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Paying the Bills
Our walk lasted extra long this morning, We walked first to Joan's house then to the barns but when we reached Mike's new barn stopped to see the improvements. Diane told us she helped Mike all day on that yesterday. They put up almost all of the siding.
He even hung the deer head he shot while bow hunting with Andrew.
When we reached Spark's house John and Spark were outside talking. We were all sharing fun memories of living with mom these last almost 5 years. Ruth shared, the Sunday before mom died she was outside at the campfire and asked Diane, "where is Mike?" Diane replied, he is working on his barn. Mom came back quick with, "he is probably trying to figure out what else to buy for it." then she started laughing and had all of us laughing too. Ruth stepped back to take the picture below.
We are all so grateful for the parents we had and how they raised us. It really was hard to leave that impromptu meeting.
We usually get back around 8:30 am but today we visited so long Mark cooked his own breakfast. Right after breakfast I went to the foaling apartment to start flipping that. We have new guests coming in this afternoon. All of the bedding there was taken to the new barn to wash and dry so I could work on the living area floor while the machines were going. Sarah worked on a pregnancy announcement for Perfect Penny.
When the foaling apartment was done I pulled hair from Sapphire for the dna test then drove to the post office to mail it. It was raining and I didn't want the envelope to get wet and ruin the dna.
We had a nice gentle rain that most of the time was just coming down as a sprinkle. I worked most of the day organizing the pantry and closets in the new barn while doing laundry. At 4:00 pm I took the golf cart over to Joan's to meet a man renting a camper for the weekend. That went well, he is a repeat renter so knew all the steps.
The Gypsy registry told me they would refund the $215.00 I sent in to register Izzy but it hasn't arrived yet. That was sent by paypal and was supposed to be returned by paypal. I sent a reminder to the registry. We got our electric bills and water bills today and they were both really high. We had 3 or 4 days of overflowing water on one of the automatic waterers so I knew the water bill would be high and it was $255.31. The electric bill, even though we have solar at the farm house was $222.10 and the electric for the barn was $375.49. That was the only bill that went down. Last month it was $690. It wasn't rented as much this month. I'm thankful the airbnb's are renting as much as they are, they are paying the bills around here.
