Pony Party

The film crew for Lake Life wanted to video a pony party for the Hermans which Horsemeister could provide. That meant I had to get up earlier than usual to get the chores done before they were due to arrive at 11:30 am.
Emily helped get Ribbon covered by Valiant and Indy covered by Evan before taking off for Forest.
After she left, the indoor arena needed to be watered as it looked like rain would hit right around the time the party was to start. There was also a mare coming in for breeding today so a stall needed to be prepared and the barn swept up. Sarah Reinhard arrived around 10:00 am to help with transporting Larry and Paris the 2 horses we decided to use. All of our riding mares are at Middle Grove and even though we have 40 or so horses we needed to borrow a couple from Ruth for this party.
When Sarah arrived I had Sheena and her colt in the indoor arena getting a few pictures for the website.

They were put away and off we drove to Ruth's house with a couple of halters, lead ropes and most important a bucket of grain. Once we got back they were tied up in the arena and I went down to the house to finally get some breakfast but had just taken a few bites when my Sarah dropped in to tell me the film crew was already up at the barn. They arrived before 11:00 am. It was just starting to spit out a light rain so we started up with the rides in the indoor. Sarah led Larry and Hannah led Paris.

The sun started peeking through so we moved the whole party over at the playground.

Around 1:00 pm the horses were taken back to the indoor so some of the kids could ride without a leader. Some of them wanted to see Ribbon's filly so they were brought inside and the filly got a tying lesson. Below Shaeya is holding a lead rope while petting her. This filly is only 12 days old.

She reminds us so much of Ribbon's first filly Princess. She has the same face and the same build. Below is a picture of Princess at age 2. Wow is all we can say about her.

The horses were taken back to Ruth's once the kids left the barn to go back to the playground. Right after I got home, Kathy arrived with her Friesian mare Luna.

Luna made the 6 hour trip here to be bred to Evan when she comes into season. She is a big, tall, baroque mare and will be a great cross with him. This foal should be amazing.

Anna and Taunya took my grand children over to Diane's pond for the afternoon. Below Jace is getting almost too tired to get up to walk over and see Taegan's toad.

Taegan caught the toad and all of them were fascinated by the poor thing. He ended up in the pond, sure hope he can swim to shore before a big bass scoops him up.

We are going to have an early night tonight. I'm SO ready for bed.