Most Unusual

 After the excitement this morning of Hadassah's new filly,

 moving a bale in for the mares and foals, teasing and covering Lily, I was ready to start the day by driving to the Peoria Post office for the Berean mail then to Kroger to pick up a dessert. I stopped at Anna's on the way home to drop off a muck bucket Ruth brought this morning for our walk and said Philip left it at their house. Anna was busy baking cookies for the next airbnb guests coming in tonight.  The muck bucket wasn't Phil and Anna's so more than likely is Ben's. That was put back in the car and the soccer ball put in the bucket. Tomorrow we well take both to Addyson's recital. Anna said that as soon as the girls were done with their chores she would be bringing them over to swim. Rhonda's brother Tom was here grooming the horses and he was more than willing to help move the riding horses to the cabin field. We took 3 trips of 2 each. 

Mika and Ripper were taken together, Missy and Sangria were taken together. Below those 4 are busy smelling any for manure to see who was using their field.

Missy and Oksana were taken last.

Ripper has to check out anything new. He was very curious about such a strange looking barn.

By this time the girls were here. Six year old Kensley drove me over to mom's on the golf cart. She is getting pretty good at driving. Rebekah was already here with Jordan, Riley and Blair. Jordan, Riley and Blair will be welcoming home a new sibling in December.  Rochelle came over on the canoe to join the kids.

Mom's flowers are blooming beautifully.

She was busy watering them, then went to pick strawberries from her strawberry bed when her walker got away from her. Thankfully Rebekah was there to rescue the walker and bring it back. I headed back to start working on Evan's paddock. The skid steer was put to work for this job and I almost finished it. Tomorrow IF I have time I'll take some of that pile of clay on the barn site from the holes and put it in Evan's paddock to replace some of the clay taken out with the manure today. Jewel is now waxing, not heavily but at least some progress was made from last night. She was brought into a stall for the night. Hadassah with her new filly are in the stall across the aisle and Hadassah is just sure Jewel is going to try to steal her baby. I have them on the monitor and have been watching Hadassah pin her ears and hearing her squeal each time Jewel looks over. The filly is doing great. I applied iodine to her cord but by this afternoon it is already dry. Tonight she was trying to gallop around her mama. Jury, Lola and Soul decided to head over to the other side of the pond but before they left Jury's colt came over for attention. He is such a handsome boy.

Lily and her filly were brought in from the field and 

put back in the breeding shed paddock for the night.

On the way back to the house I noticed the geese pair had hatched out goslings. I ran in to get the camera to take pictures of these little just hatched goslings. When I got back I noticed something most unusual about the.  4 were obviously hatched today and one of the goslings looked to be a week old.

It was getting dark and they were across the pond so I couldn't get clear pictures but for sure one is much bigger than the other 4.

At one point we had 2 nesting pairs on this pond so perhaps the bigger gosling was from the other nest. The other pair has not been seen for a while. Almost always the goose will lay an egg a day and then set once she is done laying, this way all the eggs hatch on the same day. The eggs laid first do not start to develop until the goose sets on all of them. How this gaggle ended up with one large is a mystery.