Thursday

 Joan stayed at the hospital until Beth and Aunt Jinnie arrived. That gave me time here to work with the weanlings and get the chores done. I left for the hospital at 10:00 am. Beth needed to be with her daughter Amy and her grandson Russ as Russ was having surgery today. Amy brought a huge basket of goodies to share with people that visit mom's room.

Aunt Jinnie and I enjoyed an apple. A bit after that Aunt Jinnie put her chair back and both mom and she had a nap.

Lunch arrived around 2:00 pm of pureed carrots and pureed chicken. I would put some in a spoon, hand the spoon to mom and she would bring it up to her mouth and eat it. About the time we were working on that two ladies from speech therapy arrived so they stood around and watched.  They were impressed with how well she was doing. I asked if she liked the chicken and she replied, "not really, it doesn't taste like chicken".  When she was given a bite of carrots she replied, "they need garlic salt." Those ladies laughed. Amy Koch arrived and went out to try to find seasonings. She didn't find garlic salt but found some packets of salad dressings. Amy also brought mom some roses from her garden. 

I left for home and made it here before Mark got home. Joan and Mackenson had been here and had all the mowing done here. Everything looks amazing. Anna and Phil were also here and had repaired the water leak under the apartment sink. Diane and Mike came over. Diane was riding Oksana, Mike was riding Lola and ponying Dancer.  We will be sorry to see Lola leave. She is a nice mare and throws really sweet foals.

Below they are heading back to the trails. 

The horses were fed again for the night and I'm heading to bed pretty quickly as I need to leave early in the morning to relieve Ruth.