Since everything was all set up in the barn I had little out there to do. Phil and Taegan came to finish up a few things Phil wanted done. Taegan is the perfect helper for that, they first fixed some wires in my basement.
Next Phil went over to the barn and turned the air conditioning on as low as it would go for the entire barn, which was 67 degrees.
That worked amazing. It dropped the degree down quickly and within 15 or so minutes everything felt really cool. Phil wanted the lift removed so the old truck and aluminum trailer were brought over for that job.
Joan stopped in and showed me where Faith had been attacked by ground hornets while mowing by the arena. She came last night when the hornets were all in their nest, poured gas on the hive then made a small line of gas in the grass, lit it and ran. That worked, this morning all of the hornets were dead.
I needed to get the plastic food service gloves out to the barn but they weren't where I thought I had them stored. I finally thought they must be in the stall area in the show tubs. Since those are heavy Mark helped pull them down and nope, they were not there either. That meant a trip to Sam's club. I left at noon, grabbed the gloves and was home by 1:04 pm. At 3:45 pm Spark and Rhonda got some terrible news, Rhonda's younger brother died and they needed to leave so would not be able to come. That meant I needed to find a new MC but Dan was here setting up the band equipment so he was given that job. Please pray for the Haefli family. Mark left to pick up the pig from Sam's at 3:50 pm but when he got there, there was a half hour delay for them to get the hog in the boxes. The live weight was 260 pounds so they needed to quarter it and the head was sent in a separate box.
People started to arrive just before 5:00 pm.
Zeke and Jack were fascinated with that hog.
We gathered in the gym for the prayer but before the prayer sang happy birthday to Bonnie Bach as today IS her birthday. After the prayer we had two tables of kids in line first so they could eat quickly then go on golf cart rides which helped seat all the adults as by the time the kids were done we needed those tables. Below are just a few pictures.
Spark was also going to be helping Fedi with cutting up the hog so when Tim Roecker offered to help I was thankful. Ralph also helped with filling the roasters then switching them out the empties for the full. Fedi and Tim worked for almost 2 hours supplying us with delicious fork tender pork and finally finally sat down to eat.
There was still plenty of food.
The singing started at 7:00 pm then Dave Obergfel had the closing remarks and prayer.
A few improvements for next year would be 4 serving lines, the hog getting here a little sooner and better outdoor lighting. What worked wonderful were the amount of tables and chairs and the air-conditioning.
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