What did you do today?

[Nanno]

Phil's allergic to alfalfa too. It makes his eyes puff up and water, and he starts coughing and sneezing.

My day started off very exciting, but then it suddenly got even MORE exciting. My horses were supposed to get their feet trimmed this morning, but I couldn't find them anywhere. Turns out I'd left a back gate open yesterday when I was hauling brush to the burn pit and the horses had discovered it. That'll teach me to get distracted talking to the plumber! So I spent the morning driving around the town of Rye looking at every horse property to see if my guys had hooked up with any friends. I finally concluded that the tracks I'd seen heading in that direction must have doubled back somewhere, so I went home and started over. Sure enough, the horses had gone back the other way and went through another open gate into my neighbor's billion-and-a-half-acre pasture. So I spent the next hour or two driving in circles around that place peering into endless arroyos, creek bottoms, and enormous stands of scrub oak.

I finally found the horses grazing happily in a place I'd already looked an hour earlier, tied them to the back of my truck, and led them home. I'd brought the cell phone with me (it was actually charged up!) in case the sheriff or anyone called to tell me my horses had been located (or in case they came home on their own). Just as I reached the gate to our driveway, the phone rang and Phil said, "Lilly's water broke 20 minutes ago and no baby yet." He sounded calm, but knowing him as well as I do, I could detect an edge of panic in his voice. He said he'd been trying to call me the entire time but I wouldn't answer. Apparently the cell service ends at the road. I told him I was at the end of the driveway and I'd be right there. And everyone knows the rest!