Enjoyed the Day

 We had another super Sunday.  I was up at 4:00 am to check on Soul's colt. He seemed bright this morning so it must have been nothing.  Our airbnb guests left pretty early for their trip to their new home in Ohio. They were moving from Spokane, Washington and brought 3 vehicles plus a trailer, 4 parrots, 3 big dogs and some cats.  I ran up to check the apartment and it looked fine. They either kept all the animals in the trailer over night of cleaned everything up.  I stripped the beds and started a load of laundry. Mark and I left at 9:15 am for church. Joan brought mom and beat us there. Tim Roecker had the first service and Mike Kaisner had the second service. We got home just before 2:00 pm.  Kay was here to pick up Skye. Sure am praying she conceived. Lily, her filly, Soul and her colt were turned out as soon as Skye was loaded.  The colt really does seem ok.  The indoor arena needed cleaning up and a full wheelbarrow load of manure was removed. Wow do these mares have HUGE piles. Mike took Sally, Dancer and Cookie over to the cabin for a trail ride. Berlica rode Missy and Mike rode Sally ponying Dancer.

I headed back to the house.  After washing up well dinner preparations were made. The potatoes were wrapped in aluminum foil and placed in the oven, the cake batter prepared and put in the oven. The Bavarian cream was whipped up along with a chocolate mousse to be used as topping for the cake.  Next 10 eggs were boiled and deviled eggs made along with a big salad. The green beans were put to soak in chicken broth then boiled a bit later. The grand kids came running in with a bucket.

They caught a garter snake and wanted to show it to us.

They played with it for a while before letting it go in the garden. The decaf coffee was started at 4:00 pm and Mark started grilling the pork chops just before 4:00 pm.  The meal was delicious. After supper we all headed over to the playground were volley ball was going on.  The kids went for the tramps.

Elisabet found a big stick and Eden came with her to show it to me.

Below they are going back to the tree fort to find a stick for Eden.

The games were good.

Below is a short video.

Mark and I went in to mom's to visit with the group in there. Joan was working with mom on a match game. This is to help mom process things quicker.

We left when the kids came running in all excited. Israel caught a nice big bass.

Taegan took it back down to the lake to let it go to grow even bigger. After the big kids quit volleyball Phil and Anna worked with the next generation.

Elisabet found a treasure (the shell of a cicada) and had to point out where the eyes were and how when she squeezed it the claws would move.

Since Eden was too young to play she came with me to put the horses in for the night.  We drove right up to Soul and Eden was so pleased when Soul's colt looked right at her.

When we got back everyone was leaving for home.  There was a carbol game going on at mom's so I stayed and watched.  It is a fun game to watch. Lots of strategy and of course lots of groaning when things go bad. We really enjoyed the day.