Texas Sceggels Arrive

This morning the apartment was cleaned and the beds made up for the Texas Sceggels coming in this evening.  As they were coming in time for supper a trip to Sams club was very important. We want to feed these guests well and I happen to know what these grandkids like to eat. As soon as I got home from Sam's I started cooking, first frying up 3 pounds of sausage, dividing that into 2 servings, one to add to the stuffing for our Thanksgiving dinner and one for a big pot of Chili later in the week. The next job was to brown 13 pounds of ground beef. That too was divided into 2 servings. 6 and a half pounds was made into taco meat and placed in the crock pot and the other 6 and a half pounds were frozen for the chili.  Two onions were diced and sauteed until nicely browned then 3 peppers, one orange, one yellow and one red sauteed. Any idea of what our dinner was tonight?  The rice, shredded lettuce, avocados, grated cheese, salsa, cheese sauce, sour cream, corn chips and tortilla chips were also for tonight's dinner. We had hay stacks!  Everyone actually made it to this dinner at Phil and Anna's house EXCEPT Phil and Anna who are still in Eleuthera Bahamas and Phil and Anna's three girls who were visiting their other grandma for the evening. Below are a few pictures of our evening.

The Texas Sceggels arrived at 5:30 pm making the trip in almost exactly 12 hours. They stopped in Missouri to let the kids play in the snow since where they are living they haven't had any of that white stuff since they moved to Dallas.
Karin arrived at the farm after work and got the indoor arena raked. It looks really nice. She also discovered that the 3 mares in the middle paddock had pulled the plug to the automatic waterer stopping the water from filling the reservoir  and flooding their paddock.  All 3 were all thirsty. I don't think it it was pulled this morning when we went on the walk but they probably pulled it pretty quickly afterwards.  Karin worked each mare separately today. I didn't stay to watch, too much to do down at the house.