We had a busy and productive weekend. That always pleases my hubby. He is the kind of guy that makes a list in his head that is about two pages long and has hopes to get everything on it done. In reality, it is possible to get the first two things completed!
Friday night was the piano recital, and that went off without a hitch. Thomas was a little iffy on Thursday, but managed to pull it together when it counted. Kathryn was excited, as much over the dress she got to wear as the performance. She was able to wear her dress from the princess birthday party back in January and that was perfect in her mind. She played her song beautifully too.
Saturday was the day to bale hay. Bale hay???? Yes, in our case we set up the hay elevator in the mow, with the baler outside the barn and cleaned up about 40 bales worth of broken bales and loose hay. If you hadn't noticed, we are running tight on hay and every bale will save us from having to buy any. Hopefully, we will be cutting hay within a couple weeks and the hay crisis will be over.
Saturday night, I made a rhubarb pie for a church dinner and we all watched an old movie. We still try to do our Netflix movies, but as summer comes on, it gets harder to get inside to watch them.
Sunday was church, a dinner afterward and a second service after dinner. On the way up the driveway, we stopped at the barn to check on Sami. In the midst of the weekend, she had decided to try bloating. We had her in the barn to see if her stomach would settle down. It worked and she looked much better.
In the meantime, Thomas went to the pasture to take a peak at Breezy who was due to foal in the next few days. He reported back that she had "wax on her nibbles". Wax, to non-horse people, is actually drops of colostrum which leaks and then dries on the mares teats. It is a good indicator that the foal will be arriving soon. That observation led to a bit of a frenzy around the farm. As is typical here, animals had to get shifted around so that Breezy could have her stall for the impending arrival. We quickly finished nailing the metal roof down on the calf hutch, put up a small outside run for Bella and Rodney and moved them to their new home. We bedded up the stall for Breezy and settled her in for the night.
Our work was not in vain, since she laid down and safely delivered a beautiful bay filly at about 12:45. Momma was on her feet within a short time, the filly was up within 15 minutes and found her dinner by 1:30. I stayed to make sure Breezy was okay and tucked myself into bed at about 3:00. Once again I am awed by the whole process.
So today Thomas and Kathryn are taking a make-up lesson with their piano teacher. Tonight Kathryn starts back with her dog 4-H. And so starts the first full week of summer vacation.
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