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Wonderful Day Wonderful Life
Mike sent a text that he wanted Evan in the pasture so he could clean out the front of his paddock this morning. I thought he meant after church but he wanted to do it this morning before church and had it done in about 20 minutes. Evan loved being out on the pasture and the grass is long enough he was left out. His back gate is left open so he can come or go. We picked up Rhonda for church and arrived a couple minutes after Joan. Randy and Kathy brought Nancy and she was SO wound up and excited. Randy was making more than duck calls this morning, according to Nancy he also sounded like a cow and a few other animals. She was thrilled to go down to Sunday school with Joan. Gabe had the morning message. Today was also the senior breakfast and he had taught them all 4 years so knew them all well. This was officially his first message off the pulpit. If you would like to watch it click HERE. Tim Roecker had the afternoon message click HERE to listen to that. Amy and Ken were in Peoria as Amy is helping at Sarah's wedding shower and the meeting on that was at lunch. Joan needed to stay late for the Jamaica trip meeting so she took Mark's car home from church and we took mom's wheel chair van with mom and Mackenson. We only found out later Mackenson was supposed to go to that meeting as he is also going to Jamaica. I stayed at mom's house until Joan made it back at 2:40 then went over to start cooking the Sunday meal. While I was doing that Rhoda and Lee along with Sarah and Nolan and the 5 grandchildren were here. Rhoda was working with Valerie
Sarah took the picture above and the video below of the training session.
I'm sending her away for training later so anything Rhoda or I do will only help. She is not a spooky horse but is so big and had not been handled much as she spent most of her time growing up at Middle Grove. I so much appreciate Rhoda being willing to work with her.
Sarah took her daughters over to the cabin field to visit with the yearlings, Rosalie and Sally. Mike and Diane were there with carrots. They even did some grooming on Roseberry getting some of that winter coat off of her. The pictures are from Sarah.
Above River is grooming Roseberry. Below Eden is coming with the curry to help.
Above Eden is feeding Sally a carrot. Below Zion is feeding 3 of the yearlings carrots.
Above Zion is petting Rosalie, below Zion is giving the yearlings attention.
Diane helped load all the food up on the golf cart. I had to go back for butter and strawberries and when I did saw 2 pairs of geese parents each with 4 goslings heading to the pond pasture. By the time I got the camera out the first pair had made it to the water followed closely by the second pair.
Supper was served at 4:30 at the barn. Amy and Ken arrived after the prayer but made it in plenty of time to join us at the table. We were missing 3 families although Phil and Kensley came later. The evening was beautiful and Joan made a big fire.
Rachel was telling us about her experience with an Airbnb guests that pretty matched my experience yesterday and it turned out to be the SAME guest.
Mom was laughing so hard tonight at some of the funny stories.
Andrew and Faith joined us at the fire in time for s'mores.
Above Faith is cooking marshmallows over the glowing coals. The new electronic door latch came today and Mark was able to install that and he put the old lock back on the master bedroom door in the barn. I'm thankful for the wonderful day in church, the delicious meal at dinner and the wonderful fellowship at the campfire. What a wonderful life we live out here.
