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2nd Cutting
Mark was up at 4:00 am and started the coffee. I could smell it in my dreams, thought it must be time to get up but when I walked into the kitchen for coffee and saw the time I turned right around and went back to bed for another hour. This morning we had arranged to finish the repair on the farm house toilet and then fix the bi-fold closet doors. Mark went over with the tools but I first went to move bales. The middle paddock was out of hay. As I didn't have any help, the 3 mares in there were moved to the breeding shed paddock. That has a lot of grass, a round bale but didn't have a water tank. Once Jewel, Sally and Missy were moved over I took the tractor over to Mike's to get the 2 bales he brought home. Those were both taken to the middle paddock and put under the pavilion. The water tank was moved from the round pen and brought down to the breeding shed paddock and the water turned on to fill that tank. While it was filling I decided to bring Star and her filly into a stall, put a halter on the filly and give her some tying practice. That did not go as planned. The filly would not follow her mother into the barn.
She would stand at the door but not step inside. Star was put in a stall and I left the filly to finish the water. That is Sally, Jewel and Missy were inside the barn eating on the hay.
By the time I got back Star was frantically calling while the filly was prancing back and forth but not going in.
The Farmer showed up to cut the hay fields while I was out working with the horses.
I also took a few pictures for the website.
After the video was taken, I wouldn't let the filly nurse instead walked Star right into the stall barn and this time the filly walked right in behind her. She wasn't terrible for haltering and remembered being tied. She stood like a pro for that.
By the time I finished with the horses Mark had the toilet together and was working on the closet door. He needed help with that.
That wasn't easy as we needed to keep taking the door off to adjust the height.
I drove back up to the horses and only then happened to look over at Valiant and Penny's paddock. Penny had pulled the plug on the automatic waterer probably yesterday. The plug was found put back in and Penny moved to the middle paddock.
When that was finished I went back to the house. Mark needed a hair cut before church. I took the golf cart over to check the fields.
NO rain is predicted so we should get this up dry. It won't be as much as as the first cutting but every bale will be really nutritious and the horses will love it.
We left for church at 6:00 am. Craig Stickling had the message. This was a sad message and lots of us had tears in our eyes before the service was over. Click HERE to watch that. WE went to Culvers with the group for a late supper. Braelyn was here studying her Chemistry when we got home.
