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Dahlia Sold

 My day started out really early. Mark was up before 5:00 am but I didn't crawl out of bed until just after that time. Thank goodness for coffee. We had an easy morning with both of us just sipping piping hot coffee and reading. I quit at 7:15 am to get ready for the walk. We had such a good walk, visiting and laughing at ourselves and each other. Berlica and Zion were already out getting ready to head down to the death trails when Berlica hopped off Jewel to tighten her girth.

Breakfast was cooked downstairs on the electric stove as we still have no propane. That is supposed to be hooked up next week. I packed everything in an Aldi bag to take down, determined not to forget anything as yesterday I forgot to bring the coffee and spatula for cooking, today I only forgot the pepper. After breakfast I went to clean the gym floor where a car had been driven inside and left mud on the concrete. The lights were turned on and the air conditioning turned down. The guests were due to arrive around 1:00 pm.  At 11:00 am Mark helped me load Valerie in the front of the stock and Dahlia in the back. Those horses were going to Western Hearts in Kickapoo. Dahlia is now sold and Valerie was going for training. There were plenty of people around to watch these horses get off the trailer. They settled down pretty quickly enjoying the hay together.
Of course when I was there I had to admire their gelding Raven (by our late stallion Raven and out of a Saddlebred mare). Pearl his sister. Zena, now a 4 year old mare by Valiant out of Madiera. All owners are thrilled with their horses and it took a while visiting before I could get home. I had an appointment with Gaetano for the website at 1:00 pm but let him know Mark was coming with me and we would be arriving at 1:30 pm as we didn't leave until 1:00 pm. We both needed to clean up. Mark and Mackenson had been repairing fences. Below Mackenson is taking down the old rotten board on the outdoor arena. 
They replaced that board with one of the extra painted black boards. Now they just need to buy black paint to finish the last board and the post.  We had a good informative visit with Gaetano. In my opinion it was well worth the trip. We left there after 2:00 pm and drove about a block to the Lin Chineses buffet. Mark wasn't impressed by the food but I was really hungry and thought it tasted good.
The had soft serve ice cream so I took a cone to go. It wasn't near as smooth and good tasting as Bees outside of Farmington. That really does have the best soft serve ice cream I've ever tasted. We got home just in time to make supper, which I didn't do. We're not hungry. That is a phrase mom would use when she didn't want to cook. We really were not hungry. Sarah posted some ads on Basilea and today I took two phone calls about her. The first wanted to know if she really belonged to me and was it a scam ad. I explained Sarah is my daughter and placed the ads and actually gave this lady the phone number of Hoerr Vet clinic so they could confirm that Basilea really was sonagrammed in foal. The second phone call was a man from Tennessee who has a 17 year old 75% Friesian he had been trying to get in foal for 5 years. He called me as Basilea is 18 and she settled on the first cycle we tried her. He had the mare to different vets and none of them could find anything wrong with her so wanted to blame the stallion. I explained, if the stallion has foals on the ground from other mares it probably IS that his mare can't conceive. This evening I worked on updating the website, now that I can add videos and post the pictures where I wanted them. It really was a simple fix. 

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