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Glad To Be Home
Mark checked the rain gauge this morning, we had 3 inches of water in that from the last 2 days. The drives really will need to be graded but today everything was just too wet and muddy. I went over to mom's around 8:00 am and had a nice visit then over to the apartment to make sure there were no dead Asian beetles or stink bugs on the floor. I was glad I checked there were a few. The heat was turned up and then it was time to get breakfast cooked. About that time the picture below arrived of a Maderia x Evan colt now grown up.
Below he is just a few weeks old.
He turned out gorgeous! Aldi was next on the list to get some food in our fridge for this next week. Diane sent the picture below just as I was finishing up at Aldi.
I drove straight to mom's to find lots of vans parked.
They were just about finishing up when I arrived.
Joan and the kids had blown out the eggs and used that for their breakfast casserole this morning. Below are the decorated blown out egg shells.
This way nothing is wasted. I slipped my shoes on and started walking back to the car when I realized the shoes I had on were WAY to loose, looked down and was wearing someone else's tennis shoes. They were Jacob's shoes. No wonder they were too big. My excuse was they are blue and so is mine.
I drove home, put the groceries away, then it was over to the barn to restock and check bathrooms. I found 2 caterpillars on the gym floor that had been stepped on so had to get some cleaning supplies to clean up caterpillar guts. Nasty sticky stuff that turns black if not cleaned up. Mike helped put Disco and Roseberry into the stall barn. The family that are buying Disco booked the foaling apartment to spend time with him. He hasn't been stalled since before weaning but once he is at his new barn will need to be in a stall. Disco was put in one stall then Roseberry was put in the stall across the aisle so they could see each other. They were both given a handful of grain, plenty of hay and just a half of a bucket of water. They were checked on when I got back down to the house. They were both standing quietly.
The family buying him arrived abought 10 minutes later so I went up to show them where he was and how to handle him. They did very well with him but I did check on them through the camera. I was really pleased with how well he behaved and how well they did with him. It is an excellent match.
Then it was time to get to work on the desserts for our Easter lunch. I am just making the roasts, potatoes and one of the desserts. I decided since I have no chocolate Easter candy here to make Reeses chocolate peanut butter eggs. They didn't look as beautiful as the picture of the recipe but they tasted ok.
I had left over almond bark and pretzels so made a batch of those too.
The roasts were taken out of the fridge, seasoned and wrapped well. I have 5 of these 
nice size roasts that will be cooked tomorrow.
Below they are in the fridge and hopefully will be put in the oven at 225 degrees around 4:30 am.
We are eating our meal at 1:00 pm and I want them to cook very very slowly.
This evening the kids brought the supper to the barn. Nolan had smoked 20 pounds of fresh pork roast and had lots of pulled pork with a four different sauces to go with that. The pork was so tender and delicious it didn't need any but I did put a little on some just to try and that was also delicious. They had lots of side dishes to go with the pork. I think we all ate a little too much. I still need to clean up the kitchen before going to bed. Today was cold, windy and damp. Such a change from Gulf Shores but I'm glad to be home.
