Monday was drive your tractor to school day. Anna is an FFA officer, so she took the flatbed to school so the officers could ride on the flatbed. Kaine drove the flatbed and did not lose anyone, so that was good. Kade rode in a tractor with his friend Cole. Toni had court bright and early. I checked the mares with my binoculars. It was announced that Anna was the District 9 Star Farmer and made the top 4 in WA to compete at State Convention. She was also the Beef Production WA proficiency award winner, so will get to compete at Nationals.

On Tuesday Lightening Bug foaled, she had a beautiful grullo filly by Jackpot. Dad started harrowing on Tuesday, so Toni helped him get the harrow out, and then they fixed it with a calving chain Toni had riding around in her pickup. Then he called her because it broke again, she fixed it with some other random chains she found. Toni and Kade took some pictures of Fancy Like’s belly spot to send to AQHA. Toni and Kade also got some pics of Bellini. Jaxsen went to the Orthodontist on Tuesday, but they did not put his braces in, he now has rubber bank expanders??

No new foals on Wednesday, however Jitter was out in the desert eating grass and made Toni look for her and try to get her in. Jitter likes to crawl through fences so she would rather be a pain in the butt and crawl through a fence than go through a gate. Toni and Kade pulled hair on Fancy Like to send in a DNA test. They also worked on Fancy for awhile.  Since Kade wants her to be a future calf horse they were picking up her feet with a rope and desensitizing her.  Toni had court again. Then she had to head over to stay with Grandma.

Toni hauled Mis Gen, Abs and Reba into Sheena to get preg checked on Thursday, and guess what, all 3 are still pregnant!! She hauled Voodoo in to get Coggins Tested, we are sending her to Moses Lake. And Bellini went to for Sheena to work on her eye.  There is actually a really good fb post on Bellini’s eye. Bellini lacerated her eye and Sheena did an experimental surgery to try to save the eye. So far so good. And Bellini is a good filly. She has really only been loaded to go to the vet and come home, but continues to not fight us. She does have some issues with liking people. She likes who she likes and that is it. The good news for her is that Sheena cleared her to be turned back out with the other yearlings when she got home so no longer living in solitary confinement. The bad news is we have some tough yearlings that she is going to have to learn to live with. But it is good for her. Dad and Kaine took Kaine’s pickup to a guy in Eltopia to work on. Anna worked on her show heifers and steers. Kade also worked on his horse Stormy. Jaxsen had FFA practice after school and dad picked him up.

Happy Friday. Kaine went to Tri Cities for a welding competition with FFA, he said they did not win, they did not do as good of a job as they did with the fishing statue, however, he did find out this week that they got second, so it was not as bad as he thought. Ben was home on Friday and checked, no new foals. Kade has been riding Stormy as many nights as he can to get her ready to start roping on her. He is also still riding Mauney and also plans to start breakaway roping on Mooney. The are both black mares with two hind socks so it is hard to tell which one he is riding unless you can see their face. Both have a really good handle and a level head. I went and stayed with grandma on Friday night. Marlo helped Toni with chores.

Anna checked the horses early Saturday and Mocha had a magnificent colt that we are calling Laroy after his dad. And Rosie B had a stunning buckskin filly by Gunner. Anna washed her heifers and steers early, then we headed out and checked the cows in the morning. Dad took Kade to a trap competition with his new gun. He won the buddy shoot with Conrad and did really well on the first round. At noon we headed to Uncle Joe’s 70^th birthday and the Feb-May birthday party. We all had a great time. We got to see some friends we haven’t seen in a while, some years. It was great to see the support for Uncle Joe and help him celebrate making it to 70. There have been times we have all questioned his longevity. Haha. It was also fun to get Grandma out to the party to see everyone. We came home and did chores and moved horses around. We are still working on getting studs put out mares out, and just keeping everything moving forward.

Sunday Kade had some people coming out to look at Mauney. They liked her, but Kade wasn’t willing to budge on the price as much as they wanted. Anna and Kade were good kids and washed their heifers and steers. Kaine and Jaxsen are well you know, Kaine and Jaxsen. Kaine at least got his tied up. Toni and I got the circle 5 mares in and moved the ones out that needed to go out with studs. We haven’t turned Gunner out into his big pasture yet because not enough mares have foaled so Playin got to stay in Circle 5 and continue to be a menace. We did get her and her mother into the corral so we could pet on her and make her stand still. We also got Opal in to take to MC. Lots of moving of horses. Bug got to go out across the landbridge to his desert ground with his 2 colts and their mothers.  Kade practiced his tie down skills and Tank watched. When Kade got his new gun and was shooting Tank came to the closest corner to watch Kade shoot. Either Tank likes Kade or he is just a nosey bugger.  Since Tank likes everyone it is probably both.

Another week down. 3 colts, 3 fillies, a bunch of heavy mares. We are so excited for the foals. We just live in anticipation for what we are going to get next. Which mare is your favorite?