Moving Hay

For some reason Airiah's video wasn't able to be placed on youtube. After trying for hours last night it just won't finish uploading, it freezes up and sometimes this happened as close as 88% finished. The program we are using has not changed so it must be youtube rules. The video isn't good enough to place on Airiah's page as she wasn't even groomed but it showed her HUGE trot. It was downloaded on the external hard drive and will be tried during work at Meisters. Five of the pictures taken yesterday were placed on her page on the website. Airiah is such a nice mare, she has excellent ground manners and stands perfect for worming & shots. The lady we bought her from, Val, raised her from birth and just did a wonderful job introducing her to the world. Val has a special touch with the babies. Airiah and Izadora are in a paddock together and yesterday morning they were both given a scoop of special grain. Steven picked it up at TSC, for pregnant mares. Each scoop was placed in their respective feeders. Izadora dives right in and starts gobbling hers up but Airiah puts her head over the fence asking for attention and ignores the grain. This is always a cause for panic in my opinion, we've never had a horse that doesn't like to eat. Grain was offered by hand and she was glad to eat it then. I finally figured out she would rather be petted than eat. Once I was out of her sight, she dived right in eating her grain, then went over and bossed Izadora right out of the way to see if she had anything better.
After dinner last night Mark saw it was snowing and moved the truck and the car into the barn. What a great husband! The snow wasn't enough to accumulate and it isn't much below freezing but having the vehicles inside will just mean no scraping windows. The picture below was taken at the wedding reception. It was missed when the wedding pictures were downloaded but too cute not to put on. This is Braelyn, Phil and Anna's 8 month old daughter.

Steven made it look easy, that is trying to take hay off a round bale to give to Ribbon and Jenis. The first round bale was the weanling paddock and after 2 wheelbarrow loads, I was exhausted. The second bale taken from was Izadora and Airiah's paddock, surely that would be easier but nope that was just as hard. The skid steer is desperately NEEDED! The paddock Eliza is in is just about out as is the boys.