03/09/08, 3:26pm…The broken barge comes home…getting ready for Bonnie’s Baby (Layla)

March 9th, 3:26pm: Well we have returned after a slow journey bringing the trailer over the bridge to WI. I owe Chad at Northland Truck Accessories in Duluth a “thank you” for letting me abandon the barge there for those couple of days and Larry & Char Ericksen a thanks as well for showing up at my door to announce they had the equipment in the truck and were going to try and raise the beast. By the time we got there to unload hay and straw from it, Larry had already hooked up the trailer, taken the wheel off, anchored the forward axle and was ready to go! And guess what – we DOUBLED the speed we were able to haul it from the 10mph last Thursday night to over 20mph at times. My apologies to those on the Oliver Bridge and on who were stuck behind us…

If you weren’t already aware, we have a baby due in the next week or so and so I may still ask the computer company about running the web server with cam so the world can watch a baby be born and what a foal looks like as it develops. Hopefully Bonnie will wait a bit longer to let it warm up. After that the only other one due is actually going to be a Windchill half brother or sister, due this Spring to Lily. Also, if you haven’t been over to Windchill’s forum, I put a brief history of Windchill’s background prior to February 9th. Windchill’s dad is the stallion Kathi stands here, his name is Simmer. Simmer’s gentle spirit is probably in part where Windchill’s gentleness came from. The one claim to fame I have with Simmer is that I’ve taught him to put his ears back so he can wear my cowboy hat. He moves very slowly when I put it on his head, trying to balance it. He thinks it’s good for meeting mares and really, he looks quite good in a cowboy hat.