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Along For the Ride
Up at 5:00 am so a couple mugs of coffee could be downed before going over to start getting the barn ready for the guests coming in at noon. Mark drove Berlica and Mackenson to Co-op at Joan is in Gulf Shores. She made it by 5:30 am stopping a couple times to sleep. Ruth is with mom. At 11:00 am I had finished with everything but setting up the fire pit, hauling wood for burning and hot dog forks. Instead of doing that I drove to TSC to pick up 5 way vaccines for the 4 yearlings, 6 bags of grain and also 6 better boy tomato plants. I went straight home to put the vaccines in the fridge, unload the grain and then stop in at mom's. She wanted 3 of the 6 plants. Ruth went to her house to get some pots, Rachel came over to help plant but stopped first to give mom a bouquet of flowers picked from her yards.
Only then did she repot the tomato plants.
Mark was busy grading the driveways when I was working on the firepit.
We had both finished and was back in the house when our airbnb guest drove up. He was not feeling well and wanted to go to a hospital. Mark, well the Tesla, drove him to St. Francis.
His wife met him at the Emergency room so we drove home. This was a first for us and what is pretty scary is he and his wife AND their 2 big dogs need to check out tomorrow morning as we have a new guest coming in. I just talked to his wife and they are still waiting at the ER. I contacted Airbnb to see what I should do if they can't get out of the apartment before the new guests arrive and the answer basically was you will have to deal with it. Although later they came back with another message with phone numbers to call if that happens. I went out to tease and cover mares. Valerie was teased first and is still in. Evan was very glad to cover her. When Mike got back from taking Diane to the airport at Belleville, IL he came over to help get Blueberry covered by Valiant. Both were successful covers Missy and Cookie were out grazing in the big field, I went out to call them in for the evening when Mike arrived on the 4 wheeler with Roseberry in tow. 
She went first to greet Cookie.
She actually did well as this was the first time she was asked to leave her companions and go into the outdoor arena and then back to the cabin field.
I followed them back to the cabin. She was put away and Dahlia brought out for her turn. She also did well going away from her companions.
I followed them back again and the last yearling worked with was Shadow. Shadow doesn't actually turn a year until May 10th.
When everything with the horses were finished Mark and I had the car take us out to eat and it took us straight to Wendy's. Well we might have put that info in the navigate part. This is a new Wendy's just 10 miles from our house near the 474 exit off Washington street.
Mark ordered the taco salad and I ordered the cobb salad.
Both were good, they are smaller than the salad's of old, you know the ones before covid hit but still tasted good and was enough. We stopped at Aldi to buy a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread before going home. Our foaling apartment guests are still waiting at the ER, the wife came back to let the dogs out but then went right back to the hospital. Our barn guests are having a good time and have the firepit going strong. We really are enjoying the Tesla, at our age we were not wanting to drive at night but now the car does the driving and it is safe we can just go along for the ride even at night.
