Spoon River Drive

We slept in until 7:00am, couldn't believe how late it was when I forced myself out of bed. Our breakfast this morning was scrambled eggs, sausage, and home made biscuits. There is no other bread in the house. Karin gave me a ride from church, leaving at noon to make it out to the Old School Center where the vaulters were giving pony rides yesterday and again today. Paris is one of the favorites and heavily used. We would let the kids pick which pony they wanted to ride unless we had a long line. The picture below is the three ponies we used. In the front is Paris, followed by Duke and bringing up the rear is Bunni. The horses were a big hit again, we had many repeats from the year before, most of the kids even knew the pony's name from the year before. Yesterday was cold and raining and they still made $100.00. Today we were only open from 2:00pm to 5:00pm and made $116.00. Not too bad for the little work involved. The JFL football league was playing in the field while the Spoon River Drive was going on and honestly they were a pain to deal with. They parked completely around the horse trailer on both sides of the school drive so we couldn't pull through or get the truck in line to hook up the trailer. At 4:30 Mike and Diane showed up and I asked Mike if he could help figure out a way to get the horse trailer out so we would be able to leave by 5:00 as the games would not be over until much later. We could not find any of the owners of the cars and I didn't want to call a tow truck. The van in front of the trailer had the keys in it so Mike moved it forward about 10 feet so I could angle the truck in and pull the trailer by it's chains around far enough to hook it up correctly. The owner of the van came out and started yelling at Mike. Mike explained he was just moving it out of the way about 10 feet as the keys were in it. The owner asked him why he didn't ask them to move it and Mike told them he had no idea who's van it was (no one knew we asked) Mike told him he leaves the keys in his truck just in case anyone would need to move it and the van owner yells "WELL I DON'T!" Not only did the JFL people block the drive, the families of the players were in the school using the bathrooms and parked in the school parking lot. Anyway we were able to get the horses home by 6:00pm. Steven had helped at the drive but went to the farm to help unload and check on Izadora. Izaodora is the next horse due but she is not really due until October 20th and was not yet bagged up. He has had Lily's belly band on for the week I was gone, we removed that so I could take it home to wash. It was muddy and smelly but it sure does the job as far as her swelling. Mike and Diane drove out to check the mares at Middle Grove. They called to say the horses look GREAT! Since we have had a frost the flies are gone and the horses are fat and happy. We are making tentative plans for weaning next weekend.