Hadassah In

The travelers all made it home safe from Gulf Shores, some sooner and some a bit later. Rachel and Dave's car load was the last to arrive. They hit a deer around 3:00 am. Caleb was driving. They stopped the car, found the deer which was a nice fat doe,  threw it on top of the luggage rack and drove home to start butchering it at 4:30 am. Mom says all those Sauder kids are skinny because Rachel feeds her family road kill and now I"m starting to believe it. I know I would lose weight on a diet like that.
We needed to leave the house early this morning for the start of one great day. So even before the sun rose I was out working, moving Zalena and Holly out of the stalls, cleaning the stalls then feeding the horses, coming in and making breakfast for us then showering and getting ready for church and I STILL was done before 7:15 am.
We picked up mom and headed to the jail as the choir was singing there for the 3 services. Craig Stickling had all three services. One of the points he made was: " The Bible isn't a what, it's a Who" - John 1:14 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us".  Our Sunday school Easter program was held in place of afternoon service at church. What a blessing it was to see the front of the church filled with our future. The harmony, blend and melody of For Those Tears I Died was actually awe inspiring, I think all of us sitting in the pews listening got goose bumps.
After church we needed to move a couple of bales in, one in the breeding shed paddock and one for Evan's paddock. Mark used the skid steer on Evan's but needed to pull out the tractor for the other. For that one the bale needs to go up a slope into the barn and the skid steer can't get up the slope with the mud we are dealing with right now.

Rhoda and Emily took the truck and trailer to Middle Grove to pick up 4 horses and couldn't find them. After walking and searching the back 200 acres where the horses were suppose to be they finally gave up and started searching the other pasture finding them where they weren't suppose to be. A fence must be down somewhere but they didn't take the time to search for it. Emily rode Killian back with just a halter and lead rope. Hadassah was brought back and was showing so was covered by Evan then left in his paddock. Prissy, and Lilypony were the other 2 brought home. I wanted Killian here to breed to Jenis but she is now out of season. We have someone coming to look at Hadassah, and  Lilypony soon and someone coming to look at Anna tomorrow afternoon.
Mark and I needed to be at Glen Oak Zoo for Ron and Jackie's 50th wedding anniversary party by 4:30 pm. We pulled in just as Rachel was pulling out. She was there to take pictures. I snapped the one below with my phone and just can't figure out how to hold it still enough so the pictures don't blur.

We arrived home around 8:00pm and still needed to prepare Zalena and Holly's stall for the night then bring them in.
There was a nice email from Cynthia with an updated picture of Olivia, Jewel's 2012 filly.

She writes that Olivia is now line driving and knows the commands to walk, trot and whoa.