Mile After Mile

Below is the video of Misty carrying Emily while pulling the rake. Emily didn't ask her to pull more than a couple of minutes while she was riding so Misty wasn't at all stressed out. She is a very nice pony!
We had a chilly 32 degree start to the day but it warmed up nicely. Emily decided to rake the arena today with her Welsh pony Misty. Misty has never pulled a rake so it took Emily all of 5 minutes to teach her.

 Above Rhoda and Emily are walking along each side of Misty as she pulls the rake, below Rhoda has dropped off and Emily is leading her.

 Misty was doing so well Emily dropped back to drive her from the side.

Last Emily popped on her for a couple of rounds.

Emily was just finishing up when her company arrived for the day. Emily's mom and 2 friends came to go riding at Middle Grove. She had to show them around before heading out.

Above she is showing off Evan's tricks below they are checking out Piper.

 Emily rode Mika, her mom rode Bunni with Timothy on the back while one of her friends rode Sangria and the other rode Sally. Both Sangria's filly and Sally's colt came along for the ride crossing the lakes with no problem.
Mom and I took off for Mangold Ford to pick up the truck. The 4 wheel drive is now working and best of all NO CHARGE! We stopped at a restaurant right across the street from Mangold Ford for lunch and both got taco salads. They were really good and reasonable, mom had enough left to take home a box for dinner. There is rain in the forecast for the next few days so the trailer was hooked up and off we drove to Middle Grove to pick up Solomon and Prius for weaning. We arrived to see Karin working a horse way up on a ridge. The camera was zoomed as far as possible in the pictures below.

Emily and I climbed to the top and on the other side was the herd all spread out grazing in the valley below

Karin talked us into taking Star home, she feels Star is ready for under saddle training. Rhoda called to ask us to bring Ayanna home for the scheduled trail ride Saturday at Sandridge, plus we wanted to take Solomon and Prius home for weaning. Good thing we had the stock trailer. I hiked down to the herd to check out the horses and get a few close up pictures.

 Above is Ayanna Below is Emma

below is Jewel's filly Rhiannon

 Above is Marika below is Phoenix, Sally's colt. 

 Above is Promise, Sangria's filly, she still has the dorsal stripe down her back and shoulder barring. Below is Holly

 Above is Prissy lounging in the sunshine, below is Sissy scratching her neck on the tree.

Above is Ayanna in front, Zalena in the middle and Jenis in the back.

 Indy above and Oksana below followed us back to the trailer. 

Before we even reached the trailer those two were getting in. I left the trailer door open thinking we would need to put the mares with foals in the front then bring the mares out the side door. Never leave a trailer door open at Middle Grove. The loose horses are quick to discover the open door and jump in. Karin was given 4 lead ropes to hold while I chased them out.

We were only taking 4 horses but Karin was surrounded by the other horses all curious as to what she was going to do with the Solomon and Prius. We loaded Lola along with her colt Prius and Solomon first, tied the 2 colts and then let Lola out the side door. Ayanna and Star were loaded into the back of the trailer. Karin kept the horses that followed us down to the trailer away while Emily opened the gate and I drove the truck out of the field. Before we pulled away the horses were galloping up the hill to find the rest of the herd. Thank goodness Karin was there, it really helped having a 3rd pair of hands. 

Once home the weanling colts were put in with the other 2 foals here Pandora and Rosalie, while Ayanna and Star were put in with Misty.