Say Goodby to Anni

Mark and I met Steven at the farm at 8:30am, gave him a hitch for his truck, then started work. Our first job was to teach Evan to lead better and pick up his back feet nicely. Mike came over with the 4 wheeler for the leading practice which went well. Then it was on to the feet. Evan gave Mike quite a work out before he was standing quietly and letting him pick up each foot. Mike is not feeling well and once Evan was picking up both back feet quietly, Mike went back to bed. The difference in Evan was amazing though when he was done. Steven decided to work with Evan on putting his front feet up on the mounting block while we loaded up Anni in her new owner's trailer. One less mouth to feed! The boy is so smart that within a few minutes he was getting the idea and within 15 minutes he was doing it himself. Evan picked it up so well, that Steven decided to also try Ciera. Once Steven finished working with the mounting block we started Evan on going over cross poles. He kept walking over them and knocking them to the ground until we raised it a little higher, then he was willing to pop over it.
By the time we quit we were pretty thrilled with both foals. It is still very cold and icy so we didn't bring out any of the other foals. They will be taught another hopefully warmer day.
Mark and I left to drive home and on Smithville road had to pull over. Someone dropped 5 pretty good size 2x12s out on the road and just left them lying there. We didn't know if there were nails in them so didn't want to run over them. Mark just loaded them in the back of the truck, just too dangerous to leave them.