Rain

 I drove to Casey's at 7:00 am to pick up a dozen donuts for the Berean volunteers today as I didn't have time to bake anything yesterday. At 8:00 am mom was ready to go. The wheel chair van was dead, turned out the parking lights had been left on. Joan pulled mom's charger out and within minutes we were ready to leave for the Berean office. We had a lot of mail and were pretty short of volunteers. Thankfully Vonnie was able to handle processing all of the Bible studies while Kathy read all of the request letters. Marvin was back and had a backlog of work from his vacation. We had one request coming in that no one could read the name, somehow someway Marvin found where he was incarcerated and found the correct spelling and this prisoner was sent a Bible today. We had 21 Bible requests and over 100 studies and letters come in so were really busy. Mom was kept busy with stamping the return address on envelopes. As soon as she had a pile ready, Skip would apply the postage and Vonnie would apply the labels. No pictures, I never thought to take any as I was busy on the computer. Shirl left a gift for us at the Berean office. More candles.

I had used the last of the candles from Diane so these were a very welcomed gift. We made it to the Hanna City post office around noon. I had someone coming to pick up a sold weanling today at 12:30 pm so really needed to be home. As soon as mom was back in her house I went straight home to change. Dreamer was pulled out and given a quick groom. 

The other 4 weanlings were quite jealous when Dreamer was the only foal taken out.

Just because I wanted to make sure she would load I put her in the stock trailer, then took her out the side door and then 3 more times just asked her to jump in the trailer through the side door. I was thrilled she would jump right in then wait for me to ask her to come back out. I was pretty sure we would have no problem loading into the customer's trailer.

The people coming to pick her up brought a HUGE 7 horse slant load trailer with a ramp. Dreamer took one look at the ramp and refused to step on it. After working for over an hour I recommended just delivering her. Brought the stock trailer over and she jumped right in. I had hoped to have enough time to run to the dmv in Pekin to get new stickers for the campers, motorhomes and truck but it was already 2:45 pm by the time I got back from delivering Dreamer. I was needed at mom's by 4:30 pm so decided to go anyway. When I arrived a thunderstorm arrived at the same time with a big clap of thunder as I ran for the door. The Pekin dmv wasn't very crowded and by 3:25 I was on the way back home. It started hailing by the time I reached route 24.

I was quite chilled by the time I made it home. Mark was given all of the new registration stickers and I left for mom's house. Joan wanted to go to Vickie Martin's visitation. Vickie and her husband were always so kind to her children when they were in Eureka and Joan felt it was important to go. We are currently having a thunderstorm. Yesterday Mark got 50 pounds of red clover seed spread and today we have rain. Perfect timing! I am thankful for the rain. 

WE just got news our VRBO rental for the week of March 28th, to April 4th was cancelled. No excuse given just cancelled. Crazy that VRBO can do that this close to our trip.