Show Camping

On our walk this morning we stopped at Diane's to admire the whale Rebekah made out of pallets.

This will be taken down to Gulf Shores for Diane's condo. Rebekah is my talented and artistic niece who can build or make a project out of pennies. If interested in her blog check it out by clicking on this link: Rebekah's DYI blog She sometimes sells her creations so you may get lucky.
Karin left right after mom cooked breakfast for the campers with 5 horses in our 4 horse trailer. This trailer is so big she could have fit the 6th in probably without even collapsing the tack area.

 Above she already has Sally and Bunni loaded, is loading Star while Emily waits to load Missy and Cookie. They drove to Moraine View State Park and were joined by Ruth's family and Rachel's family. It didn't take them long to set up then head out on the trails. Rachel sent the three pictures below of the horses and riders.

I drove in to the shop to pay the first of the month bills one day early then to Walmart to pick up oil for the other truck. Emily took Killian and George to the PRC show this evening with that truck and the stock trailer. If we owned a 3rd trailer that would have been used tonight to take Mika back to Middle Grove, instead we took Sheena and her colt Whistler over to the cabin field to join Mika so he wasn't alone. Emma still has not had any pups. She was at 63 days yesterday. This afternoon she seemed to be in labor but again no pups. The picture below was taken this evening. She really isn't very big compared to last time.

She has milk in her teats which are very swollen but no sign of going into labor. If she is pregnant there won't be very many pups. This evening Whitney and Hadassah and the 2 fillies were turned out with a partial round bale. Since the camera is still in Michigan the phone was used for the next couple pictures of Hadassah and her filly by Evan.

She really is exquisite. She has perfect conformation and even at 5 days old is quite the show-off. She was dancing around Hadassah this evening until Mark brought the skid steer out to start scraping paddocks. Then she was standing alert watching every move he made while he was cleaning out Killian's paddock.

He just piled the manure up at the back of the paddock. It will be loaded and spread this fall on the fields. Once Killian's was done he started on the Middle Paddock. 

Emily is going to be surprised when she makes it back from the show tonight but she probably won't even see it until tomorrow. She signed up for many classes and will probably be there until midnight. This is only the 3rd show of the year for PRC. The rest have been rained out. 

Lila, Rhoda and Lee's dog is still missing. Rhoda called Peoria county dog pound today but they have not had a dog brought in matching Lila's description. She also called a rescue on Pinkerton road and left a message. Someone must have picked her up thinking she was lost. Please help get the word out about Lila.