Mark walked outside early this morning to find fresh horse manure on the driveway. He is puzzling over that, looks over and there are 2 mares standing in the yard waiting for me to wake up and put them away. Roxanne and Eliza's gate was wide open. We surmise Roxanne was playing with the chain and flipped it out of the latch. They were put away and the horses grained all before breakfast. The morning started out cold, I should have warn gloves when graining, my hands were stiff when I came in to cook breakfast. Philip arrived with the girls shortly after. I love how well they play with the dogs. Below they are playing with Darcy. Darcy is the perfect place to line up the stuffed animals.
They found some horse magazines Diane dropped off and had a good time looking at all the pictures.
Sarah around before 11:00 am to take over with the babysitting job so I could head out to help Karin with the training. When I walked out to the arena, she had all the mares inside watching her as she worked with the flag.
She first rode Indy but the flag was not stable enough so worked on it then put the saddle with the flag on Jenis. That went a bit better but still was catching the wind too much and bending.
The flag was taken into the indoor arena to work on while Karin worked the others. Below she is working with Ayanna.
Next was Zalena
Last worked there was Eliza
The trail riders arrived so Karin just decided to take Eliza as she was already tacked up. The others were Ribbon, carrying Ava and Faith, Zalena carrying Jesse and Aubrey, Jenis carrying Hannah and Berlica and Elize took Ribbon and Mackenson.
They had a fun ride on the trails and even got in some good canter time. Above they are heading back to into the barn to untack. The farrier, Chuck Milburn, was due at 2:45 pm so before the riders left they helped with hosing off all the hooves of 10 horses. That is a lot of mud to remove when you times those 10 horses by 4. Each hoof needed to not just be hosed but scraped clean. The mares were left in the arena to dry while Evan and Oksana were stalled to dry off inside. Chuck arrived right on time and got all 10 mares done by 5:20 pm. Karin got tired of standing while holding horses and went to get a chair just as Chuck was trimming Eliza. As she was going through the gate she dropped the chair and it landed on Eliza who scooted forward. Thankfully she missed stepping on Chuck when she slammed her hoof down to get out of the way of the chair. Karin offered to 'help' again if Chuck felt he needed more excitement in his job.
Chuck just lives right down the road from us but after today will probably move far far away. And we wonder why it is hard to keep a farrier.
Sarah sent the picture below of their house getting it's new roof. That is Rhoda up on the little shed. Today Philip, Anna, David, Rhoda and Lee met at Nolan and Sarah's house to all work on this roof. What an amazing amount of work they got done!
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