Riding pony

FINALLY, the lady figured out that we needed to eat that nice grass by the pond and she opened our gate so we could go out there.  It took us a little while to figure out the gate was open, because we had to eat other nice grass by the white hill, so we were pretty busy.  The lady came out with a new lady and they shooed us back into our pasture, which was pretty annoying let me tell you.  So we were all standing there in our shed and giving them really dirty looks and the lady started to call us and walked off down the hill.  The boys should have followed her, because that is their job, but since they weren't doing anything except standing around feeling sorry for themselves,  I went after the lady and she gave me a carrot!  So THEN the others came over and the lady started running down the hill toward the gate.  We stopped and watched her acting so odd and when she got to the gate, she ran right through it because there was nothing there but a hole.  Wow!  So then we all galloped down there and started to eat the nice grass.
   Yesterday the lady came and got me and took me to the barn.  The barn was cool and a little scary, but she brushed my back and my neck and combed out my beautiful tail.  Of course, I was deserving of all the attention and I was very good and didn't knock stuff off the shelves with my nose like some ponies do.  Then she put a funny bridle on me without any metal part in my  mouth and took me to the white hill.  She stood me next to a big black steppy thing and then she climbed up and lay down on top of my back.  I didn't know what to do, so I just stood there and I got a carrot.  Then she sat on my back.  I sniffed her legs and thought about biting one, but since I was getting carrots, it didn't seem like a good idea to go around upsetting the carrot cart.  Then the lady would say "wok" and make funny clicking noises. I tried just standing there, since that had been working so far, but I didn't get any more carrots for that.  So finally I got bored and decided to go try to look over the wall and see if I could see other ponies. THEN I got carrots.  But the lady would pull on my head and make me look in directions where I wasn't even going.  I never did figure out what was up with that.  But I got pretty many carrots and it was nice and cool in the white hill.  Then I got to go back out with the other ponies.  So it was a pretty fun, if strange, day.  But I hope that lady figures out what she is doing soon.   

swimming

Today, all us ponies were standing by the gate to the pond, waiting for the lady to come and open it so we could eat the nice grass out there.  We thought for sure the lady would have figured out from our escapades a few nights ago that we need to go out there and eat that grass, but she hasn't picked up on it.  While we were waiting, she came back to the pond in the little green truck thing with two of those barky dogs. She parked the truck thing by the pond and that little bossy dog jumped out and started running all around.  You know, now that the cat that had her tongue hanging out isn't around any more, that bossy dog gets to just run all over the place.  At first all that dog did was run around the barn and look for cats, but now she checks out everything.  It is as tho she has never even seen normal stuff before.  So she and the lady walked around the pond and there were a whole bunch of stupid geese along the bank, not just the mama and papa and baby geese, but a bunch of other stupid big geese too.  When the lady and the bossy dog got close to them, the geese started honking and they slid down the bank and went in the water.  The bossy dog was happy that she scared the geese into the water and was all excited and barking at them.  She followed them down the bank and then she walked right into the water.  The geese were not real scared, so they weren't flapping around or anything, they were just honking and floating around not too far from the bossy dog.  So the bossy dog just kept right on going, into the water and started swimming at the geese.  The geese were kind of amazed about that.  They honked more and they swam a little faster but you know, before they had a noisy white dog about half the size of a goose chasing them, and now they just had a silent little-bitty brown dog head skimming along the top of the water at them.  That bossy dog was a good swimmer and she swam as fast as she could to catch up with the geese, but the geese split up so then she didn't know what to do.  She was in the middle of the pond and she swam in a circle and then said "Screw it" and swam back to the shore.  Then she ran further up the shoreline and went back in the water to swim after the geese some more.   Then the lady called her and she gave up on the geese and they went back up to the barns. And the lady did not even open our gate.        

Freedom

Wahoo!   We TOLD that lady the grass was greener by the pond and so we finally had to prove it to her and knock down our fence so we could get to it.  It was SO much fun!  The nice grass was green and tall and then the lady showed up and we all ran and ran like we were wild Mustangs!  We wanted to make sure she had a chance to see how much we liked the grass and we certainly didn't want to leave it.  We ran up the hill and through the field and chased  each other all around.  Only little Perl and my mom Tudi were stuck back in the pasture -- the rest of us were FREE!  Then the lady came out with a little bucket with grain in it and Harley ran over to her.  We never get grain to eat, so he was happy that she brought it to him.  She put a halter on him and led him right around the small paddock.  Harley is our fearless leader, so we figured he must be going somewhere really fun, so most of us thundered after him and we were so surprised to discover that we inside the small paddock where Artie and Fusion usually live.  It was awful!  There was no nice grass. We were stuck eating Artie and Fusion's hay that the lady had put in there earlier, while the lady came and got each one of us and put us back our field.  Except for that feisty Fiesta  who said no way was she getting caught.  She didn't come into the small paddock when we ran in there, so she had plenty of grass to eat and she wasn't about to let any stupid halter get stuck on her head. The lady tried leading her friends and her mom Haylie into the barn, but she just watched them go by and laughed.  By the time we were back in our grassless field, the moon was really high.  The lady was fed up with Fiesta and told her she was going to get sick eating all that green grass.  I didn't believe her, but I guess Fiesta did, because she walked over to the gate and the lady opened it and she walked inside.  "Thank you Fiesta," she said.       

pics

The lady came out and took some pics of us.  I stood right in the middle of the pics as often as I could.  She took a pic of my Mom and Haylie and Krissy too. They have not been assimilated into our pony band yet, so they have to stand by themselves.  But today the lady opened the gate and let us all into the back pasture.  Those three mares were the first ones out there.  It created quite a ruckus because my dad, Bob, ran over to his pasture fence and was calling to "his" mares, while Harley and Billy and Toby had to run back to "protect" them and chase them so that Bob couldn't get close to them.  I did not care about any of it because I was eating hay.   It rained a lot last night, so we should be getting some nice grass here soon.