Weekend Wrap-Up

Another whirlwind weekend on the farm. My nephew called Saturday morning to say he was going to be about an hour late. Shortly after his call the roofer and his son arrived.

Saturday morning I got up at 6:10. I was already awake, Irene must have been cold, she climbed under the covers well before the alarm was set to go off. Still dark, I got my head lamp on, dishing out sweet feed and hay stretcher. Tom is usually a late starter, but we had so much planned and so little time to get things going.

Came back in to straighten out the kitchen, turned the dishwasher on and cleaned the bathroom. I was back at the kitchen sink when the roofer showed up. Action-packed day has begun.

Lewis, the farrier, called to say he was lost! but in the neighborhood. He was surprised to see my new horses were LITTLE HORSES. He trimmed Lil Fred first, easy and not much hoof to come off. He then moved on to Sprite, at first there was a wrestling match, but he was able to get her on his side. She had a lot of hoof to come off and said she did not have Thrush, just long hooves. We're good now!

David, Gia and Angelina showed up around 9:30, while Lewis was working on Sprite. First things first, meet the family! Four horses, no matter the size, is a lot going on. Tour the house, too, and Tom ran out to get the emissions tested for the car.

We ate lunch and as soon as Tom got back we fired our .22 and David's two 9 mm pistols. We all got a chance to shoot at the targets. It was loud and really fun! I would love to have one of those pistols, but not this year.

After that they went over to Tahill Farm to get hay. Forty bales of hay, loaded into the truck, 2 bales in the back seat! A mishap on the way back; two bales left the back end and landed on the roadway! YIKES! Bales retrieved, hurry back home! Apparently David is allergic to orchard grass. David literally threw 37 bales of hay up into the loft. I can not thank him enough! Within minutes all the hay was out of the truck and into the barn. If we had to do this ourselves, it would have been in the shed, again.

Then the real fun began! Angelina really wanted to ride a horse, so we saddled up the big boys and Tom threw her up on Skip's back and we went for a ride around the cornfield, onto the PEPCO right-of-way, and back up to the barn. Then Gia has a chance to ride, I ended up ponying her around the same track. David was the next victim, and he did really well. Skip was a great sport, and KC was a good boy, too.

A full day, a fun day.

SUNDAY!

Got up at 6:10, Irene was again under the covers with us. April never once got in the bed. Tom surprised me by getting up with me and coming out to the barn while the boys were eating. It was still dark. Turned the little guys out while the big boys were in the barn.

Tom made breakfast and we went back out to cut down some trees in the pasture. Two Cherry trees and several other trees were chopped and hauled to the fire pit. We'll have a bonfire around Thanksgiving. It will be HUGE!

After noon Willis came over with his Bobcat and drilled the 21 post holes and also trenched from the house to the barn and from the barn to the pasture for water and electric. This is HUGE and it was a lot of fun, too. I also managed to do three loads of laundry, sweep the floors and make dinner. Do I have to tell you I'm pooped? I am.