Work Day

If you weren't at Diane's for breakfast, you missed it! We had scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, home made biscuits with wild black berry jam, home made iced cinnamon rolls, fresh squeezed orange juice and piping hot coffee. Those who did show up for breakfast were Mike, Diane, Karin, Mom, Joan, Tim, Faith, Sarah, John Honegger, Steven Marchal, and me. It was hard to get to work after the good food and good conversation. By the time we got to the farm, Steven had already cleaned Lily's stall and fed and watered her. THANK YOU STEVEN!
That Karin is a slave driver but wow did we get a lot done. She had Dan and Susan's kids, Sophia and Abram washing down the inside of the barn, Joan and Sarah working on removing the old wire and putting it in the dump trailer. Mike was using the John Deere tractor to pull stuff out. Anni Davidovics was helping sweep down the inside of the barn. Steven Marchal was on the skid steer, someone else was on the Kubota mowing, Joan's renter, Jay Pence was first weed whacking then using his chain saw. Tim was helping us with moving all the heavy equipment out so we could mow. Every time I stopped to look around there were workers. Diane brought over her wonderful sun tea for a cool refreshing drink. Poor Susan was in the barn and didn't get any. We all put in a good 3 hours then headed for home to get ready to go to Norris, IL. Thank you everyone that helped. I need to order gravel and have it delivered before next Saturday and the place will really look nice!
After lunch we headed to Norris, IL where the girls camp was on Friday. Beth Herman, my sister, took us by the mule over to the VIP dock to see the HUGE rainbow trout, small mouth bass, large mouth bass and blue gills all waiting to be fed. After feeding the fish she tried to take us up the dam to the diving platform but the mule just couldn't make it and we had to get out and push the last part of the hill. We get to the platform and guess what, another fish feeding operation at that dock also. Nathan Herman, Beth's son is one of the partners to Herman Pond Management and it is very obvious that he loves his job. The pontoon boat came and picked us up for the ride back to the main beach. We had a very enjoyable boat ride out on the open water. Once back, it was almost time for dinner. Joan and Tim provided the meat and every one else brought dishes to pass. We had a fantastic dinner. I still needed to get back to the farm and take care of Lily so we headed out around 8:00pm. A long but GREAT day.