Funny Flynn

It was sure quiet around here with just about everyone gone. Karin is staying at mom's taking care of Molly. She came over a little after 8:00 this morning to help with teasing, covering mares, training the foals and giving shots. Of course first we needed to stop in at the apartment for a puppy fix. Below are Jessica's pug puppies. These are purebred Pugs and for sale but I'm not sure if there are any left still for purchase, they are so adorable.

 Above and below is a Pug puppy with her daddy. 

 Below is the mommy, Princess Leah.

We finally went out to work. Jazz was the first mare out to tease. She is still in (now been 8 solid days) and covered by Valiant. Did I ever mention before how much I dislike short cycling a mare. Yes she was ready to stand after the 3rd day but for this to drag on for 8 more days is bad, Even Valiant didn't want to do the job. She is still showing but he thinks she should be out. He got the job done and Jazz was marked down. We will see what tomorrow brings with her. She should surely be out then.
Indy was next. She was sonagrammed on Friday of last week, the shot was given on Wed of this week, she was suppose to be showing but is not at all. She was not covered. We will have to tease her every day and just hope she will show.
Flynn was taken out next for training. He will be leaving for his home in October and we wanted to make sure he halters, leads, loads and listens to a handler. He did awesome. He is actually very funny. Today he was introduced to the tarp and he thought that was the best toy ever. He could paw at it with his front legs and it would make a funny crinkly sound then ball up by his belly. Below are a few pictures.

 He loves showing off by flagging his tail straight into the air like an Arabian. 

Next out was Titiana. Karin introduced her to the megaphone yesterday and it was no big deal to her then and still no big deal today. This 3 year old is just so sensible. She is an Evan daughter out of Marika. 

 Kayla arrived and is learning how to lead the horses back to the paddock when Karin is finished with their training session. Below she is leading Titiana back.

 Next out was Tori, Below Kayla is leading Tori out to the round pen for Karin to work. 

  This mare is very auditory and ran as soon as noise started coming out. 

Karin had her relaxed after about 15 minutes and sent her in with Kayla for tacking up while she got Zalena out. 

Kayla's job was to ride Zalena in the round pen as a comforter for Tori if Tori got nervous but all was well.  

 So well Zalena was bored and started yawning. 

 Tori did very well for Karin. She really is a magificent looking mare, big and muscular. 

 Both mares and riders did well. 

 As soon as both mares got their hose down and were cooled off they were put back in the paddock. Roxanne was brought into the stall and Karin helped hold her colt so I could give him his shot of Gentamicin. We did not hear him cough at all today so hopefully he is over what ever he had.
Today was Karin's turn to pick up Nancy and she had arranged to do that at the Handicapped home at 11:30 am but when we got there Nancy was still at the Morton Pumpkin Festival watching the parade. Neither Karin or I had ever been to this so we said, "no problem we will just drive over and pick her up from there." Big mistake, evidently this parade is a BIG happening in Morton. There were thousands of people there and hundreds (or so it seemed) of parade entries. We walked and walked but could not find Nancy. The lady picking up Elsa was due this afternoon and arrived at noon but we were still in Morton still looking for Nancy. We left right then and called the home back to tell them we were not going to be picking up Nancy. Drove back to the farm where they had already had Elsa loaded. Mark had taken the paper work out to them so they were good to go. They ended up waiting about a half hour.
This evening Mark and I drove in to East Peoria to have dinner with Amy and Ken Koch. We all had a good meal and an enjoyable time. We will have to do this again sometime.