Packing

We had a beautiful day to work outside so that was exactly what I did. The 2 horse trailer was cleaned out, hooked up to the 2003 truck and taken down to the house. Then all the stuff that has been stored in the family room, the presents, tubs of material, stall decorations, tools, table cloths, extension cords and candy are now out of the house and into the trailer. Even the popcorn machine and all of those supplies along with 6 tables 8 chairs, the wheelbarrow, 25 water buckets, 2 of the new 3 saddle saddle stands along with 2 other saddle stands and the mounting block and still there is room. Tomorrow Karin just needs to add the tack then we are ready to go.
Once that was done the new truck was hooked up to the big 4 horse trailer. That took a bit as the gooseneck ball wasn't in correctly. I was able to figure it out thankfully. That truck also has the in-bed electrical connection for the trailer and it was thrilling to see that it worked.
The middle paddock needed 2 new bales so those 3 horses were stalled while the bales were moved in. The hog panel around the bale in Ayanna and Rosalie's paddock was taken out so they could clean up that bale. Tomorrow afternoon that paddock will also get a new bale. The one bad thing that happened today was that I ran over the battery charger with the tractor. I just didn't see where it was. It must have been on the log splitter than when I backed the tractor out it fell off and the wheel ran over it. Hopefully we won't need one until a new one can be purchased.  This evening I finished Henry Michel's sermon on how the church got started. This was a sermon he gave when mom was still an unconverted teenager. When we were young, she had told us about him and that sermon he gave during Eastern camp.  Even as an unconverted teenager she didn't want him to stop. And to think all these years later we get to read this very same sermon. Mom made a lot of copies of it if anyone else wants to read it.
Mark and Mackenson worked hard on the driveways out here on Saturday, filling in potholes with buckets of the bigger gravel. All that hard work paid off for Mackenson, he was cajoled into arm wrestling someone who had beaten everyone else and of course Mackenson won very quickly shocking those kids that thought they might be strong.
The horses were all enjoying the warm sunshine, at one point just about every horse here was laying down basking in the sun. With all the rain we had last week we have a tremendous amount of mud so each and every one of those horses that are enjoying laying in the sun are also getting very very muddy. Good thing the horse fair has warm water to bathe them, they are all going to need it.