Marriage Counseling

After that interrupted night's sleep it was so wonderful to see Ayanna's colt nursing well. He is a spunky thing, when I was putting iodine on his cord, he tried to kick.

He is for sure going to have the mega hair. Check out that tail! That is such a long thick tail for a newborn.  Anna dropped Kensley off this morning so we went to work, cleaning stalls and feeding the horses. Kensley is a good help. We also took Rosalie and Claire out for a haltering, tying, and handling session. Notice Kensley holding Claire's leadrope. Kensley is smart enough to stay outside the stall when helping grandma.

Claire did reasonably well with the tying lesson.  She was born March 25th and time just seemed to slip by. We like to start the tying at a week and she got skipped the last couple weeks. She will be 3 weeks old in 2 days. We took them to the outdoor arena and Rosalie was so excited to be able to run.

We were hoping for a few trotting pictures but Rosalie just didn't want to settle down.

On our way back to the house I noticed Hadassah's filly sound asleep in the hay but when I walked up to take her picture she jumped up.

We had to meet Taegan's bus at 11:15 but when we got back to the farm we took more hay and water out to Galena and Drifter. Drifter loves the attention from kids and came right up for attention.

Of course we had to stop at the barn to see Ayanna and her new colt by Evan.

Valiant will need a bale moved in soon so he was let out into the field and only then did I discover his waterer was stuck on high and flooding his paddock and the field. This is city water, not cheap so we will have a big bill this month. Of course his legs which I had so clean yesterday for the farrier were again muddy. It isn't easy cleaning all that mud out of that feather! Valiant was pretty excited to be let out.

Anna picked up Taegan and Kensley at 12:45 pm. I left for the shop to pick up Mark. Today was our very first marriage counseling session with Kaleb Beyer at Apostolic Christian Counseling and Family Services (ACCSF).  We have been married for almost 41 years and have always wished we had premarital counseling.  Now for the record we have a pretty good marriage but we want a GREAT marriage. It was a two hour session and both of us thought it was time and money well spent. From there we had our date night, eating dinner at Cracker Barrel in Morton before heading home. Phil and Anna brought their girls and their puppy this evening. We all migrated over to mom's to show her their new puppy and let the girls play in the newly finished basement. Diane was there so we had a nice visit and Spark arrived just as we were leaving. I'm more than ready for bed. Thankful for another good day.