Another Loss

 On the way to the walk I usually swing by the paddocks to make sure all is well. My guests staying in the foaling apartment were out petting Jewel and Jewel was loving the attention.

They really enjoyed staying here. Just Ruth and I walked this morning. Joan is still on her trip out West and Diane spent the night at Middle Grove. We just did one round then went in to visit with mom. She had a much better night last night sleeping well. She is still coughing but it is now a productive cough and she feels better. She was just getting ready to walk to the breakfast table when we arrived.

It was good to see her up and walking.

Joan's cats were still over at mom's so Mark brought their food over there but still left some food out for the black cat that lives at Joan's house. I left for Aldi right after breakfast getting a lot of the food we will serve on Sunday night. I decided to do haystacks as we haven't had that in a while. Mark was gone when I got back. HE took the truck down to the Dream Center to purchase another lawn mower. This one is an older Toro but starts right up and works well. From there he drove to Sarah and Nolan's house to take down some saplings and weeds along their fence. Those were loaded into the back of the truck and brought here for the burn pile. 

As Diane has airbnb guests coming in today at the cowboy cabin she wanted some horses in the cabin field. Madiera and her colt were taken over.

I thought they would be fine but both Madiera and her colt kept calling for the other horses so finally I went back and got Missy and put her in with them.

Mom called as I was taking the video so quit and took the golf cart over. Mom's deck was taken over by Joan's cats and kittens. Karin sent the pictures below of mom enjoying the sunshine AND the cats.

Tomorrow I'll show mom some of the Eastern Camp videos. Aunt Jinnie called and said the orchestra was beautiful this year and they have 1200 campers for this camp but the facility they are using has room for 1500 so they can grow next year too.  On the way back to the house I took a few pictures of the flowers. Mom has surprise lilys popping up all over.

The flowers grow well at mom's.

After supper Mark took the truck to the burn pile to empty it.

That burn pile is huge. From there we took the truck to Joan's to unload the mower he picked up at the Dream Center.

I was so impressed with how easy it starts.

It never hurts to have extra mowers around.

We just got word that David Jacob's beloved dog Zero died. Zero was a miracle dog, his mother, a 12 year old husky, was considered too old to have puppies and on a cold day in November on Rachel's birthday they were shocked to find her nursing one big puppy. They named that puppy Zero and he became David's dog and companion. They spent hours hiking in the woods, hunting and we never saw Zero without David. Rachel took the picture below.

He was a big shaggy happy dog and had a wonderful life with David.

David and his brothers dug the grave over by Rachel's orchard. What a hard year this has been for losing beloved pets. Studly, Molly, Kabur and now Zero all this summer.