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Beautiful
I got the brisket ready and in the oven by 6:30 am then cleaned up the mess before making breakfast. Ruth sent the first picture of the day of the beautiful sunrise.
We can't see the sunrise from this house, too many trees and set back some. Rhonda has a much better view AND gets the reflection in the lake. She sent the second picture of the day.
What a beautiful start to this beautiful day. The guests in the foaling apartment sent message that they were leaving, thanked us then said we have a beautiful ranch. I never wanted to be a rancher, just a farmer but I didn't correct her. we picked up Rhonda for church and made it there by 9:30 am. Kathy and Randy brought Nancy. She was very glad to see Joan back. The Gulf Shores people made it by 9:00 pm last night. Matt Feucht had the morning message. He was visiting from Roanoke and after the message gave an update on Skylines. If you would like to listen to his message click HERE. Craig Stickling had the afternoon message. We are still doing a Bible study on the minor prophets and today Craig covered Micah 3,4,5,6 and 7. Click HERE to watch that. After church and the meal was ready I was taking the food over to the barn when I saw Berlica riding Jury and Zion riding Penny heading down to the trails.
They told me Rhoda and Sarah were over at the round pen giving pony rides and working with Gypsy the paint pony. Israel came with me and was telling me about the basket he made. He let it fly way before half court and it was nothing but net. He found it on the barn video and showed us. I'm not sure how to copy it but will work on that tomorrow. David was out fishing and caught a whopper of a bass and this one was not skinny. 
The bass must be getting enough food now. Earlier they all seemed too skinny. Mike and Diane showed up to hook up the stock trailer. They took Jury, Jewel, Bulu and Denver out to Middle Grove. Mike sent the video below:
Sarah, Eden and River tried Penny with the bouncy ball. Penny might know how to play soccer.
More than likely it was an accident but that pony isn't afraid of anything so the girls want to teach her how to kick the ball. Today they introduced the ball to Gypsy. Gypsy was ok when Rhoda bounced the ball on the left side of her but a little scared when she bounced it on the right side.
I didn't stay much longer it was almost 4:30 and that is when the family comes to dinner. We had a nice dinner tonight with lots of good food, visiting and laughter.
After dinner Spark was giving hay rack rides. He gave Nancy one with the first group going out and she loved it. This was the second group.
I'm not sure who made the fire tonight but it was a nice hot one and when the sun went down the fire felt great. The volley ball lights were turned on and the court was filled with boys tonight.
Tarah's boys, Kari's boys, Rebekah's boys, and Rhoda's boy. There were a few girls playing too. At one point I counted 18 cousins and 2nd cousins out on that court.
We had to keep expanding the circle.
When everyone finally pulled themselves away and headed home Mark and I went to rescue his golf cart. It was over by the field with no key. We both looked all over finally used the key from my golf cart to move his into the garage. Mark got on-line and ordered a couple of keys but we will be down to one golf cart until the new ones come in. I stopped to take a picture of the full moon before going inside.
What a beautiful day and beautiful evening. What a blessing to have such nice weather this late in the year. We are thankful.
