Jamaica Fund Raiser

 We were both up at 4:00 am this morning. Not sure why but up and ready to start the day. I went over early to finish the living area of the barn and got all the floors done and the tables and chairs back where they need to be then went over and visited with mom and Ruth until after 8:00 am. Mark came walking over with a bag of garbage from our house so we went home together on the golf cart. Breakfast was the usual eggs, sausage, toast and instead of strawberries Mark cut and ate an orange. I had 3 loads of laundry that needed to be done and once that was started drove to Kroger to see if they had any corned beef marked down. Not only did that NOT have any marked down they didn't have any at all. I stopped at Aldi to get some lemons for Mark and found Aldi still had some but not marked down. I bought a 4 pound corned beef for $25.00. I also picked up a cabbage, potatoes and carrots and will make that tomorrow for our meal. Last year after St. Patrick's day the corned beef was all marked down so we had decided to have that Irish meal a day late. That sure didn't work out this year. We like the corned beef left over to make Rueben sandwiches later. Mark drove Mackenson and Berlica to play practice and was back here by the time I got home from shopping. I had ordered 4 queen size waterproof mattress protectors from Utopia last week. This was the first time I have ever ordered from them and was suspicious but Diane recommended buying them from there. They arrived today so one was taken up to the foaling apartment and put on the queen size bed in the Master bedroom. I see why Diane recommended them. The other 3 will go over to the barn for the 3 upstairs bedrooms but not today. While driving back and forth from the house to the apartment I stopped to get a picture of 3 of the weanlings all snug resting in the hay. 

The 4th was in the other shelter eating off the round bale. Mike went to Middle Grove to put hay in as he is leaving for Gulf Shores for a week but only put 2 bales in. The grass is coming up great there. There is nice green grass everywhere. They sure won't be eating off the bales. We left for church at 6:10 pm tonight. Tim Roecker had the message on 1 Kings 13, an interesting chapter. Click HERE to listen to that.  Tonight after church instead of going out to eat the Bible class served the entire church warm chocolate chip cookies, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, then whipped cream then drizzled with chocolate fudge sauce and that was served with decaf coffee or cold milk. This was a fund raiser for their mission trip to Jamaica and was well attended. Below Chelise is looking at all the pictures.

Below they are serving us the goodies. Eden was in charge of the cookies, Tim was serving the ice cream, Berlica serving the cool Whip and I think that is Anna with the hot fudge.

Most of us stayed a while to visit. We didn't get home until close to 9:30 pm.