The Fall

Winter is back, the ice is again hard and very slippery. Mark went out early this morning before it was light to unload his van, slipped on the ice, fell and hurt his shoulder. Today was not a good day to hurt. He had the cement truck coming to drop 5 cubic yards of concrete. He was not able to do the job himself so called Joan who came right over and helped. Mark commented that she is even better than me at helping. I'll never forget years ago when we first opened Bridlewood Stable, the instructor Cathie Trent must have been impressed with my strength until she met Joan. Joan came over to help put up a load of hay and later that night Cathie told her husband, "I met someone stronger than Judy today!" Now for the record Joan IS 11 years younger than me.
Diane picked up the mail for the Berean office then left with Mike for a nice long vacation down in sunny warm Gulf Shores, at least they hope it is sunny and warm but even if it isn't they will just enjoy being there in their own condo right on the beach.
We had a very busy day at Berean. To read about our day click HERE.
I made it home around 3:30 pm to find Karin, Emily and Anni putting the mares away after a good training session.

 Above is Anni leading Marika and below is Karin leading Jenis and Zalena back to the paddock.

 Above is Emily taking Indy back while below Anni takes Eliza.

 Karin took Ayanna back.

 Next on the list was to introduce Oksana to the pirate flag. She was curious about it but not afraid. Karin said all the mares did very well with the flag except Zalena. The mare we were pleased with was Marika, she accepted the flag without a problem.

 The last job was to take the muddy mares out on trail ride with Oksana leading. Emily rode Oksana, Anni rode Anna and Karin rode Ribbon.