By Sir Cody your action reporter - A live action story on April 13th.  Before being a jumping pony, I was a Navy Seal and action reporter.   Due to tiring of swimming under water I returned to the Ranch to jump poles and other things more horsey.
shot.jpg (57309 bytes) It took 3 grownup to hold my little brother Dusty, our mighty stallion for the sedation.   If we had sound you could hear Mom starting to worry with "Be careful"  "Should I help?"  We all just ignored her. asleep.jpg (70605 bytes)  Sabyl took care of Dusty.  Mom started screaming he's dead, when Uncle Greg put the blue towel on Dusty's face - I explained it  was for eye protection.   Then I suggested we sedate Mom.   ready.jpg (51827 bytes)  With a mighty rope Aunt Sabyl held his leg - That was quite a big rope!    I am pleased to report Mom was covering her eyes and therefore Dr. Greg didn't need to sedate her.  I thought it best to stop taking pictures for a few minutes and keep Mom calm. 
wake.jpg (63568 bytes)All done - Mom can now uncover her eyes.

 Come on little guy wake up!  Dusty wanted to sleep on our Aunt Sabyl

wake_more.jpg (76201 bytes)Poor Aunt Sabyl had to keep waking Dusty up and then kind of  picked him up to stand.  Mom was now helping with directions - "He's going to fall"   balance.jpg (62346 bytes)Now three grown ups had to help balance him!  Small but quite wobbly!  Mom continued to help with directions just incase they forgot   " HE'S Wobbly!"  
balance_walk.jpg (61391 bytes) all three helping our wobbly boy walk to the stall.  Mom was sterilizing the stall  and worrying  -  Mom does worrying  really well.  They figured to keep Mom busy sterilizing a stall,  while they do the work. team_work.jpg (70830 bytes)  I did ask our Aunt Heidi if our Uncle Greg included in the marriage vows that she has to help with things like this?  She said she thought the vow was odd, "When Cody Calls We Go To A Ranch." But she agreed.  friends.jpg (52452 bytes)  And I guess they are still friends.  Since Uncle Greg was here  I told him that  I had a sore ears.  Uncle Greg  told me it was from trying to listen to other people's conversations.   I quickly bought a book on lip reading to protect my ears.