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Not Pregnant?
Up at 5:00 am but still tired. Instead of going back to the pictures were downloaded from the phone onto the desktop then the blog posts from last week updated. I left for the Berean office just after 8:00 am and stopped at Hardees to pick up cinnamon and raison biscuits as a treat for the Berean volunteers. We were thrilled to have Vonnie back and she was VERY needed. Ray is back in the hospital so we were missing Shirley and Ray, Sharon went to the ER this morning. Bruce and Leila are still in Arizona, with Leila struggling with that hip that will not stay in place and Marvin and Gail in Gulf Shores. We just had Skip, Kathy, Shirley, Vonnie and me to get the work done today. We had a lot of mail.
One envelope came decorated with fruit loops.
The letter inside was also highly decorated.
As we were short handed most of us needed to do 2 or 3 different jobs to get everything done. We finally sat down for our break around noon. Someone, and we think it must have been Lukie, left a big heart shaped box filled with chocolates.
We shared that plus those cinnamon raison biscuits. Notice those 2 post boxes next to Kathy. Those were filled with Bibles and studies going out in today's mail. Both were filled to the brim.
They were dropped off at the Hanna City post office just before they closed at 12:30 pm. From there I went straight home to hook the truck up to the stock trailer for our trip to Middle Grove. We had problems with the adjustable hitch Mark bought last year. Over the winter it had rusted and we were not able to get the pin off to adjust it. We ended up taking it off the truck and using the old hitch. 
When we arrived at Middle Grove we drove to the far field and the horses heard the truck and trailer and came running. I should have had the video going, the came galloping down the hill surrounding the trailer but I only got the phone going as they got to us.
I just took one quick picture before looking for Rosalie.
I needed to bring Rosalie home as she is due the end of March but when I found her, it is pretty obvious to me and also to Mark that she is no longer pregnant. She was loaded anyway into the trailer as we have an ultrasound scheduled for her at 8:00 am on Thursday. I decided to bring Disco (Dancer's colt) home with us to get him ready to sell. He was haltered and led into the trailer then the halter taken off. Dahlia (Rosalie's 2025 filly)was the other weanling I wanted to bring home so the halter was put on her. I had Mark open the back door to the stock trailer to walk Dahlia in and Shadow jumped in first so we ended up bringing all 3 of them home. Rosalie was unloaded out the side door of the trailer. Shadow followed her.
Disco and Dahlia weren't too sure about jumping out that door.
Dahlia got brave and came next.
Disco didn't want to be left alone in the trailer and hurled himself out.
I led Dahlia and the other two followed her right into the paddock and started chowing down on the hay.
I spent some time removing burrs from Rosalie's tail and forelock. The weanlings didn't seem to have any burrs. Rosalie has such a thick long tail.
Unfortunately she sure doesn't look pregnant but she sure is a magnificent looking mare.
I sent a text to the people wanting to buy her 2026 foal that she probably lost the pregnancy. So sad but it happens. They would like to try Valerie but she also didn't look pregnant. I'll need to bring her in next. Both Rosaleigh and Tessa are obviously pregnant as are some of the Thoroughbred mares.
The barn rented for tomorrow morning so after removing burrs I drove the car over to work on the barn. It really looked clean and ready for company but the heat needed to be turned on tonight as the company is coming in around 8:00 am.
