Roxanne Has a COLT

I am just so very thankful for the new foaling cameras. I woke up at 3:30 am checked the cameras and there was Roxanne having her foal. The colt was born quickly without any problems. He stood fairly quickly and I could have just watched on the camera but instead dressed and took the golf cart up to the barn, cleaned up the mess, cleaned Indy's stall, refilled the water buckets and made sure the colt was rooting in the right area. Roxanne is being a good mother, squealing when he bumps her udder but standing still. Better pictures will be taken later.

I'm heading back to bed to sleep for hopefully another hour.

A FUN Funday Monday

We had a good time today, Anna dropped off the girls before the walk but Taunya and her kids came down to watch them so I could go on the walk. Ruth dropped off Jordan to play with all those Sceggel grandkids and we took our time today. Karin arrived with Shaeya and Noah to start working with Brista and Coke. Below are a few pictures of their very successful training session.

While they were busy training, the grandchildren came with me to help weed the outdoor arena. Always a fun job for kids. 

We headed over to the playground while Karin took Shaeya and Noah on a trail ride with Noah riding Coke for the very first time on the 'death trails' Shaeya rode Missy and Karin rode Bunni. 

The grandchildren had a ball making treasure maps. They put them in the umbrella and spun it around to watch the maps fly out.

 Then we decided we should bury the maps so while I worked with Addyson teaching her to drive the golf cart the rest buried all the maps in the sand on the volley ball court.

 Below they are playing in their fort. 

 When it was time for lunch we had to find all of those treasure maps and throw them in the garbage. They had done such a good job of burying them I was pretty sure the volleyball players would find some tonight during the games but they didn't. 

David arrived with Israel and Elisabet. We took a long golf cart ride exploring scary trails. I was holding Elisabet while driving so no pictures but we had a great time. Tonight we had a pretty good group for volleyball. The games were fun to watch. Rhoda had taken her dog Ruby to Indiana to be bred to the same stud Sarah and Nolan used for Rizzy but it didn't work. Today she drove 7 hours straight to bring her here where they tried to have Anni's poodle Chewy

do the job but again it didn't work. Finally Jessica brought over her pug and THAT worked. They tied tonight. Hopefully these puppies will be cute. At least they will be small. Ben and Taunya left for Bloomington tonight with all of their children. Mark and I will be on our own for a day. THE VERY best thing that happened today was the new cameras arrived and Phil and Ben installed them. Below are a few still shots taken right from the computer.

Above is Roxanne in the right stall and below is Indy and her filly in the left stall. The sound works great. I can watch every move on my phone or on the computer. This will make my life easier. 

Indy Has a FILLY

Karin brought Indy in around noon into the nice cool air conditioned barn as she was panting and squirting milk each time she walked. As soon as we got home from church I ran right up and checked her, she was standing quietly and comfortably in the stall. Today was Sarah and Nolan's baby shower at the park in Marquet Heights so Jessica, Anna and I drove there together. Amanda, Sarah's mother-in-law put on a very beautiful shower. Below are a few pictures.

all the outfits below were made by Amanda for baby Zion. 

 Check out those cute onesies. 

We had just settled down to eat when Ben sent a text that baby #1 was born and Karin's phone was dead. My first thought was wonderful, then of course that baby #1 statement caused some concern. Was Indy carrying twins, or was Roxanne delivering too? I couldn't get a response from anyone from the farm so decided to leave the shower and head home. When I got there all was well, the filly was up and nursing. She is HUGE, so big that she was a bit stuffed inside her mom and will need to unfold a bit.

 She has a tiny white star in the middle of her forehead.

My first response was this is really an ugly duckling except I remembered Angelica, Indy's last filly by Evan. She too I felt was pretty ugly and turned out gorgeous. Below is a newborn picture of Angelica and then a picture at weaning.

This filly is going to end up just as beautiful and has the added tiny bit of chrome. The kids and grandkids all came for dinner tonight then we ended up at the playground for the usual volley ball games. Below are pictures of the evening. 

The games went on past dark. The lights were turned on and they only quit when they ran out of players. I had to run to the barn for one more time to check on the filly, put Roxanne out, water and feed and clean stalls. I'm going to sleep good tonight.