Labor Day

Rachel had a huge group of kids stay either very late or the entire night. A bunch of the boys were playing on the hay bales until the wee hours of the morning. Rachel is probably completely out of food about now. Labor Day at our house meant laboring most of the day. We started early, Mark weed whacking the fence line to prepare for stringing wire later and me cleaning stalls, feeding and getting Hadassah covered by Evan. Rhoda, Lee and Sarah joined us for breakfast at the Hog Trough then Mark drove in to Peoria to pick up Nick to help him with stringing wire and putting up plywood on the house. Rhoda took Lee riding at Middle Grove for the afternoon. She rode Cookie while Lee rode Missy. They rode for over 2 hours enjoying the scenery, lakes and trails. The weather prediction turned out to be wrong, it was suppose to rain most of the day and instead we had a beautiful 83 degree sunny day, perfect for swimming or laying around on a raft. The bees were sure busy trying to get as much pollen as possible now that it is September. Almost every flower had 2 or more bees laboring away busily on this labor day.

Shirley Triplett and Eva Jean Schaefer brought out chicken for dinner at mom's and enjoyed the evening on her deck. Mike got lots of fence posts installed at Middle Grove while Diane got the shed cleaned out then both enjoyed the lake with Spark and Rhonda. It sure felt like a Saturday, hard to remember tomorrow is a work day instead of Sunday.