We had another beautiful morning for our walk and were in no hurry to leave that walk to start work. But..work awaited. I started mowing around 10:00 am, as soon as I thought the grass was dry enough from the heavy dew this morning. As soon as that was finished, horses were moved. Evan was placed in the round pen, Prissy moved to the far paddock, the middle paddock locked off the pond pasture, Valiant moved into Evan's paddock. All the mares and foals in the middle paddock moved to the fields that opens up to Ribbon's old paddock and finally Evan moved into Valiant's paddock. I can not have any mares in the 2 fields next to Valiant's paddock if he is in it but Evan respects the electric fence enough that the mares get free rein on both of those fields. Prissy's owner is going to pick her up on Saturday.
The next job was to bring Sheena over, remove bandage, clean and check wounds then re-wrap the leg. I saw some proud flesh growing today where there hadn't been any so that will need to be addressed. She was taken back to the cabin field. Zalena and her colt were taken out for a few pictures for the colt's owner. He is turning into a handsome Friesian colt.
Once the pictures were emailed to the owner, all the paper work to register the last 3 foals was filled out and taken to the post office to mail then the pictures of each foal emailed to the registry. The Friesian Heritage Horse registry requires hair from each foal, plus 3 pictures of each foal, both sides and a face shot. Hopefully the last 6 I mailed in July 11th, will arrive soon. It is only suppose to take 6 weeks to get the papers back and it has already been 9 weeks. These last 3 should have been mailed in earlier but I was waiting for Indy to foal, Indy the one who is just FAT and not pregnant!
At 5:00 pm Spark, Dr. Lew Sterrett, mom, me, Mike and Diane all met at mom's house to car pool over to 5 Points in Washington, IL for the Berean banquet. Aunt Bernie was also there. Mom and Aunt Bernie had to pose for a picture. It was their husbands, dad and Uncle Ed that started Berean Prison Ministry.
I snapped the picture below before the banquet started, people were milling around all visiting with one another. In this ministry so many people do so many different things and yet they all have the same goal of bringing the Word of life to prisoners around the world.
The band playing while we ate was really good called Rivers of Life Band which was made up of all pastors of the Methodists church.
Ken Helmuth gave an update on Berean activities around the world A man was honored for volunteering 40 years at the Peoria County Jail. After that came the testimony of Jon Watts who was only 17 years old when he was placed in the Tazewell county jail for possessing drugs, domestic abuse and assaulting an officer. He was placed in lockdown and someone gave him a Bible. Today he is a youth pastor and loves the Lord.
Sparky introduced Dr. Lew Sterrett, the main speaker and when Dr. Lew spoke we all listened. He told about a horse he trained that slammed against the fence time after time. Only later did he find out that this horse had never been able to be contained in a fence. Dr. Lew spoke a lot of fences and how they are there actually for our freedom.
I sure hope someone recorded his talk, it is really worth listening to again.
It was an amazing evening and one I'm very glad not to have missed.
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