Errands and coping

Carol's Tuesday morning flight from Munich to Washington DC was cancelled, so she decided to reroute through Denver.

I picked her up at the airport after work. Instead of going straight home, we stopped at Senor Rics for drinks, queso and lots and lots of talk.

As luck would have it, I was not have to work the next day. However, I did have a full schedule of errands, some of which were not optional and also not fun. I apologized to Carol and told her she was not obligated to spend the day with me.

She was having none of that. 

"We'll make it fun," she said.  

And we did.

Errand number one was taking Piper to the vet for some diagnostic work. Don't worry, she's fine. We're just being proactive.

After the appointment, we dropped Piper off at home and took the car to the tire shop for a repair.

While we were waiting, we walked to a nearby antiques mall.

We spent a fun hour perusing the wares and looking for horses.

Happily, they were plentiful.

We also found a lot of real horse tack.

I did buy a saddle this week, but not this one.

After the tire was fixed - let's hope it stays fixed this time! - we went grocery shopping.

We swung by the house to unload the food, then it was on to the barn!

Karen had turned everyone out earlier, so I took advantage of the Sage-free time to give her stall an extra good cleaning.

When that was done, we visited the foal, who is now named Daktari.

Then it was time to bring in the horses. Ladies first.

Then Kaffi.

It was around this time when the big work bomb dropped.

Everything came to a screeching halt. My phone was pinging non-stop with messages from co-workers. Carol and I went back to the house. I spent the rest of the day trying to cope. 

The next morning, I dropped Carol off at the airport.

This wasn't one of our fun-filled adventure outings, but that's okay. What I needed on this day was someone to make errands fun and someone to help me cope.