Excitement

Ha Ha!  That Tux is so funny!  You know, Tux used to be a big pony and live with us, but now he is a little horse and lives up at the barn with his buddy Marco.   He and Marco rotate around the small paddocks and the arena to eat grass.  They don't have any fancy sheds like the rest of us ponies do, so they get to go in the barn when it gets too hot and buggy out.   The lady rides Marco in the mornings and then she takes Tux to look at stuff and get used to all the normal things that horses are not supposed to freak out about.  They get lots of treats and Tux does not like that Marco is getting treats while he, Tux, is stuck by himself in the paddock or in the stall.  This morning, the lady rode Marco around in the arena and Tux was calling him from the small paddock. When the lady took Marco back to put him in the paddock, he stopped halfway through the gate.  Tux was pretty mad about him being out and getting lots of attention and treats, so he was thinking about biting Marco.  So Tux came around the other side of Marco, but instead of biting, he turned and slipped out the gate really fast.   He was FREE!!!!!! He was SO excited!  Now, if that was me, and I had all that fetlock-deep grass underfoot, I'd start chewing for all I was worth.  But not Tux!  He galloped off into the yard and headed right for the gate.  Of course, the gate was closed, but he ran over to check it out anyway.  Then he ran along the fence looking for a way out to the road, but he couldn't find one.,  So he bolted back past the small paddock and out in the the hay field.  Hooray!  He zoomed at a full gallop around the arena in the hay field.  And again.  And again.  Then he trotted by with his flashy trot and his head all up and his tail flagging.  The lady suggested to him that he could stop getting all sweaty and get away from the horse flies if he came over to her, but he was having none of it.  He ran around the lawn and tasted some of the small trees and then ran over to check out the solar system boxes and cables that are on the barn wall.  He went around the barn ALL BY HIMSELF and came galloping straight at the bank and slid to stop right before he hit the concrete.  It was so exciting!  He was so bold!  He made sure that Marco could see him being "all that" and would be super jealous.  Marco was just upset that his BFF was running AWAY, so he called him to come back and ran along the fence.  After a while, he had made his point and walked over the lady and told her to do something about all the horse flies that were attacking him because he was all sweaty. She took him in The Pony Palace and he got many treats.  It was a very exciting morning!        

bugs and heat

Ugh, bugs.  Bugs in our ears.  Bugs biting our bellies and our necks.  Mean mean bugs.  How are we supposed to go look for nice grass when the bugs bite us as soon as we step outside of our sheds?   The lady doesn't bring us any hay any more, so now we have to look for our own grass to eat.  She still comes to see us and we run out to see if she has carrots or other nice treats, but then the bugs bite us, so we have to run back into our sheds. Sometimes she puts gooky stuff in our ears, but we hate that.  It doesn't keep the bugs away for very long.   My mom Tudi and Harley have bugs in their ears the worst.  The lady put a thing our their heads that covers their faces and ears, I guess to keep the bugs off them.  Tudi didn't like that, so after she rubbed the second one off and lost it, she didn't get any more. Harley wears his because he thinks it makes him more important than the rest of us ponies. Sometimes the lady brings other ladies back to see us, but not like she did last year when it was hot.   She spends a lot of time in that big barn without any ponies.  Today she came out with the orange machine and was running over the big weeds outside of our pasture and making them kind of flat.  Then the machine made a big racket and when she drove over the weeds, they stood right back up.   So she left and then she came walking around with a flat round thing on a stick. The thing made a funny buzzing noise sometimes, and then the lady would dig around in the weeds, but she didn't find anything. She didn't bring that buzzing thing into our pasture, but I would have walked right up to it if she had carrots.  So then she left and that was that.  The weeds are still out there.