Little bits of everything

We continue to be blessed with rainbows here, I guess it's the upside of rain; but we are now back into the hot and dry weather. Tomorrow Ted and I are heading to Eureka Montana to visit the folks we bought Beamer from. We'll be going past the Libby dam, and I hope to get a couple of photos of some of the scenery there.
Gussie is healing well, the swelling in the knee is gone and she's walking normal so now it's just waiting for the cut to heal before I can ride her again; probably a week.
I got permission to ride my horses through the cow herd , so maybe this evening I'll check them on Beamer; I'm keeping an eye on them this weekend while the rancher is away.
The face flies are driving the mares crazy to the point where they are galloping around to try to outrun them, then they just stand around twitching miserably, so I took pity on them and bought fly masks. Not the best quality ones, but all that was available.

The black ones are the new ones; the one Gussie is wearing is a few years old. The mares welcomed the relief from having scads of flies in their eyes, but they were still tickling their noses so they got fly spray too.
The flies don't seem to pester Rio as much.

We had a little excitement here last night. You ever watch the TV show Cops? We should have been filming last night- we had action right in our back yard. We live along a road that leads to the river, where all the party types go on a weekend evening to drink and carry on. About 10:30, we had just drifted off to sleep when I heard the sound of a vehicle pulling into our driveway- fast! I jumped up and looked out the window, and a pickup with the police in hot pursuit stopped just outside my window- stopped, because if they had gone any further they would have hit my hitching rail, and you all have seen how stout that is- it would have severely damaged his truck. The two guys jumped out and ran, and I told the officer- "they went thataway!" I did- I've always wanted to say that!- Eventually the passenger was caught, but the driver got away. However, his truck got impounded; and the towtruck driver was my old boss from the job I worked at last year. So we had a good visit with him while he waited for the paperwork. It was midnight before everyone left. Of course, every time a vehicle went by for the rest of the night, I woke up! Hope you all are having a great weekend, and I sign off with another shot of the rainbow.