BIKE RIDING, ONE HORNY BULL AND DOCTOR VISIT!

The week of Jan. 19th  has been good. Ralph and I had a few days of bicycle riding. We are starting off slow. We did an 8 mile, 9 mile and a 10 mile ride. I have done a few mornings of exercising with Loy, the ranchers wife along with walks around the ranch. I am doing well on my first week with Weight Watchers and feeling good.

While out for a bike ride, on the very busy road of 2790 we saw these 2 horses tethered to the fence in order to graze. Land here in Texas is desert so folks have to feed hay. Along roads there is grassy areas and I guess folks take advantage of it. I see this fairly often around Texas. This road is busy and the speed on that road is 60 mph. Being a horse owner for over 40 plus years, I was just blown away seeing this. Personally I would never do this. It is just plain dangerous and horse and cattle thefts are very big here in Texas and across the country. Besides no matter how secure the rope is, it is not a guarantee that they can't break away. There is an old saying, "Don't tie a horse to anything that a tractor can pull it out".

One morning we were awaken to the sound of pathetic mooing. It was Hoppy's bull and he was in love. He was right outside our RV and looking over the fence line where he had spotted some good looking ladies from the next door neighbors ranch.

His constant mooing went on for about a half hour but it was not meant to be. The other rancher's bull was keeping a close eye on his "harem". He's all the way to the left of the cows and is all black with a white face and short horns.

Wednesday we headed to the nursing home to have a meeting with the staff on how Ralph's mom is doing. Gary, Ralph's brother also attends. These are health meetings and happen every 3 months. As usual mom is doing very well. She is in very good health, can walk, has no trouble doing stairs and jumping up into our pick up truck when we take her out. It is just the dementia that is taking her. 

Some days she will recognize us, other times it takes her a moment or two and sometimes we just don't know. Earlier this week I went into get her to go to lunch. Ralph was in the truck because there was no place to park due to some parking lot construction going on. I went up to her and said "Hi Mom, we are going to take you out to lunch, ready to go?" She looked at me with a little apprehension and looked over at the nurse's station. She then looked back at me and looked back at the nurse's station. 

I sat next to her and told her that her son Ralph was in the truck waiting and why he could not come in. I told her "Mom, it is me, Angela and we are going to take you out to lunch today and you will be safe with us and the nurses said you could go with us". She then seemed okay and we had a nice time.

On Thursday, Ralph had his eye check up. It has been one week since he had his laser surgery and Ralph does see improvement, however he needs additional laser surgery so in 2 weeks we will be back.

Until next time...........Happy Trails................