Cinematic Summer Days on a Small Farm

It is summer here on the farm and everything is just so peaceful. I feel like it's never looked more beautiful and I'm feeling very inspired. So I want to bring you along on a couple summer days here at the farm. First thing that we have to do is transfer one of our beehives. A while back one of our three hives split into two and we had to put one of those bee colonies in a really old bee box and it's rotted out and it's just not working well. So we got a new one and tonight we're going to be moving them over from old hive to the new one. I'm sure it's going to be very interesting. Let's just hope that we don't get stung. After dad successfully moved the hive over he decided to check on the other ones. This hive he thought might need another bee box because they were about to run out of storage. I don't know if I need it or not. I'd rather do it and not need it. So he put that on quick and checked the other hives too. Well that went really well. I think everything went pretty smoothly. Now I'm gonna go up into the barn loft and go see the cute little kittens. It's always the favorite part of my day when I get to do that. You're okay. Well they're acting kind of shy this evening. I'm guessing that it's just because they're tired and aren't really in a playful curious mood right now. But oh my goodness they are so cute and it's so relaxing up here. Now they're coming out. Remind you just jumped down from up here to go eat the eggs that were just thrown out to the pig. That's actually insane. She's quite the cat. I know it's not the first time she's jumped down from up here. The sunset tonight is absolutely gorgeous. I'm actually in awe. I'm out at our neighbor's property right now. They have a ton of fields full of wildflowers and I'm out here for the first time this season to see if they've grown yet and if they have then I'll pick a few. Well somehow I lost the footage of me picking the flowers which was very unfortunate but there were so many growing. I was so shocked and everything was just so beautiful. The sunset kept getting more pretty as the time went on and there was a deer in the field right behind me. It was just so beautiful. It's nights like this where I'm just so in awe of God's creation. One more moment for the sunset. Gorgeous. Okay here's the flowers. I'm very excited to put these in the vase in my room. They're so pretty. I don't know why but flowers just bring me so much joy. They're such a small thing but they're so beautiful. Also this is the hive that dad just moved the bees from and a bee just came out of it and was like where am I and I kind of feel bad. Just hanging out right there. Okay well I'm gonna drive back and head inside for the night. This evening was just so gorgeous and it makes me so happy. The sunset and the deer and the flowers and the kittens. I'm definitely very blessed to be living out here and also very blessed that I have the opportunity to show it to you guys. Miss Magnolia is my three-year-old draft horse cross that I'm currently training. We had to take a couple weeks off because she had gotten an injury but her injury is now healed and we can get back to work. So the new thing that I've been trying to teach her is loping on a lunch line and she hasn't been doing too great with it. We'll see how she does today. You probably already noticed that it is very windy and it's also a bit of a chilly day. So I was expecting some sass from Maggie today because usually horses are a little more fresh in this weather. What I wasn't expecting was for her to be a dragon. At least act like one. Before I even asked her to move in a circle, she reared up. So I knew right away that this might be pretty difficult and boy was I right. It definitely feels like she just decided from the beginning that she wanted a fight today and she wasn't planning to go down easy. She started off by doing this thing where on one side she would push in towards me and on the other side she would pull. I tried to patiently guide her to get into a nice circle and then I asked her for a lope, which might not have been the best idea. She started off well but was pulling me so much that we were both running around in circles. Then we switched directions and did the same thing. This side is her bad side. She's less coordinated and less willing to do what I ask, more so today than I've ever seen before. And for some reason I just ended up switching her back to her good side. I don't know, it probably made sense in the moment and it became clear to me that I needed a longer rope if I wanted to continue teaching her to lope, which will probably help a lot but I hate how easily they get tangled. Oh, okay. She probably thought she was done working or something, but she clearly needed more work. We're on her bad side again and you can really see the protesting coming through now. I wanted to get her listening well on her good side first because that will be easiest for all of us. And look how amazing this lope is. She was perfect and this is exactly what I want her to do. But then she decided to stop at the end. Now that she did good on this side, all I want her to do is do it perfectly on the other side as well. So I'm switching sides and you can see that she's completely refusing to do it. So I got her going really good on this side again and you won't believe what she does next. She pulled me so hard that I had to let go so she didn't drag me with her and she took off. So after that I kept her on a much shorter rope and tried again. All I need at this point is for her to do well on that left side and then we'll be done. She kept pulling in attempt to turn towards me and stop and then made me pull her. And yeah, you can definitely see the battle continuing. As long as I stay behind her shoulder, she will keep moving forward, but the moment she gets me in front of it, she stops. So I was fighting to stay behind that shoulder the whole time as she was pulling me around. Eventually, I got her to do a pretty nice lope, all things considered. So that was great. But as I continued lunging her, I could tell she wasn't quite ready to relax into it yet. She was pulling and then I was pulling. It almost felt like a dance. But through reading her body language and guiding her with mine, I eventually watched her eyes soften and her head lower as she became more willing. Maggie has only acted up like this very few times and I think with everything like the weather and her being off from her injury, it just created the perfect storm. I'm very happy with how she relaxed at the end and even though Maggie is a stubborn, difficult horse, she is just so much fun to work with still and I love her. And we are definitely learning a lot together. Okay, I've got her tied up here. I'm just gonna let her think, process everything that just happened, and then I'll let her back out. I know that not much happened in this video, but there's so many more amazing things going on on the farm right now, so I'm working on making the next videos as well. But yeah, I hope you enjoyed this video. Definitely subscribe to stick around. God bless you and I will see you in the next one.