After one of the best night's sleeps I've had in a LONG time, got up around 9:00 and started taking care of some office work. One of the reasons we picked Picayune over some other places was the fact that it seemed like there was a good cell phone signal here, and in fact, there is, good enough for a very effective hotspot on my phone, so I got a lot of work done. We finally finished up and started saddling up the horses in the afternoon, getting out of camp around 1:15, planning just a short 3 mile loop to get back into sync with the horses. My understanding of Picayune is that it's where the expression "buy some swampland in Florida" came from. During the dry season it looks quite nice, but during the rainy season? Not so much. Anyway, a lot of this area has a grid pattern of trails, like you would expect in a Florida development, and we took the first and shortest grid out of the camp. The surface started out as sand, then turned to a shell-like tarmac, then eventually grass and sand among scrub pines and pine trees. One stretch took us on a parallel course with I-75 as it crosses west to east across the state, in what we used to call Alligator Alley before it became an interstate. Fortunately, the campground is far enough from the freeway to not hear any traffic noise! Anyway, we were gone just over an hour, which is all we wanted to do today. Afterward, I gave the horses a bath, and trimmed Apollo's two back feet, as they were really getting long, and I can only handle two feet at a time. I figure if I do two a day, at least they'll both be trimmed by the time we leave on Tuesday. Hubby worked on leveling the trailer hitch, we were riding a bit high in the front, another adjustment we couldn't really make until we were in a real life situation. Enjoyed a nice dinner, then settled down for the evening watching TV and enjoying a snifter of brandy.
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