Today was wonderful! The boxes that the lady brought to our field with the big orange machine were sitting there this morning and here came that lady with hay in the back of the little green truck and she put it right inside the boxes. We all shoved each other out of the way and tried to pull the hay out through those nasty nets, but now there are so many boxes that everyone can eat hay at the same time so even when we are jostling and switching around we can still be eating. Even Haylie and little Krissy can eat from some of the boxes. Then the sun was out and warm, so most of us laid down and the lady came out and handed out carrots. It was so nice with our bellies full and lying in the sun that we didn't even get up. We made that lady reach down and give us the carrots. She took Harley and Krissy and Tux over to the White Hill and they got to eat carrots there and then they even went down to the barn where they got their forelocks combed. The rest of us didn't even care because it was so nice out there by the boxes.
Then the lady took some carrots out to the young horses and ponies that live with that cranky Red mare. She took the little bay horse, Mat, with the white feet in front and combed him and put brown stuff on him and squirted stuff in his mouth. Then she started to make his feet pretty. Actually, his feet looked fine to me, so I don't know why she wanted to mess with them. He didn't want her to mess with them either and he told her so a couple of times. Sometimes that lady just doesn't listen to reason. So she went to pick up his foot and Wham! -- she was flying back into the wall. Her dark shade things that she wears in front of her eyes went into the dirt and she had mud all down the side of her face and there was even red stuff under her mouth. She got up and looked pretty surprised. I don't usually notice things like this, but I think her teeth were shorter. So then she picked up his feet again anyway, but she only trimmed a little bit off the one that kicked her in the face. And she didn't trim anything off the other ones. She just put him back in the pasture and went into her barn where she lives. Then we didn't see her for a while, but when she came back, she didn't have dirt on her face any more and parts of it were really pink and shiny. We didn't get any more carrots, so we are hopeful there will be more tomorrow.
