Rhiannon

The transport company were suppose to arrive around 7:00 am so as soon as it was light enough to see, Rhiannon and the weanlings were called for breakfast. I could see them in the far field over by Spark and Rhonda's house. They heard me call and instead of going around ran down the ravine crossed the creek and came galloping up muddy.  That meant Rhiannon was going to need a good groom before the shipping company arrived. She must have rolled in it earlier and some thick dried mud was caked on her mane. But by the time the truck and trailer pulled up into the drive she was clean and ready to go.

The problem came when they tried to load her into the trailer from the side and expected her to go up the ramp. She started up the ramp but she needed to duck her head to get in. That wasn't going to happen. The drivers saw the problem and offered to unload the horse that was in the back so Rhiannon could just step up instead of walking up the ramp. That worked, she was very comfortable stepping up into the trailer then stood quietly while the other horse was walked up the side ramp. She made no fuss as she was being driven away from here. Killian on the other hand was sure his best friend in the world had left. He was carrying on like the world was coming to an end, galloping back and for calling. The 2 weanlings were calling from the field and everytime they would neigh Killian would start all over. What a noisy morning.

Mark took the skid steer down the below the dam to work on opening up the wooded area enough to plant trees. He is cutting down the scrub trees to make room for more valuable trees. He took his chain saw and cut up 3 bucket loads of wood which were dropped in our pile for splitting later. 

We loaded the porch back up with logs for next week. We are having a nice warm spell today and tomorrow but Monday the cold comes back. We had left overs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A big pot of turkey soup stock from the carcasses was divided up and placed in the freezer for later. The evening was spent with a good book by Jeanette Oke called The Meeting Place. Excellent book but of course since it is by Jeanette it is just the first in a series and the story goes on in other books The Meeting Place was free on Amazon for the Kindle but I spent $3.99 for the next book in the series and there are many more in that series. I sure hope the second book ends in a good spot so I don't have to go to the library for the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and so on.