Today has been pretty good so far. I gave the boys a day off. It is going to rain some time today. I have been out with the horses and Max has been out of his kennel most of the day. Even the birds have been flying around. The sky is full of big puffy clouds.
It rained last night. I just managed to get everyone fed before the rain came down. I don't like to mow when the grass is wet so I have been out pulling the cockleburs out of the roundpen. I will put weed killer in the center to kill those. But the ones around the edge I have been pulling up. The no seeum gnats have been eating me up. They get really bad around wet sand. The Dressage ring is full of cockleburs too. The expensive grass killer I put out in the spring apparently won't kill them. So I am having a lazy day pulling cockleburs and grass out of the roundpen. I only have about 24 feet left to clear away. Only around the edge.
There are tornado watches until 7 tonight. I've been on the edge of a couple when I lived in Ms. The only thing that saved me one night was the fact that I caught the edge of one and it went longways of the trailer and not broadside. I could feel the floorboards moving under my feet. It hit the corner of the building where I worked and took some barns off their foundations. Our mechanic at work had his double wide torn up. It made a mess of the roads. I rode my horse down the road days later and could see where it stopped blowing down trees. Less than a quarter mile from me and in line with our trailer. I was lucky that night. My ex slept thru it.
I finally had to start exercising today. I have put it off too long. So I have been on the treadmill slowly walking nowhere. I had a gym membership for four years. I took a break and never went back. I really don't need to spend the money for a gym membership so I am using the treadmill I bought for my ex. He took the bowflex with him. I hated that thing. It didn't have the same range of motion as the machines at the gym. So I have some weights and the treadmill and I am trying to get back in shape. I only managed 15 minutes of walking nowhere; but I had it on a really tough program. If I don't do something I won't be able to do the work on this farm and take care of my boys. So I am using the treadmill. I hate walking nowhere.