News flash: the sun has reappeared.
After over a week and a half of fog, cloud, rain, and downpour, intermixed with thunderstorms of every type from silent to reverberating, we finally had almost an entire day of sunlight. Granted the clouds were still there, but they never quite closed in as impermeably as has been the precedent. I never realized just how much a week of hot, humid, wet weather (the sort this state never gets in the height of summer; usually we are in a drought situation at this point) can do for the weed populations. Everything leather in the barn has also sprouted a coat of green fur. Haul out the saddle soap, girls.