Rhonda's Company

Rhoda and Emily left before the walk to pick up 3 mares at Middle Grove. Sangria, Sissy and Sheena are all needing sonagrams. Sissy wouldn't be caught so Emily jumped on Mika bareback with just a halter and lead rope and galloped him back to the cottage to grab the 4 wheeler. The problem was Killian, he didn't want Sissy to leave and kept herding her away. Emily got the job accomplished but not without a lot of effort on this hot humid day. They arrived back here around 10:30 am and Rhonda's company which was her mom, most of her mom's sisters and a few cousins arrived at 10:45 am. Rhonda had chair set up and plenty of umbrellas to give the spectators a bit of shade. Rachel gave me a new lens for the camera and the pictures below are all taken with it.

Rhoda grabbed Evan and took him to the outdoor arena to start with him while I grabbed Ribbon, hosed her down and started tacking her up for Bethany. Emily ran to the cabin to bring back Eliza, Zalena and the 2 foals. While we were tacking up the horses Rhoda was showing Evan. She finished just as Bethany was ready to start her canter vaulting Kur.

When Bethany finished Rhoda and Emily popped on Eliza and Zalena and rode them into the arena showing off the Friesian movement and beauty and of course those cute cute foals.
When the girls were done with the mares Emily brought out one of Dolly's kids.

The girls decided to take the mares over to the pond to cool them off so I brought out Valiant to show off his tricks and finish up the show. Rhonda took them all over to her house for lunch.
Ribbon is now in season so once she was hosed off to cool down from the vaulting she was covered by Valiant and put back in her paddock.

Emma and Jenis were in the pasture behind Valiant's paddock and both of those mares needed to be hosed off also and moved to a pasture with more shade. Emma has a patch on her left shoulder that is kind of scaly. She was given a good scrubbing with iodine shampoo. I think it is a reaction to a weed, hopefully it will show improvement by tomorrow. Both mares enjoyed the cool water. Evan was also hosed down today.
Rhoda and Emily said the Eliza really enjoyed the swimming, she paddled all around the pond. Her filly also went swimming. Zalena gets wet but we don't take her in the deep end, the mare sinks right to the bottom.
We had some dark clouds that looked like they might dump some rain on us but some passed to the north and some passed to the south of us. At least it cooled down the air a bit and we got a few sprinkles.
We could tell it rained in town, when we came out of church tonight the parking lot was wet but the closer we got to home the drier it became.