The Set UP

On the walk this morning Ruth told us that Rebekah was impressed with the dress rehearsal and said that the munchkins stole the show!
Set up went well today. Karin and I had the most efficient way of working together putting up the runners first, then the lights and finally the stall fronts. After 2 hours we were almost done but decided to put lights around the big Horsemeister sign and fill all the water buckets.

We were both very pleased with the results.

Simple yet elegant. That went so well we would have been home early but had to wait for the hay and straw to arrive. When the boys arrived with that we were terribly disappointed. The hay was not what we ordered and not anything we could feed the horses. Their father told me they didn't have good grass hay so he would need to send down alfalfa but when the boys loaded the trailer they put on the grass hay. We took one off the trailer, cut it opened and showed them how bad the hay was and told them not to unload the rest. It was brown all the way through, was stemmy and and had no nutritional value.  They took it back and promised to be back tomorrow after school with alfalfa bales. We are going to have some hungry horses if that doesn't happen. 

We got home in time to listen to church on line. I need to get up early tomorrow to run in to Hanna City to fill this truck up, finish the packing, hook up both trucks and trailers, load 8 horses and leave here around 7:00 am.