Burrs

 I kind of overslept this morning, not waking until after 6:00 am and that was because I stayed up way to late trying to download the video of Taegan's game. It was finished by the time I awoke so posted it on last night's blog. After our walk today Mark helped move 2 bales into the middle paddock. 

The mares were up from the pond pasture and Dancer had gotten into the burrs again. Funny Jewel,  Penny and Jury didn't seem to have any so I'm not sure where Dancer is going that she gets them in her mane, forelock, tail AND on the feather of her legs. I left cleaning her up until later as I really wanted to get the barn cleaned up. I started on that, got everything restocked and organized in the living area, went into the gym to organize the sports equipment when I realized it isn't rented this week and the grand kids will be over so why bother doing that today. I also skipped mopping the floors. It was another beautiful day so went over to get Dancer out and clean her up. 

I was going to lock all of the mares up in the middle paddock by shutting the back gate to the pond pasture but instead just put Dancer in the short shelter paddock. She can see the other horses but won't get into the burrs at least for the next 2 days. She is going to the vet on Friday so I would like to keep the burrs off until then. Mark had a dentist appointment this afternoon and I asked if he would stop at the shop on his way home to pick up last years registrations. He brought them home, I filled out transfer papers for 3 of them and put one on my purse so I would take it tonight for Family night to give to Monica. We left for the Fellowship Hall at 5:30 pm and as we were driving I flipped Aragorn's papers over to look at the back side and realized the registry had put down the wrong sire. How disappointing! I sent a text to the lady that sent the papers, she said she would fix them when the buyer sends in to transfer them into their name. Tonight Fred Witzig spoke for Family night. I only took one picture and it wasn't of Fred. Dave and Craig were having a laugh about something before the message started.

Steven did the video tonight click HERE if you would like to watch that.

 

Basketball Games

As today is Berean day the danishes were taken out of the freezer and put in the oven at 250 degrees for 15 minutes. While those were warming up a cup full of frosting was made and put in a sandwich bag. After taking them out of the oven and letting them cool for about 10 minutes a small hole was cut in the corner of the bag then the frosting drizzled over the danishes. Those were loaded into the car along with my purse. I still needed to get a bunch of forks from the barn as we were low at Berean and had just put those in the car when Diane walked up. Ruth was a couple minutes late for the walk and took the picture below of Joan, me and Diane. 

Today we went over the plans for when the Bossarts are here the end of this month. As I have a lot of ham and cheese left over from church lunch I'm going to make a big pot of split pea and ham soup while Diane will make a big pot of cheese soup. I just did one round so I could leave for the Berean office. We had a very light mail day and we are getting discouraged. So many states are going with Smart Communications which is not smart at all. We cannot send Bibles through that method and even the Bible studies are now getting rejected. Below is a short video taken after our prayer.

 There are also a few pictures of our morning there.

From there I stopped at Sam's club to pick up a couple items as long as I was right there and then to Aldi to pick up milk, eggs and wild rice. When I got home and the groceries were put away the farm house was cleaned and finished. Sarah and her girls were here this morning. They cleaned our house and worked on the rising trot with Penny. Sarah sent some videos but it is late and I'll download them tomorrow. Mark and I left around 4:30 pm for Farmington school to watch Kensley and Taegan play basketball. The 7th grade played first and it was pretty much a blowout so Kensley could only play 3 quarters. She is a starter on the 7th grade team. By the 3rd quarter they were well over 20 points ahead so the second string finished out the game. The video below is only of the first 3 quarters.

Sarah and Nolan arrived with Zion, Eden and River. They enjoyed the game but the girls really liked going to the concession stands.

The 8th grade team also played very well. Taegan made 29 points, lots of rebounds, assists and steals before they took her out of the game. She also only got to play 3 quarters but what was interesting was Kensley played most of the same 3 quarters. It was fun watching the sisters play on the same team. The video is below.

Productive Monday

 Well I gave in and had a cup of coffee this morning with one of those left over donuts and enjoyed every bite. It just isn't the same with tea. Not sure it was a good idea but it sure gave me energy. Before the walk I was able to get 2 of the 10 beds made with clean sheets. When we were coming back from Rachel's we noticed another tree down. We laughed as it looked like we are making a cross country jump that ends up in Mike and Diane's pond.

At 8:38 am the lady wanting to buy Dancer asked if I would be able to take her to Hoerr Vet clinic on Friday for a PPE. We are hosting potluck on Friday but I told her I would call them and if they could get me in first thing in the morning it could work. Well they did, the vet appointment is Friday morning at 8:30. If Dr. Hoerr gets delayed I worked out with Mike and Diane that they would come take my place with the horses and I'll take their car home to get the house ready for company. It's potluck you know and I heard over the pulpit that the fridge will need to be pulled out and cleaned behind. One of the ministers really did say that his mom always made them do that before potluck and we all laughed. I'm NOT going to be doing that.

After breakfast it was back to work for me. All 10 beds were changed, all of the laundry finished, all of the towels restocked in the farm house, the foaling apartment and the barn. Braelyn planned on coming tonight to clean the foaling apartment so that cleaning was left for her. While waiting on the machines all 6 bathrooms in the barn were restocked and cleaned along with the 2 in the farm house. I quit work around 3:00 pm. The floors still needed to be swept and mopped in both places but the weather was so nice I really wanted to work outside, AND the mare paddock needed a new bale. Mark came to help with that as someone needed to keep the foals from running out of the gate when the tractor goes in. The man that left his golf clubs at the farm house months ago decided today was the day to come get them. I had given up on him coming and had sent a message to the man that booked the farm house to let him know if he doesn't come get them by Oct. 1st I was giving them away and I did. I gave them to Nolan, except now the owner was less than an hour and a half away and already on the way. I drove over to Sarah and Nolan's house and got them out of their garage. The owner was very thankful and so of course I feel like I owe Nolan a set of golf clubs.. Anyone have any they are not using that would like to find a home for? At 5:30 pm Mark and I left for Farmington High School to watch Braelyn play volleyball. Their team is doing really well this year and tonight they won both games decisively. Below is just some of the game.

Taegan and Kensley were playing basketball in Lewistown so as soon as the game was over Anna left to watch the last of the 7th grade and hopefully all of the 8th grade game. Phil went to those games and gave us updates during Braelyn's games. Kensley is in 6th grade but plays on both the 7th and 8th grade teams. Taegan is in 8th grade and plays on that team. Pretty cool the sisters get to play on the same team.  It was a very productive day, I'm thankful for the beautiful day and thankful I can still do the work. 

A Blessed Day

 We left the house at 7:55 am, stopped at Casey's and picked up the donuts then drove to church. Mark helped unload the 13 dozen then he drove to Schnucks to pick up the 4 dozen fried croissants while I organized the food. David and Stephanie brought Israel and Elisabet to help. Diane and Mike also came early to help and Rhonda arrived with Joan around 9:30 am. Randy and Kathy brought Nancy and she wanted to help too but Joan took her in to sing and then down to Sunday school. Gabe Stickling had the morning message on Judges 4 and 2 Thessalonians 3. To watch that click HERE. I took a couple pictures of the food once we had it out on the serving lines. 

Today was invite a guest and I was a little worried about not having enough wraps but after lunch was over the only item I ran out of was potato chips. We had about 6 wraps left, a few of the croissants for the chicken salad, 1 cutie, 6 gogurts but plenty of chicken salad, ham, turkey and cheese. No one was going to starve. Dave Beutel had the afternoon message on the minor prophets. He spoke on Amos 7,8, and 9. Click HERE to watch that.

After church I ran to Sam's club to pick up 4 pizza's for Sunday supper and also served some of the leftover food. We celebrated Zion's birthday. After supper most of the adults went for a walk while the kids played both outside and inside. Below the second cousins, some of Ruth's grandkids, Spark's grandkids and our grandkids are playing football. 

Spark built a campfire and we soon gravitated to that as the evening was chilly.

The fire was so nice that even when all the kids and grandkids left Spark and Rhonda along with Mark and I stayed to enjoy the fire. The coyotes started howling. If you listen to the video below you will hear them.

We finally decide it was time to turn in. What a blessed day. Sunday's really are special around here and I am so thankful to be here.

Showing Dancer

 We had a cool morning and obviously the lake water was warmer than the air around it. At first the entire lake had mist coming off but by breakfast time just one area. It was so strange that I left breakfast and went out on the deck to get a video. 

With everything rented I could spend the morning reading. Today I read in Psalms, the last few chapters in Matthew of the last supper, the crucifixion and the resurrection then flipped to Luke to read his writing on the same. Oh what an amazing God we serve! That He would do that for us. At 10:00 am I had to quit, we had someone coming at 11:00 am to look at Dancer and Dancer needed to be groomed. She was waiting at the gate but had no halter. That meant I had to search for one that would fit her and that took a while. She was just left loose in the yard while I worked on removing burrs out of her forelock, mane and tail then used the curry, hard brush and was using the soft finishing brush when Rhoda arrived. She tied Dancer and cleaned out all 4 hooves.

Rhoda put all of her tack on the golf cart.

I left then to move the water tank we had been using out by the round pen. That needed to be hosed out before hauling it into the stall. Braelyn arrived about then with 2 helpers to clean the foaling apartment. The guests moved out around 10:00 am and the next family was moving after noon. While I was working on the tank two ladies from Elgin, IL arrived to check out Dancer. Rhoda took Dancer to the outdoor arena first to show the person interested in buying her Dancer's movement.

From there they moved to the round pen where Rhoda saddled Dancer and rode her first. Then the interested buyer rode her and finally the other lady that came with her also took a turn. The other lady owns a Raven son out of a Thoroughbred mare that is now 22 years old. She loves him and they are hoping for another sweet Horsemeister horse. Dancer was perfect the entire time. She really does love attention. Katherine is going to call to arrange ppe. By the time they left it was almost 1:00 pm. Mark and I drove to the church to start organizing for tomorrow. Rhoda, Lee, Iris, Zeke and Zion came to help. The kids helped get the tables set then even helped with making wraps. We made ham and cheddar cheese wraps along with turkey and provolone, all together we made 160 wraps.

Mark started slicing the croissants. We have 160 of those. There are also platters of just the ham, turkey, and 2 kinds of cheese if someone doesn't want a wrap. I also have about 30 pounds of chicken salad. I'll have a big bowl on each serving line right after the croissants so people can make their own chicken salad sandwich, but I also brought forks if someone wants it without bread. By the time we finished with everything washed and put away and all the food put back in the fridge it was after 3:00 pm. 

Mike and Diane met the owners of Cabo, an Evan son born in 2025 at the County Market in Farmington and took them out to Middle Grove. That place really is a horse paradise. With all the rain and cool weather the grass is thick and so green. Oliver heard the truck and came running first with the herd following. All of the horses were so friendly the owner of Cabo stated, "You could charge for this horse therapy." We need to remember our blessings as we take Middle Grove for granted. It is amazing to see this big herd of LARGE gorgeous horses galloping free out on fields with no fences in sight.

The video below was taken last year, we were dropping off 3 mares and their foals and picking up a Holly but she wasn't tied very well and she took off running dragging her lead rope.

Zion's Birthday

 We were both up early. As soon as it was light enough to see it was time to head to work. The barn was first as there were just a few things needed to be finished and from there I went to the foaling apartment. There was still one set of king sheets in the dryer that needed to be folded and put in the closet. Then came time to check the farm house. That just needed the lights turned on, and the floor swept. All three of the airbnb's are rented today. I was grabbing the last of the cleaning supplies out of the barn and loading them on the golf cart right about the time Diane and Ruth showed up to walk. Ruth told us about the big move for her son and how all of the details worked out perfectly. Of course she is giving all of the credit to God. Diane shared about meeting a family from Metamora who were renting at their complex. Turned out the man is (I think the sheriff or running for sheriff) at the Woodford County Jail. Spark had just had a volunteer from Goodfield tell him, "I wish I could just volunteer at the local jail instead of driving in to Peoria" Well now we have a contact! Another coincidence that just has to be attributed to our Heavenly Father. Diane showed them her townhome and after checking out hers they are interested in buying one. The walk went by way to fast. I had to quit after one round and drive to GFS in Peoria to pick up the meat and cheese for Sunday. That went very quick and I was on my way home by 9:10 am.  Instead of going straight to our house I drove up to the apartment as there were 4 vehicles up there. It turned out to be Rhoda's car, Sarah's car, Joan's van and a pick up truck. An older man got out of the pickup truck and asked me, "Is this the apartment?" I was confused as the people renting the apartment are coming in for a funeral and asked him, "What are you here for?" He explained they were coming in for golfing. He was at the wrong place. The golfers booked the barn. I had him follow me to the barn and showed him how to get in. It was only around 9:40 am. I was very glad I had finished it early this morning and they were very glad to be able to unload before going to their golf game. After putting the meat and cheese away I took the golf cart over to where Rhoda and Sarah were working with the horses. Rhoda worked with Zion on Dancer today. Mike used a hackamore with Dancer but Rhoda just put a halter with reins on her and Zion did great.

Today is Zion's birthday, she is 9 years old.

Below is a short video. Zion even trotted her a bit.

I was telling Sarah about how naughty Merlin was not wanting to follow his mom back into the paddock. She explained they have to put a halter on him and lead him back every time. She shared Merlin's new trick which I posted below.

He is such a funny foal!

Zion sure loves that funny foal.

This afternoon I made the chicken salad for Sunday then Mark and I loaded all the food for Sunday into the car and drove to church. Tomorrow Rhoda and Lee will come help us make the wraps and help us set up for Sunday. Everything is there now except the donuts. 9 dozen donuts and 4 dozen cherry cheese danish will be picked up at 8:00 am Sunday morning from Casey's and 4 dozen fried croissants will picked up at 8:30 am from Schnucks Sunday morning. Mark worked on the drives today. We got those big rains and some of the roads were washed out. He did a lot of hand digging and is really tired tonight. He is already in bed and I will head there in a couple minutes. 

Lots of Rain

 The shipper for Rosaleigh's colt showed up just before midnight last night. As it was really dark I had the driver back the trailer into the indoor arena. They had a full load of horses and in the very last stall was a cute buckskin colt, I believe I heard them say he was 6 months old but I may be mistaken. Rosaleigh's colt had never been on a ramp before but he was brave when he saw the other colt and walked right in.

The middle divider was put back on and those two colts shared the last stall together. There was plenty of room for them.

I took the video below of them driving away.

Once they turned the corner and started down the hill, the barn lights were turned off, the apartment lights were turned off and I was on my way home to bed. Mark was sound asleep and never heard me climb into bed. Morning came way to early.  We had an inch of rain in the rain gauge this morning. That was dumped and we are getting dumped on with lots of rain today. I went over early to move Tessa and her filly out of the stalls and back into their paddock. That didn't go well, the filly didn't follow her mom, I opened the gate and Merlin ran out to be with the filly and they started running around the yard. I looped the chain over the gate and walked over to the shed to grab some grain, the two moms saw their foals running around pushed against the gate and the chain fell off, the gate opened and all 4 horses went running down to the farm house yard. They were so excited about being out they went running around the tree and up the drive to visit with Evan then saw me with the bucket of grain and all of the followed me into the paddock except Merlin. He decided it was more fun to be outside.  The mares were grained then I went to find a halter for Merlin and lead him in. After all of that I still needed to clean both of those stalls and Tessa's was a mess.  That one needed to be stripped. New bedding will be added later after it dries out. The guests in the farm house left but it isn't rented again until tomorrow so I went back to the house to cook. We ate a leisurely breakfast of my special fluffy pancakes, sausage, eggs and strawberries. After breakfast it was time to go to work. Mark took the hand held battery vacuum around the gym while I worked on the farm house. I have extra bedding and towels so all of the laundry was taken to the barn. That washer is new and has a short cycle that does a good job on the sheets as long as there are no stains. I didn't finish the farm house until noon but then went to work finishing the laundry. There were a lot of loads and it was 3:00 pm before the last towel was folded. That was all taken over to our house. I was too tired to cook supper but we still had leftovers from Sunday. We needed to drive to D & H to pick up the motorhome and did all that driving in the rain. That was put back in the indoor. We have someone coming next week to look at the repairs needed. It really started pouring rain this evening. It will be interesting to see how much we get by morning. 

The Late Night Shipper

 It started raining during the night and was still raining this morning. I drove the motorhome in the rain down to D & H while Mark followed in the Tesla. After dropping that off we drove to Meisters to drop off a check then to Sam's to get the rest of the food for church lunch. There was a lot to unload and I am very glad for an attached garage. We didn't get wet while unloading. At noon the rain stopped for a short time. I quickly ran up to the barns to move a bale in for the mares in the middle paddock, except they were up by the gate and I didn't have help. Instead I took the time to finish the foaling apartment. 

There is now new bedding on all of the beds. The futon needs to be kept a bed again as we have 5 guests moving in on Friday.  Below is the queen room with the pocket doors shut.

The picture below shows the new lights for this room on both sides of the bed. To the left of the picture is the bench and to the right is the closet door.

Below are 2 pictures of the king room.

When I finished the rain was just starting up again but the 4 mares in that paddock were out grazing. The tractor was used to put in a new bale. 

When I got back to the house the 4 chickens picked up today from Sam's club were deboned and the meat chopped and frozen. We now have the meat from 10 chickens ready to be made into chicken salad. 

I have 160 croissants all bought this week frozen. Those will be taken out of the freezer on Saturday and taken to church. Mark thought it would be a good idea to cut them, have a bowl of chicken salad next in line then let people just make their own chicken salad sandwich. That might be a good idea. We are also going to be serving 2 kinds of wraps, either ham and cheddar cheese or turkey and provolone cheese.

Just as the chicken was finished the shipper coming for Rosaleigh's colt sent a message he would be arriving around 11:00 pm. I had Mark come help bring the mares and foals into the stalls. I found out that the paper work I sent in to register Merlin and Rosaleigh's colt had to be mailed to a different address. The FHHI registry is going through a break up and the lady with the database has a different address. I had to call the bank to put a stop order on the check sent with the registrations and then fill out all new applications but that meant I also had to pull hair again. Once Merlin's hair was pulled, he and Harli, his dam were taken back outside but Tessa and her filly will have to spend the night inside because Rosaleigh's colt is in the stall across the aisle and he wouldn't be happy in the barn by himself. His hair also had to be pulled. He didn't care, he was too busy munching away on his grain.

Tessa and her filly also got grain. below they have finished it.

They have plenty of hay and water to keep them busy until tomorrow morning. 

It was raining when we brought the horses inside and raining when I got home. We cleaned up and got ready for church. Tonight was Dave Barnard's testimony and baptism. It was a really special night. It is on AC Central if you would like to watch it click HERE. We got home late but I can't go to bed. I will be moving over to the foaling apartment tonight as the shipper just sent an update it will be closer to midnight before he arrives. Hope I can stay awake that long.

Joyful

 I dreamed this morning of Ribbon, our vaulting horse only she was pulling the wagon I was driving a full load to get out of town. Mostly I remember the reins were too short and in terrible shape. In my dream I kept losing the right rein. I woke up wondering why did we have such bad short reins. By 6:00 am I was working. The farm house had guests coming in today and I wasn't able to finish it yesterday. By 8:00 am I was on the way to the Berean office. We had a good amount of work today.

Kathy was working on a letter then realized she didn't have the address as the envelop had been thrown away. We accused her of dumpster diving.

Skip found out that postage is going up again as he was using the postage machine.

After the prayer Marvin told us about the need for graders for the advanced course. If anyone is interested in helping with that he has an answer key.

The advanced course is a little harder to grade as the student is encouraged to write what the verse or question means in his own words.. Below Irv is taking a break waiting for the apple pie to be served.

We had a good morning and got a lot accomplished. After dropping off the Bibles and studies going out to day at the Hanna City post office, I drove to Casey's to order the donuts for Sunday. At first it was going well but when it was time to pay they decided to wait for that until Friday just in case the shipments don't come in. I know I have 4 dozen cherry cream cheese danishes and 4 dozen white cake donuts with sprinkles but the filled long johns are iffy. They said last shipment they had asked for 3 boxes and only received 1. Hope they come by Friday. I forgot it is the Spoon River Drive this weekend and they were already going to be baking 250 donuts and now I was asking for 16 dozen more for Sunday morning at 8:00 am. When I walked in the door I immediately knew Sarah and the girls had been here. The house looks so good after they clean. After eating some lunch, I drove the golf cart over to the foaling apartment to get the 6 chickens. Nolan had started installing the tv but it sounds like Philip had to finish it as he has the stud finder.

It was a good thing I had cleaned the farm house in the morning, the guests arrived early.

The chickens were taken home. I started de-boning them at 2:30 pm and didn't finish until 4:00 pm but have 3 big bowls of chicken now in the freezer. Mark will pick up 5 more at Costco tomorrow.  The camper repair place called and they can take the motorhome in tomorrow morning. Mark will drive the tesla down while I drive the motorhome. Hopefully the repairs can be done soon and I can post it for sale. This evening all of the bedding for the beds in the foaling apartment and 4 bedside lamps arrived. We had light bulbs for one set but will have to buy some for the second. The apartment rented for Friday night so hopefully all will be done by then. My second day without caffeine and so far I can't tell much difference other than all the joy has been removed with missing that first cup in the morning. I'm just joking on that. How can I not be joyful knowing Jesus loves me. 

Ordering Food for Church Lunch

 I didn't sleep well last night, probably because I knew there would be no coffee in the morning. I'm giving up caffeine. Also the phone rang around 1:00 am but no one answered when I said hello. We still are not walking, Diane and Mike won't be home until Thursday evening and Ruth is flying home today but turning around and driving back down helping their son move to Mobile. I went to the farm house early and stripped the beds and gathered up all of the towels and took that to the barn for washing. As long as I was doing laundry I started some at my house and the foaling apartment too. I had 3 machines running and was able to get almost all of that done before Anna arrived to clean the apartment. She figured out how to get the cords off the wall and also repaired a broken outlet along with the cleaning.

We needed new lamps for the end tables and she found exactly what was needed and sent it to me. They are now ordered. The towels from church were washed and I asked Mark to hang them outside when the washer stopped.  I left for GFS to order and pay for the ham, turkey and two kinds of cheese for Sunday lunch. They will have it sliced and ready for me to pick up Friday morning 9:00 am. From there I drove to Schnucks and ordered and paid for 4 dozen fried croissants. The last store was Sam's club where I bought $221.00 worth of the foods and supplies needed. Tomorrow I'll need to order some donuts from Casey's. Everything was taken to the foaling apartment so I could use the fridge and freezer. I bought 6 chickens, those were put in the fridge once they cooled and on Thursday will be deboned and made into chicken salad. Mark will pick up 4 more at Costco when he goes on Wednesday.

Mark didn't remember about the church towels and rags until I was on the way home but got them all outside on the drying rack in the sunshine for at least an hour. They were brought inside at 4:30 pm to finish drying inside.

By the time everything was put away I was pretty tired but still needed to go to the barn to fold one more load of towels and take those to the farm house. That rented for tomorrow. The beds are all made with clean sheets but I still have some cleaning to do there tomorrow morning before leaving for Berean. This evening after supper Mark came with me to the foaling apartment to install the simple hook and eye lock for the pocket doors.

That was an easy fix.

The new television and wall mount for the apartment arrived today. Hopefully Nolan can help get that up. 

SoThankful

I had two crock pots full and cooking by 6:00 am filled with Taunya's recipe for chuck roasts, potatoes and carrots. It is such an easy recipe and my family really enjoys it. One roast is put on the bottom then sprinkled with 1 package of brown gravy mix, one package of onion soup mix and one package of ranch mix. The potatoes and carrots are added next then the second roast must be cut up to get it to fit in the crock pot. Then half of all the packages (the second crock pot got the other half) then put in a cup and a half of beef broth and put on low. 

We had an easy morning and left for church a little after 9:00 am. Gregg Rumbold had the morning message on Psalm 133 and 1st John 2. Click HERE to watch. Caleb Plattner had the afternoon message on the minor prophet study Amos 5 and 6. Click HERE to watch. After church I went right into the kitchen to get the towels and didn't realize Nancy had followed Mark out to the parking lot. By the time I got there he was helping her get her seat belt on. I quickly sent Joan a text that we would take her home. Joan sent back that they had just realized they couldn't find her and had just started to panic. We made out that she would just come home with us and stay for dinner then Rhoda and Lee would take her home. The supper really turned out delicious.

By the time everyone had eaten their fill we had just one small left over container to take home. After supper the kids were having fun in the gym and Nancy got to join too.

Berlica came over so Rhoda and Sarah took all the kids and went to work with the mares. Rhoda is teaching Berlica how to train. It will be wonderful to have another trainer in the family. 

We all stayed later than usual visiting. It really was another wonderful Sunday and I am so thankful! Such a precious time to first be with my beloved church family and then my even more beloved children and grand children. We are truly blest!

Exhausted

 Today was not a day of rest and by the end of the day I am more than ready to crash. I made breakfast early then Mark left to pick up Israel and I left for Sam's club to pick up food for Sunday dinner.  He got home before I did but not by that much. I made it to Sam's by 8:15, was done shopping and drove to Aldi in Bartonville by 9:00 am and made it home by 9:18 am. Mark hired Mackenson and Israel to work the log splitter. After putting the groceries away I went straight to the foaling apartment to start moving out furniture. Today Rhoda was bring a king size bed for the master bedroom and Sarah was going to take the sectional couch to her house. Sarah arrived early and right about then Mark brought Mackenson and Israel over to help. That couch is REALLY heavy.

When Rhoda arrived with the truck, she was frazzled. The mattress was kind of blowing around even though it was tied down with dog leashes and to top it all off Zeke opened the truck door on the interstate. She was very glad she made it here safely. Nolan arrived right then so we had plenty of help unloading and installing. The queen bed was moved into the second bedroom, the king bed was set up in the master. Once everything was done and cleaned up Sarah got some pictures so I could update the airbnb ad.

Above and below are the second bedroom, the one that use to have the couch in it.

Above and below are pictures of the master bedroom which now has the king bed. The headboard has usb ports on either side for phones.

Below is the kitchen/living area with the futon as a couch. I have ordered a 55 inch Roku TV for the wall and that will be delivered on Sept 29th. 

The sectional couch was loaded into the 2 horse trailer. Mark, Mackenson, Israel, Rhoda and Nolan drove the 4 miles to Sarah and Nolan's house and unloaded that into their basement. Rhoda said it matched perfectly. By 1:30 pm we were finished and hungry. We drove to the Warehouse in Hanna City for a late lunch. Mark and I split a tenderloin which was the special of the day.

When I told the waitress we were going to split it she gave us two buns. Rhoda ordered a salad, Machenson ordered a chicken sandwich and fries and Israel ordered a bacon cheese burger with fries. We ATE every bite. No one needed a box for leftovers, there weren't any. From the Warehouse I took Israel home and when I got back parked the truck and trailer. Right about then the new guests for the apartment arrived. They walked in, came right back out and asked if I would mind them using the futon for a bed. I just had to laugh! I went home to get clean sheets just as Berlica drove up with a golf cart and I asked her to go with me to make up the futon into a bed. There are just 3 young men, workers maybe in their 30s, staying but they each wanted their own bed. From there I went to the barn to start on the laundry there and clean bathrooms. There were 4 loads of sheets and just 2 loads of towels. The last load of towels was put in the dryer and started but by this time it was 6:30 pm so tomorrow I will fold those towels. Joan is hosting a casting party at the barn tonight. 

Those in Gulf Shores are having wonderful weather. Ruth sent the picture below of Riley and Blair on the beach this evening.

Check out the picture below Rachel shared with the family of the full moon over the water.