Tornado Warning for Hanna City

Well mom did not get carried up to the top of the Great Wall of China, she made it all by herself with her trusty walking stick.  Karin on the other hand saw a man  trying to get his friend up in a wheel chair, walked over and lifted the front of the wheel chair getting it all the way up.  Once up they found someone to snap their picture of Karin's phone and Karin was able to text it to me.

This was on mom's bucket list that she can now scratch off as finished. They took a rickshaw ride to the Olympic park and a man walked up to Karin and asked her, "do you remember me?" Karin was confused and honestly could not remember where she had seen him. He replied, "you helped me get the wheel chair up to the top of the wall!" That was pretty embarrassing but to her benefit she was more concerned with getting the wheel chair to the top without dumping the rider.  They were taken back to the hotel around 4:00 pm. Tomorrow they leave for home. They must take a taxi from the hotel to the airport around noon. Their flight leaves Beijing at 5:00 pm and they fly into Detroit at 7:00 pm. That far and only two hours! They will get to Peoria around 10:00 pm Friday night.  

We had a hot morning for our walk and the chores here. The mares were teased and again the only mares showing are Star and Zalena. Star cannot be covered now until Friday as Valiant is needed for an outside mare this afternoon. Today was de-worming day for the mares here. Jenis, Sangria and Lily were all de-wormed with Quest Plus as non of them are pregnant.  Star, Rosalie, Madiera, Zalena and Roxanne were all give Strongid.  Rebecca and her husband arrived with a big blue ball to introduce to Rosalie and Claire. We took it over to Mike and Diane's to use their air compressor to fill it up.  I grabbed the camera on the way back. Rebecca already had Rosalie and Claire in the round pen and Rosalie was already in the process of rolling in the very very wet sand when I got there. We had over an inch of rain last night.

Rosalie was at first scared then curious. 

 Claire was afraid too at first. 

 Since Rosalie was accepting it, she got brave and touched it. 

 All was well until she accidentally bumped it and it went rolling. Claire took off but Rosalie followed it. 

If you would like to see the rest of the pictures with the big blue ball click HERE. 

I had to go in to Meister's today for work. On the way home the phone started going off with a tornado warning in Hanna City. Of course as soon as I got home instead of taking cover like the phone was saying I had to go out to the field to look for the tornado. The clouds were thick and for sure rotation. 

 Below the smaller cloud coming off the left hand side was rotating sideways. 

 I zoomed in for a better picture. 

I heard voices and saw the apartment guests were back so took the golf cart over to talk to them.  The kids were having a ball feeding grass to the horses. I took the man over to mom's to show him how to get into her basement if the weather got worse.  While we were outside talking the wind kicked up blowing cold air which was bringing in the lightning, thunder and rain.  I headed back to the house and watched the two geese families taking their goslings quickly to the pond. There are 2 pair each with 4 goslings.  

The rain was pouring down but this storm didn't last long only dropping about a 10th of an inch.  The owner of Duchess brought her over around 4:00 pm. Valiant kind of had a tough time with slipping in the mud but got the job done.  Zalena was teased and covered by Evan. Mark had to work late tonight getting home around 6:45 pm.  We are having an easy evening, no working outside tonight.