Poor Pitiful Rockaway

 The morning was cold, hovering around 24 degrees. Mark got up during the night and kept the wood burner going so the house was nice and warm.  I took the golf cart up to check on Rockaway. He saw me coming and came running up wondering where his friends were.  He was fed then left in that paddock until later this afternoon as I couldn't find a halter quickly and it was already after 7:00 am.  Joan is now back from Gulf Shores and came on the walk to tell us all about her vacation.  Diane told us they were planning on leaving for Gulf Shores around 1:00 pm today so we won't see her until next year.  I had the morning free. Joan and Ruth took mom to the dentist at 9:30 am.  They will be finishing the dental implants soon but today needed to make molds for the crowns. She was easily able to tolerate sitting in the dentist chair for over an hour.  Rizzy (Israel and Elisabet's dog) is enjoying her vacation at grandma's. She has been chasing rabbits then taking naps on the couch. 

She really is a good dog. At 1:00 pm I headed over to mom's to meet with Vicki the social working who was here to kick mom off Hospice.

Well officially she isn't off until December 25th at midnight. We have an appointment with mom's regular doctor next Wednesday to get her placed on Palliative care. The problem with that is the hospital bed and wheelchair are from Hospice.  We told mom at midnight Christmas she loses her bed and would have to sleep on the floor.  Vicki was quick to explain, "no no Palliative care will let you keep the bed and wheelchair."  Of course we laughed.  Hospice has been wonderful and we really appreciated all they did for us.  After Vicki left I needed to head up to the barn to move Rockaway so he could see the two stallions.  He was put in Ribbon's old paddock and went right to work checking all the buckets. This poor pitiful weanling is missing his buddies. It isn't often we only have 1 weanling all alone. 

Of course I put grain in 2 of them to give him something to do. Notice those two white things by his feet? Those are ice chunks that had to be dumped out of the buckets.  He even had to check out the bucket I brought the grain in. 

At 4:30 I started supper as tonight was my night to bring dinner over to mom's house.  Tonight we had chicken stir fry with fried rice and egg rolls. We had an enjoyable evening.