After dozing off numerous times during the day yesterday and then falling asleep before 8:00pm mom woke up around 1:30am ready to start the day. I however wasn't. She settled down with her book until 2:40am then decided she better have a pain pill. We both fell sound asleep around 5:00am and slept hard until 6:45am when the lady came in to take mom's breakfast order. Mark called just as the doctor walked in the door so the phone was just shut off until later. The doctor is pleased with how her knee looks and will be sending her home this afternoon. YEAH!! no more nights in the hospital. Mark was called back after Dr. Mauer left and he reported the 5 horses in the middle paddock escaped sometime during the night. He was hiking the fields trying to find them. I sent Rachel a text to see if she could help. By the time she responded with a yes and Mark was called to tell him help was on the way, the horses had come back. He locked them up in the outdoor arena, fed the 2 stalled horses and left for work. Rachel moved them back into the middle paddock and tied the gates shut.
Ruth arrived to take over mom's care just as we were getting her off the bed and into the chair. Mom is a little discouraged as to how painful her knee is when trying to bend and move her leg.
It is a very cold 14 degrees this morning but sunny and best of all the wind has died down. Once home Helen and Ella were let out of the stalls. The horses all in the middle paddock were laying down soaking up the rare sunshine. Ribbon looks like a beached whale. They were all pretty exhausted from their night out on the town. Jenis' paddock is now out of hay. The skid steer will be returned tomorrow but they must be fed somehow until we get that invaluable machine back. I'll just have to haul wheel barrows of hay over for them. Onyx is leaving this afternoon.
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