2022 Indian Camp Day 3

 Up again at 5:00 but this time I didn't start cooking breakfast until 6:00 am and by 7:00 all was ready in crock pots. Tara brought cereal and milk and I provided pancakes, breakfast casserole and strawberries. The campers were a half hour late, we had a big storm come through during the night and it destroyed their wigwams and a few of their crafts.  The rain came down so hard the wigwams collapsed. All of the bedding got soaked and all the campers ended up in the cabins. So thankful for Rachel's two cabins. They were able to hold everyone. As it was the last night of camp it worked out ok. The parents have to dry all that bedding but Joan had it loaded up and brought over to hang on the trampolines. The bedding wasn't the only thing hanging out on the tramps.  Blair had such a big day yesterday and this morning she too crashed on the tramp. The picture below was taken late afternoon. 

The Indian's arrived around 8:00 am for breakfast and they were all more than ready to eat.

After breakfast I headed back to start cleaning up the dishes and getting our laundry done. This morning the campers had to organize and clean up the camp before doing the fun things of the day.  Dr. Hoerr was scheduled to come early afternoon so Ralph and Jamie brought Dakota over for her ultrasound. She was put in the paddock next to Valiant and went straight for the hay. 

Mike happened to come at the same time to tease Sheena. Below is Loxley. He is doing fantastic.

Sheena is now out of season so Mike took her and Loxley back over to the cabin field. It is much cooler there under the trees. It was another very hot day and today I needed the barn air conditioner turned on.  The remote wasn't working so Mark came out and turned it on from the thermostat up on the wall.

It worked wonderful and I was so thankful.  Rosaleigh's filly was a little distressed with the heat and was panting.  It didn't help that Rosaleigh was standing in the sun instead of going under the trees. Dr. Hoerr arrived just as I was bringing the mares and foals inside and he was very pleasantly surprised at how nice it was inside vs outside.  Madiera was the first mare I wanted him to ultrasound.  We missed her foal heat and I wanted to see if we could short cycle her. Well we could so she was given a shot and  put back out.  She should come in season in 3 days.  The next mare was Tatiana and Dr. Hoerr found the embryonic vesicle within seconds. Tatiana was bred to Valiant and is due May 1st, 2023.

The next mare was Irish. She too was bred to Valiant and she too settled. She is due May 5th, 2023.

The last mare for an ultrasound was Dakota and she had not settled but even worse did not have good uterine tone. She will be picked up and taken home tomorrow.  She just can't carry a foal and they have tried for the last 3 years. It is time to give up on her. The last job was to do a health certificate on Rocky.  It was still miserably hot outside after he left so the mares and foals were left inside. Below is Irish and her colt Dollar enjoying the cool stall.

Tatiana and her colt Valentino are pictured below also enjoying the cool stall and no flies.

Rosaleigh and her filly are pictured below. Her filly was playing in the water bucket.

It was too hot to load the pregnant mares for their trip to Middle Grove so they were all left inside and I headed back to the playground. The Indians were eating their snack while Joan loaded up the truck with the camp stuff to take back to her house.

They got to work with really cool gourds this afternoon. Aubrey is showing how someone made their gourd look like an apple. I think they will be used for bird houses.

A few of the little ones were enjoying the hammocks so I stopped to ask a few questions.  They were quite dramatic when talking about the storm last night.

Fedi arrived with his dog so of course they needed to pet her.

Soon they headed down to the lake to cool off before the big canoe race. I was sitting down watching the kids swim when my phone rang. It was the farmer with his tractor and mower and needed all the cars moved.  I'm so thankful in this family that every car in the way not only had the keys in the car the keys were all in the ignitions.  Taunya came up to help move vehicles and he only had to wait a few minutes before heading to Joan's to mow.

Love watching that tall grass fall.

By the time I got back the Indians were lining up for the race.

Below is the video of the canoe race.

After the race I went in to visit with mom a bit before heading home. At 6:15 I loaded up Irish, Tatiana and their foals and took them to Middle Grove.

Irish was thrilled to be back out there and wasn't interested in looking for the herd but I needed them to leave so I could drive back out of the field without worrying about them following me out the gate. They were asked to leave and very grudgingly they started trotting up the hill but stopped to graze. 

That gave me enough time to pull out of the gate onto the road and then get the gate shut. I had a blowout and needed to stop for gas so checked out the tire.

The good tire was holding the rim off the ground so decided I could make it home and did. 

Gas was $5.199 a gallon. This time I only spent $140.00 instead of $145.00 but then it wasn't quite as empty. Sure wish we could go back to mean tweets and cheap gas.

Rosaleigh and her filly were put out with Jury, the air conditioner was turned off. I will need to clean the stall barn tomorrow. I still needed to feed the colt and desperately needed a shower. That bed is going to feel good.