Has news?

Hai everyone! It has been long times since my last postings. I has thoughts about tihs yesterday and figurred yu may be asking yurself "waht has Ernie-man been up to tehese days?" Well, teh answer is: not much at alls. Tihs doesn't bother mee so much cuz horses don't really keep time teh way humans do. But I knowes you may be wondering about mee so I asked my partner to post here.

We has also been busies trying to find a winter location. A place taht has more dry gound and shelter from teh winds and rain, and also little fake suns inside teh shelters. Wee found tihs very place not too far from teh Red Barn pasture. Wehn we move we will be ables to exercise all winter long. Teh fake suns in teh arena will lite up teh area. I like to exercise so I has happiness with teh upcoming arrangement.

Has color?

I has a new rain sheet from teh sstack.com I normally has blue to wear but tihs one is red so my partner can see me in teh pasture from far away. I must say, I has good looks.

Pictures laters.

Times has Changes

I wuld like answers to teh following questions, tnx.

1. Why has my morning flavors disappeared? Tihs has wrongness.

2. Can teh flavors come back and teh Utah horses disppear (back to Utah, perhaps)? Tihs has rightness.

(Partner's note: It is now too dark, misty, and just plain creepy in the morning to get out to the barn before work. Ernie now gets fed 2 times a day but in the afternoon and later evening. As far as the new horses, alpha mare of the original RB herd has decided to make aquaintences with a particular appy gelding, with a knack for some good ole wannabe stallion lovin'. This has been quite the drama for Ernie and his best friend, Ripple, who have been teaming together to get their mare back, to no avail. Thus the great herd divide continues, with the occasional rogue effort by 2 strapping geldings to claim what is rightfully theirs.)

Taht's a Wrap!

Hai everyone! Sorries, no time to writes blog entries cuz I has been busies doing exercises. My partner met wiht anoter human mare who taught her about tihs woman who knows lots about helping horses move teh right way. T-touch is teh name.

I has lots of stretches to do, tehn I put on teh bodee wrap which helps me feel waht my bum is doing in teh back of me. It helps. It helps so much taht my other human mare friend just came back from vacashuns and she says I has bigger neck and bum tehn last time she saws me. And we didn't tells her waht we's been up to.

I has some video of me wearing tihs wrap, but not much as we has no time for such frivolties.

Back to Conditioning

Sorries no updates latelies. I has been OK- normal routines and everything. My partner and I tried riding a few more times and in different saddles to see if they would make any difference, and teh answer is No. Something happens to teh back when a rider gets on- it feels better to stand still. Walking seems OK but trotting has a totalie different storie to it.

So avter much deliberations, we decided to keep working on teh ground. No point in riding if it hurts one of us. Teh idea is to work teh muscles I need for riding to make sure tehy are in tip top shapes for wehn we do ride.

Bad Habitz, A Case of teh Nappies

Tonights I wanted to ride, I swear it. I likes teh riding, but I has some bad habitz. Don't try to tell me yu don't has bad habits- everyone has tehm. One of mine happens to be a touch of teh nappies. I learned tihs awhile ago- and it can sumtimes scare teh rider. I pins my ears and stop suddenlies. Tehn when teh rider asks me to go forwards, I is an ass and kicks like one wiht my back leg. And usually at taht point I just get my way and taht is taht. To be honest, tihs game has fun.

Not tihs time. Teh nappie idea just sort of got in my head- i guess i was thinking about other times i was a riding horse. And before i knew it, i tried. My partner stuck like her pants has glued to teh saddle and just kept asking me to go forward. Damn. I goes forward. So much for taht.

Teh other problem wiht this game is taht my partner can sit my trot. She can also feel wehn I might try tihs, and she doesn't has mad or scared if I try it. All horses know like mees taht if yu can't win teh game it just isnt worth playing.

Sorries. Be better tomorrows.

Teh Arena Ride

Hai! Tonights my partner and I's went for a ride. Teh first one outside teh circus pen.

Lots of pictures to shares. She says I need softness, cuz I don't like bending so much. I has not much bendings, so tahts somethins I has to work on. But I has fun tonights! Here are the pictures.

Here I has patience waiting for teh fun to start...standing next to yu kno who, ugh.
Walkin' off for teh first time. See yu round teh bend!

Figuring out stuff. Asking me for a little bend on my rite side, and me hasing stiffness.

Done for teh nite- please connect tihs rope and take me back to my pasture. Tnx.

I has good looks, ehs?

ANNOYING HORSES, baahhhhhh

Let me first say taht I has a very friendly character. I like horses and humans and dogz and catz and many other creatures. I has high tolerance for all. Except horses from Utah. These horses has no manners. Tehy hog teh gate. Tehy appear to think they own our pasture and our humans. Tehy think any time a human comes out teh human MUST be coming out to see tehm. Teh human tries to drive tehm away. Tehy don't listen. Tihs is all verry frusterating for everyone- especially mees who likes to get my flavors 2 times per day. And teh other horses can't get near cuz teh black mare in teh bunch is evil. And I normallys luv horse mares. But not tihs one. Now I just has ugly face on all teh time when I has to see teh Utah horses.

GO BACK TO UTAH. YOU ARE RUINING MY ROUTINES.

Teh Areena

Change of pace yesterday- teh round pen was getting boring so we decided to exercise in teh arena. Tihs was more challenging becuz in teh arena- many peoples stop by to watch and chat. Peoples driving by whistle from teh cars. Tihs annoys my partner to no end- and she usually flips a couple birds if someone whistles at us. I don't see any birds flipping, but thats waht she says she does. Whatevers.

Todays teh plan is to work in teh arena again. My partner will put out poles on teh ground to steps over. She says stepping and no jumping. We'll see about taht.