Sunday, December 7, 2014

• Not too cold this morning at 63, but it's suppose to be a cool day, high only 70. In fact, it looks like we're in a cool period for the next several days with high temps only about 70 each day. And several of those days include rain. (But you never have to shovel rain.) ;-)
• now, do we have a surprise for you. For us it was a once in a lifetime experience. But let me start at the beginning.
• We heard that some Budweiser Clydesdales were at the fairgrounds at Merced (30 miles east of here) and could be viewed by the public. So late morning, we headed for Merced.
• Sure enough, we found the horses, but they were all loaded into 3 semi trucks about to head down the road.
• In fact they were headed for Mission, TX, where they were to show the horses complete with the wagon & dog. So we followed them for about 40 miles to this residential street where they parked the 3 semis.
• We ended up talking to the boss of the group who told us they were making a presentation to a local person who have won a raffel.
• But as luck would have it, heavy fog blanketed the area and prevented the horses from being off loaded as each horses harnes costs $100,000 and take 2 weeks to dry out when they get wet.
• However, they did offload 2 horses & walked them to the front lawn of the house of the raffle winners.
• One of the really important conversations with the Budweiser employees was about that story of discontinuing the Clydesdale operation. They said it was not true, that it was press errors. And they told us of their schedules into late summer.
• I took lots of pictures below.

• Tonight we're going to the ice cream social at the Hall, followed by hamburger or hot dog supper, followed by the movie, Philomena. Should be a fun evening.