The 4th!

All day today I thought it was the 3rd of September, Philip's birthday. He was wished happy birthday, Eva Jean was told it was Philip's birthday, all the first of the month bills were paid today with the date Sept 3rd, 2012 only to finally find out by accident I'm a day late and a dollar short, well at least a day late. It is oppressively hot today with temps in the 90's, not even a slight breeze and high humidity. As soon as I made it home from work, the 2 mares with the youngest foals were brought back from the cabin, hosed down and stalled. Those 2 black foals are still too young to regulate their body temperature and we don't want them to overheat. Hoerr vet clinic was called to arrange for Raven's coggins and EVA tests to prepare for freezing his semen. We have a morning appointment on Sept 14th. We may as well have him ultrasound mares then. Prissy, Paris and Cor could all be checked if we choose to bring them back from Middle Grove. Sangria and Jenis could also be checked by then. Mark has an early appointment tomorrow at Methodist for the stress test. This test takes almost 3 hours to run. They wanted him to come this morning but by the time they called to ask him to come in he had already had a cup of coffee.