Rainy Cold November Day

Before the door was opened this morning a text came from Rachel inviting everyone to breakfast. I knew at that point it was raining and not just a little, but a steady cold rain that made morning chores more difficult. Mom called to cancel Rachel's invitation responding it was HER turn. We agreed to meet there by 7:30am. Then it was time to face the chilling rain and get the morning chores done before heading over. Raven's feeder had been knocked down into his paddock, a broken manure fork kept on hand for this purpose was used to pull it back under the fence so he could be fed without getting muddy. Once the grain was in the feeder he promptly dumped it back on the ground. This time trying to scoop the grain back into his bucket meant getting muddy. A different feeder was installed before heading over to moms. The picture below was taken before heading in looking over at Rachel's house. Such a gray day.

Mom had the bacon frying so I thought I'd help by cracking an egg into the pan. The egg didn't crack correctly and a few fragments of the shell fell into the pan. Once they were cleaned out mom decided she was much better at cracking eggs and just then this is what happened:

Of course we were laughing at how pride really does go before the fall. Here she was making fun of my efforts and hers turned out so much worse. That wasn't the end of the mistakes, she then burnt the bacon!

When I arrived back at the farm to get ready for work, Mike was out fixing the arena where Ciera plowed through. I felt bad he was working in the rain.

The office was cold today and coats were left on until the electric heater started warming us up. I happened to catch a glance at Eva Jean as she walked by to grab more mail and this is what I saw:

And a closer look:

I KNEW she was related to us, she would HAVE to be related to walk around with tags. Everyone knows we Meisters rarely buy anything new and when we do we have been known to leave the tags on to show off. Yep, Eva Jean had a TAG! She said she forgot it was there, but do we believe her?
After work Karin and the Davidovics all met here before leaving for Gulf Shores, AL. This will be a short trip for them, they are only staying down until Sunday.
Mark reported that the auction raised $96,000.00 for the home, we knew money would keep coming in even after the auction was over. That is just down right amazing!
The rain never did stop, no horses were teased, no mares were covered, it is just to awful out. The sun will come out tomorrow.