Diane and Mike left early this morning to pick up a lift for his new barn. While I was waiting for Ruth to arrive I was marveling at the bird sounds this morning from the annoying ratatatat of the wood pecker the mournful sound of the dove and the joyful sounds of the songbirds the woods were full of the sounds of God's amazing creation.
Ruth arrived with her German Shepherd. This is a very well behaved dog but when we turned to go to Joan's both of the fawns were in the front yard. Joan had to call for Berlica to quick call them away while Ruth held the dog. We didn't want them to run as it would be too tempting for the dog to chase. The cat on the other hand believes these deer belong to him. He rubs against them, snuggles down with them even spending the nights with them. The fawns love him right back and give that cat so much attention, so much so Joan was worried about them getting a hairball.
We passed the excavator on our way to the horse. Mike and Spark worked hard on that yesterday but were not able to fix it with the track on so had to take it off. Hopefully it can be fixed and the track put back on soon.
Berlica took Penny out for a ride early this morning before it became too hot. She had just come back as I was cleaning stalls.
Rhoda and Sarah both arrived today to help organize this house. We had many duplicates as mom had a big supply of just about everything. Those girls know how to work together and they got done in record time then went over to the barn to meet Berlica who wanted to try Jewel for vaulting. They used the beginner surcingle on her and that worked well.
Zion was a little unsure to try the double at a walk but was successful at the stand.
We have many grand daughters and great nieces that are anxious to start vaulting so it will be easy to put together a fun team as long as Jewel works out. She is such a kind mare I think it will.
Once they finished they all came swimming to cool off. Rhonda found the journal I wrote when we stayed at Pleasant Home while mom and dad took Ruth, Joan, Dan and Karin on a trip to Alaska for 6 weeks. I started reading it and just had to laugh. My hand writing was SO bad that I decided to type it up. This afternoon I was able to finish just the first week. If you would like to read how crazy our life was back then click
HERE but if that doesn't work, look over to the right and under pages click on the link that says Our 6 Week 'Vacation' at Pleasant Home
Joan came in with a gift of 4 ripe or almost ripe tomatoes from mom's plants.
MOM beat me again and she isn't even alive to gloat. Each year we plant tomatoes and each year it is a race to see whose ripen first. She won again. I want people to feel free to help themselves if they need some. My plants are also doing well. No ripe ones yet but they will be soon with all this hot weather. Later I went over to pull Tessa out to tease but noticed Penny was in season big time. Mike was over and helped get her covered by Evan.
We have no history on her as we bought her from an auction but she stood well so probably has been bred before. Rhonda went shopping today and she and Spark brought over more items for the farm house. Below are her unique finds just for this house from her shopping today.
The pictures were all hung. Mark is working on the internet cage but will need some help to install it. He is hoping to get Phil for a few minutes soon. I need to find one more comfortable chair for the rec room then we are good to post it on airbnb. When I got back to the house Braelyn, Taegan and Berlica were enjoying the refreshing water of the lake.
I was tempted but wanted to finish typing week one of the 1989 diary.
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