Addyson's Birthday Party

On the walk this morning Ruth pointed out that the redbud tree had blossoms growing out of the branches and trunk of the tree. 

It looked like God has been decorating the tree for Spring. Last month I saw a thorn tree with thorns coming out of the branches and the trunk but have never seen this with a flowering tree. 

I didn't clean the barn or the stalls until after the walk and when I did clean then I thought I saw foal diarrhea. That meant a trip out to the field to find out which foal but none of them showed signs of that. Only then did I start checking mares and sure enough saw pus coming out of Lola. She must have retained a tiny piece of placenta. I check it before I buried it and thought it was complete but must have missed a tiny tear. Hoerr Vet clinic was called and Chris thought he could get me in by 11:00 am. That gave me time to meet Amy at Denny's for breakfast. We had just finished eating when Chris called back to see if I could make it there by 10:30 am and it was 9:30 am and I was still in Pekin. Amy took care of the bill and I left right away. I was 3 minutes late. Lola was put in the stocks while Emma held her colt in front of her.

Dr. Hoerr invariably has to put his arm where the sun don't shine in this job.

When he pulled it back out it was covered in pus.

He pulled out a pretty big puddle of pus.

The good news was it didn't smell so had not started rotting anything inside. She was infused with antibiotics. All should be well in a couple days. Lola was loaded and her 4 day old colt impressed Dr. Hoerr and Emma by just jumping in the trailer after her.  This afternoon was Addyson's 12th birthday party and she invited all the girls from her class.  Sarah brought one car load and Taunya brought the other. Sarah let  Kensley Taegan and Braelyn hold baby River. 

Karin took the birthday party girls out in 3 groups trail riding. While some of the girls were on the horses, the others were on the golf cart.

After everyone that came to the party got a chance to ride, Karin started on the next birthday party. Aubrey had friends and cousins over for her birthday party so Karin took the 4th group out too.

The girls all loaded up on the golf cart to head over to see the foals.

From there we went exploring on the golf cart and stopped at the pipe bridge so they could cross it.

We made our way to the playground.

Taunya served everyone pizza from the Warehouse.

The birthday cake was brought out, Taunya's friend made a horse cake for Addyson.

Below is a short video of some of the horseback riding, bridge and singing Happy Birthday.

IF you would like to see the rest of the birthday party pictures click HERE. 

Ruth and Fedi went camping at Middle Grove this weekend, Ruth sent back the 3 pictures below saying they are really enjoying it.

They bought the tent that hooks to their van and really wanted to try it out before we head down to Missouri for the canoe trip.