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Downsize
The wind was blowing and howling last night and this morning but calmed down around 8:00 am. Mark went out walking to check on downed trees or limbs but came back with an all clear. Nothing was over any of the drives just limbs down at the playground. Joan sent a message that she has a new grandchild. Once the parents announce I can announce it here but we were thrilled for a safe delivery and a healthy baby. The barn needed to have the finishing touches done before the guests arrive tomorrow. The balls in the gym needed to be straightened up from Sunday but we were missing almost all of the dodge balls. After searching the gym, the boys and girls bathrooms upstairs behind the couch, all 3 of the bedrooms upstairs there was only one other place to search. The bouncy house fans were turned on and as soon as it was up sure enough there were the missing balls.
There wasn't any grandchildren around so I climbed in and started crawling around gathering them up and trying to throw them out the entrance but most bounced right back at me with only a couple making it through. They were all rolled to the entrance and pushed through one at a time scattering all over the gym. I used the rolling volleyball holder to collect them.
That was filled rolled over to the ball storage and filled that up.
Once the building was finished and ready for guests I came home to start on this house. I spent a couple hours working before taking a break and starting on a new book. Around 4:45 pm Mark asked if I would like to go to the diner for dinner. That sounded wonderful, I was glad to take a break from cooking and was ready to leave in 2 minutes. The sun was just starting to set when we set out for the diner.
We arrived at 5:00 pm to find just one booth open and all of the rest of the tables full. We split the senior special of walleye, salad, baked potato, green beans and rolls with butter.
The bill came to $13.00 plus we left a $5.00 tip. A lot of delicious food for that price.
There was quite a line of people waiting to eat by the time we left at 5:40 pm. Taunya's aunt was there tonight.
We stopped to say hello before leaving. The picture below was taken on the drive home.
Tonight I was going through the videos of Middle Grove and decided to share the one below. We were moving the herd from the 76 acre pasture over to the winter pasture. Emily was leading the way on Sally while Mike was following on Mika. Matt was using the 4 wheeler and Andrew was using his drone to take the video.
I think we had around 30-35 horses at that time and today we have 32. It is not easy to downsize.
