Baking at Midnight

The afternoon was spent on benefit dinner work. Dan and Spark met Mark and I at the fellowship hall and put the tables and chairs out in the correct positioning. They left and Mark and I started washing goblets, 300 goblets. This served 2 purposes, the first was of course to wash the goblets but the second purpose was to make sure the dish washer at the fellowship hall worked, it did, thank goodness. Once home the notes needed to be typed, sorted, more typing, cutting and organizing. There was no time for dinner. It was off to choir with the notes. The recording went well finishing shortly after 9:00pm but we still needed to do more setup and didn't get out of there until close to 10:00pm but like Nancy would say, "noooooo" WE COULDN'T GO HOME YET we had to stop at Walmart for special ingredients like cream of tarter, heavy whipping cream, cream cheese, miniature marshmellows, and cherry pie filling. I signed up to make a dessert for the benefit dinner and it HAD to be started tonight. The first step was to make an egg white meringue and letting it bake for an hour at 275 degrees then turning off the oven and leaving it in the oven for 12 hours. All the ladies said, "oh this dessert is very easy but still elegant, anyone can do it," what they didn't say is it takes THREE days to make. The first step is done, the rest looks pretty easy, just need to follow the correct timing.
Rhoda found a mare she wants to take on as a project this summer. The owner was called and we made arrangements to buy her on Sunday after church.
The mare is located at Indian Hills up near Chicago. We told her we could be there by 5:15pm if all goes well. The mare is a 10 year old registered Iberian, she has an Andalusian sire and a paint dam. She will be bred to Raven, the foal should be an interesting cross. We are hoping she will make a good camp horse, we are so short of riding horses this year with Sophie and Annie gone.