Tudi and goslings

So get this.  My MOM, Tudi, moved back in with us.  The lady told her she was too chubby and had to move out of that pasture with the red mare and the youngster ponies.  She did not care so much about being away from my baby brother, so she didn't run along the fence like Haylie did when she moved in with us.  My Mom came up and said Hi to all of us and then she trotted all the way along the fence on all sides to check it out.  I think she thinks that she is in charge of us now.  But some of the boy ponies who live here didn't think she should be in charge and they chased her and made her stand on the other side of the creek.  But Haylie and Krissy were happy to see her, so they went with her to keep her company.  The three of them are standing down by the pond, but on the wrong side of the fence to get any nice grass.  None of us can get to that nice grass by the pond.   You know, the stupid geese have been taking turns sitting around down at the pond.  One sits and the other one either floats around or stands guard.  But now they are both walking or floating around and they have five little tiny baby geese with them. Just what we need, more stupid geese around our pond.      
   The lady has been taking some of the horses and us ponies into the White Hill, where we get carrots and she sits on our backs and we can walk and trot around.  It is all new stuff to most of us, so it would be really scary, except that we know about the carrots, so everyone wants to be the one who gets to go.  Yesterday it was Billy and that giant mare Jewel and pretty Mari.  It was not very windy, so Jewel didn't have to snort and jump around when the sides of the White Hill made noise. I wanted to go, but she didn't pick me.

Haylie's Comet

Today, the lady brought that big spotted pony Haylie over to our pasture.  She is really pretty and almost a horse, but not quite.  We were all eating hay, but Harley and Toby ran down to see her.  When she came into our pasture, she didn't want to talk to us at all.  She just wanted to run back and forth along the fence and yell for her "baby."  Her "baby" is almost a year old and she didn't even care that her mama left, but Haylie was all upset anyway.  After a while, some of the ponies got mad about all the bad energy she was bringing into our pasture. My sister Gypsy and Harley and a couple of the other ponies ran after her and tried to bite her because she was just so aggravating.  But she would run really fast and get away from them and run back over to the fence.  You know, she came from Vermont with Krissy, so Krissy wanted to hang out with her, but she didn't want anything to do with Krissy either.  The lady came out in the rain with the shiny scraper thing and scratched it on our backs and made our hair fall on the ground, but Haylie didn't want to come over for that either.  All of us were gathered around and I was right in the middle of everyone, so I got scratched the MOST.  You know that Haylie is the mother of my arch-rival Fiesta, but she didn't want to talk to Fiesta or her son Tux either.  She is really focused, that Haylie is. After the lady got done giving us carrots and scratching our hair out, she did the same thing for the young horses in the small paddock next to us and the bay bunch mares.  Everyone thought if felt really good and they liked getting the carrots.  It has been raining every day and I am kind of getting sick of it. When the lady put Haylie in our pasture, she closed off the gates so we can't even go look for nice grass by the woods or in the back field across the creek.  I guess we are stuck here until that Haylie settles down and decides she likes us.  I hope she likes us soon.          

Excitement

There has been interesting stuff going on around here. Yesterday, a tall man pulled his truck over right by the pen where the old big horse used to eat his breakfast and dinner. There used to be a sign on the pen that said "Le Bistro", but the lady took it down after the old horse died. Now no one eats breakfast in there anymore So the lady brought that white horse mare into the former Bistro and the tall man stood behind her. Then he shook his head. And then the lady went and got my little brother and the colt with the cute white front feet. Each of the colts laid down and went to sleep for a little while right in front of the tall man and then when they got up, they walked funny. Then this morning, the lady brought my dad Bob up to the barn and led the white horse mare back to the pasture where Bob lives with Taca and the new filly. The white mare was not happy and she walked back and forth along the fence and kept yelling. The other horses that she lived with yelled a couple of times when she left, but then they couldn't hear her so they didn't say anything. In a little while, the lady took Bob back out to his pasture. He had his long mane and tail all combed out and it was easy to see where I got my glamorous looks. He was really happy to see that white mare in his pasture.
The lady was out in the pasture today talking to the horses where the white horse mare used to live. Then she looked over at us ponies and she said "What are you ponies doing OUT?" She came running over and looked at where the fence tape was lying on the ground. Us ponies were really excited to be eating nice grass and the ponies that had scattered into the woods came running up to the where the rest of us were eating. The lady moved gates around to block exits, and then she came up behind us and made funny noises so we had to go back into our pasture. But then I guess she felt sorry for us so she moved the fence and left us out into the nice grass again that is growing between the pastures. We couldn't go out there when the old big horse lived there, because he would get really mad at us being so close to his mares, but now we can without making anyone mad. The lady tried to give us carrots, but we were so happy about the nice grass that we didn't even care about the carrots. So she left and rode that spotted pony Haylie. Then she took the lumpy brown thing and put it on the backs of the those bay horse mares. That Alexis, she never saw anything like that before. When the lady put it on her back and made it tight, she was really surprised. She jumped way up in the air and then she spun around and pulled away from the lady and started to run like there was a whole band of coyotes after her. Wow! That was something. When she stopped, the lady took the lumpy thing back off her back and put it on that Jewel mare and rode her around in the pasture. Alexis didn't think much of that idea either. She came up to Jewel and tried to bite the lady's leg. So that was the end of the excitement for today.

geese

So maybe the fur coats are NOT such a good idea in this sun. Wow, it is hot now! But the good news is that it rained a whole bunch last night so that means lots of nice green grass should be coming up soon. We still get hay in our boxes, but it is almost as much work to get that hay out as it is to go look for new grass, so we end up leaving it in there most of the day. The lady takes some of the ponies over to the white hill and gives them carrots, but she hasn't taken me over there forever. She was out setting up the fence tape so that my dad Bob and Aunt Taca and the new filly could go out into that field and find more grass, and all us ponies were sure that she would let us out into our field by the pond with the nice grass. We all ran down to the gate by the pond and watched her and waited. But she didn't let us out there. She didn't do anything about our fence. The only ones out there now are the two stupid geese. The one goose just sits all quiet with its head down and the other goose sits on the far bank and watches for intruders. If anyone shows up the watcher goose flies into the water and makes a racket and tries to scare away whoever shows up. It really hates when the lady drives by in the little green truck. One time it jumped up on the bank and flapped at the green truck, but the truck made a loud noise back at it and scared the goose so it went back in the water and sulked for a while. But it doesn't chase the lady when she is with any of the dogs. Even the little timid dog. When the goose sees the dog, it just puts its head down and pretends it isn't there. Silly goose.

Filly

Aunt Taca had a baby! It is a cute filly with a big white blaze on her face. The lady walked Taca and the foal right by our fence to take them up to the barn and we all ran over to the fence to watch. Some of Taca's older pony kids were calling out to her as they walked by, but Aunt Taca didn't want to talk to them or to have them close to her baby. She made nasty faces and scooted around to make sure the baby was right next to her and didn't go wandering off. They got to spend part of the day in the small paddock up there, while men put noisy hay bales in the top of the barn, and then she got to go back into the barn and the lady gave her lots of hay. She is very lucky to have all that hay and to get to eat the grass in the paddock. Even Ferris and Mak got to run around in the grassy big arena and eat grass there while the men had the hay truck in their paddock. Us ponies got to eat some of the new hay but we didn't get any new grass. The lady came out to see us with that little bossy dog and gave us some carrots, but we had to work for them and give her kisses and stuff. Now the bugs are starting to come out. Those mean nasty little black flies go in our ears and bite them. I hate those flies.

hairy weather

It has been windy here almost every day. I think some of those littler ponies were almost going to blow away, but they haven't yet. With the wind, it is not hot like it was for a while there and the grass is green but really short. We walk around and look for longer grass to eat, but everywhere we go, it is short. Even in the far pasture where the ground is still wet, it is short. Last evening, there were almost as many deer in my dad Bob's pasture as there are us ponies, which is a lot. The lady doesn't let Bob and his mares go out in that pasture yet, so they were staring at the deer and were pretty mad at them, eating their grass. The lady has been coming out to visit us almost every day with carrots and sometimes we get to go into the white hill and try to train that lady into giving us the carrots. She is starting to catch on. She also brings out a long metal scratchy thing that she scrapes across our backs and necks and butts. It feels wonderful and our hair flies around every which way in the wind. The lady keeps going Pfft Pfft and spitting out hairs. You should see the Fusion when she does it to him. He looks like he is inside a fuzzy yellow tornado! That big red mare that lives with my Mom Tudi and my little brother is still really hairy and fat. Every day, the lady goes out and looks under her belly. That mare is grumpy too, so I don't think I'd be sticking my head under her belly.
Yesterday the lady who talks funny came to see us and she went to some of the boy ponies and started yanking on their manes. When she was done, there were pieces of mane on the ground and their manes were almost as short as mine. But of course, mine is way more glamorous because I had mine cut off to look like a polo pony back when it was colder and now it is growing back. That lady didn't have a hat on, so I couldn't try to bite it. She didn't have any carrots, so I hardly talked to her at all. If you want attention from me, it is best to carry treats.