Dancer Sold

 As I went to bed early last night it was easy to wake up at 5:00 am and get the dishwasher started. Mark went over with me at 7:00 am to get the truck hooked up to the stock trailer and we got that done just in time for the walk. Ruth, Diane and I walked to Joan's and about then the rain started up. We walked back to Ruth's car and quit. Mike helped load Harli, Merlin and Lucy in the front of the trailer then Dancer in the back. It was raining when I arrived at Dr. Hoerr's, hard enough we decided to check Harli's abscess first. You can see it in the picture below. As this is the second time this popped up we thought it must be a tooth. 

Above Dr. Hoerr was getting the x-ray machine ready. Chris came in to help with that.

Dr. Hoerr took a couple different views in hopes to show which tooth was causing the problem.

Neither of them showed a tooth going through the bone. We thought that was good news as the abscess must be caused by a foreign object so Harli was given a sedative, numbed, and the area blocked before Dr. Hoerr went looking for the object. Unfortunately there wasn't one. He was able to follow the channel the pus was coming from all the way to the bone. The bone itself has an abnormality and the channel seemed to go through it. After cleaning it out well, Dr. Hoerr put medicine right into the channel.

After that was done the incision was sewn up. By the time Dr. Hoerr finished with her the rain had stopped. Harli was taken to the trailer and loaded. Merlin was so glad to see her and couldn't wait to nurse. Dancer was unloaded and tied to the trailer.

The back was opened and Lucy led into the back of the trailer for her blood draw for her coggins test. Dr. Hoerr was impressed with her. She is exactly what he is looking for in a foal but he was told she is already sold. Once her pictures were taken for the paper work she was put in the front with Harli and Merlin. Then it was time for Dancer's ppe. Aaron came out to help with that. Dr. Hoerr checked her over very well starting with her eyes then going down her body checking her heart, her lungs and all the way to her tail. Then came the hoof tests and the flexion tests. She passed all of that with flying colors. Dr. Hoerr needed to see her lunged in both directions so I helped with that. The last thing he wanted to do was x-ray her ankle. She had a cut on that and it healed with some scar tissue. The x-ray showed the swelling on her ankle was only scar tissue and not something worse.

I left for home then and made it by noon. Tessa was very glad to see her daughter Lucy and Lucy couldn't WAIT to nurse from Tessa. They were put away and once the truck and trailer were parked I went home. Mark was eating a piece of pizza for his lunch so I heated up the last leftover piece for my lunch. I was eating it when the guests coming into the foaling apartment sent a message that they were going to arrive earlier than expected. I took the hand held sweeper over and had to sweep up stink bugs all on the door and wall of the apartment just waiting for someone to open the door. Now that the crops are being harvested the stink bugs leave the fields and try to get indoors. None of these made it inside, I was busy using the vacuum to suck them into it when Rhoda arrived to work with Tessa. We talked then I went inside to inspect and didn't see any of the bugs had made it inside. I left then to work on our house to get it ready for potluck. Rhoda sent the picture below of Tessa on the pedestal.

Dr. Hoerr called the prospective buyer for Dancer and not long after the buyer contacted me and told me she is going to buy her. She has mailed the check so Dancer was marked SOLD on the website. She is going to a great home in Elgin, IL. 

Cleaning went well and by 4:30 pm everything was done. I was resting on the chair when Diane arrived to help. We sat and visited as everything was done. Mark did the grilling tonight. Craig and Jackie cancelled so Mike and Diane took their place. Gabe canceled so Rhonda took his place then at the last minute Alex and Michaela canceled so Ruth and Fedi took their place. Of our original group only Molly, MaryKate and Robers were left but we all had a delicious meal and a good time. 

Ruth and Dan have been giving updates on the hurricane. It has gone more East so Dan's daughter Sophia who lives near Pensacola is getting it much worse than Ruth's son who is East of Mobile. Sophia's house has lost electricity. Karl is at work as he works as an EMT so Sophia is alone but their house is far enough inland that they should be safe from flooding. It looks like Gulf Shores is ok, not much damage done there.

Isaiahs On the Way

 After our walk and after breakfast Mark and I went over to Joan's house to winterize campers. Below Mark is emptying the hot water heater tank and replacing the anodes.

We had some trouble winterizing the camper without the slide-out as the air pump didn't seem to work on that one. Something must have been left open but we finally gave up and got the other 3 done.

Joan and I are officially done renting campers. IF anyone wants to get into that business there is now a good opportunity as we will be selling all 4. They are all 2021's and all good quality campers. Three have slide-outs and all of them have a queen bed in the front that folds up into a couch during the day, double bunks in the back and the dinette makes another bed. They have the large fridge and freezers, a 3 burner stove, microwave, propane water heater, working air conditioners that easily cool the entire camper. They are all self contained as they all have showers, a toilet, and outdoor shower with both hot and cold water.  They will be sold with everything needed to start camping, and are also light weight as all of them are under 5000 pounds. They are all made by Forest River. Salem 3 does not have the slide-out and that one is for sale for $10,000.00  Salem 4 has the slide out and is for sale for $12,000.00 Wildwood 1 and Wildwood 2 each have slide-outs and are for sale for $15,000.00 each. Our children and grand children really enjoyed camping in them and I'm sure your family will too. 

I took a quick trip to the grocery store to pick up a few things for potluck and for Oct 31st. We are having Aunt Jinnie and all 5 of her children and their spouses from the Oct 28th until Nov 1st. We are hoping all of the Meister grandchildren will come trick or treating at the barn on the 31st to meet their great great aunt, and second cousins once removed. It sounds like it will be well attended. Rachel asked if they could borrow some straw bales. I had to check to see if we still had any and found some.

The story goes like this: David got the frame below from a man who was going to junk it.  Then Jake, (Spark's son) was trying to get ride of some old rims and tires that David (Rachel's husband) was able to retrofit on to the frame and the rest was wood they had or bought.

It fit perfectly on mom's old Kubota which is now Rachel and Dave's.

So those old straw bales are going to be used on Sunday for hayrack rides.

What an amazing transformation from something that was going to be junked to a very usable and needed hay rack.

We are all impressed with David's ability to see junk and also see what that junk could be. Of course Rachel helped. Later this afternoon the dessert for tomorrow's potluck was baked and is now cooling on the table.

It is a pecan pumpkin dump cake that will be served warm with cold vanilla ice cream.  The farm house instant booked today at 5:30 pm with the guests arriving around 6:00 pm. I took the golf cart over with the hand held vacuum just in case any stink bugs got inside. Harvest is going strong and those bugs are trying their best to get into the houses. I found none in the farm house but found 2 wasps in the windowsill that was sucked up into the sweeper. From there I went to the foaling apartment just to check. Even before opening up the door there were at least 7 on the door or near the door that were also sucked up by that vacuum. Thankfully I found none inside. Now our house is another matter. I'm not sure where they are getting in but we have had at least 10 in the house. They fly to the windows making them easy to catch. 

Mike dropped off Denver today to his maybe new home at Western Hearts in Kickapoo IL.

Mike and Diane went to Middle Grove and brought back Bulu and Denver. They were just loading Denver when Bulu got in the trailer too so they just brought her along. After Denver was dropped off Bulu was brought here and put in the middle paddock with Jewel, Jury and Penny. She will go back out to Middle Grove later. We are having beautiful weather here but Gulf Shores is right in the path of hurricane Isaiahs that is going to make landfall tomorrow. Diane and Joan spent some of the time on the walk this morning discussing what to do about guests needing to cancel and guests coming in on Saturday. Hopefully there won't be too much damage done. 

 

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.