Waxing

 We had a storm come through this morning with lightning and thunder. I was really glad we had dry stalls. I went up after the rain stopped to move the mares out. Tatiana is for sure waxing but when I pulled a little colostrum it is clear not white so we may have a few days. The thick bed of straw is a little more difficult to clean in Tatiana's stall but because she always manures at the back of her stall, it didn't take me too long. I added a more straw then brought in more hay for tonight, cleaned out and dumped her water buckets and refilled those. 

Jewel's stall on the other hand took 3 times as long to clean. She does not like to be stalled so paces, she also leaves piles all over then chops it up as she paces.

At least it is pellets instead of straw. By the time both stalls were ready for the mares it was time to make breakfast except when I was walking down to the house I noticed Jewel and Valiant standing by the waterer and the waterer had no water in it. The plug had been pulled and the plug is on the mares side of this waterer. As both mares were in the stalls last night it had to be a racoon so that meant I needed to find a metal plate to put on top of the plug.

By the time all of that was fixed it was past time or breakfast.  Around 9:00 I went to mom's house. That squirrel and I go round and round. He is so bold that when I walk outside to get him out of the bird feeder he just calmly walks into the yard and watches to see if I will go back inside so he can steal more sunflower seeds.

Mom and I started watching a series on Amazon Prime called Sue Thomas FBI EYE set back when the FBI were the good guys. It is a decent series and God honoring. Mark had gone shopping and stopped first at Home depot where he bought wood finishing products for the bunk beds. He also got more sanding done. At 4:45 pm the mares needed to be brought back inside the stalls for the night as we needed to leave for church early tonight. I checked Tatiana's udder and she is for sure waxing.

That is clumps of colostrum on the end of both teats. I just led Jewel and Tatiana followed freely. They knew there was grain waiting for them in their stalls so both went right in. On the way back to the house I noticed the wooly caterpillar on our patio.

This warm weather is bringing out all kinds of insects. There were even flies trying to get in the house today but mostly those Asian beetles.  We needed to go to Costco to pick up Mark's hearing aids before church tonight. That didn't take very long and we made it to church by 6:30 pm. Gregg Rumbold had the message tonight on Roman's 5. If you would like to watch that message click HERE. After church we went to Culvers for a late supper with the group. It was a nice evening. 

I've had Tatiana on the foaling camera and she is relaxed and content to be inside. No sign of labor so I will sleep good tonight.