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Good Times
Another frigid day, it has been an entire week of very cold temperatures. We hit as a high 16 degrees today but it is going back down to zero or below zero again tonight. The wood burner has been kept burning day and night and still we feel cold. Right after breakfast we went to the barn to get it ready for the company coming tomorrow. The batting machine was not working well. Last weekend one of the boys told me it had fallen over (I'm sure it was an accident) and wires were pulled out. Dan helped put those back but the inner tire needed to have more air put in. Mark brought his tools while I brought cleaning supplies. He went right up to the game room to work on the machine.
At least this was an easy fix.
I refilled supplies then went to work organizing the gym. Once that was finished the kitchen/dining room and living room were given a good cleaning. The floor needed to be swept and scrubbed. Tomorrow morning I will need to turn the heat on and warm it up before the guests arrive. We have it set on 55 degrees. Joan leaves tomorrow for Gulf Shores while Ruth and Fedi will be coming home tomorrow night late. Joan left us a list of when and where her kids need to be while she is gone. With all this frigid air I wanted to remember some of the fun times we had in the summer with horse camping.
Above is Rebekah on her Welsh Cob section C Cindy. Rebekah had Cindy well trained. She was born on their property and Rebekah did all the training on her. Below left to right are Bethany riding Duke, Jessica riding Paris, Rebekah riding Cindy and Anni riding Larry.
Above is Anni on the Arabian gelding and Below is Rhoda riding Sunny. We bought Sunny at an Amish auction, he was a year old and a stallion but we were told he was 2 years old. On the way back from the auction we dropped him off at Hoerr Vet clinic to be gelded. We could not bring a stallion home to Bridlewood. (We lived at Pleasant Home on Baer then) As we thought he was 2 years old Rhoda when right to work training him. Only when I was able to contact his previous owner did we find out he was only a yearling. Sunny was always known as, 'the pretty one!" He ended up being Jessica's horse.
Below is a trip we took to Norris, that place is now known as The Uplands and is a wedding venue. We had so much fun camping there with the horses.
Below we are on a trail ride at Jubilee. Sarah is riding Bunnie, Rachal is riding Sunny, Caleb is riding Larry and Rebekah is riding Cindy. We also had Sally, Mika and Jenis on that trip.
We took a horse camping trip to Farmington, Iowa. We took 10 horses on that trip and each horse was a different breed. We had a Isadora a purebred Trakehner mare, Sangria a purebred Andalusian mare, Bunni a purebred Tennessee Walker mare, Larry a purebred Arabian gelding, Sunny a purebred Halflinger gelding, Duke an American Shetland, Mika, an Appendix (half Quarter half Thoroughbred) Jenis Purebred Friesian mare Sandy a purebred Quarter mare and Jewel Friesian sporthorse (half Friesian half Thoroughbred mare.
Horse camping is so much fun when camping with family. Good times good times!
