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Another New Puppy
Since most of the dinner preparations were done last night I had an easy morning. I went over to the barn to see what needed to be done and only had to haul out 3 bags of garbage. The rest of the barn was clean and ready for tonight. The family that rented it sent a nice text this morning: Our party last night was fabulous! Everyone loved the venue, the horses and the kids all had a blast playing in the gym. It was Perfect. The horses didn't play in the gym only the kids. We left for church around 9:00 am and were about half way there when Diane called. They needed to be picked up at the Peoria airport. They had lost the key to their car. We made it to the airport and still got into church before the service started. Rick Kaisner had the morning message. I highly recommend listening to this message. He started with Psalm 80 then Acts 4. Click HERE to watch. Bob and Jill served lunch today. The afternoon message was the last statement of faith message from Craig Stickling. Click HERE if you would like to watch that. After church we took Mike and Diane home then drove to our new house. We have made the first payment on it and hopefully next week will make another. Joan was hosting the Bible class and wanted to give them a hayrack ride. Before taking the road grader off to put the wagon on the tractor he decided to quick grade the driveways.
Rhoda and Sarah were here working with the horses. Sarah got a flower crown for Penny and of course the girls needed to try it on her.
Above is Zion and below is Eden.
When Rhoda arrived with Iris and Zeke they got to try barrel racing with Penny and they all loved that. Rhoda and Sarah worked with Harli again. Rhoda actually was able to trot her a few steps. She is doing very well with her training.
Harli's colt is so funny, when Rhoda was leaning over Harli's side before mounting he reached up to give her a kiss.
When they brought Harli back inside of course the girls wanted to try the flower crown on Merlin.
It might be just a tad too big for him.
He sure puts up with a lot from those girls but he really does love the attention.
As Mike and Diane are home they also worked with Star's filly.
At 4:30 pm we all met in the barn for a haystack supper. Amy and Ken came, Rhoda snapped the picture below as we were visiting at the sink.
After supper we all made our way to the playground and were visiting when Joan came by with the wagon. This was actually the second group that went out.
We sat and visited until almost dark. Nolan had left early this morning to pick up a King Charles Cavalier puppy he purchased in Kansas and just got back tonight after about 11 hours of driving. I tried to take a picture of him but he was so wiggly and it was getting too dark. I finally just took the video below.
He is going to Rhoda's house for puppy training and Iris was SO excited. Since I didn't post the bear video yesterday I decided to post that today. Spark and Rhonda were at Lake Gerard in New Jersey with Mark and Becky at the cottage when they saw the black bear with her cub.
We spent many summers there when I was a child at grandpa and grandma Zeug's cottage and never saw a bear. Amazing how the wild life is making a comeback in the East.
Today really was a great day.
