Holiday Fun

Today was a holiday for school and work, it also happened to be Bernice Otto's 90th birthday. Mom and I left a bit early for her birthday bash at Skylines so we could stop and see the progress on the Sauder's rental house. The house needed a new roof and was very small so Rachel decided the best option was to put up very tall rafters to give the house just a little more space. Spark brought one of his fantastic trucks to help set the rafters and Jozef Davidovics helped with the labor along with the entire Sauder family.


We really enjoyed seeing Bernice at the party, below was a group of young brothers with their instruments to provide the entertainment for the occasion.


We didn't stay for that, just listened to a couple of warm-up songs.
Rhoda had arrived back at the farm and took Addyson for a ride on HerElla. Ella now has a new name, all day long Addyson would say, "I rode MyElla, That's MyElla, or Where's MyElla."
The Stratton's brought their daughter and a friend out to ride. Rhoda pulled out Jenis and Ella. This was great for Ella, we got a chance to see how she would behave with other riders and for 2 hours she actually did well, but after 2 hours she decided she'd had enough and hit her naughty button. Rhoda had to get on her and straighten her back out at the end.



The girls switched horses.


Then let someone else take a turn.


And of course they weren't content to just walk and trot around, nope Mike and Lori just had to take off racing and it's Ella by a nose!

Zalena and Calypso needed to be teased today, still no sign of Calypso coming in and Zalena is now out. Ella was still in and covered with Rhoda's help but once she was done, Knight who is in the breeding shed paddock thought he could take on Evan and knocked down a board. When he couldn't get to Evan he had to take it out on Indy and Killian, chasing them around. Knight is leaving for his new home in Iowa, Indy and Killian will be SO relieved. Knight is just not nice to them but gets out of the middle paddock or pastures so must be in with them until tomorrow.
The kids stayed around all day, for dinner Rhoda brought Avanti's for every one. We had such fun playing with our grandchildren.