Shelter At Home

Our governor announced today that Illinois is now asking people to shelter at home and only go out for groceries, medicines or gas. Some of us are exempt like farmers, health care workers and some of the service trades.  Meister Electric was pretty much shut down, they will allow emergency service, same as Meister Heating. I will be allowed to travel from here to Middle Grove to pick up or drop off horses.  The New York mayor said the city is now the epicenter of the crisis with 5151 coronavirus cases and 29 deaths. California has more than a 1000 and had doubled in 3 days. Los Angeles has 292 so far. We still have only 4 confirmed cases in our area and that hasn't increased but I think it is because they are having trouble getting the tests out here to the midwest. Unfortunately Chicago area cases reached 585 and another death reported.
Ruth, Joan and I walked this morning. Ruth spent the night with mom and mom had a good night.
She decided she no longer needs someone to stay.We had a gray damp cold day with highs only in the 30s and spitting snow this evening. Indy and her colt were let outside for a little time just so I could get some updated pictures of the colt.

 He is a week old today and just doing fantastic.  Evan and Indy are both clear for Hydrocephalus and Dwarfism gene and neither can pass it to any offspring so this colt is also clear. We also tested Valiant and Oksana and both of them are clear also. Some of the Friesian breed carried this mutant gene and Friesian breeders are trying to eradicate it by testing then not breeding a carrier to another carrier. I'm very glad both of our stallions are NOT carriers.
We ate dinner at mom's tonight with Joan, Hannah, Faith, Mackeson, Berlica, Anni and Matt. Ruth and Fedi came after supper. At 7:00 pm Matt and Anni invited everyone downstairs to watch old family movies mom had stored in the closet. Rachel, Spark and Rhonda also joined us.

Some of them were of the early 70s and the hair styles were so funny. We also got to see lots of movies of Christmases from the 50s, 60s and 70s. We even saw mom and dad's very first riding lawn mower, with them plus all the neighborhood kids trying it out. They had movies of our horses Twinkle and blaze galloping around with riders. What a wonderful way to spend a Friday evening when one is sheltering in place.  A special thanks to Rachel for posting these videos of the old
movies:

Oksana is back in the stall tonight. She is still not waxing and even though today IS her due date she is not ready to deliver. I'm pleased that she is content in the stall and actually enjoys coming inside. I have her on the monitor but so far she is showing no signs of labor at all.