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Harli's Colt Home
We had a good walk today with all of us home. We heard how Joan could hardly stay off of the lake, those fish were calling to her. We heard about their very economical trip there and back as they drove Diane's Prius. When we reached Joan's house her flowers were blooming.
These had no blooms on them when we left 10 days ago. She also has roses blooming.
When we got to the barn Berlica had Jury tacked up and Zion was tacking up Penny. Our guests were just leaving. They spent 8 nights here all for the Ledgestone Disc Tournament. I left right after the walk to get groceries, stopping first at Sam's club and then at Aldi. I got back around 10:30 am, quickly made some breakfast then went over to the barn to take the 2 horse trailer off of the truck and hook up the stock trailer. Rhoda and Zion arrived just as I had finished that job. I still needed to get enough big halters to fit Valerie and Basilea. Then run back to the house to get carrots and my purse. We arrived at Middle Grove around 10:45 am, drove all the way back but no horses in sight. We had a long hike to find them. Basilea came right to us but Valerie saw the halter and decided she was not going to come. Rhoda put a halter and lead on Missy and hopped on leading Basilea back to the truck and trailer while Zion and I walked behind the herd making sure they all followed Rhoda. I had left the back door of the trailer open to make it easy for loading but by the time I got there the trailer was loaded with all of the yearlings. Rhoda had to jump in to get them out.
It took a while but we ended up bringing Valerie, Harli, and her colt in the front of the stock with Basilea in the back. Hoerr Vet clinic was called to schedule Dr. Pallen to come out to draw blood from Basilea and Valerie. Sarah had taken Rhoda's children, Iris and Zeke with her remaining 2 children Eden and River to the barn for vaulting. Jewel was used for this. Sarah sent back the pictures below.
After the vaulting Iris got to ride Penny in the round pen.
We three at Middle Grove were hot and thirsty after walking so far and loading horses. We stopped at Bee's for ice cream cones.
When we got back all of the grand kids were anxious to see Harli's colt. Rhoda helped put a halter on him and he got his first tying lesson. Then Zion and Iris came in the stall with him.
We took the halter off of him and left them in the stall. I need to work with both Harli and her colt. This was the first time the colt has been handled by any human. He was born at Middle Grove right before I was leaving on vacation and we felt it was better for him to be out there. He is 2 weeks old today! He is a strong stocky colt and looks just like a Fell Pony. He will have all of the mega hair, his dam Harli has that and so does his sire Evan. When I went into the indoor arena to get hay for Harli Zeke and Zion were getting drinks out of the hose.
They were having a blast.
These grandkids think life at Grandma's is the BEST!
It was 2:30 pm by the time I made it back to the house. I drank 2 glasses of water then sat down to relax when the leg cramps hit, both legs and very painful. Mark brought some mustard as I couldn't walk, although I tried but almost passed out. The mustard didn't help. Big things were happening here. The plumbing company arrived to bore the new water line in for the house. About that time Mark discovered the water leak. The boring must have put pressure on the water and it was bubbling out of the ground for the first time since the leak developed months ago.
I needed to go back to give Harli more hay and top off her water buckets so took a few other pictures of the colt's other side.
The crew here was busy with the water line.
Our water was turned off earlier but we were enjoying watching the progress. I finally went in to cook supper at 7:30 pm and the stove wouldn't light. We had no propane. Evidently when they bored the water line in it hit the propane line. Then Diane sends a text that even though we paid for insurance on mom's house starting the middle of June (when we moved in) that the house really isn't covered. Diane had cancelled the insurance for the house and because it is taking longer than expected to close the house cannot be insured by us. If that propane line explodes we will all lose out. Mark called the emergency line of the propane company but now at 9:00 pm he hasn't heard from them. Hopefully nothing bad will happen tonight and really hope we won't lose all of the propane left in that 1000 gallon tank. Mark wants to sleep in the barn tonight. It might be a good idea since we won't have water or propane. The farm house booked again. I really am thankful for that. I saw our guests for the first time today and had a good visit. They said they feel right at home, they live in an old farm house on a farm.
