Steven's Boys

This morning Calypso arrived. Steven actually had to go get her but her owner lives only about 8 or so miles away. Calypso is a Raven daughter that is coming in to breed to Evan. Below she is meeting her daddy for the first time.

Calypso is a tall mare, her owner believes she is around 16.2 hands tall and by looking at the picture below one can tell she takes after her sire.

Her dam is here to be bred to Valiant and once Calypso was put away Fire was brought out and covered. Today Valiant was excellent, he listened to Steven, mounted when told he could, and once he finished the job he walked away quietly. He sure does take after his sire, RAVEN.
A trip to Sam's was next in my schedule as 13 pizza's needed to be ordered and paid for. Mark was given the receipt as he was going to pick them up at 5:15pm and take them straight to church. Spark was at the shop and mentioned he had an extra plastic barrel so that was loaded up into the back seat of the car and taken out to the farm. This will make things much easier for Rhoda to teach the horses to barrel race, she has 3 barrels again. By this time it was getting close to 3:00pm, the outdoor arena was picked up and raked and the video camera brought out to video Steven training the boys. He starts by line driving the both of them out to the field and into the arena. Unhooks them, just leaves Evan free while he asks Valiant for the Spanish Walk. When it is Evan's turn, Valiant is just turned loose in the arena. Both boys are very respectful of Steven and do not bother the one that is working. They were both let loose for some fun time to run. Karin showed up just as Steven was bringing in the boys and he showed her what he's been teaching. Watch the video below, I know I'm impressed I think you will be also. These boys are ONLY 2 YEARS OLD.

Karin asked me to do the speaking at the show on Saturday and had the vaulters run through the program. The vaulters are suppose to fill a half hour and after the first run only 15 minutes had gone by. Karin is going to put more into the program.
Ruth and Anni Davidovics actually beat me to church and found out it was all locked up. Jozef Davidovics has a key and was gracious enough to drive over and open it up for us. By the time I arrived Ruth and Anni had all the tables set. David & Stephanie also came early to help. By the time Mark arrived with the pizza, Stephanie had the salad made and we each had a slice of hot pizza before the crowd started to arrive. Diane & Mike showed up to help before the prayer and we were so glad she did. She took one look at the table and asked, "how are they going to get their food to their plates?" We quickly took all the plates off the tables and put them on the serving line. By this time even some of the guests started helping with that. We had 156 big slices of pizza when the meal was started and by the time it ended there were 8 left. Out of 170 cookies there were about 20 left and the salad was all gone.