hard work

The lady has been showing up back here pretty much and it is almost at the point where it is getting annoying.  Sometimes she brings some other lady or another along with her and then those ladies give us carrots too, but not enough.  The other ladies brush us or hold the rope that attaches to the straps on our heads and one of the ladies pointed a little black box at us while we trotted around in the log circle.  Mostly tho, our personal lady comes back by herself and she gets the brown lumpy thing and puts it on top of some of us and then she sits on top of us.  She does it to Gypsy and my mom Tudi and to me and she puts it on top of Sienna, but she doesn't sit on Sienna.  Then we walk around and if we hear a click, we get a carrot.  We have to wear the metal thing in our mouths so that we are fashionable which I didn't like so much, but the lady puts brown sticky stuff on it and then it tastes pretty good.  Today,  I was turning  my head away because I didn't want to put the metal thing in my mouth and my little sister Elfe came up and she tried to take it in her mouth.  Can you imagine!  Who does she think she is?  She has not even had the lumpy thing on her back!  So I laid back my ears at her and I took the metal thing for myself.  The part where the lady sits on me is getting more annoying tho.  Now she puts her legs against my sides and then the metal thing pulls on  my mouth and when I try to yank it back, it doesn't move AT ALL and then I have to turn my head.  Then she makes funny noises and squeezes on my sides and says TROT so I have to go faster and she jiggles around up there.  So then I want to stop, but she doesn't want me to stop.   And she makes me turn my head when I want to go in other directions.  It is VERY complicated and I don't get nearly enough carrots and grain for all the work I am doing.  Today I started jumping around, but she didn't seem to like that either.  I know Gypsy has the same issues.  And Gypsy even did this stuff back a long time ago when she was a younger pony.  But she doesn't remember, or at least she says she doesn't remember.  Harley says it is really easy and he wants to do it instead of us, but the lady just ignores him.  She says we have to learn this stuff so that little girls can ride us.  I think little girls would just want to pet me and brush me and make me beautiful and give me carrots.  I hope this lady knows what she is talking about.       

One trick pony gone

    The lady comes back to see us with weird stuff just about every day.  She has that lumpy brown thing and stuff she spritzes at us -- on our bellies and chests and ears.  She puts the strap thing on our heads and then she makes us go back and forth or sideways.  Fortunately, there are lots of carrots involved, so almost everyone wants to get in on the fun.  She had to fix the gate that Siena knocked down so that we can go in the circle of logs by ourselves and not be bothered by Harley.  He is the one who mostly barges in on everyone else's carrot time. She has been sitting on top of us too, either with the lumpy thing or without, and then she brought out a strap thing with metal parts and she put it in some of the ponies' mouths!  Gypsy had to take it in her mouth a couple of times and then when she didn't care any more, the lady sat on her back and Gypsy walked around.  Today she put the metal thing in my mouth too.  It was really weird and I didn't like it at all.  But then the lady told me that if I want to be fashionable, I have to wear it in my mouth.  She said the little girls who ride ponies usually want ponies who have metal things in their mouths.  I can hardly believe that, but what can I say?  I am a slave to fashion and if the metal thing makes me glamorous, I certainly can't let any of those other ponies go around being more entrancing than me. It is hard to eat carrots with it in my mouth tho, so I am not sure that I like that part at all.  It is tough to be a diva.
     The lady says that she is going to need a new trick pony now that the hunk Fusion left with the lady with the pretty hair.   I do not think I am going to get that trick pony job. Just about all of us ponies know  how to give kisses and a few other tricks, but Harley and Krissy know the most tricks.  They are the pushiest ponies and they work the hardest at doing them.  Krissy is really short, so her options  are limited as far as riding goes, she would have to give rides to little bitty kids and Krissy isn't really receptive to that idea. So her other jobs could be pulling a pony cart or the trick gig.  She has already mastered a fun Lipizzaner levade trick that almost makes her look tall.  The lady is probably afraid to teach Harley that trick since he almost took her knee off after he learned the "shake hands" trick and kept offering his hoof every time he saw her.  It would be intimidating to see his hooves at eye level every time she turned around.
   So we will see what fun and carrots tomorrow brings.