summer daze

Well, now it is hot and there are many bugs. Almost every day, the lady comes out and takes some of us ponies over to the barn or the white hill.  It is nice and cool and bug-free in the barn but sometimes there are other horses in there and stuff keeps moving around so every time I go there it looks scary all over again.  The lady brushes me and combs my tail and sprays wicked-smelling stuff on me and puts gooey stuff in my ears.  Then sometimes she sticks the brown lumpy thing on my back and we go to the white hill and she sits on top of me.  I don't much care for it, but I am trying to be nice to her because I don't think she knows what she is doing.  She makes funny noises and squeezes me with her legs and then she pulls my head sideways even tho I am going a totally different direction.  It is like she can't even tell where we are going. Fortunately, she gives me carrots once in a while if I walk when she squeezes her legs and clucks her mouth.  She does the same thing with the other ponies and some of the horses.   This morning I went with her to the barn and then she made my hooves look nice. I didn't think that was necessary either, but I must admit I like the way they look and feel now.   We have a little bit of grass in our field but we would have more if there was rain.  At night, the lady gives us hay in the boxes, but sometimes we would rather stay out in the field and look for grass.  She doesn't want us to stay in that field.  She thinks we might try to go mow the neighbor's grass again. That is excellent grass, so she might be right.