Thursday, July 4, 2013

Happy Birthday America

Happy Birthday America, the land of the brave, the home of the free. Aren't we blessed to live in this great country! Today is also Indy's birthday, she turns 3 today.
Mark helped move 3 bales in this morning, one in the Middle paddock, one in the second paddock and one in what was formally known as Evan's paddock but now belongs to the Friesian mares & Killian. The living quarter trailer was cleaned out and hauled to Middle Grove for who ever needs a place to sleep. When I arrived at Middle Grove I had to take a picture of the drive. Check out the gravel, this drive is probably at least a half a mile long and I always thought one would have to be rich to afford gravel.
Karin had a group out riding, Susan and Dan's boys were catching critters in the creek Below Abram is showing me the bullfrog tadpole with legs he caught in the creek.

 Mike, Rhoda and Emily were working on fences. The herd was down by the lake grazing.

The trailer was parked down at the camping spot and by the time I got the truck back up to pick up the stock trailer for the trip to Iowa tomorrow the riders were back dripping wet from their lake crossing. Karin posted this short video of the ride.
The weather was perfect, sunny and warm as soon as Mike, Rhoda and Emily arrived we decided to go out on the big lake on the pontoon boat and jet ski.


Emily's friend from Forrest arrived but forgot her swimming suit, that didn't seem to matter one bit, she jumped in clothes and all. 

It was relaxing to cool off in the clean clear water.
 Eddie and Dana arrived with Nick, Mary and their 2 kids so Diane gave them a pontoon tour of the lake.
Below are Nick and Mary's two children.

Tubing on this lake is always fun. Everyone had to take turns.




By the time we got the kids back, their grandpa Eddie had to show off the fish he caught on the dock.
At 4:00pm I needed to head back to the farm, the stock trailer needed to be cleaned out and our steak dinner needed to be started. Something about swimming all day makes one ravenous! 
We drove over to mom's to watch the fireworks with her.



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