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Lots of Rain
The shipper for Rosaleigh's colt showed up just before midnight last night. As it was really dark I had the driver back the trailer into the indoor arena. They had a full load of horses and in the very last stall was a cute buckskin colt, I believe I heard them say he was 6 months old but I may be mistaken. Rosaleigh's colt had never been on a ramp before but he was brave when he saw the other colt and walked right in.
The middle divider was put back on and those two colts shared the last stall together. There was plenty of room for them.
I took the video below of them driving away.
Once they turned the corner and started down the hill, the barn lights were turned off, the apartment lights were turned off and I was on my way home to bed. Mark was sound asleep and never heard me climb into bed. Morning came way to early. We had an inch of rain in the rain gauge this morning. That was dumped and we are getting dumped on with lots of rain today. I went over early to move Tessa and her filly out of the stalls and back into their paddock. That didn't go well, the filly didn't follow her mom, I opened the gate and Merlin ran out to be with the filly and they started running around the yard. I looped the chain over the gate and walked over to the shed to grab some grain, the two moms saw their foals running around pushed against the gate and the chain fell off, the gate opened and all 4 horses went running down to the farm house yard. They were so excited about being out they went running around the tree and up the drive to visit with Evan then saw me with the bucket of grain and all of the followed me into the paddock except Merlin. He decided it was more fun to be outside. The mares were grained then I went to find a halter for Merlin and lead him in. After all of that I still needed to clean both of those stalls and Tessa's was a mess. That one needed to be stripped. New bedding will be added later after it dries out. The guests in the farm house left but it isn't rented again until tomorrow so I went back to the house to cook. We ate a leisurely breakfast of my special fluffy pancakes, sausage, eggs and strawberries. After breakfast it was time to go to work. Mark took the hand held battery vacuum around the gym while I worked on the farm house. I have extra bedding and towels so all of the laundry was taken to the barn. That washer is new and has a short cycle that does a good job on the sheets as long as there are no stains. I didn't finish the farm house until noon but then went to work finishing the laundry. There were a lot of loads and it was 3:00 pm before the last towel was folded. That was all taken over to our house. I was too tired to cook supper but we still had leftovers from Sunday. We needed to drive to D & H to pick up the motorhome and did all that driving in the rain. That was put back in the indoor. We have someone coming next week to look at the repairs needed. It really started pouring rain this evening. It will be interesting to see how much we get by morning.

