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The Funeral
I went out early to take the golf cart over to the barn to check on the fridge. That was turned on, all the food in the cooler put back in the fridge before taking the golf cart over to check on the horses. The first 3 paddocks all of the horses seemed fine but in the next paddock Dahlia was by herself and no sign of Cookie. I had worn my good tennis shoes, the ones I would never wear when walking into a paddock but when I couldn't find Cookie I didn't think of the tennis shoes, I thought I might be finding a dead pony and went right in to search. No sign of Cookie until I looked in the middle paddock. There she was with those mares.
She somehow got out of her paddock and ended up 2 paddocks over with the mares there. She was happy and alive, so she was left with them. When I reached the last paddock I noticed Sheena had lost her halter, went into that paddock to pick up the halter and noticed the electric fence was down. That can be dangerous so took the time to restring that entire fence line. I walked into the house, looked down and realized my good shoes now were no longer clean. They were left to dry and will be cleaned later. We needed to leave this morning by 8:15 am and arrived at church by 8:45 am. The visitation there started at 9:00 am so we got in line pretty quickly. The funeral was very touching. David had that and did amazing at sharing mom's life. He had us all tearing up and then chuckling at some of the stories. The gospel really was preached this morning, just as mom asked. If you would like to watch that click HERE. After the service we made our way outside. As mom has 20 grandsons and all of them were willing to do this final job for mom but some were helping their wives with babies and toddlers and we ended up with 12. We had two sets of pall bearers. The first 6 pall bearers carried the casket from the church into the hearse. 
The second set of pall bearers took the casket from the hearse to the grave.
Anni and Matt came with mom's 96th great grandchild. He is only 3 days old and his first outing is a funeral.
We siblings sang 2 songs at the grave, Heirlooms and Sunset. Both of these songs Nancy knows and she was belting them out. We had to chuckle but the Bible says, Make a joyful noise and Nancy was certainly joyful! We went back to the church for the typical delicious fried chicken funeral meal. When we got home the new quick attach bale spear had been delivered. 
\Mark put that together then got the skid steer down to take it up to the barn. We are really pleased with this purchase, it is rated for 3000 pounds and came with the 2 small and 1 large spear. I teased Madiera and got her covered by Evan then worked on brushing out Evan's tail. He has such a thick tail and it grows so fast it won't take long for it to be reaching the ground again. Mike came over to work some horses and brought Izzy out first as she needed to be teased. 
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She is not in season, I think I will need to have her sonagrammed to see if she is even cycling as it has been over 20 days since she was brought home. Mike used the 4 wheeler to lead her around the outdoor arena.
She is such a pretty mare and has very good movement for a Gypsy. We really need to get her under saddle now that she is 3 years old. She really is sweet and loves attention.
Next we brought Dahlia out.
Now that she has learned manners from the crabby old mares, she was allowed to be with Rosalie, her mom in the middle paddock and she is happy there. All who wanted to met at the barn for supper tonight. We had lots of leftovers, Beth's ham, bbq ribs, fried chicken, green beans, the 7 layer salad from Gertie, lots of other salads and lots of desserts. Even after about 30 of us eating there are still left overs. Diane is serving everyone lunch tomorrow. Mark, Diane and I took all the pictures out of Sarah's van and hung them all back up on the walls in mom's house. Mike, Spark and Brett are working on a project on the new fishing dock. That will be posted about later once it is done. It's hard to believe it's over. Joan is busy with wedding plans for Faith, we have lots of guests coming in for the wedding from all over.
