Moving Bales

We had to tell mom it was just too dangerous for her to go on the walk this morning. There was just too much ice. Joan had quite an experience last night. She was out plowing and was wet and cold quitting around midnight.  Rebekah was coming home from work and slid into a snowbank on Smithville road and was stuck. Joan and Sarah took Sarah's car and a rope from the barn to try to pull her out but couldn't do it. Rebekah has a towing service so she called and they told her they would have someone there in an hour but no one showed up. The second time she called they told her they were working on getting someone to help but the 3rd time Rebekah called they told her they were not able to get anyone to come and they would have someone come pull her out during the daytime.  They left the car and just came on home arriving around 3:00 am. About 5:30 am Rebekah's mom called Joan in a panic. The state police had called her that they found Rebekah's car abandoned on the side of the road and no sign of Rebekah and Rebekah wasn't answering her phone.  Joan was able to relieve her mind that Rebekah was home safe and sound and just sleeping. The towing company finally did pull her out around noon.  Mark got out this morning just as it was getting light outside to start spreading sand on the drives. He was using the new little Kubota and sand from the indoor arena but it worked. No one got stuck today.  We are expecting the temperature to drop drastically tomorrow afternoon to below zero with wind chills of -20 degrees so today was the day to start moving bales. The far paddock got a new bale, the middle paddock got a new bale and the fatty paddock got a new bale. That sounds so easy but it isn't.  The far paddock is the easiest. The weanlings are just called to the front and given grain and while they are busy eating the bale can be moved inside. The middle paddock wasn't terrible. They were given treats in one shelter then while they were busy I was able to quick open the other and move a bale in. The fatty paddock started out the hardest. The gate could not be opened far enough so the bale was just dumped over the fence.  Valiant and Evan's weren't low enough on hay to move any in for them yet. Karin couldn't make it in today. The schools were all cancelled again but the ice out there was just to dangerous for her to make it in. I spent some time this afternoon bringing in lots of wood for the coming deep freeze. I will have both wood burners burning tomorrow evening.
Mark drove mom and me to church tonight. Tim Roecker had the service. I think we were about the last to leave getting home just a bit ago.  The sand on the drives works great!
One more age test. Below is the video of Lily giving birth to Rosalie's  on Feb 18th, 2013

We were so thrilled that she was a filly as Raven had died in 2012 and if this one was a filly there would be no way we would sell her. The picture below was taken right after birth.

 When she was 2 days old it was bitter cold so the first time we let this filly out of the stall we put a blanket on her.

We had snow a couple days later and below she is 4 days old. This was my favorite picture of her that day. She was a big stocky filly and already dancing. 

The picture below was taken Oct  18th, 2017 and we thought she was a giant then. Hard to believe that little filly in the picture above became this huge beautiful mare in the picture below. 

We haven't sticked her recently but in the picture below taken Jan 16th, 2019 Indy who sticks at 16.3 is at her left and Ayanna who sticks at 16.2 is at her right. 

Now to be fair she is a little ahead of those two mares in the picture above but she really does tower over them when she is standing right next to them. Each time Karin climbs on she comments, "she is SO tall!" Raven gave us such a wonderful parting gift.