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Well, this is going to be a quickie update because I need to get a shower and some fresh clothes and some blankies and some bottled water and a book and a flashlight so that I can drive back to Hall's and sleep in my car and babysit the IRH tonight while she is camping out in the field. We went on the Hall ride today and that went quite well. We're riding the horses home (twelve miles, give or take) tomorrow morning. If all goes well I should be done by mid-afternoon. The Hall ride went well. I did say that, right? It went well. It went quite well. It went well enough that I am optimistic about riding the horse twelve miles alongside the hard road tomorrow to get her home from the ride. (We are not riding home for hardship reasons. We are riding home because the IRH needs to practice riding along the road and, well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Plus, y'know, how often do I get to sleep in my car?) Anyway, it went well. If I don't die on the way home tomorrow, you'll get a play-by-play with some general enthusiasm on that front when I get done.

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sara_merry99: I haven't seen Meatly in person since the baby pictures I took. Reports from a week or so are that she's doing well. (She lives in a field twelve miles from the IRH, down twisty back roads and I generally get lost going there which is why I haven't seen her lately. She's not dead and they'd tell me if she was. Since I don't ride horses with babies alongside, she may as well be outstanding in her field at least until the baby is weaned. If nothing else, I'm getting some good mileage on the IRH in the meantime... might as well make the best of what can't be helped.)