Noisy Transient Neighbors

Around 9:00 am a tremendous noisy chattering surrounded the house. Emma and Ebby ran to the patio door and started barking and when I looked out there were thousands of red winged blackbirds in the yard. I grabbed the camera and opened the door but they took off  swarming all around, landing in the trees and Valiant's field

 and all of them voicing their displeasure at being disturbed. It really was an incredible sight.

The noise was also incredible. Each bird chattering at the top of their lungs.  I didn't stick around, instead took the car up to the trailer and started bringing down all the show trunks. It took two carloads to get them all down to the house. Each one was gone through, the stall fronts organized and material washed. I still need to work on tack and to find the show halters. None of those were in any of the trunks and yet I thought all of the trunks were unloaded. They must be somewhere!
The house is a mess, it looks like a hoarder lives here with trunks and boxes all crammed into the family room. Karin shopped and picked up some supplies to hang stall guards. We want the stall doors open as much as possible so the mares can hang their heads out for attention.
Sally, the lady in charge of stall assignments of the Illinois Horse Fair told us today we are in barn 14 aisle E. We even have that extra area right before our stalls to decorate and set up our popcorn machine. The man bringing down our bedding and hay was contacted and they will meet us there at  on Wednesday Feb 28th. Karin and I have a plan to fill the 2 horse trailer and the new truck Tuesday night with everything needed, meet the hay guy late Wednesday afternoon, unload and start on decorating the stalls. The only problem with this plan is we will not make it back in time for church since we have to wait for Karin to get off work on Wednesday.  Thursday morning I plan on leaving here around 8:00 am have the horses there by 9:30 am to start bathing. We have 10 to wash. Once that is done we should have enough time to finish the stall decorations before checking into our hotel.
The information stall cards were made and printed out. Mark got home as I was finishing up with those. I'm too tired to do much more tonight.