Monday, March 30, 2020

Birthday Celebration With Social Distancing

Today is mom's 88th birthday. Karin spent the night with her last night and for the very first time since the fall she slept ALL night not waking until 6:00 am. We had a cold morning of 37 degrees but the sun was shining and the 40 mph wind gusts from yesterday had slowed down to a trickle of 6 mph. Mom got some sunshine on her balcony this morning.
I went to Berean and got the labels for the studies finished but didn't start on the letters. Marvin is going to go there tomorrow and work on Bible labels. I stopped at Sam's club on the way in and was pleasantly surprised. I made it there exactly at 9:00 am and there was no line at all. There was plenty of fruit and other foods and they had that all important toilet paper. I bought one package to leave some at the Berean office along with more napkins, paper plates, a cheese cake for Faith, fruit to go with the cheesecake, and a rotisserie chicken for mom and Karin's lunch.
When I got back to mom's house they were just getting ready to go on a walk. It had warmed up into the 50s. Mom was able to walk all the way to my house.
The golf cart was taken out then and mom given a ride up to the barn to see Indy's colt and the other horses and from there we drove it over to Joan's house. All of Joan's kids were having a picnic lunch in the field enjoying the sunshine and all of them had finished their school work for the day. Spark stopped in to work on Joan's solar system right at that time so we got to wish him a happy birthday. Spark turns 68 today. He was born on mom's 20th birthday. At 1:00 pm we met on mom's balcony to have a birthday party.  Below Joan is lighting the candles.
Notice how Rachel is 6 feet apart from Joan's family.
 While Spark and Rhonda are 6 feet apart from mom and Karin is probably only 3-4 feet apart from Spark. Maybe she can't count. 
Molly also arrived with gifts.
We were glad it was such a nice day that we could celebrate this special birthday. Beth arrived a bit later, dropped off her presents but couldn't stay. 
Eleven years ago mom went to Beth and Greg's place in Norris to try out the new swing and Nate, Beth and Greg's son kept her pretty busy. Check out the video below of mom trying out that fun filled lake in the sky. My mom really didn't grow up very well.
While we were celebrating mom's birthday. we heard a tractor coming. It was Mark grading the driveways.
 Mark was using the skid steer to drop gravel then spreading it well with the grader.
Faith, Ava and Eden came walking over to play on the hay bales.
Oksana, who just won't drop this foal had been let out into the field to graze. She is just huge. That foal sticks out both on both sides,
and drops way low.
We had a high of 62 degrees today and it was a perfect day for working outside. I picked up Pax from Phil and Anna's house. Mark grilled salmon for supper then after supper went to work digging out sour dock weeds in the field with Pax following and having a ball. The dog door was put in and both dogs are enjoying the freedom of going outside or coming inside when ever they want. 

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