More Storms

 We were able to walk almost one round before the rain started up. By the time we were turning the corner at Diane's the rain started and we were rushing mom home arriving before we all got soaked. We decided to take Joan home on the golf cart and that was done in the rain. I went in to change and get ready for Berean when I heard the weirdest thunder I'd ever heard. It was a series of Crack Crack Crack about 10-15 cracks each less than a second apart then a huge BOOM. It turned out not to be thunder, another branch fell off the tree. 

It fell over the corner of the paddock and broke both sides of the fence but didn't do as much damage as expected.

Mark was sent a text with the picture that another limb fell and his response was, "I think I'm going to outlast that tree." Mom was picked up around 8:15 for our trip to the Berean office. If you would like to read about our morning there click HERE. We dropped off the Bibles at the Bartonville post office on the way home. The sun was shining and it was terribly hot and humid, 87 actual degrees but with a real feel in the 90s. A good day to work inside for a bit. Anna came to swim with the girls but a big storm came rolling in so they all needed to leave. Dr. Hoerr was scheduled for this afternoon and Anna offered to help with this appointment as my arm is still pretty sore. When Dr. Hoerr called to report he was on his way, Anna was called and she came right over to help. Oksana and Jewel were brought in first then Lola and Soul. Those two foals had a ball running around while their mom's were being led into a stall and they didn't really want to follow their mom's but after a while each joined their mom and the doors were shut. Dr. Hoerr sonagrammed Oksana first and sure enough she was open and worse had just ovulated. Oksana had been bred in April, confirmed in foal April 28th then sonagrammed again May 20th and was still pregnant and the embryo growing well. Yesterday she couldn't walk past a stallion without showing and today she is out. I may want to short cycle her. Jewel was next and she IS confirmed in foal BUT looks to be carrying twins, one in each horn. We are going to wait a week just to make sure one isn't a cyst then remove one. Soul was next. Soul was bred May 6th and I forgot to have her sonagrammed last week. She is confirmed in foal. When Dr. Hoerr was going to show me the embryo on the ultrasound machine Soul came right over to look too. Soul is due April 16th, 2022.

Lola was last and she is also confirmed in foal due May 29th, 2022, the same day Jewel is due.

Dr. Hoerr loaded up and left, Anna and I tried to cover Oksana but no go so Anna took her back to the cabin field while I put Jewel and her colt away. Soul and Lola were taken to the far paddock as I thought that would be the easiest way to get their foals to follow but that didn't happen. Instead they both took off running around the yard with their tails flagging having a ball. We ended up tying both mares to posts in the paddock and leaving the gate open then had to work together to encourage them both to go to their mamas. Anna came in to re-wrap my arm for the night before heading home. Mark worked on cutting up some of the big downed branch tonight but had to quit as the rain started back up. We had lasagna for dinner tonight. I had frozen it from an earlier meal and it tasted really good tonight. Of course we were both hungry.