Spoon River Drive Week 2

Well the announcer on the radio said we would have brilliant sunshine today but we did not see the sun at all. Wonder what weather forecast she was reading, maybe Gulf Shores! It was cloudy, damp and just bone chilling cold for our last day of the Spoon River Drive 2009. We were only open from 1:30pm to 4:30pm and made $90.00 at least it wasn't raining. Last weekend they gave pony rides in the rain and made $216.00. This weekend we had no rain but the cold was awful. I have the feeling we are in for a long cold winter. We made $140.00 yesterday and $90.00 today. The only problem we had the entire weekend was the time Duke discovered there was no fence around the yard and took off trotting down the road. When the ponies weren't busy, Karin would let them graze in the front yard of the school. Paris is wonderful, never trying to run away, Duke is a different story, there is just something about ponies. Where he thought he could go is a mystery, he was miles from home.
We made it back to the farm around 5:15pm, Karin took the saddles and bridles back to the cabin then headed over to Sauders. She is house (kid) sitting for Rachel and David while they are in Greece. I unloaded the horses, Then went to bring in the Friesian mares and foals into the barn but couldn't see them. Steven Marchal had kindly taken them out of the mud and put them in the barn to dry out. THANK YOU STEVEN. We needed to have them in to show them to one of our past customers. Their 15 hand chestnut Saddlebred mare, Charming Robbin, was bred to Raven about 4 years ago and the colt she threw is FANTASTIC, they named him Buddy. He is 16.2 hand at 3 years of age, black and well filled out. They are so thrilled with Buddy that they decided they want to buy a purebred Friesian. They came about a half hour early, and really liked Sanna's filly Wanda. They will call me in about a week with a decision as they are also looking at a Saddlebred mare down in Lexington, KY and really only want to buy one horse.