Today my Mom, 2 of my 3 sisters, my two sister in laws, and my niece spent the day shopping, eating, and then ended the day going to a Play. We had a great time.
The day started out with a little shopping. I know that I’ve said this before, but our Mom ROCKS when it comes to gift giving. And while most of us are just starting to put together our Christmas lists, Mom is almost done with all her shopping. So today she was the only one that was able to get two more gifts checked off her list. The mall wasn’t crowded at all and with a lot of sales going on it was a good time to pick up a few things that she wanted to get.
Next was to go to grab something to eat. My nephew and his family joined us and that’s always fun to see them. The weirdest thing happened to us though at this restaurant. OK, so there was 10 of us in our group and we were seated and looking at our menus on what we should order. Well honestly everyone was talking at once and no one saw that one of the workers came to the table and talked to my sister and Mom. What we found out was that this worker who greeted us didn’t do it correctly or something (no sure?) anyway that she apologized and wanted to make it up to us. First of all we didn’t even know that she was supposed to greet us and then What? So we all were given free desserts compliments of the house. Now normally I don’t order desserts, but if it was that important to her… I guess I could order one 🙂 We all had a round of glasses filled with cheesecake topped with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. Yummm.
The night ended up with all us girls heading to the Amana Colonies to the Old Creamery Theatre. The play was “The Church Basement Ladies in The Last (Potluck) Supper” 
It was so funny that I even caught myself laughing out loud a couple of times. This was the last play that was wrote for the Church Basement Ladies and it sounds like all 5 plays these past 5 years have been amazing. The brochure said that nearly 30,000 tickets were sold in the first 4 years for these plays. We had such a good time and I sure hope that we can do something like this again soon.
And what did Daryl do while I was gone? Well he saw that the bale feeder which seems like he bought not that long ago, is looking a little tough. I’m not saying who’s responsible for it looking this bad but the name of the cow is two letters and starts with an ‘E’. So here is the feeder that is currently being used 
and here is Daryl unloading the new one that he bought today. 
Just a little different right?
And the photo of the day is one of our chickens. When I was in the cow yard, I noticed that the chickens found a good spot to get out of the wind but still be in the sunshine. They are inside the shed with the corn stalk bales. Come to think of it, I should probably check to see if they are laying eggs out there.