August 9, 2010

By the time Emily got up, me and Mamaw had already cleaned up the apples and had our long walk! It’s so hot now first thing in the morning that we try to walk early. And then we’re getting Poppy’s lunch around—the poor guy is WORKIN AGAIN TODAY!

I’m kinda left in the lurch today cause Mamaw wants to do things with Emily and I can’t blame her. They hardly have time to see each other with Emily’s schedule—she has her own horse, Sasha ya know. And she works real hard in the barn cause she works half of Sasha’s monthly expenses off cleaning the barn and feeding and watering the horses. Mamaw says she’s a fine horsewoman.

It’s so hot Mamaw says I’d best stay home where it’s cool in case things would happen so off they went. She said they drove up to Jester Park and then to the horse farm Mamaw is so crazy about. Well, they got there and it was kinda intimidating—cameras watchin every move they made and the gate to the farm locked so they thought they’d best get out of there. And then they drove to the East side of Des Moines across from the Fairgrounds to Hawkeye Tack and Mamaw bought Emily her birthday present. Mamaw likes to buy what the kid really wants you know? She says she’s had enough of putting out money THINKIN she knows what they want just to find out she’s wasted the money. Well, there was a beautiful saddle in there for $1,000 and they got so taken up with that, that Mamaw left the checkbook there.

What a day—they got lost and then were found, she left the checkbook and Hawkeye Tack called to tell her so they had to go back to get it. This time Mamaw didn’t pay any attention to the Goggle directions but actually listened to Emily. No lost and then found this time. Okay—so now the joke on Poppy—they’re gonna tell him that Mamaw wrote a check for the saddle and they have to go pick it up at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. We don’t know if he believes that or not…we’ll just wait and see.

Em wants to go to Applebee’s for dinner so off they go! They got back with LEFTOVERS, (but I fear none for me) and we all just watched TV together, yacked a little and hit the rack. Are ya worried about Mamaw buyin the saddle Poppy? Hope you can sleep okay.