Meet Serenity

Karin and I left the house around 6:45 this morning for a trip up to a small town named Sullivan Wisconsin to pick up our new mare Serenity. She is a Raven daughter foaled April 1st, 2006 out of a registered American Warmblood mare named Persephone. She has amazing movement, check out the reach of her back legs in the picture below.

 She loved her bath, but the picture below also shows her perfect conformation, her long well set on neck, sloping shoulders, beautiful body and straight legs. 

She was put in the paddock next to Evan to relax after the 4 hour trip home while Karin worked Whitney.

Whitney has come so far in the few days she has been here that Karin believes she could be ridden in the parade this Saturday, but the mare is so big that if we did chose to take her we would need to bring a second trailer. Before Whitney was put away we had Valiant cover her, she is still in and stood fine. After Karin introduced Serenity to round pen reasoning and hosed her off she was introduced to Ribbon and Whitney. We stood around and watched to make sure all would go well and it did. All the mares are so easy going that it makes introducing a new mare a piece of cake. Mark worked on the fence line this evening, he had to cut down a tree that was in the way of the wire. That was fine except the tree was covered in poison ivy vines. Mark doesn't get poison ivy but each time he is out working in it, I get that awful  rash, the weeping, and itching that goes with it. He was asked to step right into the shower and his clothes will be put in the washer with fire tongs.
This evening I downloaded the pictures off the camera of yesterday's evening. Rhonda's grand daughters were playing so nicely with my grand daughters. Below Braelyn found a little frog and the girls are all looking at it.

 Whoops the frog jumped off the tramp into the grass.

The big kids were busy playing volley ball while the young ones were enjoying the playground equipment.

Mom and Diane came walking over to see the new mare and took some tomatoes home with them. I took a call from a man that wants to bring his Andalusian mare down to breed to Valiant and is considering taking Twilight home with them when his mare is bred. He would give her a great home. His Andalusian mare has a 3 month old stud colt by her side that when weaned would be Twilight's companion.