The Fall

We had a good walk this morning. It was warmer and most of the snow and ice had melted. Mom's poor snowman lost his nose along with some other key parts. This was mom's first snowman of 2020 and she beat everyone else in making one.

I only did one round of walk today as Tuesdays are Berean day and I needed to get the mail to that office north of town before the volunteers showed up. If you would like to read about our day there click HERE.
We had one very scary thing happen at that office today. Mom had a bad fall, landing on her forehead and nose on the concrete. She was leaving a little early to take her car to Peoria Tire and Vulcanizing to get the tires checked and the oil changed, grabbed her purse and coat and turned quickly, tripped coming out of the hallway and fell face down, putting a big goose egg on her forehead, smashing her nose into the concrete floor, and cutting her hand. Her glasses didn't break but cut her nose when she slammed down. She was bleeding quite bad and had to stay down until we could get the bleeding stopped. When she was able to sit up and we thought maybe get to the car, she had to lay down before she fainted. Mark Kieser helped get her onto the floor.  Bill Schick helped clean up the blood then drove mom's car to Peoria Tire. Chuck Hemmer followed him then brought Bill back to the Berean office to get his car.  When mom felt a little better she was helped into my car and taken home, given an ice pack for her forehead and nose, an Aleve for the pain and settled into her chair for a nap.  Joan came with me to pick up her car.  This evening some of the swelling has gone down and other than 2 black eyes and the swelling on her face she is actually looking a little better than when it first happened. She wouldn't let me publish any of the pictures as it looks like she lost the fight! The worst part of all of this is tomorrow she has her doctors appointment and we are just SURE they are going to ask her, "Do you feel safe at home?" 
Faith and Ellie came over late this afternoon to ride Jenis and Hadassah but ended up not riding as it is just too muddy and they didn't have enough time. The pictures below are from Saturday. It had been raining then sleeting and the horses were very wet. That is Jenis in front and Zalena behind her.

 Below is Zalena and Hadassah enjoying the indoor.