It has been a while since I blogged. Us ponies have been busy this summer. There was a lot of grass to eat. We had to check the fence to make sure that it was still up and we had to eat grass on top of the hill and by the apple tree, over by the rocks and by the creek and on the other side of the bridge and we had to check inside the round log circle and along where the logs are piled up. Like I said, there was a lot of grass to maintain. One time someone came and drove around on the orange machine and made the weeds shorter in parts of our fields, but he didn't stop and talk to us or anything. And of course we have our fancy new sheds that we could stand inside when the bugs were biting our ears. The sheds are a problem because we all have to stand inside the same shed. I don't know why there are two of them. For a while Toby and Harley left with the lady and we didn't see them for a long time. And then, here they come, waltzing back into our field two days ago and acting like they were happy to see us when we knew that they had been up by the barns getting carrots and doing fun stuff. So we are pretty mad at them and we are not even talking to them hardly at all. And Gypsy and Billy bit them. So there. The lady only comes to see us a couple of times a day and then she pets on us and doesn't have carrots. We would like to help that lady ride better if that is what she wants, but we can't help her if she doesn't sit on our backs. So she is out of luck. She only sits on the backs of some of the horses and ponies that she has up by the barn. She was sitting on the one pony and he was trying to help her ride better and she would fall off. I don't think she is catching on to it at all. She is calling him a little bucker. I think that is rude. The lady acted like she was going to take LuLu up to the barn with her and Lulu was being all friendly and getting her head rubbed on and then the lady stopped and said that Lu was skunked, so she couldn't go with her. I am not sure what that means, but apparently it is something that will wash off after a while. Today the lady spent the whole morning with a stick with a square brown thing on the end, mucking around at the end of Krissy's pasture. She went into the high weeds outside the fence so that you couldn't even see her and knocked the weeds down and then made a path for the water to run in. Then she went in the mud that was almost up to her knees and scooped it around and made the water run out of the pasture. It was pretty funny sometimes because she would get stuck and couldn't get her big feet out of the mud. When she got done, she had almost as many of those stickers and little burs all over her hair as us ponies have. But ours looks way better because of the artistic shapes that we make with our forelocks. Hers was really random. But then she pulled them all out anyway, because she knew she could never get them to look as good as we do.
So life is good without bugs and we are thinking that soon the lady is going to bring the big nets down here and hang them up to put hay in. Grass is better but the grass is getting harder to find. If only there were more carrots........
