Coolers

Steven Marchal showed up today with brand new, very fancy, embroidered with HM Friesians, coolers for the boys plus an extra for one of the mares. I was telling mom about the coolers and how we were taking them down to the fair tomorrow when mom starts questioning why we would want a cooler for the boys and did I expect them to stand on it. It took me a while to figure out she thought Steven bought the boys a food cooler. Pictures will be taken and posted when we are down there tomorrow. Almost is as bad as giving instructions to a blond. For reference Rebekah is going to be showing Ribbon in the undersaddle judging at the fair. She will be asked to walk, trot, canter and reverse. Rebekah was riding Ribbon while I was shouting instructions and when reverse was shouted out, instead of turning around and going the other direction Rebekah asked Ribbon to back up.  I couldn't figure out what she was doing until Karin said, "remember you are talking to a blond." Did that ever start us laughing.  Now for some sad news. We are not taking Lily and Rosalie to the fair. The snow just didn't stop coming down yesterday and today. Amy Koch was going to bring 2 horses down with her but her trailer is buried in the snow. We thought about taking 2 trips down tomorrow but it just doesn't make sense. We will just be taking the 6 horses down, the 2 boys in my trailer and the 4 mares in the stock trailer. Today was spent pulling, packing, plowing, and pushing snow. The skid steer was the most important piece of equipment today, it was needed to plow the drive, pull out Steven's truck and the stock trailer, push snow out of the way and then pull my truck and the living quarter trailer out. Karin and Steven helped with the packing, Steven's truck is as packed as it has ever been, It was amazing how much that truck held today.
Mom picked me up for church and I was so ready to quit working and sit quietly. We had a visitor today, Paul Messner from Winthrop was in town visiting his parents.