Need a Name

 We had a good walk this morning and stopped in just as mom was ready to walk to the table for breakfast. Joan helped her. 

She told Joan, "it would be a lot faster to put me in the wheelchair" and of course we all agreed and laughed with her.

Right after breakfast I left for the bank to pick up 8 five dollar bills and 8 twenty dollar bills. The neighbor sells eggs at $3.00 a dozen and I usually take 2 dozen and the twenties are for Braelyn when she cleans the apartment. As I was leaving the bank I was following an older man, he opened the door for me and I thanked him. He stopped me and asked if I was Apostolic (I guess all AC's look alike) and when I told him I was he replied, "I used to drive for Peoria Charter Coach and would drive your group to Indiana and to Alabama." We talked a bit then when he was walking away he asked one more thing, "Do you know what Marantha means."  Of course I pumped my fist into the air and loudly proclaimed, "Marantha, Come LORD JESUS!" We both smiled as we got in the car. The next job was to drive to Kroger on Sterling to pay for the fried chicken for Sunday. The lady that was putting the receipt on the ticket looked at me with a twinkle in her eye and told me, "you have a blessed day!"  Obviously another Christian. When I got back I went to check on Blueberry and found her waterer tipped over and pouring out. I was able to get it back in position but not until it lost quite a bit of water.

The middle paddock waterer was cleaned out and turned on and then the short shelter paddock waterer was cleaned out. 

This one was not turned on as I could tell the float was broken. Mike was sent a text and this afternoon got them both fixed. Missy and Cookie were turned out in the pond pasture for a few hours. Missy is 19 this year and Cookie is 20.

How quickly time flies. My next job was to bring Rosalie over to tease. She doesn't look pregnant but for sure was not in season.

Evan was hopeful but backed off when she pinned her ears and threatened to kick. Mark, Mackenson and Berlica were hard at work removing trees from the retention dam while Rachel and Ruth's boys were working on the big dam removing trees. 

The turtles sunning themselves on the floating trees were completely undisturbed by all the commotion happening on the dam.

I was on the warpath trying my best to sweep up Asian beetles from the house, apartment and gym. Just check out the sweeper canister when I finished.

What was sad about that was I left the vacuum at the apartment as we have guests coming in tomorrow and will need to check it again before they get there but when I got home there were probably 50 to 100 more on the sliding glass door of our patio. I swept those up and flushed them down the toilet.  Later this afternoon a cardinal flew into a tree near our living room window. I snapped a picture.

Just a few minutes later looked out the other window and saw rain. It was not raining where the cardinal was sitting. I stepped out on the porch and sure enough it was raining on the West side of the house but not the East side of the house. I had to take the video below to prove it. 

That rain stopped but out West we had more coming.

By the time the second rain stopped it was time to bring the mares inside. First though Rosalie was taken over to Evan and teased. The filly is a week old and she should be coming into her foal heat but would not get near enough to Evan to tell. She was much more worried about her filly. 

Her filly is doing amazing. She is curious and adorable. She is 7/8ths Friesian 1/8th warmblood and is also available for $8500.00 and can be reserved with a deposit of $1000.00 balance due at weaning.  If someone is looking for quality she IS! She is athletic, will be TALL as Rosalie stands a solid 17 hands and will truly be magnificent. If she doesn't sell I'm happy to keep her as she is actually worth a lot more as a brood mare for us. 

This filly needs a name and it needs to start with D, E or F.  

Mike had gone to Middle grove to pick up Dancer and brought Titus home too. I took the golf car over to the cabin field to check him out. They all came walking up. Dancer is behind Rosaleigh to the left and Sheena is behind her to the right and Titus is last in the picture below.

Titus stopped to check out his reflection in the window. 

Dancer is due May 5th so we thought we'd better bring her home as this is a first foal for her.

Dancer is 75% Friesian so her foal will be 7/8ths Friesian and hopefully black. The bottom two pictures are of Titus. He is a purebred Friesian registered and dna'd with FHHI. He is HUGE and won't be 3 years old until August. 

We are going to put some more training on Titus then post him for sale. He should end up close to 17 hands and has a wonderfully sweet disposition. He really does want to please so will make a wonderful family horse. He is $15,000.00 but once he has more training on him of course his price will go up significantly.