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Farrier
Our morning was really easy, no stalls to clean, no stalled horses to feed and water. The 2 mares and foals did great outside all night. It was a very mild evening, night and morning, already 64 degrees when we left for the walk. We stopped to admire Mike and Spark's excavator that is still sitting next to the dam.
That really was the tool to use while clearing the trees off the side of the dam. That machine is huge. I needed to quit the walk a little early as the farrier was supposed to arrive between 9:30 am and 10:00 am. Each mare that was going to be trimmed was haltered and put in the breeding shed shelter as we were going to use the breeding stand for the farrier. The farrier was late but I got a lot of outside cleaning done, throwing away broken halters and organizing the lead ropes on the stand. Mike brought Blueberry over from the cabin field. 
Evan who was in his pasture at the time was VERY interested and for good reason. 
She was in season. We got her covered by Valiant with no problem. She was left here as we will need to keep watch on her. The farrier arrived a little after 11:00 am. Cookie and Missy were both tied to the breeding stand when he arrived. He trimmed Cookie first. Below he is trimming Missy while Rosalie is tied up waiting her turn.
Rosalie was the 3rd mare trimmed. She was almost perfect for her pedicure.
About that time Mike came with his 4 wheeler bringing Sally for her trim. She was just let loose while Valerie was brought out. Valerie didn't do as well. This was the first time we have trimmed her as she has been living out at Middle Grove and wearing her hooves off evenly. She was ok with her fronts, the backs didn't need any taken off. Sally was last.
As soon as he was finished I paid him then left for mom's house. She and Diane were going to eat their lunch out on the deck and Diane needed a little help getting set up. When I got back to the farm Mark was mowing the pastures. 
I needed to move bales in. Evan was locked out of his paddock and I moved a bale in for him. Then two more bales were moved out, one for the paddock next to Valiant's and one for the middle paddock. The problem with those was the mares in them. I started moving the mares out of the middle paddock when Mark arrived. That made this job much easier. He got in the skid steer to move the bale while I kept the mares from running out of the open gate. 
By the time all of the bale moving was over it was time for mom to come back inside as it was really getting hot out in the sun. Diane left to help Mike on his barn while I stayed with mom and graded Bible studies. Sarah arrived with swimmers.
This was the first swim of the year. They didn't stay in very long and soon went over to play with the foals. Sarah took the picture below.
Joan got home from play practice in plenty of time for me to go home and shower to get ready for church. We picked up Mackenson and Berlica. Mike Kaisner had the message tonight on David's preparations for the temple in 1 Chronicles 22. Click HERE to watch that. After church we drove to Culvers for a late supper. We were joined by a good group. Marie had 2 of her grandson's there along with 2 sons and one daughter in law. She ordered THIS for dessert.
For SURE she ordered those worms for her grandsons. It was a good productive day and I am very thankful!
