A great night's sleep gives one all kinds of energy. The cat wanted out of the garage. I thought she would use the kitty litter box I set up for her but instead she was standing at the doggy door meowing. As soon as she was out I checked on the kittens. They all had full bellies and are doing well.
I was notified about 6:00 am that our guests from the farm house had checked out and since I had been up since 5:00 I went over at 6:30 to start cleaning. The beds were stripped and made before hauling all of the laundry over to the barn. By this time it was almost 7:30 and Ruth was pulling up for the walk. Phil and Nolan were also here to haul the lift away. Philip also fixed both of the lights but I didn't find that out until this afternoon. With Joan going to Co-op Ruth and I only did one round which gave me time to get the laundry going at the barn. Today not only did I take all of the laundry from the farm house I also brought all of our laundry over. Between loads I would drive the golf cart over to clean. Sarah and Rhoda arrived with all of the kids while I was working. I was just finishing up then. Rhoda worked with Gypsy first. Gypsy is a 13 year old 14.1 hand Paint Arabian cross mare. Rhoda worked with her first in the round pen then stopped at the trampoline as all of the kids were having fun jumping on that.
She tolerated that well.
Rhoda took her on the trails. On the way back stopped to have her step over all of the trees Mark had cut down. He was coming with the tractor to haul them up out of the water to cut them into logs.
Below Mark is hauling the first up.
When Rhoda got back to the barn she left Gypsy tacked, tied her up and left her. We were all pleased to see she stood quietly while we worked with Lucy.
She will be picked up next weekend to go to her new home. Before putting Gypsy away they asked her to stand on the pedestal.
The grand kids all came into the farm house to warm up and have some lunch.
Sarah came down when it was their turn to ride and took some videos of them. In the video below Rhoda is giving Zion a riding lesson on Stardust.
Iris got to ride Penny.
Below is the video that as I was watching exclaiming, "What IS that?" You will have to watch the video to see why.
After they left I finished the farm house, checked over the foaling apartment and turned on those lights as there are guests coming in this evening then made sure the barn was ready for guests as that too is rented tonight. Supper tonight was chicken strips and salad. It was cold today. The temperature this morning on our walk was 43 degrees but not much wind. By afternoon it was 44 with a cold breeze. Tim for winter coats.
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