Monday was a BIG DAY. Blue FINALLY foaled. Blue is 24, and I was feeling like mom thought we were telling her a tall tale that Blue was pregnant. Robins Reflection is a beautiful bay roan (we are under discussion on her color, Toni says she cannot be bay, she has to be brown because King is a/a and Blue is A/A so the baby is clearly a/A) filly. I went to Grand Coulee Dam on Monday for a meeting in the morning and then we went to the Keys Pumping Plant in the afternoon for a tour. Cousin Kendel was on the tour with her husband Toby, who works with me. Beside it being 104 degrees in Grand Coulee, the tour was pretty awesome when you accepted the sweat rolling down you back and in a hard hat. I had a discussion with a bald man if it is better to have hair or not to have hair. He says the hair is better because it keeps the swear from rolling into your eyes. I got back after chores had been done, but mom had made a peach pie and it was to die for. It was still warm when I got there. Toni had a big hearing on Monday. Ben got home late from work and then was out fixing circles. Dad was harvesting wheat on Monday.
Tuesday mom went and stayed with Grandma. Toni went to Tri Cities for a dentist appt and had lunch with Shannon and then a massage. Her and the kids did chores. The colts had a pole down so Toni hammered back up with a rock she found on the ground so she didn’t have to go back to the house for a hammer. We need to put a lag bolt in that pole because they get it down quite a bit. It originally had a lag, but the colts broke it off and we didn’t have a lag with us when we put it back up. So it gets hammered back up a bunch but at some point it needs a fix not a bandaid. I had dinner at a Day with a Farmer Tour. It was pretty good.
On Wednesday Toni had a trial, the boys had football practice until noon. Then the kids started to pack and get ready for the fair. We were back up in the triple digits that week, so it was hot. I was on a farm bureau tour, I got to see some pretty cool things on Wednesday, including the new carousal in the Vandermeulen Dairy that fits 150 cows. It was pretty cool. I got to talk to a lot of people as well. We did chores, Toni told me I had to sell Gucci if someone offered enough money and she told dad he had to sell Robins Reflection (Gucci sister). Then we went out to do chores.
Thursday Toni had court again, in Tri Cities. Boys had football practice. Dad got done harvesting at Thompsons. Joss and Macy came out and Anna was showing Macy how to clip. They took Baby Girl, a fall part clubby heifer that Anna has been halter breaking, back with them for a clinic. Toni stayed with grandma Thursday night. She did the front chores and I did the back chores, the kids did the rest of the chores. Men fixed circles, like normal, it is a never-ending battle.
Friday more of the same, football practice in the morning, pack up the trailer to go, etc. I was at work and got Costco. We parked the trailers at the fairgrounds Friday night. Anna wanted to practice showing the fair cattle so Toni went down and the kids did some practice rounds in the heat. The steers going to BF fair are all pretty good. They have been to lots of jackpots and traveled. Kade finally got to ride Electra. Toni has been making him just work her on the ground to get her back into the riding frame of mind. She hasn’t been ridden in about a year. She did ok. She acted like a horse that has a great foundation, has some spunk, and hasn’t been ridden in awhile. We hope it won’t take much to get her going. Friday afternoon Toni, Anna, and Marlo went over to help our good friend Shelly with her friend Miguel and his goat. I bet no one reading this would have guessed that Toni could be convinced to help someone with a goat but she was. Mostly it was Anna and Marlo that clipped the goat and showed Miguel how to work on and show the goat. The goat is going to Othello Fair. Miguel is a great kid, so everyone was happy to help him.
Saturday was set up day at the fair. The boys had football practice and then Kelten brought them to set up. We were basically done by the time they got here. All the kids seemed really happy to see each other, in the pre-fair way of things. After a straight six days with each other during the fair, they aren’t so chipper. Set up took all morning then Toni met with clients until chores. She also missed a sale she had been meaning to bid at so she was not happy. But we went out and played with the foals after chores so that put her in a better mood. We got some new video of Star. Per the norm we didn’t take a halter out there so when she wouldn’t walk or move for the video Toni caught her with a string and drug her around. We got some fun new pictures of the foals.
Sunday was the calm before the storm. We finished packing before the fair. Kade took Electra for a ride out and about. She is very solid about outside things. Kade, in a teenage boy way, rode her between the trailers with his dog underneath, rode her next to the stud running the fence, rode her next to the road with the cars, nothing seemed to really bother her except for the fact that she was being ridden. The general consensus in getting ready for the fair is that we are overwhelming unenthusiastic about it.
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