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Safe!
We lost electricity at 4:00 am and I know this as I awoke, looked at my watch and thought it read 4:45 am so decided to get up early but when I walked into the kitchen it was only 3:45 am. I went back to bed and had not fallen asleep when everything went quiet, so quiet I knew we lost power. When Mark awoke around 5:00 am I explained we have no power. The rain gauge showed 2.1 inches of rain during the night. Mark actually was shocked when I brought him a hot cup of coffee. We had leftover coffee from yesterday I heated up on our propane powered stove. He waited until daylight to start the generator. I went out to take care of Tessa and her filly. They were moved into a clean stall and given grain. The filly was very curious abut what her mama was eating and stuck her head in the bucket to try it.
She decided mama's milk was much better. She nursed a bit then came over to check out what I was doing. I gave her the grain scoop while I scooped poop.
When finished I picked up the grain scoop and she followed me over to check me out.
She is acting like a normal 2 day old filly so I think we are out of the woods with her. When I finished and was headed back had to laugh at Rosaleigh's colt playing king of the hill.
I needed to get a small table from the gym. Rhonda had 3 of her grandsons here and Mike had Crew and Jackson so those 5 went in the dark gym to play basketball.
The electric company sent a message that the electricity would be out until tomorrow at noon. Rhoda and Iris arrived to work horses. Iris got to ride Cookie while Rhoda worked with Izzy.
Berlica came over mowing so Rhoda put her to work with Izzy.
She had Berlica mount from both sides then took a little walk keeping everything very relaxed.
Sarah arrived right after with Zion, Eden and River and about 30 seconds later Elisabet arrived.
the girls went swimming. Mark and I got all 4 campers moved over to the barn for the big Kieser weekend.
We were visiting when Mike called to say he and Diane were going to Middle Grove so they could have air conditioning and the 3 mares at the cabin field would need to come over here as their waterer is on a well and they would be turning off their generator. Crew helped Mike and I get them over.
We put 3 on the East side and one on the South side. The girls were up playing on the trampolines.
Sarah watched the girls while Rhoda and I took a few more trips of things from my house over to mom's house. We left about 4:15 pm for supper at Gils as the power was still out. Ameron now predicted that it wouldn't be restored until 10:00 pm tomorrow. I let the Kieser's know to see if they would want to cancel or switch to another weekend but they decided to come anyway. We were just ordering our food when Joan sent the first message, "the power is ON!" Followed quickly by Rhonda, Rachel and Diane. I let Kathy and Pam know then the food arrived. We started with a large order of onion rings. Gils has the best!
Our meals came pretty quickly.
Above is Rhoda's and below is Mark's and mine.
Iris ordered the kids chicken tenders which came with fries.
Gils also always serve fritters covered with powdered sugar.
After supper we left for TSC in East Peoria. Our phone went off with a tornado warning and take cover now. We were driving so just kept on driving. We got to TSC, picked up 6 bags of grain and 6 bags of bedding then started home and ended up what seemed like the middle of a tornado. The limbs and leaves were flying around the car, the rain was coming so fast we couldn't see anything. So much rain was falling that the roads filled up with water. We were able to pull into Limestone highschool parking lot to wait out the worst. The foaling apartment booked about then. When we got back I went up to take care of the horse and just then the power went out again. Hopefully it will be on soon. I took lanterns up for the guests in the foaling apartment and showed them where the storm shelter is. When I finished it was obvious the storms were over.
We got another inch of rain so in 24 hours ended up with just over 3 inches. Thankful we are all safe. We were heading to bed and saw lights outside our front window. The power company is out searching for downed lines from the storm. Ours was still up and fine but we have no power.
