The campers started arriving before 9:00 am. I was not there for the first part as I was working on cleaning the stalls, trailers and the camping trailers. Round bales also needed to be moved into 2 of the paddocks. Valiant got a new bale as did Lola and Soul's paddock. When doing that without help the horses either have to be moved or locked out of the paddock so it takes extra long. Karin arrived to mix up fly spray and went to work spraying down all the shelters of the paddocks along with spraying down the horses. Magda and Isaiah arrived so we took the golf cart over to the cabin field to pick up 3 horses. Isaiah chose to ride Ripper (his favorite) Magda chose to ride Oksana (her favorite) and Karin chose Sangria.
I took a couple trips to the meadow to drop off campers that came in a little later and by the time we got there they were busy building their housing for the next 3 days. They were also gathering firewood.
Once the teepees and wigwam were up they worked on their outfits and painted faces.
My next job was to take the Wolf Pup over to Joan's for the person renting it this weekend. The Indian's were all over there learning about bees.
I asked Anna to come with me to help hook up the camper to the skid steer and when we got over there with the trailer, the Indian's had moved on to their next activity which was to learn how to make snares and traps. After lunch they went on a hike to set the snares and traps in hope of catching meat for their meal on Thursday. The canoes were brought over for their paddling and canoeing lesson. They will have the canoe races on Friday.
They all enjoyed a swimming break. It was very hot today and the lake is refreshing plus it gets everyone clean.
They were called in for a snack about 3:00 pm. The video below shows a tiny bit of the tarps used for the teepees before the calling out of the water for a snack.
The afternoon each Indian needed to make a fishing pole to use for tonight and bows for their hunting trips. The arrows were also worked on.
I drove over to pick up mom for church and they were just starting to serve dinner. Anna, Taunya and Rebekah were dishing out plates to hungry Indians.
This evening after supper they fished with their own fishing poles and picked berries, then had stories around the campfire of different Indian tribes. It was an exhausting day with 88 degrees and all outdoor activities. The farmer arrived to cut the hay late this afternoon.
He was busy earlier mowing 50 acres of his own, plus round baling the 80 acres that were cut a few days ago. They really mow fast. Below is a short video of how quickly they mow.
While taking the video above I noticed Madiera and her colt so snapped a few pictures of him for the website. It was much to hot to ask them to run so they are just still shots.
Tim Funk had the message tonight on the Queen of Sheba and Solomon. A nice message came today that Skye had a beautiful all black colt by Evan early this morning. Below are the pictures of this fine looking strong colt.
They are very pleased, he will have the mega hair of his sire Evan but the height from his grandsire Raven and his uncle Valiant.
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