Moving Bales Pulling Wires

A quick trip to Sam's club this morning between laundry loads. Just as I was unloading the car with the last bag of groceries Mark showed up, ah if only I'd been just a bit later.
Before lunch Emily worked on repairing electric fencing and the broken boards, right after lunch Emily and I started moving bales in for the horses moving a new one in for Valiant's paddock, Ribbon's paddock and the paddock next to Valiant. Jenis will need a new bale soon but we want her to clean up her's a bit more before moving a new bale in. After that, Mark, Emily and I started pulling wires in the big barn for the solar system. This is a big job, we are pulling 2 sets #10 wire from the electrical box, over the 16 foot door way around the corner and half way down the long wall. Mark and Emily finished tacking it up while I went back down to the house to change the machines. As soon the wires were done it was time to haul wood, stacking a load in the skid steer and hauling it up to the apartment and another load down to the house. We didn't even get done with our last load before Karin showed up for the scheduled trail ride.The riders for the Friesian demo were invited out to take their assigned horse out on the 'death trails' and if they survived they were IN. As we have new riders this year or riders with different horses she felt it would be good if they would learn which mare, where the mare lives, and what tack to use. Jesse was the first to arrive. He was assigned Zalena.

 

 The rest of the riders were pulling in by the time she was in the barn. It didn't take Jesse long to have Zalena ready to go.

 Above is Anni riding Anna and below is Rebekah riding Ribbon. Rebekah is expecting so won't be riding for the Friesian demo at the IL Horse Fair but is the director for the play and the music. Ribbon's riders couldn't make the trail ride so Rebekah stepped in.

 Above is Emily riding Oksana and below is Tyler riding Indy.

 Below left to right is Rebekah riding Ribbon, Jesse riding Zalena, Karin riding Eliza and Anni riding Anna.

 Mitchel was just a bit late as he had to come from the farthest distance. Emily had Jenis all tacked up so he just jumped on then these 2 caught up with the other 5.

 Amy sent a short video clip of her riding Marika in a lesson given by Cathie Trent at Bridlewood which was placed on here and looked as if it loaded correctly but doesn't show up after publishing. I'll have to do some research to find out why.  Marika will be coming home the first week of Feb to join the herd here for practices.

After the trail ride the group met over at Ruth and Fedi's house to run through the Friesian play without the horses. I was very glad Mark had the wood burner going by the time I got back inside. The warmth was appreciated.

 Phil came over for a bit to look at my computer bringing Braelyn and Taegan with him but as soon as he arrived he had to go out on a no heat service call. We asked him to leave the girls here to play with grandma and grandpa while he ran in to Peoria. They had a good time decorating papers, building houses with the wood for the wood burner and playing with toys.

Mom made a big pot of ham and bean soup tonight and offered us some for dinner. No one wants to turn down mom's cookin, it's the BEST!