Angus

So FINALLY, we got some excitement!   There have been strange noises in the field next to ours for a couple of days, and my dad Bob and his mares were all upset about it, but we didn't really think it was our problem.  But this morning, two huge square animals came crashing through the magic Hemlock forest, right next to our sheds and were making a horrible, bellowing racket.  Of course, we RAN, and Ran and RAN right through the fence and tore down the posts and ran all the way across the fields up to where the lady lives in a square red barn.  We still kept running, even tho all we could do was run around the other buildings and through the nice grass.  We were all wet and snorting and sure that we were all going to be eaten alive!  The lady came out and caught Haylie and Harley led them into a paddock, so most of us ran right in there too!  Then she had to go out and get Sienna, who missed the gate and re-catch the two who ran back out to protect Sienna from the giant black monsters that were back in the woods.   Then the lady went back to see what the problem was and saw the big square noisy monsters.   We drank all our water in the trough and the lady gave us more water and then she made water spray on us, which felt really nice, but some of the ponies didn't like it.  So the lady put the fence back up, but we are still stuck up here in this little paddock, because she thinks the monsters are going to come back and scare us all over again.   It is good that we have a little breeze today, because the sun is hot and the shed here is way too small for all of us.   I don't know when we will get to move back to our fields.      

True love

 Now you know my mom Tudi lives with a bunch of us ponies in a couple of big fields with creeks and some woods and sheds and a tall round circle of logs that you can't jump out of unless you are Harley.  She was the second pony to move in here and she used to live with my dad Bob.  Tudi is a bay pony and everyone says she looks like a Dartmoor pony.  My dad is a white Welsh pony and I am the perfect combination, because I started out as a bay pony like my mom, but then I roaned out, so I am kind of gray on my body, but my head and legs and tail are still bay.  Our fields are next to a pasture where my dad Bob lives with some other mares and a goofy youngster who has hardly ever left there.   There is a biting white string between us and a dark metal fence that has squares in it and some pointy parts that poke you if you brush up against them.  There are lots of trees and brush along that dark fence.  And then there is still another fence that is metal with a wooden board on the top -- so normally, it is like the lengths of four ponies to get from us to where Bob patrols along his fence and tells us to stay away from his family. But you know, now it is getting warmer and there is hardly any white stuff on the ground. My mom Tudi has been making eyes at my dad Bob across that fence and has been going right over to try to talk to him. The ground is soft and wet, and there was a whole lot of wind, so some of the posts where the white string is attached came loose and fell over.  So my mom Tudi was able to get right over to where there is a metal gate so she could talk to Bob. The other ponies thought that was pretty interesting, so they were gathering around too and the boy ponies were arguing with Bob through the gate and next thing we knew, the gate popped right open!  Wow!  We ran right through that gate and went galloping around in Bob's pasture.  My Aunt Taca was there and and another big white horse who I don't know and that goofy young pony and they were so surprised they went galloping away from us.  But Bob went right by us into our pasture and was back there with my mom Tudi when the lady came out to give us hay.  The lady was not thrilled about that.  She closed the gate and made us stay in that little pasture all night with those three strangers.  She let Bob stay with my mom Tudi in the ring of logs.  We all got nice hay and then this morning, the lady came back and put the fence back up. She had that noisy little machine that makes trees into pieces and dragged the pieces off the fence and put new little sticks in to hold the white string up.  She put a new rope on the gate to replace the broken chain. And after she let us run back into our own pasture to eat hay, she took my mom Tudi and Bob and put them both in Bob's pasture. Those other mares don't really like that, but Tudi is so in love with Bob that the lady doesn't think it is fair to keep them apart.  I think Tudi and Bob are really happy.    

The adventurers

Us ponies were having much fun in a new woods this morning, eating bark off the trees and exploring around the little bushes. Some of the ponies left and we couldn't see them any more but we weren't worried too much about them.  Then Harley put his head up and walked back through the new woods.  Then we heard the lady calling us in a little tiny voice.  Her voice got a little bigger and then bigger and then we heard Harley calling too. So then Gypsy and Hailey said we should go see what Harley and the lady were yelling about so we walked along the pony hoofprint trail in the snow through the new woods and then we could see the lady and Harley standing in our pasture.  They were on the other side of the white tape that was lying in the snow that used to be our fence.  The lady was petting on Harley, but we couldn't see if she had anything good to eat or not.  Haylie walked along the hoofprint trail and went to where there are lots of big rocks and dark lines that went into the snow.  The dark lines came up out of the snow and were stuck to posts, but where Haylie walked, the lines were low so she could step over them.   I decided to take a shortcut to get over to the lady and Harley fast and ended up running right into those lines.  OW!  Ow! Ow!  The lines were hard and had sharp pointy things on them that were biting me on my neck and my chest and then they grabbed my legs and were biting me there too.  I stopped and told the lady that now I was stuck and couldn't come over to see her and Harley.   The lady came over to me and checked out the lines and tried to make the ones behind my legs go into the snow, but they were tight and they wouldn't budge.  So the lady said I had to back up, even tho the lines were mean.  That seemed pretty stupid, since I didn't want to go back, I wanted to go over to where Harley and Haylie were standing, but Gypsy and my other sisters were behind me in the new woods, so I backed up and my legs came out of the nasty  lines.  Then the lady put some hay string around my neck and we walked over to where the dark lines went in the snow.  Now the lines were sticking up a little bit, but the lady put her hoof on top of them and I went across them.  Then I stopped while she tried to get Gypsy to come across the lines too, but Gypsy didn't want to.  But then my sisters Lu Lu and Elfe came with me and we walked out to the pasture and across the white tape on the snow that used to be our fence.  Then we were starting to think about breakfast, so we all trotted over to where the others were eating hay and Gypsy and DD came along after.  The lady didn't come with us.  She just stood there looking at the broken off posts and the white tape.  Then she picked up the white flat tape and laid it on the little bushes that are sticking up along there, so it was kind of like where it used to be. After a while, she came back and told us we were naughty.  Then the little green truck thing took her away and brought her back with those shiny sticks that some of the white flat string holds up.  She took the shiny sticks out to the broken posts and tried to stick the shiny sticks in the snow but they wouldn't stand up.  Then she tied the sticks to the little trees and put the white tape on them to hold them up.  It really looks like amateur hour back there. Us ponies were not impressed.  But the lady brought us extra hay which she shoved in the nets to keep us busy.  I guess we'll see if we get another adventure tomorrow.              

fall grass

All us ponies are really happy.  Today the lady came back and opened the white strings where she brings hay into our field when it is cold outside.  It is not cold outside so we did not know what she was doing.  She stood there and called us over, but we let Harley and Billy go first to see what was going on.  The lady has been out there messing around along the woods in the field next to our pasture for a couple of days now.  She made piles of brush and pulled up the brown strings that were in the woods with sticks on top of them.  So when Harley and Billy got there, she told them to walk right with her into the field of nice grass.  We could hardly believe it.  We all ran over and ran right into the nice grass too!   Except DD who got left behind somehow and then didn't notice that we were going through a place where the lady took the string down.  She ran right through the white string and pulled down two posts with her.  DD is my sister and very cute but she isn't brightest star in the sky, if you get my drift.  So then we ran through the field very excited, but there was more white string at the top of the hill, so we had to stop and eat nice grass.  All day! The lady spent the whole day with us, sitting on top of the orange machine while it picked up piles of brush with its long teeth and carried them over to our big brush pile.  We are never ever ever going to leave this nice grass.  Except maybe to get something to drink.      

Bush -hogging

The big orange machine came out and ran around in our pasture this morning,  It lets the lady ride on it's back, even tho she doesn't give it carrots.  We do not think the orange machine is very smart.  It pulls a big flat noisy red thing around behind it and makes the weeds flat.  Or flattter than before, anyway.  Mostly it runs around in the parts where the manure is, because that is where the high weeds are.  The lady thinks that making the weeds flat will help the grass to grow, but really, it is the manure we put there that makes the nice grass.  We don't eat in those areas tho, so I guess that is why there are high weeds.  The orange machine ran around on the big hill in our pasture and on part of the low areas too.  A big blue gray bird with long legs landed right next to the Orange machine, but then the machine started going towards it and the bird said "Oops" and flew away.  Then a big brown bird that was sitting in the trees flew down and landed right where the weeds were flat.  It did that couple of times.  Us ponies thought when it flew away it would have a mouse, but it didn't.  We kept an eye on the lady to see if she went to one of our apple trees to throw us the apples we can't reach.  Most of our apple trees are along the fence, so we can eat some of the apples when they fall down but there are a lot of them that we can't get. There have not been any apples at all and we do not see any apples on the trees.  And the lady didn't get us any apples either.  So now most of our pasture on the big hill is flat and part of the low field is flat too.  The orange machine went around those spindly weeds that get the pink flowers.  The lady says she likes those weeds.  Us ponies don't care one way or another.  We don't eat those weeds.  When the Orange machine was done, it was all yellow and very dusty.  Even the red flat thing was yellow. It was a kind of interesting morning, but there were no carrots.  

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.