The Word WOW

The weather wasn't very nice today starting out cold then ending colder with rain. I had a lot that needed to be done and with each job, someone showed up to help. I was amazed and grateful for the help. It started early, as I was cleaning stalls with the meds in my pocket for Galena's colt, Emily walked out of the apartment. She had spent the night to help Jessica on her house today but of course I put her right to work holding Galena's colt while I gave him his shot of antibiotic.  Then Karin arrived just as I was getting ready to head out to take pictures of Ayanna's colt for the website. She was more than willing to help with that. This was the first time out of the stall and he had to learn how to follow his mom.

Karin took Evan out to work him in the indoor next.  He is such a magnificent animal. Of course I can't get good pictures in the indoor but he is still impressive even if a little blurry.

Evan was just about perfect for her. Next she pulled out Valiant.

She kept him busy inside while I put a bale in his shelter. As soon as that was done, Valiant was put away and we moved two more bales, one for the middle paddock and one for the paddock next to Evan's. We have a mare coming in for breeding tomorrow and will put her there. Evan is great at teasing mares, although this mare is coming here for Valiant. 

The afternoon was spent inside cleaning and doing laundry. This evening was the Benefit dinner at the fellowship hall. The Peoria choir puts this on annually and this is always an amazing evening but tonight extra special. It started with beautifully decorated tables.

 Then came an absolutley delicious meal starting with sparkling white grape juice, then an exotic salad, a tasty cheese based appetizer with lots of tiny vegies served with crackers and two kinds of breads, a poppy seed and a blueberry sweet bread.  That would have been enough right there but then came the main meal. A HUGE piece of perfectly done prime rib with a horse radish sauce on the side, little round carrots cooked in some kind of sweet sauce and a big baked potato served with a fancy sour cream and or butter and finally two desserts to choose from, either cherry berry on a cloud or a chocolate dessert on a meringue base. Both were tasted and both were delicious. AND that wasn't even the best part of the evening.  That part came when the choir got up to sing. The word that kept going through my mind at the end of each song was WOW! The music was so beautiful that I got goosebumps.

Evidently I wasn't the only one thinking that word. Tim Funk got up to have the closing remarks and the first word that came out of his mouth was, "WOW!"  What an amazing evening of worship.