Wonderful Weanlings

Diane made it home from Gulf Shores last night but because it is a Saturday today we had no walk. We have become lazy and all of that will need to stop as by Monday Diane will have us walking again. Joan had 4 guests arrive last night from Kansas and when I got over to mom's this morning they were all eating breakfast. They know Anna, in fact asked, "Didn't Anna marry into this family?" They are here for a couple days. Today was the day we were going to move the 4 weanlings and Missy out to Middle Grove. I went out early to put halters on all of them then de-wormed all 5 of them with Quest Plus. We had been waiting for a hard freeze to get this de-worming done as earlier I saw some bot eggs on their legs. I was so surprised at how well each stood for haltering and then the de-worming. Not a one misbehaved. I'm just so impressed with all 4 of them. Zion has done a wonderful job teaching them to love people. Once the de-worming was over, they were each given a couple handfuls of grain to help get rid of the taste of the de-wormer. When Mike arrived we hooked up the stock trailer and pulled it forward. I brought out Disco and Shadow first. Those two just stepped right into the trailer. They were tied up and we went to get Dahlia and Roseberry.

Mike was holding these two and asked me to get Missy but right then Mike got a phone call. He is standing talking on the phone, Roseberry got tired of waiting for him and stepped into the trailer without him.

I grabbed Missy but by the time she was out of the paddock and walking toward the trailer Dahlia self loaded leaving Mike outside the trailer still talking on the phone.

These funny funny foals! Missy was loaded then Mike hung up the phone and went into the trailer to remove halters. Below all 5 are ready to go.

The video is of them heading out.

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I just have to brag about these wonderful weanlings. They are SO well behaved. Even loaded and traveling they were calm, no calling out or even panic in a moving trailer. 

Evan was sad to see them leave watching until the trailer was out of sight.

Mike needed to meet the farmer who was bringing over 40 bales of hay at Middle Grove and this way got two jobs done by hauling the weanlings out. This is not the farmer who told us he would have 60 bales delivered before the snow arrives. We heard he went into the hospital and Mike has not been able to reach him since. The farmer he was meeting has been the one putting bales in for us at Middle Grove for the past 3 winters. We are thankful he had extra hay. Below is a video of dropping them off. The herd was not in sight but deer were running up on the hillside. 

Mike said the bales are a little smaller but very good quality. Mark was busy repairing one of the toy horses from the barn when I got back in the house.

Ruth gave us 2 of them but one broke pretty quickly. The kids enjoy playing with it so it was worth repairing. He also fixed the door to the cabinet up in the game room. The door had been broken off. He was able to use a bolt through the top of the cabinet into the door and now it works perfectly.

Jay, Tarah's husband asked if he could use the barn to meet a lady wanting to see a puppy. I saw his truck arrive and used my phone to turn the lights on for them then left for Kroger to order the fried chicken for the Meister Christmas Dec 11th. I also picked up some wild rice which will be served with the chicken teriyaki for Sunday dinner tomorrow. When I went to check out the bill was a hundred dollars more than it should have been. The check out lady scanned the chicken  in wrong. I had to show her the problem before she believed me. This evening I had supper with Diane and mom. Joan is at the Sunday school Christmas party at the church. On the way back I stopped at the barn to unplug the Christmas tree lights. Hopefully the kids will decorate it tomorrow after dinner.

We had a wonderful day with melting snow. The temperature rose above freezing for the first time in a few days. The house was still chilled but not after building a fire in the wood burner. We are enjoying that warmth tonight.

I just sat down at the computer to find out what happened to the Christmas presents ordered through Amazon that said it would be delivered TONIGHT between 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm. They said it was delivered and sent this picture to prove it.

I saw that picture and was shocked. It was left in front of the mailboxes on the main road. I grabbed the golf cart and tore down the drive but too late the box was gone. This held David's gift, Anna's gift, Stephanie's gift and Lee's gift. Mark couldn't believe me when I told him the box was gone. The phone was grabbed to send out a family text to see if anyone had picked it up but when I got the phone there was a text from Diane saying Joan picked up a box for me and it is now at mom's house. So thankful no one driving by decided to take it, well other than family.