This morning the first of the month bills were paid at Meister's and they were only 3 days late. As soon as that was done I had to go right back home to start cleaning the apartment and almost finished before needing to leave to meet Karin. Today was weaning day for 5 of the foals AND we needed to move the rest of the horses from the original Middle Grove land over to the winter pasture. The horses were all eating the round bales Mike put out before he left for Gulf Shores and all came right up to the trailer. Lily and her colt started walking in before we even got a halter on Lily. We were pretty thrilled to have them loaded first. Jewel and her filly along with Star were taken on the first trip. We took them straight to the Hanna City farm, unloaded the mares with foals, walked them into a stall and slipped the mare out leaving Lily's colt and Jewel's filly in the same stall without their mom's. The mares were taken to the winter pasture. They called then took off running for the herd. The next trip was to take Tatiana and Ivan her colt by Valiant along with Roxanne and Giselle, her filly to the winter pasture. They loaded up just fine and the drive from one field to the next is an easy 5 minute trip. I remembered to snap a few pictures as those foals were unloading. Below is Tatiana's colt.
Roxanne's filly took a leap right after him.
She pranced her way over to both mares who had settled down grazing on the rich green grass.
We headed right back to pick up another load. This one was a full load taking Madiera, Isla, her filly by Valiant, Foxy, Ilyssa, her filly by Valiant, Rosaliegh, India, her filly by Evan and last was Hadassah. These were taken to the Hanna City farm. Hadassah was put in the middle paddock with Indy and Oksana and the 3 weanlings put in a stall opposite the other two weanlings (Jewel's filly and Lily's colt). The 3 mares were loaded right back up and taken to the winter pasture to join the others. All of the horses have now been moved. We still have 2 foals to pick up for weaning but won't be doing that until next Wednesday. Originally we planned on moving them on Saturday but forgot that is the first weekend of the Spoon River drive and the traffic is always backed up in Farmington. It won't hurt them to stay with their mom's another week.
By this time it was WAY past supper time so Karin called in an order from B's and we stopped and picked it up on our way home. Mark had been over cutting logs at the far pasture. On the way home he stopped the golf cart on a hill, got off but forgot to set the brake and it rolled down the hill, over the road, off the cliff and stopped just before hitting the lake. All of his tools along with his chain saw were dumped. He had to walk all the way back to get me and the tractor to pull it out. He discussed leaving it until tomorrow thinking we may not have time to get it out before we needed to leave for church but rain is predicted so we went back out to get it.
That went so well we still had about 15 minutes to clean up before needing to leave for church. I jumped on my golf cart and headed back to the house when I saw something out of the ordinary and slammed on the brakes. A tree had fallen into Evan's paddock completely taking down a section of his fence and the electric fence. I couldn't believe he didn't try to escape. He was very nervous so it must have happened while we were getting Mark's golf cart up.
He was put in the back field while Mark got his chain saw and started sawing the tree into logs. I cleared them out of the paddock while Mark got supplies to fix fence. Evan was grazing over by the road when another branch cracked and fell across the drive. That poor horse was so paranoid of getting hit again he took off running in a panic. By the time the paddock was fixed and the electric fence turned back on it was just before 7:00 pm. We turned on AC Central trying to listen on line forgetting the hard drive at the Peoria church was down. No problem we then tried to listen to Washington's service and that wouldn't come up either. Finally we got Bluffton's service up and were able to listen.
I'm thankful the transporting went well and we were able to move all of the horses in one day. I'm thankful the golf cart wasn't damaged in the crash and neither was Mark's chain saw since we needed that as soon as we got back. I'm very very thankful it was Evan in that paddock instead of Valiant. Valiant would have gone through the break but not Evan. I'm thankful Mark has all the tools and boards needed to make the repair right then. Lots to be thankful for.
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