Under Water

A storm last night and another unexpected storm this afternoon dropped another half inch of rain. Derby, Julie's mare, was teased. Today she screamed and struck out at Evan but still winked a little so was taken over to Valiant's breeding stand and covered.  He slops through the soupy mud at the gate to get out to do his job. He had to be hosed down first to remove any mud before doing his job. It is so muddy at the breeding stand that the human helpers get splattered with mud too. The amount of laundry this rain is producing is epic.
  As the sun was shining this morning Sheena and Madiera were let out into the pond pasture for the very first time since their foals were born. Madiera's colt is 8 days old and Sheena's colt is 6 days old and they have been spending their days stalled and nights in the indoor arena as the colts were just too young to be out in the rain. They were taken first to the round pend for a few pictures for the website. Below is Madiera with her mega mane and her colt who was SO excited to be outside.

Madiera's colt was fascinated with the puddle in the round pen and kept making his way into the puddle to splash.

He is really going to be someone's dream come true. A black Warlander colt that is curious, friendly, mega hair and TALL! He is for sale for $6000.00 which is a bargain for such a quality horse. I know Athena (Sangria x Raven) appraised for $25,000.00 as a 2 year old so anyone wanting an investment may want to take a look at this colt. 

 Sheena's colt was also excited to be outside and was strutting around like a 'real' dressage horse. What a fancy colt he is. It is actually shocking how well this 6 day old colt moves. 

 They both were glad to get outside and run. As Sheena is a Thoroughbred, she wanted to run and run and run.

They were glad to get out and graze.

Rosaleigh was teased and still no sign of her coming into season. As Lisa and Tori are now both out they were moved in with Roxanne and Rosaleigh moved into the paddock next to Evan's. Maybe now that she is next to a stallion she will come into season.  Below her filly was enjoying her mom's grain.

I went back to the house and just about that time the moisture heavy clouds decided to drop a half inch of rain very suddenly with big drops that came splattering down so hard the driveways became rivers quickly.  

Is the rain ever going to end?  We are kind of underwater around here. The fields are saturated and sloppy, the paddocks are so wet that the mud is turning to soup. We are thinking of ordering planks of wood and buckets of pitch to start building a boat and we live on top of a hill! A very nice picture came in from the lady that bought a Lily x Valiant colt a few years ago. She writes: I love him so much   I was riding him on the levee & and man that was taking pics of his son riding his bicycle stopped & asked if he could take our pic.  It is the old black & white dark room film.  He developed it himself.

Thanks so much Lisa for sharing the picture and giving us an update.