post storm

The sun was shining and the lady walked all around our fence and pulled on it and made it higher again. She walked around my Mom's fence too and made it higher and then she finally opened our gates so we could get nice grass. She seemed to be busy all morning and then the bossy dog and the other dogs took her for a walk to look at all the water that is supposed to be in the creek. I got to go up to the white hill -- finally,-- and it was a long walk because we were all busy grazing by the pond when she came and got me. The lower field has a lot of water rushing over it, so we couldn't eat grass there, but we had plenty by the pond anyway. And the good news is that the rain washed away all the mess the stupid geese made. Anyway, I went up to the barn and the other lady there said I was beautiful -- of course. We checked on the new baby horse, who was sleeping. Then I went to the white hill and looked at the clumpy dirt in there. I didn't like that so much. There is hardly any grass at all now. It is better when it is smooth. But I got carrots and the lady sprayed fly spray on me. Then we went back down the hill and the other ponies got carrots too, even tho they didn't even do anything. Harley thought he should get all the carrots and tried to bite everyone else -- even me. Sometimes he is a bossy big brother. The weather is really nice, cool and not as buggy as before. It is fun to be a pony!

rain rain go away

There was wind. There was rain. Then there was more wind and more rain. And more rain. A tree fell over in our pond. The nice grass in our field by the pond is under water. We want to go out there anyway, but the gate is closed. There is not much rain or wind now, but that gate is still shut. My mom and her friends and their pony foals can't go out in their field either.

baby news

So today I thought finally I was going to get some attention. All week, the lady has been taking the boys over to the new hill. Tux and Harley and Artie and Fusion. It is unfair. Girls need attention too. So this morning it was hot and muggy. We have nice grass by the pond that we have been able to eat this week, so I was not TOO upset about not getting the attention I deserved, but this morning, we stayed in the shed and did not even want to go out with the bugs. The lady showed up to feed the horses next door in her little green truck thing and of course, we heard them run out to meet her, but then we heard the young filly over there start to yell for her mom. So we went to look over the fence to see what was going on. That white mare that is the filly's mom was standing over a new baby and she couldn't leave it, so she was yelling back to the filly and the filly was running back and forth between the mare and where the lady was standing with the feed. The lady came running to see the new baby and seemed very upset and picked him up, but he didn't want to stand up, he was too sleepy. He finally got up and wobbled around and got a little to eat, but then he wanted to lay down again. So in a little while the lady came out with her friend, the British lady, and they took the mare and baby away. The baby is very cute, he is the same color as I was when I was born, but he has white feet in front. I don't know why he didn't want to run round and play like the other babies I have seen. So anyway, the lady didn't take any of us to the white hill today at all. She stayed by the barn and filled up water troughs. She told us we are not allowed to eat the nice grass by the pond because it is going to be windy and rainy and we have to stay inside the board fence. So the gate is closed by the pond and we are a little mad about that.

coyote news

Well, today was earthshaking! And there were not even any ponies galloping around, so it was pretty weird. But it was over quick and no one fell down, so we didn't care. The weather was good and I was hoping the lady would take me to the new hill and give me more carrots. I waited all morning while she took the dark horse Alexis and then the pretty-faced Mari in there, and then she drove around on the noisy red thing that looks like a giant bug, making the grass and weeds short. Then she took Artie and Fusion in there. This was taking all day. She brought the terrors out and tied the bossy one by the barn, where it was yipping and yipping. Then she finally came out to our field with a halter. But I wasn't paying any attention to her because a big coyote was standing by the pond. At first, I thought it was a deer because it was so big and light brown, just like a deer. It was staring at the pasture where my Mom and the other mares and the foals are. When the lady showed up at the top of the hill, it looked at her and then looked back at the pasture. Then it got skulky and trotted toward the pasture. The ponies were not inside their mesh fence pasture where they go at night, they were just in some of that shocking fence tape so they can get extra nice grass during the day. The ponies hardly even glanced up at the coyote as it came into the field, but the bunch of stupid geese in there started honking and waddling really fast in all sorts of directions. The coyote ran at the geese, but they flew away. Then it was stuck there looking silly. I thought maybe it would decide to chase my little brother or Haylie's two week old filly, since it was bigger than both of them, but it just came back under the fence and looked up the hill toward the lady. That bossy dog was still barking and I thought maybe it decided that terror would be good for dinner instead of goose, but it only went part of the way up the hill before it veered off to go toward the cemetery. I think the lady was worried tho, because she put the terrors in the barn before she came back down to us. You know, there used to be a gray and white Canadian cat that lived in the barn and we have not seen him for quite a while. I wonder if the coyote ate him? When the lady got back out to us, she took my blond sister LuLu and my big brother Harley. That was fine with me because that yapping terror was giving me a headache. So maybe tomorrow I will get some carrots.....

Touch!

The lady took me back to the new hill because I'm so special and then she brushed me and combed my mane and tail. Then she stared making funny noises. I was trying to check around on the ground and see who else had been there and those funny noises were very distracting. So I stopped and looked at her and then she made another funny noise and gave me a carrot! We did that a bunch of times and every time I looked at her, she made that noise and I got another carrot. Then she got this bright orange pointy rubbery thing and held it in front of my nose. "Touch" she said. I stared at her with both eyes but she didn't give me a carrot. "No, " I said, "Cone" and I pushed it with my nose back at her. Of course, I said it in my head like all us normal ponies do, so she didn't hear me. But it made her super happy and she made that funny noise again and gave me a carrot again! "Touch!" she said and held out the cone again. I pushed it back to her again and sure enough, noise and carrot. We did that a bunch of times. Apparently a "Touch" is a cone that dispenses carrots! This is an excellent thing to know!
The Fjord was looking very Bieberish with his mane getting all long and floppy on his head. (A Bieber is a boy that little girls think is cute.) The Fjord had his mane cut off back when there was still snow on the ground, so it has been growing while the grass was growing. But I guess the lady didn't like the Bieber look, because she cut it off pretty short again. So now it is sticking up straight and looks very majestic. It is better than Bieber!
We got lots of rain and lightening and thunder today. There were even cold hard balls in the rain. We did not like that. There is still rumbling noise coming from the sky, so maybe it will rain again. I think we had enough rain now, so I am ready to go out and look for nice grass.

High expectations

So today my sister LuLu got to go with the lady up to the new hill. Figures. You know, everyone just LOVES the blonde LuLu. Of course, I love her too -- she IS my sister and anyway, we look so much alike, with our cute noses and gorgeous legs. So I guess I should be happy for her getting brushed and curried and lots of carrots and her hooves all done. And anyway, she got a shot, which I already had and she needed. Then when she got back, that Krissy got to go up there. Krissy was all beside herself thinking she was going to get to wear the fuzzy pink halter. Last summer, there were some little girls here and they used to ride Krissy, but she didn't like that very much. But they brought a pink fuzzy halter that the one little girl got at the County Fair, and Krissy just thought she was something else when she got to wear that halter. It was all we heard about for weeks, how she looked so special and how soft it was. But we haven't seen the little girls and Krissy has not had a chance to wear that "special" halter since last year. Today, she had to put on a black leather halter. She looked very nice (for a little gray pony) but she was a little disappointed about that. And then I don't know where she got the idea, but she thought she was going to get glitter on her hooves. She has mentioned it several times. I think she heard the ladies at the barn talking about it. Or maybe she remembers the little girls talking about it last year. No one here at the farm has ever worn glitter on their hooves that I have seen, and if anyone does, of course, it ought to be me. But it wasn't Krissy today. So she was doubly disappointed, even with the carrots and the brushing and the pretty foot trimming. I guess those Vermonters have high expectations.
There was a lot of mowing going on in the fields, with that curly-haired British boy zooming around the pastures on the orange machine dragging the noisy box thing and then there was another big red machine that made noise in the fields by our pasture and knocked the grass over. They did it just about all day. It is a good thing I wasn't trying to sleep.
So tomorrow I am hoping I get to go back into the hill and get more carrots. And brushing. And glitter......

Popular hill

The lady came out to me in the pasture and asked me to come with her. I figured she must have something important or some food for me, so I went along. We walked right up to the side of the new white hill and went right through a green door in the wall. And we walked right inside of the hill! It is bright inside but shady and no bugs. On two sides you can see the sky over the wall, but on the other two sides you can't. When the wind blew a little, the white part shook and made a scary sound, so I thought maybe it was going to try to eat me like it did the metal hoops, but it stayed where it was so I was okay with it. I got a tour and was able to walk all around it. Then I got brushed and even had a pedicure! What fun! When I was tired of it, we left and I ran back out into my pasture to tell everyone all about my big adventure. Two of those tall birds with the long legs and beaks thought I was going to run them over and they flew up out of the pond when they saw me galloping. Of course, now that I have been in the hill, EVERYONE wants to go there. My sister Gypsy went and had her feet done and Toby too -- and four of the horses had to go inside too. It is just the most popular place since I was there.