What a weekend!

Saturday started early – 6am – and I grabbed K. from the barn and headed to Cocoa to meet S. We got there just as S. was arriving, so we helped hitch the trailer and headed for Morriston! Nice uneventful trip up there, and we got there in enough time to hit the tack store and grab lunch. As we drive up to the farm, I see Adiva and my heart melts. I can barely contain myself. T. and I do the necessary paperwork, and we go to halter Adiva. Sigh, halter is too big. I try to reknot (nice rope halter) but I can't. Keeps slipping. We decide to bring her up and get another halter, but as soon as we take her out of her paddock she gets way way way antsy and I barely get her into the round pen. She's very nervous, no idea what's going on. Anni's already been haltered and is in the barn. T. grabs some ace and medicates Adiva then we load Anni. Takes a few minutes, but nothing outrageous.

Adiva is about the same – we do med her with xylazine to help, and she hops on the trailer after a few minutes. Anni is a bit anxious and she's pawing a bit, but once we're on the road they calm down pretty well. We do stop about halfway home to check on them – happily munching hay. We stop in Cocoa to grab my car and make it to the barn right before dark.

The girls unload easy as pie, and we lead them around the pasture. Anni just wants to graze, Adiva wants to smell everything. We decide to let them go, and they go trotting off to
investigate. They are just so cute! Checking out all the corners and sniffing all the grass. They find the water, take drinks, and proceed to trot all over. Nice and relaxed, just enjoying it all.
We stayed with them for a while, and I'd go check on them from time to time. They'd come right up to see what I had for them, and they were so curious about where I was going and where the treats were coming from! They eat some hay and are sleeping when we leave at 10.



Sunday we get to the barn around 8:30 – I had a headache you wouldn't believe – but when we get there, they are sleeping! Sigh, such good girls. They nicker for me, and P. hays them while I get the grain ready. They eat most of it but they are still a bit too 'up' to totally finish. Adiva is checking out some smell/sound coming from down the road and Anni is having a blast just trotting around. We head off to lunch and when we get back, the winds have kicked up and the temp has dropped. But, while the girls are a bit more on edge, they are still pretty relaxed. My brother had been out there, and said that Anni had been investigating her stall. All in all, everything is going perfectly! As we're standing there, Adiva decides to go into her stall, and I'm so happy. K. and I take off to the tack store to get some supplies, and when we get back, we halter Adiva, stick her (15.1) and deworm her, then get Anni (16.0) and deworm her. We then hay them and watch them for a bit. So peaceful.


I can't believe how much I love them, and how important they are to me already.