Meadow Lake in the fall

First I've left Salmon Arm the 22nd. I only have one and a half months left in Canada so I better use them well and ride as much as possible, do caws and get miles on April.

I drove the 1 220 km straight on my own with my devoted little red car and iphone. It took us from 5.00am to 9.30pm (15h and a half because of the time difference) one coffee, one tea, a little less than 2 tanks of fuel (75$ roughly) and a lot of music ! the weather was really good (except some expected fogg in the BC rockies), the construction sites pretty empty (at 7am in the middle of nowhere that's not magical but still good), moose and deers behaved themselves too.

So I arrived quite exhausted but relieved at Leonard's in Meadow Lake. His house is small, quiet and closer too town 10-15min. The plan is to bring April (Yes, I'm spoiled :-) ), ride her (getting slower and more collected gaits, rope, more cow work) and some other horses (tall Spider and freaky Spirit), help Leonard in whatever he's doing (so far bringing in wood and driving him around to look at trucks - but he found one so that job is over), hunt and learn too shoot with a riffle. so we'll see how things go.

So far :

truck bought, needs fixing and adjusting to Leonard's taste

got a shooting lesson in the living room about the basics (loading, checking, holding and pointing a riffle)

rode Spider once, April twice (at Marilyn's) and Bandido once to move back Kelly's dry cows to George's to get pregchecked there today.

April isn't with me for now because we need hay (she'll be in a pen) from Marilyn first. With no truck (problem solved now) and no brakes on the flatdeck (Howard's actually), it's postponed untill those are fixed and running. And on top of that, Marilyn had to organise a funeral and all the mess going around such joyfull events in Prince Albert. So she was away for a week more or less.

So no worry April (just in case you were bored of hanging around a hay bale with your friends watching cars go by), we are getting there someday ! and being involved in cowy adventures with a not so sane rider. :-)

I also was requested to watch cayote and moose hunts video. So now, I know what RID (Rabit In Distress, what else?) sounds like and how you're supposed to use a decoy. ...