swimming

Today, all us ponies were standing by the gate to the pond, waiting for the lady to come and open it so we could eat the nice grass out there.  We thought for sure the lady would have figured out from our escapades a few nights ago that we need to go out there and eat that grass, but she hasn't picked up on it.  While we were waiting, she came back to the pond in the little green truck thing with two of those barky dogs. She parked the truck thing by the pond and that little bossy dog jumped out and started running all around.  You know, now that the cat that had her tongue hanging out isn't around any more, that bossy dog gets to just run all over the place.  At first all that dog did was run around the barn and look for cats, but now she checks out everything.  It is as tho she has never even seen normal stuff before.  So she and the lady walked around the pond and there were a whole bunch of stupid geese along the bank, not just the mama and papa and baby geese, but a bunch of other stupid big geese too.  When the lady and the bossy dog got close to them, the geese started honking and they slid down the bank and went in the water.  The bossy dog was happy that she scared the geese into the water and was all excited and barking at them.  She followed them down the bank and then she walked right into the water.  The geese were not real scared, so they weren't flapping around or anything, they were just honking and floating around not too far from the bossy dog.  So the bossy dog just kept right on going, into the water and started swimming at the geese.  The geese were kind of amazed about that.  They honked more and they swam a little faster but you know, before they had a noisy white dog about half the size of a goose chasing them, and now they just had a silent little-bitty brown dog head skimming along the top of the water at them.  That bossy dog was a good swimmer and she swam as fast as she could to catch up with the geese, but the geese split up so then she didn't know what to do.  She was in the middle of the pond and she swam in a circle and then said "Screw it" and swam back to the shore.  Then she ran further up the shoreline and went back in the water to swim after the geese some more.   Then the lady called her and she gave up on the geese and they went back up to the barns. And the lady did not even open our gate.        

Freedom

Wahoo!   We TOLD that lady the grass was greener by the pond and so we finally had to prove it to her and knock down our fence so we could get to it.  It was SO much fun!  The nice grass was green and tall and then the lady showed up and we all ran and ran like we were wild Mustangs!  We wanted to make sure she had a chance to see how much we liked the grass and we certainly didn't want to leave it.  We ran up the hill and through the field and chased  each other all around.  Only little Perl and my mom Tudi were stuck back in the pasture -- the rest of us were FREE!  Then the lady came out with a little bucket with grain in it and Harley ran over to her.  We never get grain to eat, so he was happy that she brought it to him.  She put a halter on him and led him right around the small paddock.  Harley is our fearless leader, so we figured he must be going somewhere really fun, so most of us thundered after him and we were so surprised to discover that we inside the small paddock where Artie and Fusion usually live.  It was awful!  There was no nice grass. We were stuck eating Artie and Fusion's hay that the lady had put in there earlier, while the lady came and got each one of us and put us back our field.  Except for that feisty Fiesta  who said no way was she getting caught.  She didn't come into the small paddock when we ran in there, so she had plenty of grass to eat and she wasn't about to let any stupid halter get stuck on her head. The lady tried leading her friends and her mom Haylie into the barn, but she just watched them go by and laughed.  By the time we were back in our grassless field, the moon was really high.  The lady was fed up with Fiesta and told her she was going to get sick eating all that green grass.  I didn't believe her, but I guess Fiesta did, because she walked over to the gate and the lady opened it and she walked inside.  "Thank you Fiesta," she said.       

pics

The lady came out and took some pics of us.  I stood right in the middle of the pics as often as I could.  She took a pic of my Mom and Haylie and Krissy too. They have not been assimilated into our pony band yet, so they have to stand by themselves.  But today the lady opened the gate and let us all into the back pasture.  Those three mares were the first ones out there.  It created quite a ruckus because my dad, Bob, ran over to his pasture fence and was calling to "his" mares, while Harley and Billy and Toby had to run back to "protect" them and chase them so that Bob couldn't get close to them.  I did not care about any of it because I was eating hay.   It rained a lot last night, so we should be getting some nice grass here soon.

Tudi and goslings

So get this.  My MOM, Tudi, moved back in with us.  The lady told her she was too chubby and had to move out of that pasture with the red mare and the youngster ponies.  She did not care so much about being away from my baby brother, so she didn't run along the fence like Haylie did when she moved in with us.  My Mom came up and said Hi to all of us and then she trotted all the way along the fence on all sides to check it out.  I think she thinks that she is in charge of us now.  But some of the boy ponies who live here didn't think she should be in charge and they chased her and made her stand on the other side of the creek.  But Haylie and Krissy were happy to see her, so they went with her to keep her company.  The three of them are standing down by the pond, but on the wrong side of the fence to get any nice grass.  None of us can get to that nice grass by the pond.   You know, the stupid geese have been taking turns sitting around down at the pond.  One sits and the other one either floats around or stands guard.  But now they are both walking or floating around and they have five little tiny baby geese with them. Just what we need, more stupid geese around our pond.      
   The lady has been taking some of the horses and us ponies into the White Hill, where we get carrots and she sits on our backs and we can walk and trot around.  It is all new stuff to most of us, so it would be really scary, except that we know about the carrots, so everyone wants to be the one who gets to go.  Yesterday it was Billy and that giant mare Jewel and pretty Mari.  It was not very windy, so Jewel didn't have to snort and jump around when the sides of the White Hill made noise. I wanted to go, but she didn't pick me.

Haylie's Comet

Today, the lady brought that big spotted pony Haylie over to our pasture.  She is really pretty and almost a horse, but not quite.  We were all eating hay, but Harley and Toby ran down to see her.  When she came into our pasture, she didn't want to talk to us at all.  She just wanted to run back and forth along the fence and yell for her "baby."  Her "baby" is almost a year old and she didn't even care that her mama left, but Haylie was all upset anyway.  After a while, some of the ponies got mad about all the bad energy she was bringing into our pasture. My sister Gypsy and Harley and a couple of the other ponies ran after her and tried to bite her because she was just so aggravating.  But she would run really fast and get away from them and run back over to the fence.  You know, she came from Vermont with Krissy, so Krissy wanted to hang out with her, but she didn't want anything to do with Krissy either.  The lady came out in the rain with the shiny scraper thing and scratched it on our backs and made our hair fall on the ground, but Haylie didn't want to come over for that either.  All of us were gathered around and I was right in the middle of everyone, so I got scratched the MOST.  You know that Haylie is the mother of my arch-rival Fiesta, but she didn't want to talk to Fiesta or her son Tux either.  She is really focused, that Haylie is. After the lady got done giving us carrots and scratching our hair out, she did the same thing for the young horses in the small paddock next to us and the bay bunch mares.  Everyone thought if felt really good and they liked getting the carrots.  It has been raining every day and I am kind of getting sick of it. When the lady put Haylie in our pasture, she closed off the gates so we can't even go look for nice grass by the woods or in the back field across the creek.  I guess we are stuck here until that Haylie settles down and decides she likes us.  I hope she likes us soon.          

Excitement

There has been interesting stuff going on around here. Yesterday, a tall man pulled his truck over right by the pen where the old big horse used to eat his breakfast and dinner. There used to be a sign on the pen that said "Le Bistro", but the lady took it down after the old horse died. Now no one eats breakfast in there anymore So the lady brought that white horse mare into the former Bistro and the tall man stood behind her. Then he shook his head. And then the lady went and got my little brother and the colt with the cute white front feet. Each of the colts laid down and went to sleep for a little while right in front of the tall man and then when they got up, they walked funny. Then this morning, the lady brought my dad Bob up to the barn and led the white horse mare back to the pasture where Bob lives with Taca and the new filly. The white mare was not happy and she walked back and forth along the fence and kept yelling. The other horses that she lived with yelled a couple of times when she left, but then they couldn't hear her so they didn't say anything. In a little while, the lady took Bob back out to his pasture. He had his long mane and tail all combed out and it was easy to see where I got my glamorous looks. He was really happy to see that white mare in his pasture.
The lady was out in the pasture today talking to the horses where the white horse mare used to live. Then she looked over at us ponies and she said "What are you ponies doing OUT?" She came running over and looked at where the fence tape was lying on the ground. Us ponies were really excited to be eating nice grass and the ponies that had scattered into the woods came running up to the where the rest of us were eating. The lady moved gates around to block exits, and then she came up behind us and made funny noises so we had to go back into our pasture. But then I guess she felt sorry for us so she moved the fence and left us out into the nice grass again that is growing between the pastures. We couldn't go out there when the old big horse lived there, because he would get really mad at us being so close to his mares, but now we can without making anyone mad. The lady tried to give us carrots, but we were so happy about the nice grass that we didn't even care about the carrots. So she left and rode that spotted pony Haylie. Then she took the lumpy brown thing and put it on the backs of the those bay horse mares. That Alexis, she never saw anything like that before. When the lady put it on her back and made it tight, she was really surprised. She jumped way up in the air and then she spun around and pulled away from the lady and started to run like there was a whole band of coyotes after her. Wow! That was something. When she stopped, the lady took the lumpy thing back off her back and put it on that Jewel mare and rode her around in the pasture. Alexis didn't think much of that idea either. She came up to Jewel and tried to bite the lady's leg. So that was the end of the excitement for today.

geese

So maybe the fur coats are NOT such a good idea in this sun. Wow, it is hot now! But the good news is that it rained a whole bunch last night so that means lots of nice green grass should be coming up soon. We still get hay in our boxes, but it is almost as much work to get that hay out as it is to go look for new grass, so we end up leaving it in there most of the day. The lady takes some of the ponies over to the white hill and gives them carrots, but she hasn't taken me over there forever. She was out setting up the fence tape so that my dad Bob and Aunt Taca and the new filly could go out into that field and find more grass, and all us ponies were sure that she would let us out into our field by the pond with the nice grass. We all ran down to the gate by the pond and watched her and waited. But she didn't let us out there. She didn't do anything about our fence. The only ones out there now are the two stupid geese. The one goose just sits all quiet with its head down and the other goose sits on the far bank and watches for intruders. If anyone shows up the watcher goose flies into the water and makes a racket and tries to scare away whoever shows up. It really hates when the lady drives by in the little green truck. One time it jumped up on the bank and flapped at the green truck, but the truck made a loud noise back at it and scared the goose so it went back in the water and sulked for a while. But it doesn't chase the lady when she is with any of the dogs. Even the little timid dog. When the goose sees the dog, it just puts its head down and pretends it isn't there. Silly goose.