Age Test

Fedi came on the walk again today and this time Diane was prepared. During the summer she found some extra ice cleats at garage sales and brought a pair for Fedi this morning.

 Below Diane and Ruth are putting them on for him.

 He made it all the way to Joan's house and half way up the hill to the barn before turning around today. He is for sure getting stronger.  After the walk I left for grocery shopping. We have another winter storm moving in tomorrow and we were just about out of food. Ryan our hay man, sent a text as I was driving to see if he could come pick up the 24 bales today. He was sent a text back that he would have to come check it out for himself but I didn't think it was possible with all of this snow in the way.  Mom, you would be proud, he wasn't answered until I arrived at Sam's Club. He did check it out and decided he would have to wait. These were the bales we purchased and only after we stacked them in the barn found out they were put up wet and were molding from the inside. The pictures below were taken this afternoon. The snow is coming off the front porch but a lot has been hanging around growing slowly.

 The icicles hanging off the snow in the back have curled and are now facing the door.

By this afternoon they were actually touching the door. Karin had to work late today and wasn't able to come train.
As everyone is doing that age test thing on Facebook I thought it would be interesting to do one of Evan. We bought Evan as a weanling and he is just over 7 months old in the first two pictures.

Evan is 9 years old in the next two pictures taken June 27th, 2018. Those 9 years have made a huge difference is HIS looks!

When we knew we were going to be keeping some Raven daughters we decided we must have another Friesian stallion not related to Raven and started our search.  Robert DeBoer, the owner of the Mintse, Evan's sire told us he had 5 or 6 colts to choose from so we drove up to Michigan to the Friesian Connection to look and we chose Evan. We have never regretted this purchase. Evan sires gorgeous foals with the mega hair and amazing movement.