklahoma. The crabby old bitty thanked me by flipping out in the trailer when we got back to the farm and breaking yet another trailer tie. You gotta love mares! The DH made sure the truck and trailer were hooked up, fueled up and ready for an early morning departure complete with 3 spare tires and a socket set (?). Tuesday morning's alarm sounded much too early after a sleepless night. How can anybody be expected to sleep with a slightly psychotic cat running around the house in the middle of the night like somebody has shot her full of speed? Then the dog started. click click click went her nails on the awful Pergo flooring. Back and forth to get a drink of water she went. I finally chased her into the oldest tax deductions room and closed her neurotic water drinking ass in there. Ahhh! Sleep at last! And then the damned alarm started screaming. I slither out of my covers while coming to terms with the fact that I will not be putting on makeup and doing my hair like a real person. Jeans, t-shirt (with hole) ponytail and hiking boots and I am good. Pretty? NO Presentable? In some company maybe.



I get over to the farm and it is still dark. As I turn on my geeky little baseball cap light and open the gate, Rent-A-Donkey starts braying. Loudly. I turn to her and damned if she isn't headed right toward me a little too fast and very much a little too pissed off. She had her ears back, her tail up, neck stretched out and was hollering at me at the top of her little pregnant lungs. I would like the record to show that this fat girl can move if given proper motivation and honey, I was properly motivated! As I arrived at April's stall she is too freaked out by my light to move so catching her was a breeze despite the trailer attached to the noisily idling diesel truck. She loaded no problem and off we went to pick up my travelling buddy for the day.



I arrive at Jan's a hair past 7 (well maybe like 30 minutes late, damned snooze button). Out she comes all bouncy and happy down her driveway. She gets to the truck and she has her hair done. And makeup. And her clothes match. And she doesn't have holes. And I think I may have to hate her for looking so neat and perky this early in the morning. Off to Oklahoma we go by way of the first Starbuck's we can find. We had a very chatty and nice ride up to Joleen's with only one potty stop which isn't bad for two caffeinated girls.

Once at Joleen's we unloaded a very confused horse to the great joy of a very happy stallion. No nookie for you Bud! Jan grabbed her high falootin' camera and Joleen proceeded to walk us around to introduce Jan to all her gorgeous horses. Jan got a crash course in color genetics that I am sure sunk in to the point that she could relay it in her sleep. Jan was especially taken with Brunhilda, one of Joleen's splashsabinoframereallypretty horses. Truthfully, beyond sabino I just know that Brunhilda is one cool looking chick. Jan was playing photographer extraordinaire. Just ask her to see the pictures she took. HUH JAN????

After the tour we sat in the grass and played with the quite personable 'Dog' and chatted with Joleen for much too short of a time. Jan and I loaded up and headed back home to the good side of the river before the storms hit. We were both pretty whipped from the day but I know I certainly enjoyed it! Thanks for going Jan!!!!