That's entertainment

Us ponies have just been plain neglected recently, while the lady is spending her time with those big horses, taking them in the white hill and giving them carrots and riding them around in the big field that has huge gigantic rolls of what used to be nice grass.  She has been riding Artie while the other lady rides around on that hunk Fusion almost every day and they go over by the stream and ride around in the woods and across the fallen trees and stuff while the big dogs bark at them from across the creek.  And she brings those bay horse mares in while the other bay horse mares stand by the gate and yell for them and she even takes those young horses Ferris and Mak into the white hill where she makes swooshing and snapping noises.  So when she came out in our pasture with her pockets full of carrots, you can bet that I was the first one right there  in front of her.  She put the halter on me first and I got to go over to the barn where I got my hair brushed and funny smelling stuff sprayed on me.  Then we went to the white hill where it was cool and I got to trot and walk around and the lady would wave a long stick with a string on it.  Sometimes she pointed it at me and sometimes she pointed it up in the air.  Sometimes the string would say SNAP!   She would say stuff like Trot!  and Wok!  and Whoa! and I did it all perfectly.  I got lots of carrots for doing the right things at the right times.  It was so easy I almost got bored with it.  So then she took some other ponies in the white hill and some of them did it right like my sister Gypsy (she did some of this stuff before but it was when she was tied to a long rope).  And some of the ponies like Tux didn't catch on so good. Tux thought it was a stupid game and he just wanted to leave.   He almost didn't even care about the carrots.  So that was yesterday and today the lady is back at the big horses again.  But us ponies have been eating grass on the other side of the creek, so we have hardly even paid any attention at all to the entertainment in the white hill.  We are making our own entertainment out here.    

How many ponies?

You know our neighbor who is always mowing his lawn?  He has really pretty short nice grass and it is really green.  It must be special grass for as much time as he spends mowing it.  So us ponies went over there to check it out and help him with the mowing.  He didn't appreciate that at all.    He called the lady and said that there were 14 horses in his yard.   The sun was just barely up, so maybe he couldn't see us so good.  The lady knows that there are 17 of us ponies in all and we were all checking out the nice short grass except my Mom, Tudi, so I don't know what he was counting.  Anyway, the lady came and told us we had to go home, so we followed Harley and went back in our regular pasture.  That turned out to be a bad idea because there is not sufficient grass in our pasture. We have to look really hard for that grass.  We were  kind of annoyed about it all day and last night.  This morning, the lady came out and so we ran over to her to tell her to let us out by the pond for the nice grass there.  She hardly paid any attention to us at all.  She kept looking at my Mom Tudi.  Last night Tudi laid down and when she got up, there was my new baby sister on the ground.  So the lady was upset about Tudi being out there in the pasture with my baby sister.  She told Tudi that she didn't know Tudi was going to have a baby because she took my dad, Bob away from her last year when her other baby was only 5 days old.  I guess my dad and Tudi are fast operators. So we kept trying to run over to the lady to convince her to open the gates to the nice grass, but she just went out and fixed other fence and it took her forever to get our gate open so we could go out by the pond.  Then she tried to lead my Mom and the new baby by us but we all wanted to run up and see the new baby, so she had to go back and carry the baby across the creek so she could take them up to the barn.  We are having lots of rain to make the grass grow and it is kind of cool, so I don't know why she wanted to take my mom away.  There are no bugs out here at all.  And now we have nice grass so it is perfect!        

Entertainment

There has been a way lot of exciting stuff going on around here.  There has been an extra lady who has her mane pulled who walks around with the regular lady and does stuff.  They led my dad Bob and the white horse mare up to the barn and then  Taca and her baby from this year and the one from last year and then they took the white horse mare and Bob back to the pasture again.  That was really fun to watch, so we ran along the fence and all lined up like it was a parade to see them go by.   Taca didn't like us being so close to her little baby, so she made faces at us and called her baby and told it to stay right there beside her.  Then later our lady came out to us carrying a halter.  We were all standing up on top of the hill by the gate and the lady was really surprised.  "Ponies!" she said. "I am so glad you are up here waiting for me instead of on the other side of the creek."  We looked at her and then we all looked down the hill.  So the lady looked down the hill too and she said "WHO is that pony back there?"   Then she went and got the little green truck thing and her noisy little machines and she and the short-maned lady put the boards back up on the fence in the pasture next to us and put part of our fence back up and went back and caught Taca's baby from last year and took her out of our pasture.  We were glad she was gone.  We didn't need any non-friend ponies running around in our field eating our nice grass.  The short- maned lady has been riding some of the ponies and there is still ANOTHER lady who is coming and riding that hunk Fusion.  Yesterday there were ponies coming and going out of the pasture so much we could hardly keep track of them  Even Toby got to go out to the big  grassy round pasture and the lady sat on his back and he had to NOT run over to try to talk to the other horses.   It was hard for him because he didn't know what that lady wanted him to do and it was all new.  He walked around and watched Haylie trot and run with the short-maned lady on her back.  He didn't think it was so much fun, but he got some carrots, so he didn't think it was terrible. We have lots of nice grass now that we had rain and the sun has been shining, so we don't really need to hang around and wait for the ladies to entertain us.     

Riding pony

FINALLY, the lady figured out that we needed to eat that nice grass by the pond and she opened our gate so we could go out there.  It took us a little while to figure out the gate was open, because we had to eat other nice grass by the white hill, so we were pretty busy.  The lady came out with a new lady and they shooed us back into our pasture, which was pretty annoying let me tell you.  So we were all standing there in our shed and giving them really dirty looks and the lady started to call us and walked off down the hill.  The boys should have followed her, because that is their job, but since they weren't doing anything except standing around feeling sorry for themselves,  I went after the lady and she gave me a carrot!  So THEN the others came over and the lady started running down the hill toward the gate.  We stopped and watched her acting so odd and when she got to the gate, she ran right through it because there was nothing there but a hole.  Wow!  So then we all galloped down there and started to eat the nice grass.
   Yesterday the lady came and got me and took me to the barn.  The barn was cool and a little scary, but she brushed my back and my neck and combed out my beautiful tail.  Of course, I was deserving of all the attention and I was very good and didn't knock stuff off the shelves with my nose like some ponies do.  Then she put a funny bridle on me without any metal part in my  mouth and took me to the white hill.  She stood me next to a big black steppy thing and then she climbed up and lay down on top of my back.  I didn't know what to do, so I just stood there and I got a carrot.  Then she sat on my back.  I sniffed her legs and thought about biting one, but since I was getting carrots, it didn't seem like a good idea to go around upsetting the carrot cart.  Then the lady would say "wok" and make funny clicking noises. I tried just standing there, since that had been working so far, but I didn't get any more carrots for that.  So finally I got bored and decided to go try to look over the wall and see if I could see other ponies. THEN I got carrots.  But the lady would pull on my head and make me look in directions where I wasn't even going.  I never did figure out what was up with that.  But I got pretty many carrots and it was nice and cool in the white hill.  Then I got to go back out with the other ponies.  So it was a pretty fun, if strange, day.  But I hope that lady figures out what she is doing soon.   

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.