A Day Home

Rare but busy, these days when I get to stay home the entire day. This morning I had visitors, my cousin MaryEllen and her daughter Jessica arrived to pick up some keys but spent some time here meeting and greeting the horses. They got the full tour today, even helping with the breedings. Hadassah was covered by Evan and Whitney was covered by Valiant. Both visitors were impressed with the stallions good behavior, well I'm not actually sure it was the behavior part they were impressed by but I was. Once they left Whitney was brought inside, tangles brushed out of her mane and a few pictures taken in the round pen.

Whitney has very nice movement for a Percheron. She has been surprising us with how well behaved she is since spending the winter at MiddleGrove. She is quiet, leads well, stands tied well and listened to everything asked of her today both while covering her with Valiant and in the round pen. Maybe we don't want to sell her.  Emily said she was even good for the vet when he pulled her blood for the coggins test. Last year she was awful for that. It must be all Karin's working with her at Middle Grove. The problem with keeping her is she is so big she takes up too much room in the trailer. She is 17.2 hands and weighs more than a ton.
Hadassah was taken out next. She had a rats nest in her tail that needed to be brushed out. I was glad for the cowboy magic, that makes a hard job much easier. Once her beauty treatment was finished she too was taken out to the round pen for some pictures.

Each time I see this mare move I'm impressed. It must be that 25% Arabian blood mixed with Raven's blood that makes this mare float. She is also the most fit mare Horsemeister owns. She has endurance that we marvel at, a bad thing when she decides she won't be caught. Thankfully she likes Emily. We always tease Emily that she has job security as long as we own Hadassah since she doesn't run from her and no one else will even try to catch her. Her 2 foals by Evan were some of the nicest moving foals of the year.
Once Hadassah was put away I snapped a couple pictures of Honey for her owner. She is outside mare that is here to be bred to Valiant.

 

 The picture below is of our pretty dogwood tree overlooking the pond pasture. That brown thing grazing in that pasture is not a horse, it is Emily's cow Goldie.

Indy's udder was check, the colostrum is still pretty clear so I didn't test it tonight. She is due in 18 days. The rest of the afternoon was spent cleaning and getting the laundry done. Phil came over this evening to work on my computer but that didn't turn out well, he finally unplugged it and took it home with him. Hopefully I'll get it back tomorrow. I'm thankful for the laptop.