This morning began a little later than most but was still just as busy. I began with the Iowa tradition of picking up rocks with Adam and Kris. We went with Scott down to the fields, and Adam and I got the pick-upable rocks while Kris and Scott used the loader to get the larger ones. There was one rock, however, that Adam thought we could lift, but was just too large. While we were trying to pick it up he told me, “you need to get stronger” thinking it was just my side that was the problem. However, I did not see the rock lift up or budge at all when he was lifting on it. His blog may claim differently, but he is wrong.

After the rocks were picked up, I went with Rachel to the Friest farm to take care of the horses. We started by brushing them and washing some of them off. Then I took some pictures of them for Brent because he is looking to sell some of them. After that Rachel showed me how a lot of stuff works. She taught me the proper way to work a horse in a round pen. Once we were done warming them up, we saddled them. It took a while because we had eight horses to get ready for riding. Once we finished getting set up we had to wait for Brent to get ready to go because he was spraying, so Rachel and I went to see the cows. They let us pet them, and I finally got my picture with a cow!! Once we finished we were ready to go and drove down to a public park to ride the trails. It was so nice and a beautiful wooded scene. We walked and galloped a bit and then headed back after a few hours. Once we got back we had to unload and brush them all down again. Horses are an intense amount of work, but definitely worth it for the experience we got on them.

Picking up rocks!

Adam and my rocks