10/12/21

Jared took Jacob to school and I trimmed tumblers.  I finished trimming before we had to leave with Adam and Eli.  When we got home we worked on catching the lambs and ewes that are going to market.  We got them into some stalls and haltered them to walk them to the trailer. They sure didn't want to walk and many of them fell down to the ground.  We had a nice drive to St Louis and talked to Grandma on the phone as we drove.  We made a stop on the way to check on the sheep. Two sheep were down so Jared climbed in to get them up so they wouldn't get trampled.  He got sheep poop on his leg.  The only think I could find for him was a coffee soaked napkin.  My coffee cup had leaked on the drive and I had used all the napkins.  The market barn was pretty empty.  There was one giant pig which wasn't even supposed to be there because they don't take pigs anymore.  And another stall full of sheep.   I could hear some cows.  We separated the ewes to be weighed together and then they weighed the lambs.  Jacob texted me and said he needed an ugly Christmas sweater by marching band practice tonight.  I texted Vikki and she had some she was going to drop off at Mom's after work.  We went to a few thrift stores but didn't find any.  At home we worked on smoothing the bottoms of all the pottery.  Jacob's teeth are so sore from them being tightened yesterday.  I made him some jello.  We played minecraft with the boys.  This evening Jacob had his last marching band practice for the year.  He used one of Vikki's ugly Christmas sweaters which was great.  He had a lot of fun.  We took Adam to soccer practice and Eli stayed home and watched tv.  Before bed we opened the kiln to take a quick peak.