Rainy Day

It was raining this morning so no walk. I stayed with mom and was impressed with how well she is doing. After breakfast she first started working on Aunt Emily's pillow case. Now this pillow case is well over 100 years old. Aunt Emily lived until she was 99 and she died over 10 years ago. The case itself is 100% cotton and was falling apart but the hand made lace was still in good shape.
Mom carefully removed the lace then cut up the pillow case to use as rags.

When that was finished she pulled out the baby blanket she is making. Mom makes these blankets for each baby born in the Meister family and in our church family. She keeps VERY busy with this job.

I left to head to the barn to get the stalls cleaned then back to mom's to heat up some of her frozen beef vegetable soup for lunch.  The rain stopped for a while which gave Joan time to come with Faith, Mackenson and Berlica to load up the rest of the wood onto the trailer and haul it back to her house. Mark's trailer holds a lot of wood but with everyone working fast we got it all loaded up in less than an hour.

 Below Joan is driving it over to her house.

 We had to celebrate when the last lot was stacked. The pile behind them is some of this load and the rest was thrown down to be stacked for the downstairs wood burner.

 Below Joan is sweeping off the trailer.

After the tractor and trailer was put away it was time for Mark's hair cut then I packed some clothes and headed back to mom's for the night. We played games this evening. After the games I drove back to the barn to clean up any manure in Oksana's stall then here to work on the blog. Of course as soon as I got back here and turned on the monitor I could see that Oksana left another pile in her stall. I'll head back to the barn to clean that up before heading to mom's to spend the night. We are expecting strong storms tonight and tomorrow. Praying everyone stays SAFE!