Brr, Another Record

We smashed another record today, the high was the coldest high on this date since record keeping over 150 years. That cold on top of the 5 inches of rain this last week means we are dealing with mud, lots and lots of cold wet slippery mud. Jenis was on the other side of the pond this morning and decided crossing the dam and getting her hooves muddy wasn't worth the few bites of grain she gets. Diane gave me a ride in to the office where we were joined by Shirley Triplett and Eva Jean. The 4 of us made a great team today easily finishing our work by noon. That happened because we had a light mail day. We still got over 100 Bibles sent out today, 5 boxes to Mobile Metro Jail and the rest to individuals all over North America.
The lady coming to pick up Twilight on Sunday wants an updated picture of her. Today was not a day for taking pictures, she is muddy and the temperature was a cold 54 degrees. Tomorrow isn't suppose to be much warmer.
Horsemeister will be providing ponies for the grand opening of tee pee village at the Giant Goose Ranch on Saturday Sept 20th. Ella and her colt, Lola and her colt, Missy and Cookie will be taken to that. An Indian village needs paint ponies.

After work Mark went right back to work on the next step of getting this house ready for winter. He already had torn off the siding and the old insulation, added a rigid foam insulation with an R value of 10, spray foam around that, put up plywood and tonight we wrapped it up with house wrap. The siding is suppose to come in next week. 

If this doesn't keep the cold winds out nothing will!  We had a loss yesterday during the storm but didn't discover it until today. Karin went out to check on the herd and found Cheyenne dead. She was laying by a tree with no obvious marks on her body, no scratches like she had been in a fight, no body rubs like she had been rolling around colicking, we believe she was hit by lightning during the storm. Nothing else makes sense. I'm just so thankful we didn't lose any of the other mares. At least she had a few months of horse paradise out there grazing on the lush green grass, cooling off in the refreshing lakes and lounging under the trees during the afternoons.