pardon my superstition

Technical difficulties were due to buying a Galaxy tab in hopes of posting every night from the road. Big mistake...

Anyways, returned it, back to square one. I will have a cell phone. As far as technology, that's it. Perhaps I will write better with pen and tiny notepad? Whenever I have access, I'll post. Hopefully often! Oh yes, and a digital camera. That requires a charger though, more weight... phone charger, also more weight... if I can figure out how to load pics from the cell phone to the blog, I might ditch the camera. Regardless - there will be pics! Must have pics!!

The house is empty and clean. Truck loaded with hay. Trailer tack room loaded with feed. Trailer cleaned out and ready for Butch's journey to west Texas. I'm about to clean and oil the saddle before bed. (House will stink of neatsfoot oil...) Then, packing up this laptop and that will be it for posting until - hopefully - the first stop in a town or at a house with access.

Butch has had too much time off while I've been running around. He's lost some tone. He was so beat after carrying the full load for only a little over a mile, that after he rolled in the round pen, instead of getting up he lay there and fell asleep! He didn't break a sweat though, so it's just the load that's tiring him, using new muscles. We will need to start verrrrry slow. Maybe 5 miles the first day, 7 the next two, then 9, then rest. We'll see how it goes.

Not saying any more due to superstition... Bye all, til the next post...