News from Mini Happi Times Farm
Today we worked with all of the horses except Sunny. By working with a couple of horses at a time, it gave Sunny a chance to hang out at the hay bale. We started with Kay and Loki. We harnessed them up and did about three miles with them. It was the first time we were able to get down our driveway. The trails in the woods are still snow covered, so we stayed on the roads. We forgot the camera until we got home, but they both did pretty well. I think they were happy to get out and stretch their legs.
We then got Sporty and put a saddle on him. There is a possibility that he will be re-homed with someone who has more riding skill than us, and can give Sporty something to do. He is only 14, so he is too young to be just hanging out in our pasture looking pretty. 🙂 He was a bit spooked at first by the step stool we use to get on, but he seemed to have no issues when Ray was riding him.
We took a break for lunch, and then got Scarlet and Jimmy out. I brushed Jimmy and put him back in the pasture while Ray drove Scarlet. She behave almost perfectly until the very end when she got a little obstinate about walking away from the hitching post. Ray just made her stop and stand still, then he made her walk a few steps in the direction which he wanted to go, and then he turned her back to the hitching post.
At one point, George the cat climbed up onto a window ledge in the barn and sat between the plastic on the outside, and the mesh on the inside.
Pongo supervised.
There are also a couple of pictures of blowing sand making interesting tracks in the snow.
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march 11 2019 scarlet smile
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march 11 2019 snow patterns 2
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march 11 2019 snow tracks1
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march 17 2019 george in the window
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march 17 2019 jimmy grin
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march 17 2019 jimmy in motion
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march 17 2019 loki and kay
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march 17 2019 pongo and johnnerpaul
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march 17 2019 scarlet behaving nicely
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march 17 2019 sporty and ray
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march 17 2019 sporty under saddle
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march 17 2019 sunnys favorite position