Training Apollo

Rhoda arrived shortly after our walk and her first job was to work with Apollo (Lily x Valiant) as he is leaving for his new home in 3 days. He was taken into the barn to fly spray before taking him out to the round pen.

 As long as the trailer was still out, Rhoda just asked Apollo to follow her right in. It never hurts to practice loading. 

 Today Apollo was introduced to the tarp. He thought it was a very scary object but by the end of this session Rhoda had him wearing it and walking on it. 

 We took a short video of the training session today for his owner. 

On the way back to the paddock we decided to take a picture of him by the sign but this funny colt had to stop and admire the sign! He notices just about everything. 

After he was put away Rhoda brought Titiana out for training.

 She was doing so well that Rhoda started putting weight on her back. 

 She decided to introduce her to a rider today except when she went to put the bit in her mouth realized Titiana still has her wolf teeth. The bit was left in but no pressure was put on it. We will wait until Dr. Hoerr comes out for ultrasounds to have the wolf teeth pulled. That means her training will be delayed a couple of weeks. 

Rhoda pulled Indy out, rode her in the round pen with Titiana loose with them then took Indy while ponying Titiana out into the field. 

She was very well behaved. This mare is really ready for a rider but we just have to be patient and get those wolf teeth out first. Rhoda put her away and pulled out Tori. While Rhoda was working with Tori in the round pen I had Indy and her filly in the stall so the filly could nurse before Indy was used for the next mare. Indy is perfect for this work. 

 Tori was well behaved and did everything Rhoda asked of her. I took Indy, untacked her and put her away while Rhoda rode Tori in the round pen both walk and trot. 

 She really didn't do anything wrong. As soon as Rhoda put her away, she got in the skid steer to start moving the bales off the field. We got 30 bales for this cutting and the hay is excellent, fine stemmed and was put up dry with no rain at all.

Rhoda worked on that all afternoon. I went with mom and Joan down to Bartonville bank to get Joan on mom's account. She will be taking over managing the Gulf Shores condo and the check book as I'll be out of commission for a while. 

This evening, right after supper we started moving the rest of the bales off the fields and stacking them in the barn. We finished up just as it was getting dark outside. It is such a good feeling to have hay for the winter. We now have 100 really good quality round bales all stacked inside. I feel RICH!

Smoking The Peace Pipe

This is actually Sunday's post. We got in last night from the playground just too late and were too tired from the fun Sunday's activities.
The day started early, checking mares and feeding then leaving for church at 7:45 am to help David and Stephanie with church lunch. They were serving with Benji and Kristin, and of course we had lots of help from both the Regier side and the Hodel side.  Church lunch went great, plenty of help and plenty of food. Greg Rumbold had the morning service and Tim Roecker had the afternoon. After church the kids made their way to the playground until dinner was served and after dinner back to the playground for volley ball and a campfire. Below are pictures of the afternoon and evening.

Above they are playing football and below Karin is watering the volleyball court.

 Above the dogs are just praying that Sarah drops some food and below the granddaughters are fishing. 

 Bringing wood for the fire. 

 A perfect night for somemores

 Sarah threw some chemicals in the fire making beautiful colored flames.

 Spark brought over fire works and once they were done, the cardboard tube used to shoot off the pretty fire works was on fire. We had to pass around the peace pipe. By this time it was so dark the flash had to be used.

 

Now just to make it clear most of us did NOT inhale. 

My cousin Barbara sent the next two videos below, just trying to get us to understand the problems all these Millennial face. 

The second video explains a bit more and actually it is kind of sad. How very sad that we are raising a generation of people not equipped to handle life. This video is quite long but very informative and just might help us to understand what happened so the next generation can do a better job.