Dress Rehearsal

The wind started roaring last night and this morning we knew there would be trees down. Sure enough as soon as it was light enough to see Mark went out with his chain saw to remove a tree that had fallen over the main drive.

Once that was cleared I headed over to check mom's drive while Mark went over to make sure Spark and Joan's driveways were open. Mom had a big fat squirrel on her deck. It had been eating out of her bird feeder but Emma chased it away.

The rest of the driveways were open. I hiked up to the barn to see if the gate which had been frozen shut for weeks would finally open and was able to dig it out.

This was to the weanling paddock. There are 2 other gates to this paddock but this is the one that is closest to the barn so I wanted it open. By the time I got back to the house I was pretty frozen. The  temperature was in the 20s but the wind was still roaring and gusting over 50 miles an hour dropping the real feel to zero or below. We were glad to go to our warm church today.  Willis had the morning service. I believe Willis is 95 years old and he had powerful Spirit filled message. Greg Rumbold had the afternoon message.  

As soon as we got home I stuck two apple pies in the oven then went out to the barn where Karin had the mares in getting ready for dress rehearsal. Amy was there with her daughter and 2 of her grandchildren and they were helping Karin warm up the mares.

The munchkins like to come early to help warm up the mares.

Just about everybody arrived in costume.

We were missing the Tin Man today as Rebekah had to work. The practice went well.

Rebekah Scwhind came to give the performers some tips. The second practice went even better. Rebekah is SO good at that job.  If you would like to see the rest of the pictures from the practice today click HERE.
They perform 3 times. Friday March 1st Shaeya and Rebekah will be showing Valiant first at 4:00 pm then the play will be in the covered arena at 5:00 pm. Saturday Valiant is on at 11:30 am in the covered arena then the play will be held in the livestock arena around 4:00 pm. You will want to show up there a little early to get a good seat. The munchkins will be throwing prizes out to the audience and the livestock arena is well heated. The Sunday performance will be in the covered arena with the stallion on at 1:00 pm and the play at 4:00 pm. We hope people come make the 2019 IL Horse Fair the biggest and best yet!  The organizers are working hard at making this a big success and assured us the barns will be heated. There is plenty of fun shopping, of course all that good fair food and LOTS of HORSES!  We are bringing 8 of ours down. Our stalls are the same as last year,  in barn 14 which is close to the covered arena and we will have plenty of FREE good hot popcorn and FREE sweet cotton candy to share with everyone. To learn more about the IL Horse Fair check out the fair website by clicking HERE.

After practice Joan invited everyone over for dinner. She had a huge pan of magic soup and served that with salad, cheese crackers, chips, and of course pie and cake for dessert. We all had plenty to eat. After supper we went to mom's house for games. It was another good day.