The new truck was taken to French's this morning for an oil change, a tire change and the radiator flushed. After dropping it off Emily and I drove in to TEMCO to pick up the Berean mail only to find there was no mail. Ellen didn't get to the post office. No problem we drove to Meister's to UPS out the Bibles different chaplains have requested, and find the warehouse is still out of Bibles. That was a completely wasted trip to Peoria. We drove back to the farm and took the truck and trailer to Middle Grove to pick up Rhiannon and Promise. These fillies have just turned a year old and both need updated pictures and videos. Emily took off for the cottage to grab a 4 wheeler while I started hiking. No horses were in sight and the original Middle Grove land is much more rough, hilly and wooded making it hard to find the horses. We found the horses up on the hill at the far end of the 80 acres, just as far as they possibly could be from the gate. The first job was to pull hair from Marika's filly, Jewel's filly, and Ella's colt. We need to get the registration paper work started on those plus Lola's colt. Promise was very easy to halter and lead all the way back to the trailer. We only had 2 halters so Jewel was the other horse that got a halter as Rhiannon and Treasure stick with her. They were loaded and we were on the way home around 1:00 pm which meant a stop at Bees for a peanut butter ice cream cone. Both fillies were unloaded and stalled so they could be groomed up for the pictures. Below is Promise out of Sangria by Valiant, check out how tall this filly is at just 1 year old. She is amazingly quiet and willing, Rhoda worked with her starting her on the bow and by the time she was done Promise was getting it.
Promise has a long thick mop of a mane and tail. Nice to know she inherited the mega hair.
By the way this filly also has great movement moving more like an Andalusian than a Friesian, pushing off from behind. She is for sale for $5000.00 and Rhoda feels she is worth much more.
Emily brought Rhiannon out for a round pen session and that filly is so smart she remembered exactly what she was suppose to do. Rhiannon is 75% Friesian and 25% Thoroughbred and for sale for $4000.00.
Rhiannon also has really nice movement and is very athletic.
Below she was having fun, check out how she can balance on her back legs. This is harder than it looks. Most horses can go up but not hold it, that takes muscle and muscle is something this filly has.
Both fillies were stalled for the night, tomorrow if the weather is nice we will try to get a video. Mark came home early and worked on the house again. He is determined to finish before cold weather.
After supper Lola was brought over and teased. She didn't show at all so will be marked out. The moon tonight is full and so bright Mark and I decided to take a romantic stroll first up to the barn then over to the playground. We thought we would have some privacy but forgot about all the teenagers and 20 somethings around here. The traffic on the drives from Sauders to the apartment to mom's, to the Reinhards, back over to Sauders and finally ending up at the apartment made for actual traffic jams at one point. With each car we had to get off the drive. So funny for this country living!
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