Logan & Carli's Shower

 Mark took my old and new phone in to the shop this morning to get everything transferred over to the new and get that one up and running. I left with the golf car at 6:45 am to get Rhonda's cat fed then back here to tease Whiskey, the outside mare. She is showing but would not accept Evan. I brought him up twice and both times she kicked. We will try again tomorrow.  For our walk this morning mom and I rode the golf cart for the first round. Mom just didn't feel well enough to walk. The golf cart is quiet enough we can still visit while the others get their exercise. After the first round mom went back inside. NO golf cart was used on the second round. I checked out AC Central as it is Thursday morning and noticed John Bradle had a study on Fathers in Tremont. After listening I decided to download it but needed a picture for the video. I wanted a father with his children and looked on the internet but couldn't find anything suitable that wasn't copywrited so just decided to use my 5 boys with their children. They are all wonderful fathers. 

That was kind of time consuming so if you decided to listen to the video you will see the same pictures over and over.  The message was VERY good for dads. As soon as that was finished I left for Meister's to pick up the new phone. Thankfully it is the same phone as Anna has so she can teach me. At 4:45 pm mom had a video conference with her cardiologist. I went over to help set it up. We made one mistake, we forgot to take her phone off blue tooth so when the doctor was speaking only mom could hear as it was only going through her hearing aids. This call was for the doctor to tell mom the results of the monitor she wore for 72 hours. Her heart only dropped down to 40 beats a minute once during that time. She is doing well enough they really don't want to put a pacemaker on but will see how she does for the next 6 months.  Anna picked mom and I up tonight for Carli and Logan's wedding shower. 

That was VERY nice. Rachel, Jessica and Susan had a wonderful meal for everyone.

They had lots of fresh colorful veggies, and a wonderful potato bar with all kinds of toppings including taco meat, shredded taco cheese, shredded cheddar cheese, bacon, sour cream, butter, and hot sauce.

The desserts were fresh fruit, a chocolate log, really delicious cookies and cheese cake parfaits. 

Below are the two grandmas.

We enjoyed the meal, the visiting and getting to see all the abundance of gifts. It was a very nice evening.

Lap Full of Puppies

 A storm came through last night dropping lots of limbs, sticks and leaves. Ruth told us at her house they had 51 mph wind gusts at her place and we probably had the same. We had another really hot day. On our walk, mom had to stop and we thought she was going to faint. Ruth and Diane helped her by holding her while she put her head down while I ran (tried to run) for the golf cart. We think it is the heat and humidity. At 10:30 am mom and I went first to Aldi for a few groceries then across the street to Walmart to pick up the fans Joan ordered and paid for which were going to go down to Island Royale condo for the bunk bedroom. That room has triple bunks, sleeps 6 and each bunk had it's own fan, light and USB ports but 2 of the fans were not working.

Joan had us pick up 4 so she has a couple extra if any others go out. She is in Gulf Shores now working on that condo. None of the stores down there had the fans in stock. Diane is leaving on Friday for Gulf Shores and will take them down with her.  Once the fans were picked up, btw I would never bother ordering a pick up order at the Walmart on University. They were VERY unorganized and not at all efficient. From there mom and I drove to Culvers to eat lunch with the Lunch Bunch. Mark came home a little early and was hungry so I made him a BLT, first going out to pick a very red juicy vine ripened tomato. Another storm blew in around 6:15 pm, just as we were picking mom up for church. The wind was gusting hard and there was a constant rumble of thunder. It was raining pretty hard on our drive in so we decided to go the town way instead of the interstate and got all the way to Farmington hill and had to turn around. The police had the road blocked off, not sure if a tree fell across the road or power lines were down. We ended up getting to church by going on 474 and still made it in time. When we got out of church it was still raining and the lightning was putting on quite a show. The rain stopped just as we pulled in mom's house. When we went into the house the lights weren't working. She did not lose power as part of the house has lights. She was going to ask Anni and Matt to check the breakers. Hopefully the house didn't get hit by lightning while we were gone. Karin and Jackie took Nancy over to Rebekah's to see their Bernadoodle puppies. Nancy LOVED the lap full of puppies.

Truth

 There was a promise of heat on our walk but nothing like later this afternoon.  I quit the walk after one round and left for Sam's club at 8:00 am to pick up key lime pie and fresh baked cinnamon rolls for the Berean volunteers. From Sam's I stopped at the Berean office, dropped off the mail and the desserts then took off for Peoria Tire to get the oil changed in the 2007 Prius. Mom was already waiting there with her car. Eddie checked the car in then we left for Bereans. IF you would like to read about our morning there click HERE. After finishing there mom took me back to Peoria Tire. She left for shopping at the Good Will on Pioneer Parkway while I drove to Proctor to drop off her heart monitor then to the Hanna City post office to drop off the Bibles and pick up mom's package. I made it home before she did. When we walked out of the office the heat hit us like a furnace. It was much to hot to work outside. A couple of the girls were swimming to cool off but even in the water it was almost too uncomfortable and soon everyone was cooped up in houses or offices with the air conditioner on high. Ralph and Jamie came over to discuss breeding their mare Dakota again to Valiant. Dakota was bred to Valiant in 2015 and delivered a gorgeous filly Sept 2nd, 2016. Below is a picture of this filly shortly after birth.  They named Legacy.

Below is a picture of Legacy at 3 years of age.

No WONDER they want to breed her back. They have a plan and will let me know when to prepare for Dakota. Legacy is even more impressive now as a 5 year old. Her mane is as thick and long as our purebred Friesians and her tail is so long it drags on the ground. Jamie has to trim it so she doesn't step on it. When Mark got home he thought he would work outside but the heat was just too great. Instead we found work to do inside. I'm thankful for computers. This evening I got on AC Central, clicked on Washington, chose page 100 and then clicked on Fred Witzig. This message was given on Feb. 10th, 2013 and I was shocked at how relevant it is for 2021. Fred talked about an author from Russia named Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who believed the real problem with Russia was the absence of truth. Kind of like what we feel is now happening to America. We don't believe the media, we don't believe our politicians and now we don't even believe the doctors. Sure am thankful for the Bible and so very thankful that our God NEVER lies. IF you would like to listen to the message it is posted below:

Trailer Returns

 Right after the walk, around 8:00 am I drove in to the Peoria post office to pick up the Berean mail. The first camping trailer was scheduled to come back anywhere between 9:00 am and 11:00 am. The post office wasn't that busy but they only had one lady manning the place so I ended up waiting longer than expected. On the way home the phone went off with a text that one of the renters got an early start and wanted to drop off the trailer early.  I was still 8 miles away when they sent the next text that they were 1 mile away.  I asked them to just back it in and I would be there soon.  I actually arrived at 5 minutes after 9:00 am and they had just unhooked the trailer. They had driven all the way from North Carolina to pick up the trailer and take it to 3 Sister's Park for Summer Camp. All was well with the trailer, they had a great time and didn't seem to mind the extra few minutes of wait. This was not the trailer that was due at 9:00 am this was the one that was due to be delivered at 2:00 pm and these people had paid for us to dump. I drove back to my place grabbed the truck and took the trailer into the field, dug a hole and dumped, then flushed it out. By the time I had it cleaned and parked it was 10:30 and the next trailer arrived. This was the Keystone and the renters were 2 guys from Pennsylvania. Last year they tented and were thrilled to find this trailer. Since those 2 were already back I called the man that rented the Wolf Pup and told him I was on the way to pick that one up. It started raining as I was driving and continued to rain as I was hooking up the trailer but stopped as I was driving home. This trailer also needed to be dumped but I was pleased that all 3 trailers came back in good shape. We weren't sure when we heard they were all going to Summer Camp. I finished up with all the trailers around 2:00 pm and finally was making lunch when Mark arrived. He needed some help with cutting boards of insulation for the barn. We worked on that until the saw belt broke. I went over to visit with mom while he got on line to order more belts.  Ameren was here turning the power on for the new barn. They brought 3 huge trucks and 6 men out to do this job.  By the way that picture was taken with my new phone. 

The phone isn't hooked up yet for calling people, I'll need to go in to the shop to get that done but Phil got it going that any pictures taken goes right away to my gmail account. Pretty cool. Spark came with his machine to fill in the hole from where the power wire goes from the transformer to the barn board.

Ameren came back out and put in the meter. We are now good to go!  The picture below was also on my google drive (which I didn't even know I had a google drive). That is Amy and I. Amy is riding Nora (now deceased) and I was riding Jenis, (now sold). We took these two mares to Farmdale Park and had a wonderful ride. 

We met each other when I was a year old and Amy was 2 years old. She lived across the street from Pleasant Home and would come walking over all by herself to visit me (the current baby of the family) 65 years ago. We both loved horses and spent almost every free hour together exploring the world on horse back. 

Another Super Sunday

 We had a wonderful Sunday. David had the first message on Psalm 45. I have never heard this Psalm explained so well. If interested in hearing it I've posted it below:

During the service I had turned on Facebook live on my phone to share this message. Elisabet was sitting with me and was digging through my purse to find surprises. I got a surprise at the end of the message. Geoff Ginzel sent me a text, it came during the message but I didn't notice it as my phone had been silenced. I opened the test and read, "Are you OK?"  "You have posted 53 hands in the air emoji's".  Thank goodness she hadn't pushed the angry face emoji! So if any of my non AC friends that WERE watching on Facebook. IT WASN'T ME doing that!

Bruce and Leila Witzig and Nancy Schmidgall served a wonderful lunch even serving Krispy Kreme donuts. Of course there weren't any left of those.  Tim Funk had the second service. After church Phil and Anna came over with a brand new cell phone for me. This one has all the bells and whistles. Ben and Taunya's family arrived and Ben even installed the foaling cameras on this phone. Tomorrow I will need to take it in to the shop to get everything transferred over and then comes the hard part about learning how to use it. It has an excellent camera installed.  Rhoda, Lee and Iris were the only ones who couldn't make dinner tonight. After dinner we ended up at the playground where the little kids were looking for cicadas around the trees.

The big kids all went swimming while the bigger kids were playing volley ball.

The playground was well used today. The merry-go-round is always fun.

Israel was showing off some of his moves on the trampoline.

Mark took some of the younger ones on a golf cart ride.

Sarah, River and I went inside to visit with grandma.

She was such a happy baby this evening.  Diane, Rhonda, mom and I played games for a bit then Amy, Ken, and Spark came in so we stayed and visited until way after dark. We sure had another Super Sunday filled with friends and family.

Moving 28

 Tom Haefli came to help Karin and me move mares and foals to Middle Grove. Our plan was to take 4 mares and 4 foals out, let them go to in the summer pasture, then lead the rest to the back gate from the original pasture to the summer pasture THEN bring home the riding horses. We were really pleased when all the mares and foals loaded into the big trailer without a fuss and the trip to Middle Grove went smooth. I drove in, we unloaded and let them go. 

They were pretty thrilled to be back out on that lush green grass. In the picture above Hadassah, Jewel, Madiera, Rosaleigh and their foals are heading up to the round pen to find the rest of the herd.  From there we drove over to the orginal land and were really pleased to find the horses right there. When we got close to the gate we figured out WHY they were all there. Lola's colt was on the wrong side of the fence. Cookie was very worried about him, Lola was up on the hill side grazing letting Cookie do all the worrying. Karin opened the gate and Rockaway (Lola's colt) was glad to come running in.

He has turned out beautiful!  His foal coat is almost gone and he is rich black with that big white star. Someone is really going to be thrilled with him.  Irish's colt has also shed out his foal coat and is very striking mostly bright white with pitch black spots.

Jury's colt is VERY impressive. 

I hiked up the hill to halter Lola and took the two pictures below for the owner of Soul's filly. She was born dark bay but also turned black.

She is quite tall. In 2 or 3 weeks I need to bring 6 foals home to wean. Tom led Lily at the front, Karin led Rosalie and Irish in the middle and I lead Lola toward the back and all the of others fell in line following us up the hill to the summer pasture gate.

The plan was to take the halters off the mares and put them on the riding horses. When we reached the top Karin took the halter off Irish and put it on Mika. Tom opened the gate and the horses all filed in but before we got halter Missy, Cookie and Sangria, Missy was so thrilled to be in the summer pasture she took off at a gallop.

That set off the entire herd.

About that time as they ran off into freedom we decided those riding horses could be brought back another time, there was no way we wanted to start hiking. Karin let Mika loose to go find the herd and this racing bred 21 year old gelding took off like a bullet.

We hiked back to the truck and trailer and drove home with an empty trailer. All the time remarking on how smoothly that all went. We 3 people moved 28  horses today without a problem. Rain had been predicted to start in Farmington at 9:00 am and there was no rain the entire time we were there. IF you would like to see the rest of the pictures from Middle Grove click HERE.  Thankfully the rain held off until we got home. Once home the trailer was backed into it's parking spot.  My next job was to drive to Sam's Club to pick up food for tomorrow's meal. That store was really crowded.  On the way home I stopped at Casey's for gas and was pleased to see they had gas.  Last night there were notices that they were again out of gas. And FINALLY finally the truth comes out and I quote from the video below, "People that have had Covid now have complete and durable Covid immunity."  "You CAN'T BEAT natural immunity." "they do NOT need to be vaccinated and do not need to be tested" Please if you want the truth please please watch the video below, do it for your own sake!

Swimming With Oksana

 We had another warm morning and hot day. We kept up a pretty good pace on our walk today and  mom also did ok not having to stop even going up the hill. She is doing her balance exercises and also is now brushing her own hair. Her shoulder is still giving her some trouble but she is able to lift her arm above her head now which makes it possible for her to get her hair brushed. Today I made a special effort to be here when Karin, Berlica, Rochelle and Rosa were working with Evan. Below he is getting hosed off before the work out.

Below Berlica is a short video of Berlica taking her turn.

Rochelle led him to the field while Rosa got to sit on him for that walk.

IF you would like to see the rest of the pictures of them working with him click HERE.

They were taken over to their house on the golf cart so they could get their swimming suits on as the next horse to be worked with was Oksana and Oksana was going to get to go swimming in Diane's pond.

Mike had put the blue dye in the water which keeps the water weeds down. Studley was first in the water.  

Berlica rode Oksana down to the water while Karin led her.

Each girl got plenty of turns. As you can see in the video below.

They rode her back to the paddock.

EB Builders finished their part of the barn, loaded up their machines and any of the big pieces of wood and drove away. 

Karin and Jackie arrived after work and we went to mom's for games. I had to quit a little early as I needed to be at David and Stephanie's house to watch the kids while they attended potluck. We had fun tonight driving in to Chillicothe, marveling at the crowd of cars and campers at 3 Sisters park for Summer Camp then driving to Dairy Queen for blizzards.

We had less than a half hour to play with bubbles, bikes and scooters before Elisabet needed to get ready for bed. 

Below is Israel going into the parking lot across the street with his scooter then zooming back.

The moon tonight came up over the trees as a big orange ball. My phone is very old and the camera on it isn't good so the picture below does not show the true beauty of that big orange ball hanging low in the sky.

It was a busy day but a lot of fun.