This was the very first morning in months that no horses were in stalls or the indoor arena for the night. This was the very first morning I did not have to run out early to feed/water/clean stalls. Lola and Soul are sharing the far paddock with their fillies and getting along just fine. Instead of heading out early, the meat sauce for the church lunch was put in the crock pot, the brownies were put in the oven to bake before breakfast. The horses were all fed around 7:30 am.
We left for mom's house around 9:45 am arriving at 9:46 am. Mike Kaisner had the message on Facebook live. There were a few technical problems but were pretty much all solved before 10:00 am. Joan, Ruth, Mark, mom and I were up in mom's living room for this service and what was interesting is we dressed up in church clothes. It just makes it seem more like a Sunday to put on our best when worshiping. Mark took the picture below.
After church those meeting downstairs came out on the balcony to join us for church lunch. We had spaghetti with meat sauce, garlic bread and delicious salad with all the fixins plus mom's home made salad dressing, strawberry short cake and brownies for dessert.
Karin had a trail ride scheduled for 3:00 pm with Magda and her brother and this was to work on clearing the trails.
The grass is doing so well we moved Ayanna, Galena and Irish on the pasture. Zalena is in the big field in front. Irish is behind Ayanna and Galena is far right.
Irish is the next mare due. She isn't due until May 1st but is not yet bagged up.
A call came in from the lady that bought Lisa.
She reported that even though Lisa wasn't due until May 5th, she delivered a beautiful filly this morning and wanted to make sure I had my dates correct. They were correct, just Lisa delivered 2 weeks early. She reported Lisa is being a good mother and is the most sweet loving mare they have ever owned. I'm pretty thrilled with the update but sure hope they remember to email pictures soon. These Friesian mares really are like big dogs. They love being with people.
Sarah and Nolan came out on this beautiful afternoon and enjoyed fishing. Nolan caught bass and crappie.
We had chicken stir fry for supper tonight full of crunchy delicious veggies. That hit the spot. After supper I took the grand daughters on a long golf cart ride. We stopped to pick lots of grass for the mares in paddocks then enjoyed feeding them. When it got cool we headed inside for hot chocolate with whip cream and sugar sprinkles on top.
Mark was rocking Eden in the chair behind Braelyn while I helped with the sprinkles and then took the picture. We live less than a half a mile away from them but it has been 3 weeks since we have seen these girls and we really missed them. There are no cases of the virus in our area, 9 in Peoria but no new cases and some of those are already recovering.
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