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Carolee's Visitation
Another cooler morning. I went over before 7:30 am to put Cookie back in the stall and was surprised to see Berlica with Penny. I first thought we had a horse out as I could only see her rump and tail from the doorway. It was a relief to see Berlica. By the time Cookie was put away, fed and watered it was time to meet the walkers at the dumpster. Ruth, Diane, I walked over to pick up Joan. We got to Joan's house she was out back feeding the two fawns. Rizzy is spending the week with us and was very curious about those two animals.
I picked her up so she wouldn't chase them if they ran but they didn't seem a bit afraid of her. Still we don't want Rizzy to scare them so will keep her away from Joan's house. When we got to the farm house drive there was Berlica and Penny.
They had a good ride. Mark and I spent some time removing the TV from the wall at the farm house and hauling that to Joan's. We also hauled 2 other TV's from mom's over to Joan's. She has someone coming to pick them up. We had 5 big 4 gallon water jugs to haul over to the basement along with a few other things. We really are almost finished with the farm house. We have ordered a huge 55 inch smart tv for that house and that is supposed to be delivered tomorrow. Sarah was here with the girls. All of them rode Penny in the outdoor arena then Zion worked with Penny in the round pen teaching her to canter. Driving horses don't really know how to canter very well so it is good Sarah and Zion are working with her.
After breakfast I went over to move in bales. Valiant needed a bale as did the middle paddock. I let the 3 mares in the middle paddock out into the pond pasture so they could graze while the bale was moved in. They enjoyed that.
Mike came over as I was getting ready to move a bale in for Valiant. He offered to clean out the paddock if I moved Valiant so Valiant was taken out, sprayed down with fly spray then moved into the outdoor arena. Mike brought mom's Kubota over to work on his shelter first.
Mark had a doctor appointment up by the Berean office so we made plans for him to drop me off there while he went to his appointment. Skip was at that office and had the mail. I was able to process it completely, fill the new studies going out, the Bible requests for this week and also got 6 of the studies graded before he got back. We stopped at the Hanna City post office to drop off the mail and Bibles. We still have no internet at the Berean office. Hopefully next week. We got home with less than an hour before we would need to leave for Carolee's visitation. Berean is cancelled tomorrow so the volunteers can go to Carolee's funeral. She was a friend to all of them. She was also one of the chaplains at the Peoria County jail. Mike was still working on the paddocks when I got back. He cleaned out Valiant's then mowed that paddock plus a couple others.
Valiant was glad to get back in his own paddock. As soon as he was settled, Cookie was put out. We had a lot of cloud cover and the girls helped me rub a special lotion over all of her bare areas. She is healing quickly. By the time I got back to the house it was time to leave. We got to the funeral home and a lady came out as we were going in saying, "the line is much to long, we are going out to eat first then will come back." We chose to stay in line and enjoyed visiting with many that were there. Carolee was one of mom's close friends. They went to Africa on safari together one year. Carolee gave mom a huge geranium plant after the trip and mom has kept that going. We still have red geraniums today out on the deck and if I'm not mistaken they are from offshoots of that first plant. We got home late and had a late dinner. Tomorrow will be cleaning day for both the barn and the apartment.
