Melting Connection

Braelyn and Taegan came today to help grandma with chores. The first job was feeding the horses. Braelyn takes that job very seriously.

 She very carefully carries it to each bucket or feeder and dumps it in without spilling any.

 After the horses were fed the stalls were cleaned and floor swept. Both girls love to help with the brooms. Finally it was time for a play break at the play ground. Check out the volley ball form in the pictures below.

We spent a couple hours there before heading in for lunch.

After lunch and naps it was back outside on this beautiful day for more work. The skid steer was returned today in perfect working order. The first job we wanted done was to fill in the 2 huge pot holes (mud puddles) with gravel. Of course both girls wanted to ride along inside and help Emily with the controls.

While they were busy with that I needed to charge the golf cart, we ran out the battery today driving to the cabin field to feed, to the playground, checking out the newly mowed trails at the back of the property and down to the pond pasture to watch the goose family. On the way back it died and it had to be pushed up the hill. Well the last person to charge it had stretched it just a little too far and pulled the wires out some. Today when I connected the charger and turned it on the wires got hot and melted the connector. Thank goodness I discovered it was heating up before it started on fire. The new connectors are ordered but the cart is out of commission until the parts come in and we get it fixed. Next job on the list was to clean the cabin field up before the wedding company arrives. 

And the very last job for my hard working grand daughters was to sweep off the front porch.

This wouldn't be much of a horse blog without a few horse pictures. The pictures below were taken today. Eliza's filly meeting her half brother, Zalena's colt. 

 The picture below was a funny one. Eliza's filly decided she wanted to scratch her back so climbed under her mom and was rubbing her back on her mom's belly. 

Karin took a guest riding at Middle Grove this evening. She planned on riding Sangria while the guest rode Jennis but I haven't yet heard how the ride went. Mike and Diane are camping and left early afternoon for Middle Grove for the night.