Middle Grove Trip

I walked up to the barn this morning to check on Sangria's filly. They were turned out and the first thing she did was start to play with Darla, rearing straight up into the air then galloping around. She is for sure feeling better. Since I was also feeling better I just decided to walk to the walk instead of taking the golf cart over to the meeting place. WE stopped to admire the decorations Sarah Reinhard put up for grandma.

Rhoda was here bringing Sangria in by the time the walk was over. We took her temperature 102 which is considered normal then gave her a shot of Gentamician.
Rhoda drove to Middle Grove to drop off Easter Bonnet, Titiana, Oksana and Darla and pick up Easter Lilly, Ayanna and Rosalie. She took these pictures while she was getting Ayanna and Rosalie. The grass is greener than what these show but the lakes really are that blue.

When she got back with the mares, unfortunately it looks like Easter Lilly is no longer pregnant. We put her in next to Evan in hopes she will come into season soon.
Karin arrived after work and was pretty thrilled to have 2 new horses to work. These two full sisters are just HUGE. Both mares needed a refresher on listening to a handler. Karin started with Ayanna.

 While Rhoda rode Rosalie. 

Ayanna heard something in the grass and just check out her reaction when Ebby bounced out chasing a mouse.

Both mares did well although Rosalie was a little dead to the leg. Since Karin had the spurs, the girls decided to switch horses. Below Rhoda is dismounting off Rosalie

 then asking Ayanna for a bow for mounting. 

They took off for the 'death trails' with Ayanna leading the way. To see the rest of the pictures of this training session click HERE. 

While waiting for them to come out of the woods I was watching the geese all lined up on a log. 

Next out was Indy and Envy. Now Envy hasn't been worked with since she was about 2 weeks old and she is now 2 and a half months old. She was taken into the stall, haltered, tied and her hooves picked up and she hated every minute of that. I wanted to get a few updated pictures of her for the website but when we put her in the arena she started showing us this HUGE movement. I finally turned the camera off and turned the video on in hopes of capturing her trot. 

Actually by the time the video was turned on she had toned it down a bit.

If you would like to see the rest of Envy's pictures click HERE.  

Rachel took mom to the eye doctor today and she didn't get very good news. She now needs to lay on her side for the next 6 days. She is to do NOTHING. Rhonda took dinner over to mom tonight. I went over after supper and stayed until Ruth arrived. Below mom is all comfy doing exactly what the doctor ordered.

Tomorrow Joan will bring the kids and just do school there. Since my wings are clipped I'll head back over tomorrow afternoon to relieve Joan. Mom is actually on the list to serve lunch on Sunday with Spark and Rhonda. The things she does to get out of work! 

Amy came over after work today with a book to read then Mark got home from church with a whole bag of books from Eunice. Eunice also included scotcharoos and both Mark and I had to have one tonight. They were DELICIOUS. 

Right before heading to bed we heard a big bang then the thundering of hooves and stallions screaming. Easter Lilly decided she wanted to be with Ayanna and Rosalie and slammed into her gate breaking the chain. She was caught pretty quickly and put in the middle paddock where she promptly started slamming into that gate. Mark stayed next to that gate to stop her while I grabbed Ayanna and Rosalie and put them in the middle paddock with Easter Lilly. Now she is calm and all is well. These mares! Thankful the mares led quietly and really thankful it wasn't a stallion out.