Rhoda's dog went on our walk today, along with Diane's dog, mom's dog, Rachel's dog, Emma and Emily's goat. We had more animals than people. This place is becoming a circus. Emily stayed home this morning to meet with Dr. Hoerr first then Dalia's owners. Dr. Hoerr sonagrammed Oksana and we are thrilled to report she is pregnant.
Oksana turned 3 years old June 16th and is expecting her first foal June 14th, 2016. Evan is the sire of this foal. Sangria was next, her colt by Valiant needed his microchip installed and hair pulled for the IALHA DNA test to finish his registration. Sangria was sonagrammed and we are pleased to announce she is also pregnant.
We spent hundreds of dollars on a stud fee to an Andalusian stallion, hundreds of dollars on vet bills in order to use this expensive semen and she does not get pregnant, then we cover her just once with Valiant and boom she is in foal!
Prissy was next to see where she was in her cycle and we were pleased to find she is just coming into season. She should be covered on Saturday then again on Monday if she is still in.
We will use Valiant for her as her last colt by Valiant is exactly what people want in a paint Friesian cross. Tall and tri-color. We completely missed Jewel's season,
Emily thought she may be in yesterday but we had used Evan for Jewel-Et so didn't tease her hoping we could breed her today but she had already ovulated. The other disappointment was Emma.
She did not settle and we know we caught her at the right time. She is a mare that just won't conceive while nursing a foal. We may have to wait until her colt is weaned then try for a fall baby.
As soon as Dalia's owners were on the road with their new fancy Friesian filly, Emily loaded the trailer with Sangria, her colt, Jewel, her colt, Oksana and Rosalie for a trip to Middle Grove. Jewel will need to come back in 20 days for breeding but the rest can stay for a while. She met Karin there and picked up Star and Sally bringing them back to the Hanna City farm. Karin has a youth group coming for riding this weekend then next weekend is horse camping.
Meanwhile I was busy working at Berean with a wonderful group of volunteers. We had 5 new volunteers come today, Larissa, Jessica, Gladys, Barb and Dori.
Above is Larissa who was put right to work on folding studies and below is Jessica and Rachel opening the mail. Jessica just found out today she passed her state boards.
Above is Roma opening mail, her sister Edie also came to help but somehow her picture wasn't taken today. Below is Dori and Barb working on studies with Larissa.
Marie came with Matthew and Timothy. In the picture above they are working on labeling Bibles and below Gladys is folding studies telling me, tongue in cheek, "we have to leave by 10:00am"
Above is Chuck, Diane R, Rachel, and Jessica while Diane H is busy on the computer. Below I asked them to smile for the camera, don't look to closely at Mathew, that is not a nice smile. He'd better be careful or as mom would say, "your face is going to stay that way."
Once the work was done Eva Jean served lunch making us her yummy meat balls, veggies with peanut butter, chips then ice cream and cake for dessert. Once everyone was sitting Diane brought out the cake with candles and we had surprise birthday party for Chuck who turns 85 years old tomorrow.
Chuck now is officially our oldest volunteer and we had him pose with Timothy who happens to be our youngest.
Diane had her van loaded with Bibles for mailing but had to first go to Esther House to give a small presentation about Berean. Some of the ladies there are going to help us with grading these thousands of studies that come in each month. All in all it was a good day.
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