Walked in circles

Our friends came to visit and they brought their twin GrandGirls. Those girls are just cute as little buttons. They fly out of their parents truck and head straight for our legs to give us hugs. Then they want to pet our faces. My horse, Pretty Boy, and I both gave them rides round and round. I had one pretty little twin riding me with two fists full of my mane hair so she was really riding! The other pretty little twin was riding the Pretty Boy holding just one hank of mane hair with both hands. I was very proud of my horse because at one point his rider got herself a little sideways, what I mean is she was sliding off the top of him, and he stopped. Yes he did. He felt her getting a little unseated and he stopped so her Daddy could straighten her back up. Now that is a good horse. My human man was very proud of me too because I was very very nice and walked very slowly. We went around and around and around and then I was done so I stopped under the trees where we started from. It was a lot of fun.

All the humans then went into my big red barn but they didn't let me and my horse go in with them. Nope. They closed the door. We waited for them to come back out. They did and then we made sure that all of them that went in there came out so no one got left behind. My human man then told me and my horse to follow him and he would give us a treat for being such very good horses.

We really had a wonderful weekend. The fireworks didn't even hardly bother us. My horse doesn't even care about fireworks he just cares about grazing so that made me be more calm than I thought I was going to be.

Well that's all for now except to tell you that since it is really and for sure Summer time out here it is really and for sure HOT!!!!!!!!!! I go swimming in my pond three or four times a day it is so hot.

Going to get my face washed

I have been told I will be getting my face washed later this afternoon. Looks to me like rain coming up from the Gulf so maybe not. Oh I know it needs washing and I like to be washed but I have just been soo wet for sooo long that I am sort of enjoying these last two days of dryness. I know I will have to have my face washed. I will let her put the halter on me. I will let her wash my face and then I will let her put fly spray on my face. She is nice about that. She sprays it onto her own hand and then smears it on my face instead of just spraying my face like some people do. I'm not sure it is real good for her to have fly spray on her hands but she washes pretty quickly after putting it on me so I guess she knows what she is doing or she is doing it anyway because she loves me is more like it.

Feeling much better today thank you

Yes I feel much better today than I did yesterday or the day before. It hasn't all been bad while I was sick I did have a good laugh yesterday evening at feeding time. Me and my horse, The Pretty Boy, were both in the barn to eat. The human girl put a short rope on my horse then picked up his bad foot to work on that hoof. Did you notice I said she 'put a short rope on my horse' ? Well that's all she did was put the short rope on him. When he finished his feed he was going to come over to my side and see what if anything I had left he might be able to push me out of the way and get. But he didn't make it to my side. Still holding his foot up in the air the human girl used the other hand to reach over and grab that short rope. She pulled his big ole head back to where he had no choice but to look directly at her. Then she said the most important words slowly, see she had already said HEY!, so now we were at the important part. Eye to eye, with his foot still in her hand she told him 'You pay attention to ME!'. That was all she said. She let go of his short rope and went back to work on his hoof. And he never moved a muscle or blinked an eye. He was paying attention to her. Finally she put his foot down and said she was done with him and he could go. But he stood there and watched her as she put up the short rope up and then hoof pick and then our feed cup. She went into the big red barn to do that and when she came back out he was still paying attention. She told him he was a good boy and that he could go. I had been standing there just outside the barn waiting to see what was going to happen next so I could hear what was being said. The human girl went back inside the barn and came out another door so we walked on over to the water tank. And there was that girl so my horse turned so he could pay attention to her.

She took the big drag harrow off of her 4X4 machine and hung it up on the wall. Then she got on her machine and started it up. Drove out into the pasture then backed it into our area of the big red barn but she puts it behind a gate so I can't play with it even though I like to. Then she came out and got in the cute little car and drove it out into our pasture then into the area where she just put that drag harrow. She went to close the south gate and my horse started toward her. She got the gate closed and told him to 'come on' so he did. And he got a big neck bear hug from her. Then she patted him on his shoulder and told him he was a good boy and he should go play now.

I think my horse, The Pretty Boy, might be the smartest horse I know.

Is that you clicking?

For several days now we have hearing a clicking noise when we are walking around out here. Odd to hear a clicking noise when you are walking in a grassy pasture but there is was click click click. What could it be. Then the human girl said one day 'Are you clicking?' No it wasn't me clicking it was my horse The Pretty Boy. She looked at him and asked him nicely to hand her his leg which he did because he is learning he will not win with her. She did a little this and that then put his foot down. 'Yes that is you clicking Pretty Boy but you will be fine'. And then today it happened. No more clicking. His shoe fell off. We knew it was going to it was only a matter of time before it happened. It is not a horrible thing for this to happen like it used to be before his hoof got so much better. This time he is walking just fine. Yes Just Fine. You would not know he was hurt at all he is just walking smooth as I do. Randall should be here one of these days to check on all our hooves and give us our Spring trimming. In the mean time I think my horse is just going to enjoy going barefoot on all but one foot. HAHAHA! That's funny he has no shoes on three out of four hooves. Someone ought to take that last shoe off of him and let him feel the soft spring grass on his feet. Well sure we can feel it. Our hooves look very hard and they are very hard but we can still feel stuff just like you can fell stuff when you tap your fingernails on your hands. That's sort of like what our hooves are just big ole toenails.

We are getting fresh water in our drinking tank right now because the silly tree frogs or whatever kind of frogs those are laid eggs in our tank and it didn't take any time at all before there were a lot of little tadpoles swimming around in there. Pretty funny to watch them swim and I didn't mind them being in there at all but there is just some certain schedule that the human girl keeps about cleaning our tank out and today was the day. I think we should have let all the little tadpoles grow legs but then again it already is very noisy here with the frogs we have that already have four legs so I guess she did the right thing.

We eat less and less feed every week as the grass comes up thicker. Not because we don't want it but because we don't need it so much now as we did when we had nothing to graze on and just hay to eat.

OH! I forgot to tell you we saw a Coyote down at my old barn by the big tree in the cow pasture. He was a big coyote too. Don't know where he came from but he was heading South. Must have been a long journey he was on because he sat down under the big tree and took a rest before heading out again.

Getting close to my favorite time of day when we put the sun to bed for the night. The sky gets very pretty this time of day and everything just seems to sigh with happiness.

I was grazing......

There I was a happy happy horse just walking around grazing on the beautiful tender young green grass when it started getting dark at the wrong time of the day or had I been asleep and dreaming about grazing? No it was getting darker but it wasn't because the sun was going down. And then the dark clouds spilled rain on me and my horse with hardly a warning drop falling first. We were over by the feed shed. There is a lean-to there at the end of it where the humans park the truck and the cool jeep. I do not know the reason why by one was parked where the other one usually is which made the other one parked where that one usually is and that meant there was only room for one of us to get under cover. My horse was closest so guess who that left standing out in the rain. Yes that is correct if you guessed it was me, Precious the beautiful Paint horse. I didn't mind just a whole lot at first because I like water even if it is falling on me instead of me standing in it playing. But this rain was getting thick. Does rain get thick? Yes it does. It got so thick I could hardly see my horse over there in the lean-to next to the jeep. The heavier that rain fell the more I backed up until I couldn't back up any more so there was nothing for me to do but hang my head and wait it out. See I couldn't back up anymore because I had backed all the way up into a clump of China Berry trees. Now those of you that don't know it China Berry trees are so thick with leaves that it is almost like standing under regular roof.....most of the time. This rain that was coming down even made it thru the China Berry tree leaves! I was very happy it didn't last very long and then I was over looking into my pond to see if it was deep enough to swim in yet. It wasn't but it was getting close to enough.

The house mouse told me that we got very lucky with that rain when I was telling my story about standing under the tree. House mouse told me that the rain clouds had zipped on past us and stopped over in Shreveport Louisiana where it stopped. They got more almost seven inches of rain in three hours over there. Boy howdy I think that much rain would make my pond deep enough for me to swim in for many days. I sure hope everyone over there in Shreveport Louisiana get dried out soon like I did.

I was just standing there thinking

I was just standing there by the water tank thinking and not being a bother when she came by me on her four wheeler. Now I have been trying to train my horse not to be afraid of her when she is on that four wheeler because although she sounds crazy and maybe even looks a little crazy she will not run into us. So when she came by and she was only a few feet from me and she had that drag harrow thing behind her and it hit the rocks which sent up such a noise that I flinched. I'm not much of a flincher. I'm not scared of nuthin' as a rule and I'm not saying I was scared of that drag harrow either it just startled me a little. My horse, the Pretty Boy, has been coming right along in his training but when I flinched that poor boy got spooked and jumped straight up in the air! Funniest thing I have seen in a few days that was. He went straight up in the air and straight down too. And he gave some serious thought to bolting, which means running away. But he didn't he held his ground. I hope that silly girl gives us some warning next time she is going to make a racket like that sneaking up on me and all.

The human man is not impressed with the progress the Pretty Boy has made in his training not to jump and run when things move around him. Nope he is not impressed at all. When he tries to leave the land sometimes my horse will be standing where he wants to drive and he isn't going to move because we taught him not to be afraid. The human man says a little fear is healthy. Says he just sometimes has to back up and drive around my horse. Sometimes he says he just drives right by him. I think that is pretty funny. I supposed we should explain to my horse that there are certain places that the truck drives that he should not pick for a nap.

It is the quiet time of year

Right now is a very quiet time of year. Only an occasional tractor is heard running and that is not a bad sound to hear. Most of the time there is just nothing but maybe a baby bird to be heard. Me and my horse even try to chew quietly which is not hard to do since it is such young tender grass we are grazing on.

Oh we do hear the children across the road playing on their swing set and other toys laughing out loud at the top of their lungs it seems a lot more now that the weather is better. The boy has a whistle. Not a real whistle but a broken recorder. A recorder is a flute sort of musical instrument that children learn how to play when they are in school. He has three of them, all different colors, but he likes that red broken one the best it seems. Our human girl was whistling back at him the other day when he was being especially happy with his toy. We heard his Daddy say to him 'Did you hear that? Blow on it again I think someone answered your whistle.' We thought it was very funny so we, my horse and I, ran around kicking up our heels. The little boy would blow as loud as he could on his broken recorder and our human girl would just use her lips to whistle back loudly. We do not know if they knew it was her but it sure was fun to listen to them.

Oh I said a minute ago that our weather is better but what I mean is that is nicer when it is nice. A lot of the time the wind is blowing from one direction or another and today we are having some thunderstorms but nothing so bad yet. Last week we had some serious weather come thru but we did not get hurt and only a little bit scared. The bad weather doesn't last too long and then the sun comes out and that is wonderful. It is wonderful because it is like God is shining a spotlight on all the beautiful glimmering shimmering spring colors. One of my favorite trees to stand under in the summer time is the last one to get leaves on it each year and the color of those leaves are spectacular after a rain!!!!

Well I a going to go back out in the pasture and eat me some more grass now. See you when I see you!!!!!!!!!!

Today's lesson 'Go That Way'

May 3, 2008

Our lesson today is ‘Go that way’.

For some reason all of a sudden the human girl thinks we should go where she wants us to go without following her to get there. My horse, The Pretty Boy ‘Trouper’, can do that already. I think since he already does it then that means that I am going to be the one learning. This should be pretty easy for me to pick up since I follow my horse where he goes anyway. Oh she means I should follow right behind him not follow her and then go to where he went. Well this is going to be harder for me to do because I will be thinking she is going to go get something that I want but if I go where he is going I might not get whatever it is she is going to get. Yes this is going to be hard for me to do.

Also my Pretty Boy is learning how to stand still when he gets fly spray sprayed on him. I do that. I stand very still. I don’t even backup like I usually do because ‘HEY! My head is up here don’t you want to rub on it?’! Nope when I am getting fly spray sprayed on me I hold still so she can get me covered real good because fly’s bother me. He is getting very good at not walking away from her when she comes up to him with that fly spray bottle but as soon as she starts spraying him he wants to leave the area. He thinks he can turn his tail end towards her and she will shy away but she doesn’t scare easy so she just keeps walking right there beside him never letting him get all the way turned around. She tells him ‘You are not going to win’ and he doesn’t. One time she walked all over the pasture with him and when he finally stopped and she was able to get a hand on him she just patted him and told him he was a good boy then she walked away.

She does things like that to me too. I used to not come to her when she whistled for me so she would come to get me. She would say ‘Didn’t you hear me whistle for you?’ and I would pretend that I didn’t so she would just pat on me and lead me to where ever it was that she had been calling me from and then she would just walk away and leave me standing there never to know what I must have missed by not coming when I was called. Now when I hear her whistle I come look and then I run to where she is so I don’t miss out. My horse, the Pretty Boy, is starting to understand that whistle means shake a leg horse!

I was talking to the house mouse

I was talking to the house mouse when a little cotton tailed bunny went hop hop hop right by us. It sure was a tiny thing. Little ears couldn't have been a whole inch long. I did not know that bunny rabbits lived in my barn and the house mouse said the same thing. Well now we know there is at least on of them in there and that it is very cute.

House mouse's computer went dark. Nothing on the screen but blackness and the mouse pointer. That doesn't sound like much fun and house mouse said I was right it is not much fun. Now the house mouse has to listen to me, then run tell cousin what I said and you know that house mouse mouse doesn't have a very big head for remembering a lot of letters that go to words so I am going to talk real slow and not very much.

Human girl said more rain coming this way for the afternoon so if we want to eat grass we better get out of the barn and do it now so I'll be seeing you when I see you next!