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Busy Day
The house did not blow up last night. We LIVED to see another day. I overslept because at midnight I woke up so thirsty I decided to go downstairs to see if there was any bottled water in the downstairs fridge. Mark thought those were all gone but remembered we had some big 4 gallon jugs of water. I carried down 2 of our biggest mugs but found plenty of water bottles in the fridge so brought up 4 of those. Drank one down quickly, gave Mark one and put the other 2 in the upstairs fridge for later. When I finally did get up it was after 6:30 am. We had some left over coffee but not enough for both of use so went down and filled the 2 quart container, brought that up to make a pot. By the time it was done it was almost time to walk. Diane, Ruth and I went to Joan's, Faline was standing next to Joan for some attention and stuck around to greet all of us.
When we reached the stall barn I slipped in to fill Harli's water bucket. I only did one round so I could get back, clean Harli's stall and fill her feeder with hay then left for Berean. We had a new volunteer, Kristen, Joan's daughter, joined us. Shirley claimed her and put her to work folding the advanced studies. We were thankful for her help. Below are a couple pictures.
Kathy finished the letters so went in to help with wrapping Bibles. In the video she is laughing because right after Shirley told her to include the studies she almost forgot.
We had key lime pie and coffee for our break this morning. A very nice 2 page letter came in. You may need to click on the picture to get it big enough to read.
I stopped at the Hanna City post office to drop off the Bibles and studies going out today. Diane sent a message letting us know she was short 3 batches of party potatoes for the funeral tomorrow. Immediately Joan sent back a text she would make a batch, then Ruth sent a text she would make one and as soon as I got out of the car I sent a text I would make the 3rd batch, then rushed home to change. Dr. Pallen was coming around 12:30 pm to change Tessa's filly's bandages and I needed to bring Basilea and Valerie in so they could get their blood drawn. Tessa and her filly were brought into the stall and the filly's halter put on. Dr. Pallen sent a message that she was on her way but would be here a few minutes later than 12:30 which gave me enough time to get a halter on Harli's colt and give him a tying lesson today. He was NOT happy about that.
He had his ears pinned and was giving me the evil eye. He settled down and figured out that he liked scratches from humans.
Valerie and Basilea were put in the paddock next to the stall barn so when Dr. Pallen arrived we just walked out there for the pictures and blood draw. Both mares were perfect. They were more curious about what she was doing then worried and stood very well for the pictures and the blood draw. Then came the removal of the bandage on Tessa's filly. The wound looks much better and is starting to close.
Dr. Pallen put some ointment on and they were left in the stall until this evening. When Dr. Pallen left I worked a little bit longer with Harli's colt before taking his halter off. Then it was time to get to the barn to keep working on the laundry. Diane called about then to remind me there was no way I could make the party potatoes as we won't have propane until tomorrow afternoon and the potatoes had to be done in the morning. Hopefully Joan can make 2 batches. I had the washer and dryer going at the barn but the dryer was taking longer. I remembered I couldn't use the washer but took a load of sheets over and stuck them in mom's dryer then went back to work at the barn. After an hour those sheets were not dry. Only after telling Mark the dryer wasn't working did I remember we have no propane! Oh the things we take for granite. I hauled those sheets back over to the barn. I needed to wash all the sheets, all of the towels and all of the throws as I was pretty sure the people staying here used them for blankets and once the last load of those were going I went back to the barn to let Tessa and her filly out in the field. Rosaleigh's colt was SO glad they were back.
Tessa went right over to Evan and he knocked a board down trying to sniff her. I used a lead rope to temporally put it up but will have to ask for help to get it fixed tomorrow. She wasn't in season but may be coming in as it is 21 days since her last cover. If she doesn't show tomorrow I will take her to Dr. Hoerr on Thursday for an ultrasound, hopefully to confirm pregnancy. I was able to get an appointment for Valerie for her second ultra sound Thursday at 8:30 am. I went back to clean Tessa's stall and Harli's then worked with the colt again, handling him, walking out then right back in and handling him again. I did this about 10 times and each time he got better about standing. I got a message from our guest in the farm house that the air conditioner wasn't working. Mark went right over and found it was the capacitor. Philip had one at Meister's so Mark drove there and then was going to go back and put the new one in. The guests knows exactly how to do it and is willing to help Mark with that. Hopefully he found the part. Since I can't cook I think I'll have some ice cream for supper tonight. It sure was a busy day.
