Jam Packed Saturday

Too much to do too little time. Saturday started early getting the feeding out of the way before 6:00am Below are a few pictures of the fillies. They had fun playing out the field this morning.

Olivia found the bag Karin was using to work the horses.

What happened next was pretty funny, she ran around like crazy scaring the mares.

Eliza finally got Olivia to drop the bag and settle down grazing.

After having fun watching them it was time to work. The arena was prepared for the Springfield Pony Club while Mark worked on power washing the skid steer and the farm house. It was hot, very hot! Mark came in from chain sawing so exhausted and over heated he had to lay down and cool off. The ponyclubbers arrived at noon. Below Karin is having them do the preliminary exercises.

Soon they were up on the barrel and Ribbon.

We took a break just as the rain started pounding on the barn roof. Everyone made their way into the apartment for snacks.

We headed back out to the barn to start up with vaulting again when another storm blew in. This time we continued even though we had to yell over the sound of the rain slamming into the metal roof. This storm was so welcomed. By the time it was over cool air prevailed for the first time in weeks. David and Stephanie invited the entire Sceggel family over for dinner. We arrived just before 5:00pm. After dinner we headed out for a walk down to the Illinois River which is not too far from their home.

We found a big fallen tree, Sarah and Addyson climbed up for a picture.

On the way back Rhoda decided to do some weight training by carrying first Sarah then Ben.

Sarah gave Addyson a ride.

Then they decided to have stroller races with Addyson winning.

We made it back to Dave & Stef's glad to get into the air conditioning. Mark and I were the first to leave arriving home pleasantly exhausted.