Monday morning

Good Monday Morning to All,

I hope that everyone had a wonderful weekend.

Our weekend was very very busy. Saturday morning, we took care of the needs of all the horses but, the big event for many was the gelding of Spirit, the second foal to be born at MHR on May 29th, 2007 after his mother was saved in October 2006 at auction.

Dr. Adam Hadland was the veterinarian who performed the procedure. He did this on our live cam. He explained what he was doing and why he did it the way he did. Unfortunately, not all of this could be heard. Dr. Hadland did a wonderful job. Spirit did not want to get up after he initially woke up. You see one of Spirit's fav things to do after breakfast is to lay down in the warm sun and nap. He came to and continued to enjoy basking in the sun. When he did get up it was slowly just as the vet wanted. A bit wobbly, but determined to finish his breakfast, he sauntered over to his feeder. Much to his dismay the food was gone. He was quiet the remainder of the day, giving us the opportunity to some work.

We fired up the tractor, and began scraping more pens, as we did this on Friday as well. Must take advantage of no wind, and the opportunity of having others here to help with moving corral panels, moving horses and holding them. LindaNV, thank you for being here to help along with the Theresa as it made everything go smoothly. Your assistance was truly appreciated.

Sunday was a really good day. We were busy outdoors as well as indoors. Very productive. Spirit is doing great, and he got his two work outs, that were prescribed by the vet for the next ten days. They are just 20 minutes each time and little trotting and walking around. He did very well and I am grateful that we started him at such a young age on voice command as well as hand signals. There were a couple of times he got a bit excited but he slowed down. He is doing very well.

Shiloh and General had their feet done as well. They must have their feet done just outside their stall and not far from one another as they are truly bonded. They both stood so quietly, and as long as they could touch noses occasionally to reassure each other that they were there all was well in their world.

The day progressed, work was done. At the end of the day, when you're hungry and you cannot wait for the meal that was planned is always nice. I had prepared a nice pot of stew and was really looking forward to it. I had also gotten Bruno and Adrian's food ready and it was sitting on the counter soaking. I was informed that the cam was down, so I told Rob I was going to put it up. He at the time was actually watching a football game, which does not get to happen often. Anyway to make a long story short, I went out to put the cam up and it took a bit longer than expected. As I walked in, Rob was getting the bowls out and he said that he stirred the stew up. He grabbed the spoon that was sitting in the sink and was going to stir the stew again. I looked at him before he could get over to the stew and I said "Don't use that spoon, that's the one I used to stir the puppy food." He stopped, turned around and said "I stirred the stew with that spoon already." The look on his face was priceless, but a pot of stew was ruined because you could see the puppy food floating in it. Sigh....one of the reasons I do not let him in the kitchen. So it was a dinner of whatever you could grab now. So, how were your dinners?

Everyone have a great day!

Stephanie