Did someone say Cookies?

We were just out in the pasture munching on grass when we thought we heard someone say 'Would you like a cookie?' Surely they were not talking to us. We looked to the East and didn't see Terisa and she gives us fruit not cookies anyway. We looked North towards the blacktop but there was no one out there. And the cowboys were not out in the South cow pasture so where in the world did that voice come from? The only direction was towards the big house and that human girl doesn't make cookies. But there she was and she had something in her hands. My horse, the Pretty Boy, told me 'Don't go it's a trick.' But I thought I could smell something good so I went to see. My horse followed behind me just in case he was wrong and there were cookies. Hot diggity dog there WERE cookies and they were good! There wasn't even any charcoal part on them!! What a surprise that was. I followed her almost all the way back to the big house thinking maybe she forgot to give me more cookies but she said 'There are no more cookies. You can follow me if you want but there are no more cookies. No more cookies for you or for me. We all just got one cookie.' Alrighty then one cookie it is and we are thankful for that one cookie. Would like to have more but happy to have gotten that one and did I tell you that it wasn't even burned! I think she made them too cause they were not all hard like the ones the man brings from the store in March that look like Christmas Trees.

Cookies are wonderful.

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.

Summer Cold

I have what the human girl says is a summer cold. She says I am disgusting that I should wipe my nose. How am I supposed to do that? I mean really! Does she see something on me that looks like it can wipe my nose? Oh sure I could sort of put my leg out in front of me a little and lean my head down and wipe my nose on my leg but now come on we all know what happens if you have head full of cold and you lean over. Well you might as well just lay down if you are going to do that because you will need to if do try it. My horse, the Pretty Boy, is trying to keep his distance from me. Not because he doesn't want to catch my cold but because I am blaming it on him. Twice maybe three times now we have been caught out in a rain shower and he has been able to slip into the carport inbetween the jeep and the truck leaving me no room to get in there. Alright fine I wouldn't fit in there even if I did get a head start on him but still he should stand out in the rain with me. That's like one of the things that friends do for each other. You get caught out in the rain well I'm going to stand out there with you. You go to jail I'll go with you........ok maybe not that. But you know what I mean. I thought me and my horse were buddies and there he was in out of the rain and there I was out in the rain.

Oh sure I could have gone any number of places and gotten in out of the rain but he was in that carport and me being the friend I am couldn't leave him in there. What if he got scared and needed me. Or when the rain was over and he came out he couldn't find me. No I couldn't leave him so I just stood out in the rain until I got a cold.

I'll be fine. Don't you worry about me. And it is pretty fun 'snorting' on the little human girl and making her squeal! I didn't say that was right I said it was pretty fun.

We thought it was a quiet day in the country....

But we were wrong. We were getting a drink of nice cool water and standing under a favorite shade tree talking about how quiet it is around here since the human babies across the road moved of the land. Oh yes! Did I not tell you about that? They moved to town last weekend. Not the closest town but a town two towns away that me and my horse have never even been to. No more babies singing to us in the morning or laughing out loud at the top of their lungs every day. Oh well. We have been told that they will still come see us.

So anyway we were just standing under that tree when the human girl came out of MY barn on her four wheel machine. Then coming from the other way was the human man on his big tractor.

Well let me tell you for sure that the peace and quiet of the country was not so quiet anymore.

Day before Father's Day

It is the day before Father's Day 2008. It rained all morning which was real nice. It was cool too. Not so much now but still pretty nice. I was all good and muddy before it started raining. I might be part pig since I love to roll in the mud the way I do. And some people say I do it to keep flies off of me but that just isn't so. Sure it does help with that but I have fly spray on me, or I do before I roll in the mud, so it's not like flies bother me. Nope. I just like to get muddy. The muddier the better I say! My horse, Pretty Boy, does not play in the mud like I do. I found me a place where there is a lot of loose dirt. I think it is where the Guinea Hens take their dirt baths. I get in my pond and play for a while then I get out and go roll in that fluffed up dirt those hens made me. Very nice of them to do that for me don't you think? They must have seen how much I love getting muddy.

It is after four o'clock in the afternoon and we have only gotten to have horse feed twice today. I guess that's okay but we were thinking we might want some more before the day is done.

Did I tell you that we had watermelon last week? OH YES!!! WATERMELLOONNNN!!! Terisa over the East fence gave it to us. She loves me. That is the first time she has given us watermelon. Mostly she just gives us apples and carrots. We LOVE WATERMELLLOOOOOONNN!!!!

The Pretty Boy aka. Trooper

Is that not the most beautiful thing you have seen in awhile or what!!

Frog inside ornamental bird house and another frog on top of it. Who'd a thunk.

I am Pretty Boy and I got in trouble

Hello my barn name is Pretty Boy and I have gotten into trouble. Oh yes. Nice horse that I am I got in big trouble this morning. You should have heard that little human girl. I am going to try very hard never to do that again. Here's what happened.......

It was a lovely morning. Perfect weather for grazing on tender young grass while waiting to get horse feed brought out to us. And then we saw her coming. She had the big white bucket. I know what that big white bucket is and I'm fine with it. Inside that big white bucket is warm epsom salts water for my foot to soak in. So she gets us our feed and puts it into our barrels for us. Then she gets my lead rope hooked onto my halter and sets the bucket on the ground in front of my bad foot. She picked my foot up, asking me real nicely, and put it into the bucket of water. I stood there eating while she rubbed my shoulder. Everything was fine until it wasn't fine anymore.

For some reason I decided I would step out of that bucket and go see what Precious had left in her barrel to eat. Only I didn't step cleanly out of the bucket. Oh noooo I didn't pick my big ole foot up high enough because I was looking over at her feed barrel and I knocked the bucket over.

'Bad horse! Why would you do that? I only just made that for you special and you go and knock it over!' That's what the human girl said to me as she sat that bucket back up. She looked in it and said 'Well I don't care how much is left in it you are going to put your foot right back in there mister and you aren't going to take it out until I say you can. I JUST made that for you special and you go and knock it over for pete's sake what were you thinking!' Of course she knew what I was thinking she knew I was thinking I'm going to go over there and see if can get me some extra feed but she had to say that anyway instead of exploding I guess.

So we stood there. Me with my foot in a bucket of warm epsom salt water that was only about an inch deep instead of a 12 inches deep and the human girl with her hand on my lead rope just in case I got stupid on her again. That's what she told me. She said 'Why'd you get all stupid like that?' We stood there so long that my horse, Precious, left the big red barn. And I still wasn't allowed to go look in her feed barrel. Oh I wanted to and I made a move to do just that but that little human girl said very quietly 'Do not move. Do not jerk your head or pull on this rope.' I hung my head down because I knew I was in trouble and not going to be going anywhere anytime soon.

When I hung my head down she was able to talk straight into my ear. Very very quietly she told me that she loved me and she was sorry if she had sounded mean but that she was very upset that I would step out of that bucket without being told I could. And knocking it over was just unacceptable. She told me quietly into my ear that we were not going to be standing there all day but that in just a little bit of time we were going to be walking out into the pasture and that I was going to follow along with her giving no trouble. And we did just that in a little while.

She told me 'Pick your foot up' and I did. She got the bucket and told me 'Come on.' We walked out of the big red barn into the horse pasture. I thought maybe we were going to go over where Precious was getting a drink of water but I was wrong. We walked straight ahead until she said 'Whoa' and I did. Then she put the bucket down, picked up my foot and put it back into that bucket that didn't have but an inch of water in the bottom of it. My head dropped because I knew there was no telling how long this was going to last. She rubbed on my forehead and said into my ear that I was a very good horse. She said I was very pretty and well mannered. She said she knew I didn't knock that bucket over on purpose. She was just talking and talking and talking to me. My horse, Precious, came over to see what was going on and when she got there she saw me still with my lead rope on and my foot still in that bucket and she put her head up to mine to tell me she understood. Then she went back over to stand by the water to wait.

It was not a long time after that that the girl took the lead rope off of my halter. I knew not to move. Then a few minutes later she picked my foot up out of the bucket and set it on the ground. She set the bucket off to the side. Still I didn't move. She hadn't said anything since before she took the lead rope off of my halter. She was just standing there in front of me looking at me. She backed up a few steps and then came back up to me. Then she stepped to the side and said 'You can go now. You have been a very good boy and I thank you.' She patted me gently as she walked away.

I didn't move. I wanted to make sure she wasn't tricking me. When she got back to the barn she said 'You can go now!' whew. That's exactly what I did. I will try hard in the future not to take my foot out of that bucket till she says it's time to take it out.

Hoof conditioner

The human girl asked me to follow her so I did. She went into my big red barn but didn't let me so I banged on the door with my big ole foot. She told me to 'hold on'. It is very hard for me to 'hold on'. I pretty much don't have a lot to hold on with. I can hold on with my teeth but that's about it for holding on. I can hold some still by putting my foot on it. And I can keep something from moving by moving my body around but 'hold on' is not one of my strong talents. So I banged on the door again. She came out with something in her hand I was pretty sure was going to be used on me but I didn't know where or what it was so I went right into reverse. She said for me to whoa so I did. She opened that can she had in her hand and I smelled it and decided I wanted no part of that. I turned to leave. She said WHOA! But I didn't. She grabbed hold of my mane since that's all I've got except maybe my tail for her to grab onto. Now sometimes she will just plant herself in front of me and push my chest but this time I was already turned away from her so she got a handful of my mane 'Whoa I said Whoa and that means STOP!' So I did. Then she pulled the thing that looked like a brush out of that can and leaned over. The girl should offer me an explanation of what she is fixing to do to me if she wants my cooperation right off the bat but she didn't so I stepped back.

Well actually I started to step back but she said NO so I stopped. She was still bent over when she said 'Just let me paint this on your hooves please.' Oh well that's ok with me. That stuff she paints on my hoofs doesn't bother me one bit. I don't even care if she does that. She can paint it on all four of them three times if she wants to. All she had to do was tell me what she was up to the silly human.

So anyway I got Hoof Conditioner painted on all four of my hooves and they looked real pretty. She told me she was done so I went to show my horse, The Pretty Boy, how nice my feet looked. I had to go a very long way because he had seen what was going on and expected to be next. He had nothing to worry about because he doesn't get that stuff put on his hooves him being 'special' and all. We are both pretty special. He soaks his foot in a bucket and I get to have my nails painted. Yep we are very special. Now I wonder where that human girl went to............

Such beautiful green grass

We have us some beautiful green grass to eat. Tender green grass and lot's of it too! This morning my horse had to get his foot soaked and the human girl wanted him to go where she had put down the bucket of warm epsom salts water but he didn't want to go. She told him it was only going to be for a few minutes and there was grass there he could eat. He still didn't want to go with her. She told me to 'come along'. He thought that was getting him off the hook so he put his head down to eat some more lovely grass. He was wrong. She told us both to 'Come along now' so he had to go. You should have seen how mad he was at being made to stand with his foot in that bucket of water just feet from the lush grass he had happily been munching on until she came out with her bright idea.

Horse's lay their ears back when they are mad. It is a good idea to take notice when we lay our ears back. The human girl looked at him and told him 'You just stand those ears back up. I know you are not happy but there is not reason to lay those ears down. That is not going to change anything.' She started rubbing him on his face right between his eyes right where he likes to be rubbed. He almost went to sleep but then he remembered he was mad and raised his head up so she could hardly reach him since he is so very big and she is not. Sometimes I don't know if that human girl is real smart or the opposite of that. She reached up and took the lead rope off of my horse's halter and hooked it onto her own jeans. Then she told him 'Now you can just stand there on your own and be mad but do not take your foot out of that bucket.'

Well I was standing about 15 feet away from all this because I saw him lay his ears back and I know that means he is mad and I didn't want to be anywhere near there. But after taking the lead rope off of him and telling him what she told him he just stood there. He had already tried to take his foot out of that bucket about ten times and he just quit. He just stood there and his ears were not laid down anymore. The human girl thanked him for being such a good boy and told him that now that he was behaving he could leave the area anytime he wanted to. He stood there about ten more minutes then took his foot out but he didn't walk off he just stood there. She told him it was ok if he wanted to walk away he could. So he did. He is an amazing horse and I am glad he is mine.

We didn't even notice......

We didn't even notice that we had been left alone there is so much nice tender green grass for us to eat and water in the pond. Oh sure the humans were only gone from night until morning but they were gone and we were fine. We can take care of ourselves a little bit. Horse's run wild out in the American West so it was nothing for us to be here by ourselves overnight. We didn't even care when they came home and waved at us. We just said hello back to them and went back to grazing. The human girl came out a little later and whistled us up but we didn't act like we cared much. Just sort of walked real slow sort of in her direction. But when she said 'Well fine be that way if you want' and started to walk away we high tailed it to her. Had to teach her a lesson we thought. We were wrong. She had made sure that we had food and water and the gates were locked before she left so she knew we would be ok getting our breakfast a little late.

The wind is blowing again or is that still?

Jumped flat footed into Summer

It was Winter then it was Springtime and now it is just flat out HOT! Very humid too. I'm starting to think maybe coating myself in that pond mud was such a good idea and when I went to the big house to tell the human girl I might have made a mistake she told me 'You get now. You go to the barn! It's too hot to play right now now shewww.' So I just popped in here to tell you that I will be down in the pond if anyone comes looking for me. My horse, the Pretty Boy, will only come into the shallow end but he is still very happy to be walking on all four feet!

Thank God for Ponds and little fishes! I don't know what that means exactly because well I'm a horse silly but I know it is a good thing. That is what the human girl said yesterday morning when my horse didn't kick her in her face. I was standing right there and saw it happen and it was not mostly his fault. That human girl was out here without her glasses on so she had her face way way down there where it should not have been. My horse pulled his foot up which she had in her hand and when he did her head came up and she said 'oh my'. Then she put his foot back into the bucket patted him on the neck looked at me and said "Thank God for Ponds and little fishes!"

Love to all and try to stay cool!

Having a wonderful time

My horse, the Pretty Boy and I are having much fun these days. Not much time to stop and chat in here in the barn with the house mouse. My horse is walking and running and just having the time of this life! He still does not have any shoes on and he lost a corner of that bad hoof but we think that is maybe the best thing that could have happened to him. Now he can walk normal and he is not in pain. His leg doesn't get sore anymore either. Now when he lays down to take a nap it is only because it is nap time not because he can't stand up any more and needs to rest. You should see him standing out there with all his weight on all his legs equally. Does a horse good to see such a purty sight. He is even enjoying going down into the pond some. He is not going all the way in the water just up to his knees so far but he is getting in there and he looks like he likes it.

We might be needing a bigger pond.

The human man left his jeep out in front of the big house. We do not know why. We have circled it and checked on it many times since he parked it there but it is just there nothing in it to eat or smell. Don't know why he didn't put it where it belongs but I guess he has his reasons.

Another Important holiday....

Memorial Day.

We remember the horse's who have gone to battle and not returned. Like those ones used Cinco de Mayo.

And then we grazed. We have been put on a diet it seems. Only a couple of scoops of feed a day. Must be a shortage of the stuff. House mouse says not that it is because we are so very very big. She says she heard the humans say that there is enough pretty green grass out there that they need to cut back on the feed they are feeding us. OK that's fine with me but I should have been told. If I had been told I wouldn't have stood out there waiting and waiting and waiting when I could have been eating and eating and eating. I won't do that again.....well not till tomorrow anyway. We are creatures of habit you know. You can't just stop doing something one day that we have always done and expect us to know that we aren't going to be doing it again like we did before. You see there are certain times of day that we expect to see that human girl come out here and when she doesn't we wonder if we don't know what time it is but that can't be it since we don't have watches. Or we think she forgot us so I make a lot of noise but then she doesn't come out or if she does she says 'Stop that!'. I think lots of things none of them being that she is going to not come give me feed every time I stomp my foot. But there you go that's exactly what has happened. Still May and we are on our Summer feeding schedule already. hurmph! Given the chance I think my horse would snort on her.

Donnie said that he has a horse that he would like for me to meet. He says maybe if the human girl says it's ok that I can go over to his place and visit with their horse's for a while. I like to go visiting. I have seen his horse's they are a little smaller than my Mousey and very light in color. Sort of a buckskin color. And they don't have any spots like my horse and not color painted on them like me but they seem nice enough. There used to be three of them but now there are only two because one of them has gone to live in the pasture two pastures over with a little horse his same size. The two that are left there at Donnie's are going to pull a wagon someday. They are practicing now. But I am getting a little far away from where this story was going aren't I. What I think is what the humans are thinking is that me and that little fellow over there might get married. They want to introduce us. If we got married maybe I would have another baby horse. My human girl loves that and so do I. For now it is just talk so I guess I shouldn't get too excited. And anyway if I went over there to that farm to get married who would keep my Pretty Boy company? Do you think the human girl would come out to the barn and sleep with him?

And here is what the Pretty Boy's hoof
looks like after Randall came and trimmed it.
Isn't it WONDERFUL!

Day Five of no shoes

That is a picture of the Pretty Boy's hoof before Randall came to trim it but after he lost his shoe.

We are going to call this day two with no shoes but it is really more like day five in real time. Only day two if start counting from when Randall was here and trimmed our hooves which was day before yesterday around 4pm CDT. So far my horse, The Pretty Boy, is doing fine. He is really able to walk much better and doesn't seem to be having any trouble. I am going to get the house mouse to post a picture of his hoof on the 20th after he lost his shoe and then another one of what it looked like yesterday morning. Yesterday morning? Oh yes that is correct. This is Day Two after the trimming. My how time flies. Now I am going to make house mouse go back and change everywhere where I had her type the word one and you will be able to figure out where the one's were because there will now be the word 'Two'. Ok working on adding pictures now.

When the boy and I came up to the barn to eat a while ago he had been down in the pond so he had mud on his feet. He used to never go down in the pond so he never had mud on his feet. Boys are supposed to like to play in the mud but his hoof being in the shape it was in really made it hard for him to get down in there and then get back up even though there is a ramp there at the shallow end where the land just falls slowly into the pond. I am so very happy he his hoof is healing so well and I know the human girl is too because she keeps coming out here and saying 'Just looking'.

I had flies all over my nose earlier so the human girl put some fly spray on me. Yesterday the human man put fly spray on me but he doesn't know how to put it on my face. I'm glad she did that for me because I do not like flies on me where my tail can't reach to swish them off and it sure can't reach clear up to my face!

This is a holiday weekend. The holiday is Memorial Day. We will keep in our memory those who have lost their lives defending our freedom and the ones who still fight on.

A note from the human girl

Randall came to do the horse's hooves this evening and he didn't put shoes on the Pretty Boy!!!!!!!!!! Last time he was here about 8 weeks ago he said as he always says 'I doubt he will ever be able to go without shoes.' Today he got to the back of the truck with the horse and just sat down. I thought something was wrong with him the way he was just sitting there. I walked up to him and asked him if he was ok and he said 'I'm just wondering if he is going to need a shoe put back on that what do you think?' !!!!! I told him that I didn't want to make that decision till I saw what it looked like after he trimmed it. Well after he trimmed it we decided to not put shoes on him. I am just going to keep an eye on it and see what happens. If it starts splitting or something I will call him to come back. That boy has been walking walking walking!!!!!!! It is so wonderful.

When he was trimming that hoof I was telling him how horrible the smell had gotten when I was soaking it and then there came the nasty smell again. I said 'That's it!!' Randall said that is the bad stuff coming out. Oh. I thought maybe I had given him hoof rot soaking it so much. hahahaha There is a bit of swelling so I am going to soak it the next three days then stop and see what happens. How cool is that that the ferrier who thought he would never be able to go without a shoe was surprised to see how I had gotten it to heal!!!

We are all very very happy campers right now! The Pretty Boy is walking without pain and without a limp. What a wonderful day for sure!!!

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.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day always starts at least a week before the actual day out here in the country. The children of the humans in the area come and spend several days enjoying the country before having to go back to their city folks. The grand children and great grand children are a joy for me and my horse, The Pretty Boy. Not because we give them horseback rides but just because they like to see us and we like being seen. They come by the fence to pet us and talk to us telling us how very big and very pretty we are. So of course we stay pretty much up in the top end of our horse pasture or out in the middle of the front pasture so they can see us real good and we can get over to the fence pretty fast if they want to see us up close. We have to get to the fence real fast if it is the great grand children because they are small enough to get through the fence and then the bigger humans get all excited about that. Me and my horse would not hurt a baby. We like small children and we hold very still when we see them coming. At first we didn't know it was ok and we might think we should run away but my horse told me that if we just hold real still nothing will happen to make anyone scared. He thinks he is a very smart horse. Sometimes he is. He was trained as a cutting horse you know so he knows some stuff that I don't know but I know stuff he doesn't know so it all evens out.

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!

VIVA! el Cinco de Mayo!!!!

May 5, 2008

Cinco de Mayo loosely translates to The Fifth of May.


Today is Cinco de Mayo! I am not completely sure what this holiday is so the House Mouse is going to look on the internet and tell us, that would be me and my horse, what it is. All we know now is that the boy in the next town requested cheese and his sister wanted a flower. Seems sort of funny to us so we will wait to hear from the House Mouse as to why the human girl worked so hard around here today making everything look so nice. She even combed our hair and she put a blue halter on me. Blue!!!!!! I’m a girl horse but she put a blue halter on me. My horse thinks it might have something to do with the holiday.

OK here’s what the House Mouse found at a web site originating in San Marcos Texas who’s address is http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm She says to tell you that this is just part of what is on the web site that this is the part that makes Cinco de Mayo important to us horse’s. She also said that she is putting all this on here for us to read without getting permission from the people in San Marcos so if you go to their web site you give them a big ole Texas Thank YOU!…..

………………….(that means that there were words that came before this but house mouse isn’t going to type them)…….The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did.
Under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited. Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns. The Mexican Army was less stylish.
General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks. In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them. The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes.
When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away. The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen. This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War.
Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French. American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French. The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City.
It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862. But who knows?
In gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces. As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America.
Mexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans. That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty. There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862. VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!
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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!

Spring Training as begun

May 2, 2008

I am going to start a new series today. I am going to tell you how that human girl is training my horse, the Pretty Boy. I would tell you how she trained me but she gave up on that years ago so now I just do what she asks me to do or I don’t. Most of the time I do what I am told when I am told so I don’t have to wear a halter. When Randal comes to put shoes on us he puts a halter on me and ties me to a tree so I don’t eat all the stuff in the back of his truck or pick stuff up and carry it off. He says he can’t keep an eye on me and work on my horse, the Pretty Boy, at the same time. He calls it ‘Horsey Day Car’. I don’t mind just standing there but I really like going thru all the stuff he has in the back of his truck so I guess it’s a good idea he ties me up.

Today’s lesson is called ‘Pick YOUR FOOT UP!’

Everyday, twice a day, the Pretty Boy gets his right front foot soaked in a five gallon bucket of warm Epsom salts. Some times there is not a problem. Sometimes there is a problem. One time he kicked the human girls leg off right at the knee and she had to put it back on before she could come feed me. I couldn’t get to her to help her because my horse was in the way so I just waited till she got her self put back together. (Her leg didn't really get knocked off. She just got kicked and it dislocated her leg at the knee just a little bit so she had to lay there an catch her breath and figure out if her leg was going to carry her. This can take awhile because she says you don't want to rush off because it is a long way to go so you have to make sure you can make it before setting out.) A couple of days ago he caught her right on her knee cap. So apparently today she decided that play time was over and we were going to get to see who was the boss once and for all or till next week.

The lesson started like this….’Pick your foot up and put it in the bucket’. He just stood there. She leaned a little farther over an grabbed his leg in a different place. ‘Pick your foot up and put it in the bucket’ . Still he just stood there. She moved the bucket. She moved the bucket again. ‘Pick your foot up and put it in the bucket’. Nope. She stood up, turned around and looked him square in his eye that is on that side of his head. You could tell he was looking at her and could hear what she was saying but just not being very nice. Anyway she stood up, turned around and told him very gently ‘You are going to let me pick your foot up and put it in that bucket and you are going to do it now.’ She sounded nice but serious. She turned back around, leaned over and grabbed hold of his leg ‘Pick up your foot’. Nothing. She stood up and turned to him again and said ‘You will not win.’ She turned around for a second time leaned over and right when she grabbed his leg to pick it up she leaned her shoulder into him nearly knocking him over. That leg came up alright no trouble. She put it into the bucket and told him. ‘And you will be leaving it there please.’ He snorted at her but he did not take his foot out of that bucket.

Score one for the human girl! Pretty Boy didn't know even after living here for one whole year that that human girl could do what she just did to him. Most of the time she is very nice to my Pretty Boy. Most of the time when she wants him to do something she just tells him "Come on it'll be fun!"

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!

Big Storms the other day....

Big storms day before yesterday. Pretty Red Bud tree down in the little backyard of the big house. Whew what a mess glad I don’t have to clean it up. Nope that human man has the chain saw out so I stay way far away from that kind of work. I only help him if he has the hood up on a truck or the tractor. I’m not going to help him when he uses that chain saw. Then I saw the human girl coming with a big red ladder. She was saying it was a shame she couldn’t find the normal size ladder and kept on having to carry that big tall ladder around when she needed to reach something. The human man told her that ladder she was looking for was upstairs in the barn and he would get it for her if she wanted it. She said yes she wanted it on ground level please. Then she got him to carry the big ladder back out to the barn when she was finished with it. She had used it and a rake to get the tree limbs off the porch roof. They have it all cleaned up like nothing happened now and then he went to town and she came out with her doctoring stuff. My horse, Pretty Boy, is starting look pretty good. She says most of his infection is gone now. Says maybe one day next week Randall will come out and trim on that one hoof of his so he can maybe walk proper. Walks like he is using a cane right now with that high hoof. The human girl thinks there is enough good hoof there now that it can be trimmed to a more normal size. The human man says to leave that up to the professional. And she said hurumph.

Got us some sacks of fresh feed delivered today and put in my big red barn. I like that. Can’t have it as much as I would like to have it because it would be too rich for my tummy but two or three times a day is enough for a horse I suppose.

Temperature out here is going down and we are just about out of our winter coats so we are just going to stay in here in the barn and take a nap till lunch time.

How the Tail began

The first post was Titled 'And so the Tail Begins.....' and I like it so much I am going to post it again. I may even make it a regular thing that tell the house mouse to do for me. OK I will not 'tell' her to do it I will 'ask' her to do it for me. Asking is so much nicer. And when done properly will be more likely to get you what you want or at least what you need even if you didn't know you needed it. So here goes a repeat of the first post....


He was kind enough to adopt her a horse of her own.........

Fun fun day

Now THAT was Fun!

My horse, Pretty Boy, and I had big fun with our human girl this afternoon. You see when she brought the bucket out to soak his foot this morning he went over to her thinking she was bringing him some more feed so when she went back in the big house we made a plan for the next time she came out with that white bucket. And by golly it worked like a charm. We had FUN FUN FUN!!!

She got my Pretty Boy and put a lead rope on him. Then she lead him over to a fence post where she had her white bucket of water. As she started tying him to the fence post I made noise on the pipe fence with my hoof which got our dog, Mudfoot, to barking. She told me to ‘stop that’ and finished tying up my horse. Then she bent over to pick his big ole foot up and put it in that bucket so I banged my foot on the big gate. Yes you know it that dog went to howling again and the human girl said again ‘stop that Precious’. So I just stood over there by the gate looking like I didn’t know what she was talking about while my horse pulled his foot out of the bucket! Mercy me it was funny. She said 'Put your foot back in that bucket boy! Pick it up pick it up pick it up bend your leg bend your leg bend your leg Thank You now leave it in there.' It looked like he might be going to do what she said so I had to step in. I walked over there and asked her to please pet me. I needed her to scratch my nose. So of course she did because I am a nice horse. This time the boy pulled his foot out but didn't pick it up far enough and over the bucket went. She just threw her hands up in the air and said 'I give up but I will be back!!'

Red Bud Tree

Original photos by Ginger, artwork by Pam. Click to enlarge. Prices vary; bids open

Here it is Friday again all day

Today there has been a lot of human traffic all over the farm. First one and then another one here there and everywhere doing all kinds of thing. The human man, my owner, was out early this morning cutting Wisteria. Wisteria smells good this time of year but it can get away from you in a big hurry if you don’t keep it clipped back is what he told me. Then later the human girl came out but she was just clipping wisteria flowers. She takes them into the big house since they smell so good. I don’t have to have any cut and put into my barn because I can smell them anyway.

There is some rain sprinkling down out of the sky and that makes those guinea hens act funny. I guess they get excited thinking it is food falling on them but it is just water. Water doesn’t bother me. I like water. I stand out in the rain to get wet because I like to it so much. My horse, The Pretty Boy, doesn’t stand out in it like I do. He goes into our big red barn and watches it rain or just sometimes even turns his back so he can’t even see it.

Oh! I see the humans have put the hummingbird feeders out. Well not all of them just one but that must mean the hummingbirds are back. Those are pretty interesting birds but they are hard for me to see since they are so tiny and move so fast. Sometimes we have so many of them here on the farm you can hear them buzzing like the honey bee’s on the fruit trees in the springtime.

My human friend, Abigail, might be coming to see me this weekend. She is a pretty human girl. Her grandma said maybe she will be coming down to get horsey rides. I know how to be nice to her because she does not run at me and is not scared of me. She is a friend of the human boy across the street that sings to me. They are nice human children. My horse is going to let them ride him too he told me so. He said he may not be able take them very far but he will let them ride him some if we play out in the pasture not on the rocky road. It is fun to play with the human children. I love to hear them giggle and laugh.

Ok the rain might be getting thicker so I am going to run out and graze some more see you later……….

Pony Rides by house mouse

Hard to find anyone who remembers the little pony that used to come around in town years ago offering to let the little children sit on the pony and get their picture made. Boy was that a lot of fun. All the little cowboys and cowgirls would put on the little red hat. The boys would put on the little chaps and the girls too maybe. They were the cutest little pictures. Of course you might be asking yourself how a house mouse who lives in a big red barn would know anything about such things and you would right in wondering about that. I know I have never been to town and long ago was a very long time ago but I do know about that pony and the pictures. I know because I found one of those pictures yesterday and looked at it before I ate it.

-house mouse-

And now a word from Precious..........
I WANT FEED AND I WANT IT NOW!!!!! Seems that human girl has put us on a diet. She says there is green grass and hay for us to eat and if we don't cut down on our feed then we are going to be Elephants instead of horse's. Well I for one have been an elephant before and do not have a problem being an elephant again. I did not have elephant ears of course in case you were wondering. But I did hear many exclaim 'My goodness she is as big as an elephant!' and they were all smiling and happy when they said that so it must not really be such a bad thing to be the way I see it. But the human girl says that elephant it only OK if I am going to have a baby horse and I am not so I do not get to be an elephant this spring. Oh well maybe if it keeps raining I can be a hippopotomoose!!

So much going on today....

So much going on today we don’t know where to look so we are just running all over the place. Holiday weekend and everyone on the road is out playing. There are four wheelers going up and down the road with boys yelling like cowboys. And cowboys in wagon’s and on horseback being as happy as the boys. My horse and I are just running running running so we do not miss any of the fun.

I am really proud of my horse. The Pretty Boy is keeping up with me when I am running. Not when I am running as fast as I can he can’t yet but when I am just running not tail up running he can keep up with me! Yes we are very proud of that boy today.

And we heard from the Queen of Squatamala that the Grand Prince and Princess were behaving like Indians and it was a good thing. She said that the King of Squatamala has made them their own Bows so they can shoot arrows like real Indians. That sounds like good fun doesn't it. I wonder if they are doing a rain dance?

OK I have to get back out there I hear what sounds like a baseball game over to the East!!!

In Memory of my Mousey who loved the Spring.

Our beloved Pansy, watcher of the road, protector of all as
she made her rounds this morning making sure everyone was
where they should be and safe.

Tis a Good Friday

It is a Good Friday in the land of Squatamala in the middle of the magical forest near the lake. The Royal Grandchildren arrived last evening without incident and were very surprised that there were new puppies to see which were born of the Royal dog, Shea, on Monday. The Grand Princess was heard to exclaim 'OH! Now I am a Grandmother!' much to the delight of the Queen. The fairies were so very happy the children had come to the forest that they stayed up very late playing so slept in this morning nigh until eight.

The day has been beautiful with not much wind and only one loud unknown noise to break the peace of the whole land. My horse, Pretty Boy, and I have been out in the pasture eating the pretty green grass keeping an eye to the woods and the delightful squeals of the children playing.

Today was a good day.

Announcement Spring is Coming

Spring is coming tomorrow make ready quickly!!! The Royal Family offspring will be arriving to inspect the King's work later this week sometime and we want all the daffodils at attention please. You Paperwhite flowers please line up along the road so that your perfume may be smelled as they exit their carriages. And you White Iris please quit hiding over there by those bushes. Do not be shy you are beautiful open your pure white petals for all to see. Yes yes I know it is too early for the blackberries to be picked for a cobbler but they are sharing their blooms with us now so no talk about their berries for now please. You Peach blossoms are doing quite nicely over there and have you seen the sight the native apple trees are making over in the lower pasture? Why they are spectacular to look at in the evenings as the sun is getting low in the sky for sure. We are going to try to keep our Pretty Boy off of the wild onion plants as much as possible but since he thinks it's funny to step on them we may just have to pretend we don't smell him.

Now is everyone ready? Good good good. Now off to bed with you we will be needing to get an early start in the morning. Dream sweet my pets. Dream Sweet.

Ready for a stormy week

The human girl has been very busy around here this morning getting stuff done she usually takes all day to do. Even the Pretty Boy has already had his foot soaked. All the stuff that needed putting up has been put up and everything that needed to be tied down has been tied down. She has been going around here from one place to another so fast I gave up on following her to see what she was doing.

She had time to talk to me when my horse was getting his foot soaked. She said that it is going to start raining and rain for three days which was why she was digging that trench out a little bit that drains the road into the pond. She also told me that one of our little friends is having a birthday party tomorrow that she is going to go to. She said that Patty is not baking the birthday cake this year. Last year she had some trouble doing that. She cooked the cake and had almost all the icing on it when she realized the cake was not even really cooked all the way to the middle. She said it was one of those rectangular cakes in a big pan and Patty had started putting the icing on from the outside to the inside which was why she didn't know the cake wasn't done for real. Patty put that cake back in the oven with the icing on it to try to finish cooking it. We didn't get any of that cake. She said the children loved eating their cake with a spoon. That's funny because Patty is usually a very good cook. Maybe good cooks don't bake I don't know.

The wind is blowing hard out here and the sky is getting darker. I think the Pretty Boy and I better get ourselves sorted out as to where we are going to weather the storm.

Palm Sunday

And there I was standing by that fence that I so enjoy smashing but I was unable to step on it. I really don’t mind having that hard wire fence there but it is not nearly as much fun as the soft wire one was. I normally just keep my big hoof off of cattle panels. They don’t make any noise if I bang them and they don’t bend so no fun in that. All I can do now to wake that human girl up to the fact that I am ready to be fed is to go down the fence line to my Mudfoot’s yard and get her to barking.

Oh speaking of the dog ,Mudfoot, I don’t know if the human people know it or not but she climbs the fence. Yes she does. Just like I hear those children across the road do at their house. Her fence is also made of cattle panels and that soft wire fencing. She has destroyed the soft wire fencing, which is where I got the idea to do the same thing, so she could get to the hard wire panels. I am not sure how far up the fence she can climb but I think that human girl better keep the tree cut back so she can’t use it to pull herself on up and over that fence. She is silly silly little Labrador dog who could get in a lot of trouble if she was to get out her yard because she wouldn’t know what to do with herself. I am going to remember to tell the human girl about that fence climbing because I think she will want to put some chicken wire up inside there to discourage that behavior.

The human girl told me that later today we were going to have company. She said the people up the road where all those cars and trucks are this morning are going to bring the children down for horse back rides. OH BOY!!! I love to have babies come see me. I love to have all sizes of humans come to see me because I am so pretty.

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OK it is later in the day now and we had a WONDERFUL day today!!!!! Everyone looked almost as pretty as me and my horse, Pretty Boy. And everyone that wanted to ride got to. I do not ride the children I just let them sit on me. Even little bitty babies can sit on my back I will not move. And my back is wide enough that they will not fall off. The Pretty Boy gives what I call 'Pony Rides' because someone on the ground is always holding his lead rope. My Mousey horse did not have to have someone holding the rope. He would walk and if the child got wobbly he would stop. He was a good horse. My horse, Pretty Boy, I think can be that good. But not me. Nope I like to RODEO!! so I can not be trusted to 'pony ride' children anymore than the human girl or the house mouse can be trusted not to eat the cookies. Sorry house mouse but it is true.

Sooooo Anyway we had a fun day and everyone was laughing and smiling and no one cried so we think it was a successful day.

Bless Your Hearts and those of the people that Love You, and those of the people that Love Them. -Precious-

Medical update on the Pretty Boy

Just wanted to let everyone know that the Pretty Boy is doing GREAT! We have just about gotten all the infection out of his leg!!!!!!!!! Today he stood in his bucket of epsom salts for a very very long time just out there in his pasture. He was not alone the whole time. I was there and the human girl too for a very long time. Then she took the lead rope off of him and told him he could go if he wanted to anytime. I went on and started grazing. He just kept standing there. The human man came home with some cattle panels to reinforce the fence I have been working on taking down and still my Pretty Boy just stood there with that one foot in the bucket of water. They had just about finished putting up two panels when he decided he was done standing in the water. The house mouse went into my part of the barn to look at his foot while he was having his supper later and said that she is very happy for him not be all swelled up anymore.

We are all very grateful to everyone who kept him in their thoughts as he fought this infection. Thank You for your love. -Precious-

Precious ran in here to say...

A most beautiful day here on the farm! Even better than yesterday.

The human girl was out here going in circles on her machine for a few hours this morning so I kept the Pretty Boy over by the wildlife refuge so he wouldn’t worry about that girl on her machine. He was OK with that. He laid down and took a good long nap while she went round and round out in our pastures dragging that thing behind her machine. And then she went out in the front pasture and started playing around going pretty fast and just a whooping and a hollering she was having so much fun.

There were some small humans over to the East yesterday afternoon kicking a black and white ball around. I don’t know what that is called but I think I could do it if someone would get me a ball. I am pretty sure I could kick a ball since I have four legs and four feet and those kids that were playing yesterday only have two legs apiece. Well I would like to try to do it someday. You just never really know if you really can do something unless you really try. WoW! How many times did I just say ‘really’? That’s really pretty funny. Hahaha

The Queen was telling me the other day that the King made her a garden so she can grow vegetables. YUCK! Why can’t she grow hamburgers instead? Of course I don’t eat hamburger’s I’m a vegetarian but I do like to smell hamburgers cooking.

My horse, Pretty Boy, and I were talking the other day and we were wondering just how long it has been since there were Indians around these parts. We know that we live in an area called the Cherokee Trail but we do not know how many moons and winters it has been since there were Indians here hunting with bows and arrows. Our human girl says her telephone line was put in when there were still Indians living around here but I think she is making that up.

OK enough talking time to go back out and play in the sunshine!!!!!!

Too pretty to be in the barn

It is much too pretty a day to be in the barn! It was so foggy this morning we couldn't even see each other but when it cleared off WoW!!! And tomorrow is supposed to be even better so you won't be hearing from me too much. There is sun to soak up and tender green grass to eat.

The Pretty Boy is doing so much better today. I think he likes the nice weather also. He is getting his bad leg soaked on a regular basis and the swelling is really going down. I hope one day he will be able to have some of that tall hoof taken off so he can walk level but for now I am just happy the infection is going down. He likes to stand with his foot in a bucket. Me I don't know if I could be that patient. I can't even stand beside him not moving while he stands perfectly still with his foot in that bucket of water. Yesterday the human girl asked him if he would mind just standing there by himself for a minute while she ran over to the big house for something. He didn't mind he will stand there as long as she wants him too and then ten minutes more. He is funny that way. She tells him 'OK you can step out now.' and he says 'I don't think so not right now it feels too good.' so she just lets him stand there some more if he wants. He walks over to the place in the mornings after we have breakfast and waits for her to come with the bucket. He used to soak while he had his breakfast but ever since he kicked her leg off and she had to put it back on she doesn't do it then. She waits until he is done eating and then they just stand there sometimes for a whole hour. He is a very very patient boy. I am patient too but not that patient.

Has anyone seen that Squirrel that keeps chattering out here at the top of his lungs? What do you supposed he is chattering so loudly about?

Pink and Purple

For the Grand Little Princess.

A house made special for her by
'The Magical Fantasy Illusionist to the
Royal Family'

Precious here.......

I saw the human girl come out to my red barn and open the big doors so of course I had to see if she needed any help. She was rolling the little lawnmower out when I got there. I can help pretty good with that right up to the point where one of two things happen. One is that when she is pulling on that rope to start it sometimes I stick my nose too close and kapow there you go popped by her elbow. And then the other thing that happens is I am not real thrilled when it starts. Lucky for me she isn't real good at starting it so we can be there awhile before one of the two things happen to me. But this time she wasn't trying to start it. She just rolled it out there and we stood waiting for something. The human man came out and she pushed down on the handle of the mower so it's front wheels came off the ground. She asked the man 'Can you put that belt back on?'. He got down and looked and said he didn't see a belt. She told him that is because it came off. She thought that was some pretty funny words but he didn't. She let the mower down, went around to where the front wheels are and picked it up. I put my head down there to see if I could see the belt she said had come off and the man was down there looking also. She stuck her hand up under there and pointed at something I couldn't see because my eyes are pretty far from the end of my head where my nose it. But she told the man 'Do you see the shiny pulley wheel? That is where the belt goes that is right there.' The man finally saw what she was talking about. He told her 'I can fix that easy. Hold it up and I will go get a screw driver.' She didn't think that sounded like a thing she wanted to do so she said 'Or I could let it down and when you get back with the screw driver I could pick it back up because I am not going to stand here holding it up while you go look for a screw driver.' To which he replied 'How did it happen?' This time she did laugh out loud. She said 'I have no idea. It was working and then it wasn't working.' Such a silly man asking her that. He knows stuff just happens sometimes. I thought it was nice that she had put it back in the barn when it quit working because usually when she breaks stuff....I mean ....when things quit working she usually just leaves them where they quit. LOL!!! Humans are so funny.

Later they came out again but this time it was soak my Pretty Boy's leg in a bucket of epsom salts. I was going to squish the girl but she wouldn't let me. Here's how we were lined up. First the man, then the Pretty Boy, then the human girl then me, Precious. I wanted to see what the man was doing because I could see the human girl was just holding onto my horse but that man was doing something. The human girl said to him 'You are going to have to come back around here because I don't want to be a horse sandwich.' LOL!!! Horse sandwich that's pretty funny. The man came around and backed me, Precious, up but not before I stuck my head into the bucket of epsom salt and I remember now I do not like epsom salt water.

Beautiful day here on the farm

It is a beautiful day out here on the farm! Bright sunshine and not too much wind. Beautiful beautiful.

Precious says that she is not ignoring me she is just busy eating the pretty green grass and keeping an eye on her horse the, Pretty Boy. He has an infection in his leg so he isn’t getting around as fast as usual and she won’t get too far from him because of that. She will not leave him alone. Wants to be where she can see him and he can see her all the time. No rushing either. Dinner can wait.

The human girl comes out a couple of times a day with a big bucket of water she says no one should drink because it has Epsom Salts in it. She says it is to draw the infection out of the Pretty Boy’s leg. Looks like it is working. She was doing that last week up until that day that he kicked her leg off at the knee and she had to put it back on to get to the big house. Since then she has been putting other stuff on his leg. She said that salt in the wound must hurt. Well he doesn’t have a cut he just has oozy places. ‘Oozy’ is that a word? Well it should be it’s kind of a neat word.

Things are going well in the Mystical Magical Fantasy Land of Squatamala. The King and Queen are in the castle waiting of the birth of some puppies that they have already found homes for so don't you start thinking you might get one because you won't. They made a royal bed for the puppies in the special puppy room in the castle.

Must be time for that horse to get his leg soaked again because here comes that human girl with her white bucket.

The barn

When the King was sitting on his Thinking Stump thinking about
the barn he was going to build for the many animals he had not decided
he would aquire he thought of this barn. He did not say that he was going
to build this barn he only thought about this barn. He thought about this barn because he knows the Grand Little Princess dearly loves the color pink. Being a King he thought that Magenta seemed more Kingly than a Pink pink color. Now of course he thought to himself that he must first finish the Fort for he and the Queen of Squatamala to live in before ever starting to build a barn to house livestock. But that does not stop one from sitting on their Thinking Stump and thinking on a snowy day. For what else is one to do on such a day other than sit and watch the snow melt.

The wind was blowing strong before the snow this morning.

more house mouse stories

I am a house mouse who lives in the big red barn. House Mouse's don't have very large heads so there are is a limit to the number of words I can fit in there at a time. This being said I must make a correction. The 'Little Princess' is a little princess but her barn name is 'Grand Little Princess' not just 'Little Princess'. I felt I should make that right because as we all know it is very important that we use names when know names and possibly equally important to learn names we do not know.

We are getting snow out here in our pasture! Not so much now as before but it is still snowing. It started snowing between seven and seven thirty this morning. I didn't know it could snow for three hours but it can! Precious is going out in it some and it doesn't seem to bother her. The Pretty Boy went out and came right back in. I don't think he likes snow much.

I will get the human girl to post you some pictures of the snow later if she comes out of the big house.