Monday we finally had some rain

Monday we finally had some rain, however, we had 4^th cutting of hay down, so it could have waited a few days, or been a few days earlier. But who is going to complain about rain? Kaine had Jr High practice, however, Grid kids practice was canceled due to the rain. Toni, Anna and Kade tied No Foolin and Gunz to Tulip for halter breaking, and they worked on Sage and Chic. When I got there Tulip was pulling Gunz around and we worked on loading Pine and Peach in the rain.  Monday was one of those days that we had a bunch to get done, and rain, wind, or shine, we had to just power through. Night is coming earlier as fall makes its appearance, and that doesn’t help, but it is what it is. That is why we have headlamps that we can hook to our hats.

Tuesday Dad turned the big 76. Happy Birthday Dad. Toni and Kade took Pine into see Sheena to get his Coggins, brand, and health papers to travel, he did great. Toni let Kade practice driving the trailer at the house. At 1 Peach’s new owners came and took her home, she is the first foal to go. Toni and Kade moved Chic across the driveway to keep Piney company. Kade really likes Chic and would like to keep her, but we can’t keep them all, especially the ones we have already sold. Kaine had a Jr High football game Tuesday night, dad came to that for his birthday.

Wednesday halter breaking continues, Anna and Kade are down to their last few days of quarantine so they are really working on getting their steers halter broke for our Nov 6^th show. They are also working on homework. Toni keeps putting Tulip on the foals, but this group is pretty awesome so Tulip isn’t really doing much with them. We are considering getting a second halter breaking donkey because of how great it has been.

                Thursday on their last day of quarantine, Toni, Anna and Kade ultrasounded mares with Allie. The news of the day was we having at least one Double baby next year, out of Yo, we were all ecstatic. He is getting pretty old. Also, our AI mares are on track and have good looking foals. Mom’s two project horses are also still on track, so she gets to keep babying them. We had a couple of open mares, but they weren’t shockers, disappointing, but not shocking.  Then Toni and the kids weaned Rog and Fortune, so two more in the weaning pen. The kids had lots of homework to do after to get done before school the next day. I redid the foal page on our website Thursday, take a look and let me know what you think if you have not yet.

Friday the kids were back in school, Anna missed most of homecoming week, but she did make it to purple and gold day, and she went all out in typical Anna fashion and wore a purple T shirt under a grey hoodie. Yep, we were all impressed. I took some videos of Pistol Pete and Benjaminia to put on the website. Then I rolled up wire and Marlo got there about half way through and helped me. The weeds were so tall around the corn field she got my Colorado high centered on a rock, so I walked back to the house and got Red and pulled it off. Then we went and did chores. The boys did not have football practice, but forgot to tell mom, so she did not pizza pockets done for them. So they had to wait for theirs. Then they rode their three year olds, and Kaine rode Friday, around the house.

Saturday was a busy day. We had Pine leave at around 7, then we moved the other three in the halter breaking pen across the road with Chic. Next we got our next victims in, Ivy, Peter Pan (again), Roger and Spark. We went home for a little bit, I uploaded the pics from Friday and Toni got Jaxsen going. Kicker and Kade went bird hunting on Saturday and then helped hunter Steve around the place. Kaine and Anna tied up the steers and heifers. Toni and I went back down to moms and got the mares in and started hauling mars out. We hauled 13 out on Saturday, Uncle Skip showed up and helped us for a good few hrs. At noon I took Anna up to Tennelle’s house so she could do her hair for homecoming. Then I went and picked her up at 1:30 and took her to Edie’s house where all of the girls were getting ready. Kaine went down and helped Toni finish up as I ran Anna around and did chores. Toni and Kaine weaned another couple of foals. Then we all went home and got ready. Toni took the boys into the football game, I went back to Edie’s house to get pics of the kids going to Homecoming. Then I went to Connell to meet with Toni, mom, dad, Ben, Kicker, Jaxse, Julian, Ady, Leslie and Whitney to watch the boys play. We got stomped.

Sunday Toni, Kade and I loaded out three foals in the morning. Then we moved Ivy over to be with Gunz so she wasn’t alone. Kaine and Anna caught the steers while we were gone and then Ben and Kaine went to Moses Lake to get Kaine’s hunting license. I took Kade home and then him and Anna worked with the steers for a bit and then he went with his dad to Moses to go shooting. I moved the horses from 4 into 5 with the other 13 we brought down. And then I moved the cows into 4. Anna went and helped me for 30 min or so, I made her chase the heifers that were out through the alfalfa field.  Then the people that bought Linda the mini filly showed up and got her and we sent then with a cat too. Toni was down showing people the foals we have left. Next we met Toni at mom and dads to start haltering foals. Ben and Kaine got home and they doctored a few bad eyed bulls.  We got halters on the new foals we have in and got all of the horses moved around for the coming week.

                We still have a few foals left for sale. It is always interesting to see which foals sell quickly and which don’t. We would say that all of our foals are really nice, so just because they are left doesn’t mean they lack for quality or have something wrong with them.  Their person just hasn’t come along yet. What really gets hard is when we start halter breaking the ones that haven’t sold, then we decide we need to keep those. We have quite a few this year marked to keep, so if anyone wants to come see what we have, please do.