7 days until I leave for camp!!!

I'll soon be at camp! We leave on the 26^th, F. Banga called to tell us he needs us asap. If I ride everyday, I can get Sonny's training done on the 25^th. I'll have to figure out when to ride him on Sunday. We are having the Wolfmuellers, Fenskis and Steppans over for dinner, so I'll have to either ride before church or as soon as we get home, right before lunch. :-) I'll get it done though! :-) REALLY looking forwards to the homemade pizza and cheesecake! Plus Fenskis are bringing icecream and Wolfmuellers are bringing sherbert! I really hope that we can play a good game or two (or maybe something like 15 games!) of volleyball. :-)

Hannah sold Shilo last Saturday. So now we have 8 horses. Han also has her bay mare for sale. So if anyone is interested in a nice, well bred, bay, reg QH mare that is in foal to a buckskin paint stallion. Give Hannah a call or an email. Or you can contact me and I'll tell her. :-)

I'm probably going to dry Caresse up, she has only been giving one pint a milking, and we're wondering if she isn't a fall calf that was bred too young. So I'm going to try giving her some time to mature. Latte is doing really good. She gets sooo jealous if I feed Inky first. LOL!

But then Inky gets jealous when I feed Latte first. :-)

Esther's been giving ½ a gallon a milking for a while now. At least she's feeding her calf. :-) Ernie's been going from 2 pints (morning) to ½ a gallon (night) a milking. Sally is our only 'big' producer and she gives 1 ½ gallons a milking. We are feeding four calves half a gallon each morning and night, so we were bringing in around 1 gallon a day.

Last night Larry Primeau (preemo), brought over five gallons (their night's milking), so we were able to drink milk at breakfast! Yeah! :-) Plus we now have almost a whole gallon of cream! I can just taste the butter! LOL!

Galbraiths lent us a half Holstien cow. Dad went and picked her up this morning. Hopefully she'll bring our milk level up. :-)

Right before breakfast this morning I washed a couple of cinches down by the pump house. They were filthy! :-P Just dried mud and horse sweat, but they could have stood being washed a while ago. :-D They're fairly clean now.

Later on I ironed cloths and packed them. I'm starting to get excited! LOL! By the time the 26^th rolls around I'll be jumping up and down, or just plain jitterey!

I hope ya'll have a wonderful summer! Talk to ya when hunting season comes! I might get an occasional post up throughout the summer. I hope I get the chance! But if I don't.... Keep safe!

Love ya'll! ~Lydia~

New animals...

Sonny. The latest horse I'm training. He's five years old, ¼ Percheron, 1/8 Saddlebred, and the rest QH. I guess you'd call him a sooty buckskin paint. I think he's one handsome dude, what about you? LOL! Just had a 'Martha flash' there! :-)

Golda. Cilla's early birthday present. She's one year old, 1/8 Saddlebred, and rest QH. (BTW, QH stands for Quarter Horse.) She's still wild, but I think she'll turn out to be quite sweet. I've been working with her to try and tame her so that Cilla can start working with her.

Shilo. Hannah's three year old paint filly. I'm putting some rides on her cause Hannah wants to sell her. She's a sweet heart! :-)

Caresse! This girl has gotten BIG! LOL! I'm hoping she has twins or something like that, because if that's one calf, it's going to be huge! Not so good for my little first time heifer. But I am looking forward to milking her. :-)