Surprise Surprise. We woke up this morning to the Easter Bunny and a call from Nicole that Annie had just foaled. (We are out of town for a couple days so Nicole is holding down the fort). Yes, Annie, can you believe it? Checkers is close now, but Annie beat her to it. Annie had a nice colored colt that almost looks like her, only a little darker. At first maiden mare Annie was not too keen on the young colt nursing. After a little while however Nicole helped Annie figure it out and now Nicole says things are going very well. Nicole has also put down straw for Checkers as she says that all of a sudden Checkers looks like she might go soon. We will be watching tonight along with Nicole. It’s great to have such skilled help at the farm, but we can’t help but feel guilty pangs and the desire to be there.
We are with family out of town for a short Easter holiday and shared a wonderful dinner today, and farm chores on Aunt Cindy and Uncle John’s ranch in Colorado. We forgot to tell you that after working like mad to load the new used RV Thursday evening, get the farm set up so that Nicole woudl not have to do extra work beyond what she was already doing for us, and bringing along work, games, food, and both warma nd old weather clothes…..we realized haf-way to CO that we forgot Mom and Dad’s suitcase! Lucky it wasn’t the kids’ stuff, and so a quick hit on Walmart gave bill some jumbo sweatpants and a $3 shirt, and Susan some $6 slacks and a t-shirt. We have scavenged our relatives for other things we”ve needed….except for Bill as no one has pants long enough for him. So let’s just say we are stylin’.
In the RV finally at about 11:00 p.m. and hitting the road, we first stopped at the gas station just a few minutes down the road from Saddlebrook. The kids were in their PJs and settling in for the night as Susan was about to drive the first tankful. After four hours we pulled over and slept a few, then at dawn Bill pullled out as the driver and I stayed in the RV with the kids….Drew began to wake up and saw we were gettign gas at the gas station a state away, and said loudly, “What?!? Why are we STILL at the gas station?!?” We laughed so hard – he’d slept for 8 hours and did not realize we were hauling down the road that whole time.
We will be watching Checkers tonight and will be in contact regularly with Nicole. Come on, Checkers – colored filly!
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