So I ended up not doing some of the stuff that I posted when I was tagged.  I did end up gong to the local sale barn with  a neighbor and Jessalyn.    It was suppose to be a big tack sale.   When we started out, there was hardly anything in the ring.   An hour into it (dragging) a few more things showed up.  For sitting there for three hours,  we only came away with a few curry items and a hay bag.    It is a sad thing listening to them rattle off items.  Saddles were going more than the horses.   It would be a grand time to pick up more equine except for those of us that realize what hay we need,  it puts a damper on it.    At the sale last week, top horse was $150,  while the hay went for $4 a regular size bale.    From the look and sound of it, it won't be much better come fall.    Any help that we may give to aid in the surplus of hay will probably even out to the same as what we paid this last fall.  And with Iowa losing 29% of corn (that was really for ethenol anyway) farming on even a small scale like us doesn't have a good outlook. 

That isn't stopping my oldest from deciding to trek to the west coast next week.  He feels life is passing him by at 20.   Even sharing expenses, I don't know how he will make it all the way there.  Just hoping the travel is safe as he will start returning  during the July holliday.

On a lighter note,   yesterday morning I heard a commotion outside and found this:

the cat and turkey doing a dance. It's a little hard to see, but the turkey approached the cat as she sat quietly and then they proceded to jump back and forth over the daylillies  for some time.   The turkey wouldn't run away, just jump away, and then back again to challenge the cat.  I think they finally tired because they seemed to part at the same time and go their seperate ways.