Dishes in the Laundry

Mom was able to walk this morning but right after the walk had to go right back to laying down. Joan brought all of her school supplies and children and spent the day there. Mom's big news is that she got a new mattress, one of those memory foam kind that come in a box and have to expand for 24 hours. It came yesterday and Rachel put it on the bed but mom had to sleep in the guest room last night as it didn't have the time needed. Today Joan got the sheets on the bed and we are curious to see if mom has a better night tonight.
As I was eating breakfast I heard a mare screaming, ran out and there was Easter Lilly chasing Rosalie around the paddock, whirling and mule kicking at her screaming all the while. Rosalie was put in the paddock next to Evan and it didn't take long for Easter Lilly to go start picking on Ayanna. That did it. Ayanna was moved in with Rosalie.
Karin arrived after work today and the very first thing we did was bring Sangria and Serenity into the stall and take Serenity's temperature. We are so very pleased to announce it was only 101.5 AND she hasn't had any banimine since Tuesday. We gave her the shot of gentamician and put them right back out. Tomorrow she gets the last shot and this one is a long lasting antibiotic called Exceed. That usually wears off in 4 or 5 days so she will need to be watched carefully then.
I wanted Easter Lilly worked first so once she was out of the middle paddock I could move Ayanna and Rosalie back in there. Karin worked her in the round pen and Easter Lilly did ok, not as good as we had hoped but not terrible.

If you would like to see the rest of the pictures of that training session click HERE. Karin did not ride her today, just did the desensitizing, sensitizing and relaxing session. She was put back in the paddock next to Evan. We really want to watch her to see when she comes into season. Karin took Rosalie out next. This 4 year old mare is just magnificent. She is already pushing 17 hands.

 Rosalie was bred to Evan and is due April 6th, 2018. The foal only will be for sale as we just can't part with our mares. Last out was Ayanna, Rosalie's full sister. Ayanna was born March 21st, 2010 so is 3 years older than Rosalie. Ayanna has the extreme movement.

This mare does a natural Piaf and Passage. Ayanna was also bred to Evan and is due April 23rd, 2018. Of course it is foal only for sale.  Braelyn came over after school today and washed my dishes all by herself. She was careful to put them in laundry baskets that were on the floor. She had them stacked in those to dry as soon as each dish was washed. Now for the record I was out waiting to open the gate for Mark while she was busy working and was so surprised when I walked into the kitchen to see all that work done and dishes in the laundry baskets.
Mark wanted to scrape Valiant's paddock today so Karin let him into the field. Valiant wasn't at all happy having that skid steer in his paddock and field and came running to the gate asking us to let him out. We just wouldn't do it so he ran all the way to the back of the field sulking and waited there until he saw Mark drive that awful machine back out of his field. Thankful our paddocks are ready for the winter. That skid steer sure does the job nicely.