Countryside

Rhoda arrived shortly after 10:00am to help Stacy with Ciera finishing up with a bow. Rhoda needed the truck to haul sticks to the fellowship hall for Monica's wedding tomorrow. The living quarter trailer was hooked up to the truck, as no one was around to help unhook it, Rhoda just pulled the whole rig out to the fellowship hall. The decorators must have wondered if she was bringing horses for the decorations, everyone knows how much Monica loves horses! Stacy wanted to see Ciera's mom Lily, who is at the Middle Grove farm. After walking to mom's for a quick visit, mom decided to come with us to Middle Grove. We traveled the country side today giving Stacy the grand tour. On the way we stopped in Farmington, IL where Dan gave us a quick tour of the Old School Center, then stopped at the Herman Lake in Norris, IL where Beth gave us a tour of their new facility and a ride to the VIP dock to feed the fish. From there Middle Grove. The horses were not in sight but we were prepared to walk and walk we did. We found them at the top of a hill spread out grazing. They were all far too lazy to come running, after-all we didn't bring a trailer with us so why bother. The Friesians were the only horses interested in attention. Indy & Killian were first up in our faces with Ayanna a quick 3rd. Lily and Helen were right behind her. The rest of the horses were too busy grazing on the thick knee high green grass to bother with people. We headed back to Hanna City around 2:30pm for a late lunch at one of the 2 restaurants but both closed at 2:00pm. It worked out better anyway to come home for lunch, Steven was here working the boys and Stacy really wanted to watch him. Karin showed up to work the mares right after Steven was finished. Mark arrived home with hooks, towel bars, and grab bars for the farm house bathrooms and after supper headed down to start installing them.