Sad Update

 It was only 3 degrees this morning and below zero wind chill so the walk was cancelled. That gave Mark and I plenty of time to haul in 5 loads of wood for the wood burner today.  Yesterday's loads kept that fire going all day yesterday and all night tonight so the house was comfortable this morning. I also had time to check the charges on the discover card and found an unauthorized charge of $172.00 on it from a vet clinic in North Carolina dated Jan 18th, 2023.  As that state is on Eastern time I called a couple minutes after 8:00 am our time (9:03 am their time) and asked about the charges.  It was a mistake and they were glad to reverse the charge. It really was an honest mistake but taught me how important it is to check. Karin helped mom into her car today when it was time to leave for the Berean office. We arrived there at 8:50 am. If you would like to read about Berean click HERE. We stopped at the Hanna City post office on the way home to drop off the Bibles and studies going out today.  As we had a pretty good size piece of apple pie at Berean mom didn't want lunch today.  I decided to skip lunch and eat a late lunch at home after Karin got back to relieve me. Mark beat me home today from work so we just heated up pizza at 2:30 pm. The picture below was posted as a memory on Facebook from 10 years ago today.

They were 3 year olds in that picture. This was of Evan and Valiant when they were still best friends. Rhoda was riding Evan and Steven was riding Valiant.

We got some sad news yesterday that Zalena died.  She had a wonderful retirement home with Kres these last 3 years and gave Kres a beautiful filly she named Marra. The picture below of Zalena was taken in November. 

Kres sent the picture that day and wrote that Zalena is the queen of the farm. Below is her daughter Marra by Evan at 2 years of age.