Basketball Fun

 I remembered to turn the heat on in the barn early this morning. Another frigid below zero morning but it warmed up today to 17 degrees currently it is 13. Above zero so not awful. Mike and Tate got more bales moved in at Middle Grove and ended up paying for 33 bales yesterday. This morning Joan and Mike both left for Gulf Shores and Ruth is on her way home now. She and Fedi flew into Belleville and are driving Mike and Diane's Prius home. I went to Sam's club and picked up some of the food for Sunday's meal, plus picked up 2 rotisserie chickens to make soup for today, then to Kroger to order and pay for the chicken for Wednesday's family night meal and finally to Aldi to buy baking supplies to make a bunch of desserts and the ingredients to make a roaster full of party potatoes. Mark was helping bring in the groceries and almost fainted. He got real light headed and had to sit down. I tried to take his blood pressure but the machine wouldn't work on him. I think his blood pressure was just too low to register on this machine. It worked fine on me. His heart rate was almost 120 beats per minute. He got a flu shot yesterday and I think he was having a bad reaction. While he was resting I got busy chopping vegetables and de-boning the chicken for the soup. That was finished and we both had some for lunch. I currently have 8 quarts outside and by morning they should be frozen solid. By 4:00 pm Mark was feeling a little better and this time his blood pressure registered 85 over 64 with a heart beat of 89. Still low on the blood pressure but improved and the heart rate was also improved. At 5:30 pm we left to pick up Philip then drove to Farmington School where Kensley's 5th grade basketball team was playing an undefeated team. Dennis and Gertie joined us. It was fun to watch but ended up being a runaway win.  This was supposed to be a hard game with talented players. Kensley made 24 of the 32 points her team scored. When she was playing only allowed the other team 4 points. The coach kept her out at least half of the game and the score at the end was 32 to 10.