Rained Ruined Hay

Well our best laid plans ended up in the trash can today. The hay was cut on Monday as we were suppose to have 4 days of sunshine. On Tuesday it rained. On Wednesday the tedder was supposed to be brought over to help crush and dry the hay but it wouldn't run. On Thursday Ryan brought a rake over but not until 7:30 pm and wasn't able to get both fields raked before dark so he came this morning to finish the raking. Amy, his wife came over to rake it again as we were getting desperate to get it up. She had just finished raking, went home and Ryan was in the process of bringing the baler over when a stray cloud arrived right over the farm, a big boom of thunder and all of a sudden the heavens opened and almost a half an inch of rain fell in a short period of time.  There will be no hay bailed tonight.
Roxanne is still in but not covered.  Mom had company arrive this morning. Jean lives half of her time in Arkansas and half in Arizona. Mom was thrilled when she came for a visit.  I knew Jean when I was just a child. She and her husband were square dancers and also sang western songs. I can remember her in her beautiful fluffy square dance costume.

 Mom used the golf cart to give Jean a tour of the place.

We ended up at the round pen where Karin was working with Roxanne.

She needed someone to watch while she rode her around a bit as Roxanne hasn't been ridden in a few years.  Roxanne did very well with Karin. She is using the clicker training on her and Roxanne responded very well. I stayed while mom took Jean over to Joan's house for a visit with Hannah. Magda arrived to work with Hadassah.

 She took her for a walk and noticed that Hadassah was showing to a stallion.

 We decided to tease her after Magda was done working with her. 

Hadassah was covered by Evan and will be marked down. I wasn't sure when she would have started and didn't want to miss her so had her covered. Mom left to make us all lunch. Karin brought Valiant out and taught Berlica how to round pen him first.

 She had such a good ride on Valiant, walk, trot and canter.

Valiant was put away and we went to mom's for lunch. Mom served us her home made beef barley soup with a salad, fruit cheese, ham and crackers. Lunch was delicious.  This evening Ralph and Jamie brought Dakota over to breed to Valiant. She is not yet in season but should be coming in soon. We had a nice visit. Mom still has no air conditioning and we hit 91 degrees today. She is spending the evening with Diane in her nice cool house. Hopefully by bedtime it will cool down.