What Tonight Brings

 I checked the monitor around 1:00 am but the mares were both standing quietly so I went right back to bed and slept until 5:30 am. By that time Blueberry was starting to get anxious to get out of the stall so around 6:00 am I went out to check her udder and saw just a tiny drip on one teat. They were let out and the gate opened so they could graze in the pond pasture.  We did the death trails on our walk this morning and even Ruth came. She had to admit they aren't that bad. We stopped in to talk to mom and had such a good time telling stories and laughing that by the time I went home to make breakfast for Mark he had cooked his own. Not only that while we were walking and then laughing at mom's Mark got the barn swept and mopped with his floor scrubber. After I ate I went over to finish getting it ready for the guests coming in today finishing by 11:00 am. I checked on the mares in the pond pasture then went in for lunch. After lunch Mark had a therapy appointment on Pioneer Parkway so I dropped him off then went to Sam's to buy food for Easter dinner and got back in plenty of time to pick him up. We drove straight to our house to put some food away then to the barn to put food in the freezer then to Joan's to drop off 4 dozen eggs and finally to mom's to drop off French Vanilla cream for when Aunt Jinnie arrives on Tuesday.  We had a rain shower but not the gully washer so we could check the drive. Mark went out to move some of the dirt off the side of the drives and flatten the gravel more so cars coming up don't have to worry about bottoming out. Later I went out to prepare the stalls for tonight moving in a bale of hay, filling water buckets and putting some grain in their grain buckets. Rosalie and her filly were turned out in the mare pasture. Evan was in his pasture just hoping Rosalie would come close to him but she wouldn't.

The clouds were fluffy and looked like pink and blue cotton candy.

The golf cart was taken into the pond pasture and they were glad to follow me back to the stalls. They knew grain was waiting.

They both ate their grain then both made sure the other mare was not going to leave but keep watch through the windows.

I came back to the house but had them on the foaling monitor when I saw Blueberry stretching, dropping manure every few minutes, looking at her sides, trying to lay down, and just looking very uncomfortable. It looked like she was in the first stage of labor. I went back out to clean up the manure and wrapped her tail.

I went back to the house and kept watch. She laid down and took a nap!

I was waiting for the next sign but instead after a 15 minute nap, she stood up, walked over to the hay and just started eating. It has now been almost an hour with no other sign. Maybe it was not labor, we shall see what tonight brings. Praying for a safe delivery and a healthy foal.