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3rd In a Row

 It was a cold 12 degrees this morning. Mark got the wood burner going. Rizzy knows how to get comfortable by laying next to that heat. 

I left the house at 7:35 am for Sam's club to buy the ingredients for Sunday supper. I was out of there and at the Bartonville Dollar General (they open at 8:00 am) by 8:50 am, picked out a birthday card for our youngest grandson then drove to Aldi and had to wait 2 minutes in the car for that store to open as Aldi opens at 9:00 am. Mark had been over at the barn exercising and was already walking back when I pulled in but near the house so he helped unload. There were a lot of bags. We are expecting around 50 for dinner Sunday so I bought 20 pounds of boneless pork loin, ingredients to make stuffing, 5 pounds of potatoes to make the mashed potatoes, 2 big bags of broccoli, 2 kinds of lettuce, 6 pounds of fresh strawberries, 4 jars of pineapple chunks, 3 pounds of grapes, a 3 pound bag of cuties a gallon and a quart of vanilla ice cream and 32 Hawaiian rolls. Rhoda and Lee will provide the cake and cupcakes for our dessert as we will be celebrating Zeke's 4th birthday after the dinner. It had been cloudy but the sun broke through on the way to and from the shopping trip. It didn't stay out long and soon there were snow squalls to go with the cold cloudy weather. I made the stuffing this afternoon and got that simmering in the crock pot. We left the house around 4:30 pm to run and errand in East Peoria. The picture below is going over the Cedar Street Bridge. By this time it 15 degrees out.
We stopped at Long John Silvers for a fish and shrimp platter. I ate the fish and Mark ate the shrimp. We just shared that one meal for around $15.00 then headed home. It was snowing again on the way home, not hard but swirling around dancing in the wind. For the 3rd day in a row I had a call about someone wanting to buy a Friesian. The problem is they all want one already trained to ride and we only sell babies. I'm not really interested in selling our riding horses but told her about Valerie. I found the blog post of the little work we have done with her and talked her through how to find that blog post written July 10th, 2025 with Mike line driving her. 

Yesterday I took a call from a family interested in Valerie's foal if it is a colt so not in a big hurry to sell her. She is probably more valuable as a brood mare to me. The stuffing is now outside cooling and will be put in the fridge then warmed back up in a crock pot tomorrow for the meal. The dishes are now done and we are settling down to read. I gave Mark the book Reunion by Dan Walsh. It was good read and he is enjoying it. I have just finished a book about the civil war. The prisoners on both sides were treated horribly. How can supposedly Christian people treat other Christian people so badly? 
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