Corn planting and a new Foal

Plant is by far one of the fun things to do at this time of year on the farm. Working in the soil is exhilarating. Of all the plants that we are putting in none is more important to David than corn. David is a corn fanatic. If he hasn't eaten some kind of corn in a day it is a great surprise to the rest of us. So with 1000 or so seeds of early spring luscious corn sprouted and 300 or so seeds of painted mountain corn along with foretex beans, radishes, and several types of squash me headed out. The corn is planted in 100 foot or so rows set about 3 feet apart. The planting of corn starts a bit off the edge of the field so that squash can be sowed in a line front of the corn planting. I joined this operation after my morning chore of moving the irrigation pipes on the far top hill field. At this point about 4 rows had been sown and I joined in covering up seeds as they were laid in the furrow. We had made it to the 7th or 8th row when Lisa who was working with Willa out in the flat field cultivating came to the fence. "David, Beth is having her baby." Beth has been our must expecting mare and what morning she had shown waxing, a drop of colostrum on her utter, so we knew she would be soon. Corn planting was temporarily suspended and everyone headed down to the dry pen to help out. Beth had had a filly and was licking her down when we arrived. We set to moving the other horses out which prove problematic. Gale one of young fillies who was in the pen refused to be moved out being to interested in the new foal. After much horse way and antics we got her into a small shelter and tied the door shut. We had decided by this point that is was going to be easier to move Beth and her new born into the round pen. Before all of this though David gently milked Beth for some colostrum and fed it to the new foal. We move them to the round pen and milked Beth again and we all sat outside the round pen watching the two horses for a while. It was decided then that the new foals name would be Maizie since see had come during corn planting. We all return to the work that we had been doing before but before we went to lunch we all return to look at Maizie. She was tired from all of the hard work she had done walking on her new legs. She was circling her mom as if looking for the spot where gravity affect her most. It looked as thought she had found it but as new of an experience as walking was laying down was a even newer one. She had one, two, three circles around her spot be for softly collapsing to the ground and falling to sleep.