Trailer Cleanout

As today is Presidents day the schools, banks and post office have declared today a holiday. That meant Karin came early and together we worked on organizing the trailers for the horse fair. We counted halters, lead ropes saddle pad covers, buckets, chains to hang buckets, coolers and blankets for after bathing horses and spent some time searching for the horse bathing stuff. That was actually stored in the house but I had forgotten taking it in.  We decided we needed to buy more hoses and new nozzles for bathing along with more shampoo, conditioner, cowboy magic detangler and 4 more sparkly halters.  Karin took this opportunity to also start a throw away pile and went to work on the barn too. The dumpster is full right now but is suppose to be emptied tomorrow so that pile was left.
Karin left to go with Beth and Jackie who were taking John in to have his knee replacement but when they got to the hospital the surgery was delayed for another week. John has been sick and the surgeon wants him all the way well first.
I left for shopping stopping first at the shop to pick up the Berean mail at Meisters then drove to Suburban Gas Company on Farmington road to fill 2 propane tanks but they were closed for the holiday.  Next I stopped at Dollar Tree where I found a small blue bucket for the play. I wanted to find confetti but they didn't have any so instead I bought 6 rolls of crepe paper, 2 blue, 2 red and 2 yellow. The next store was Party Central but they didn't have what I was looking for. I stopped at Walmart and bought 3 cheap hoses each 25 foot long and 4 nozzles. Those can be used first for bathing the horses then put together and used to fill the 16 water buckets before taking them apart and draining them easily. The last store was Aldi where a few things were bought for the Berean meal. I still need to pick up ponchos. Once home I needed to move a bale in for the far weanling paddock. When I got back to the house I started making confetti by cutting up the rolls of crepe paper.
Three cases of cotton candy sugar  and a 1000 cones were ordered from Gold Medal Specialist in Galesburg, IL. Karin will pick that up on Thursday.  Mark brought my cotton candy machine home from Skyline today. I still need to pick up 100 pounds of popcorn and 4 gallons of popcorn oil along with popcorn bags. This year we will be offering both popcorn AND cotton candy at our stalls.  The schedule is now up for the 2019 IL Horse Fair and we know our times.  If interested in learning more about the fair, visit their website by clicking  HERE
If interested in the performance schedule click HERE.
Need to buy tickets for the fair? It is cheaper to buy them in advance so check that out by clicking HERE.
Today we heard that Zalena's 2016 filly by Valiant was sold to Cindy from Utah. Cindy has promised to keep us updated and to start that, below is Cindy and Adara.

We wish them a wonderful partnership. Adara is Cindy's first Friesian and if Cindy is like the rest of us, she won't stop at just ONE! These Friesians are addictive.