Free longe, she says. I goes out, and i immediatelies canter. She waits, and waits and waits. I has a lot of cantering to do- I can do it!!! I has so much better feelings my legs feel so long and my steps are huge.
OMG I'm not even cantering, I has good trotting steps all by myself! I goe back to canters and my partner waits for me. Soon i go back to trottings and she cannot believe teh strides I make.
Tehn teh trailer comes. OMG, NOE! I has to run, and she lets me, go go go she says. No more getting in yur way. i goes. and soon, i realize no one else is running, and I stops.
We goes to teh trailer, and just stand tehre. i want to go in and out really fast, and my partner doesn't even look at me. I tihnk she fell asleep standing up. i want to pull on teh rope, but every time i pull, teh rope moves like a snake and i can't pull on it. I keep trying, and each time it comes alive. i move my feet in all directions, my partner is still asleep. but her hand gets longer and tells my belly to move over. Soon it stops and i face teh trailer. She looks in teh trailer, and i go see it too. It is dark by now, and I soon goes in. She says she doesn't care about it, she cares about out. I flies out. again and again- trying to find teh end of teh rope to pull on. And soon I just get tired and i walk out of teh trailer. she says good boy we go back into teh barn, and I has dinner.
Teh next day teh trailer shows up again when i has free longe time. Teh long rope comes out, and we go by teh trailer.I want to stand on teh side, my partner lets me for a bit. Ten she brings out teh stick and taps my belly so i move. I goe, but goe right back and want to pull. tehre is no resistance. tehn she asks for forward, and i say no! I want to stay on teh side. teh same pressure is on teh rope, and teh stick taps teh belly. I move. over and over. I still don't like teh rope- I has pull back tendencies. She says it is high time to learn to porcupine to pressure on teh head and soon it starts happening taht if my partner clucks and I don't move to teh trailer, teh rope starts to get a little tense. If I pull back, teh rope is suddnely strong as heck and I can't pull back! I has to stop, tehn step forwards. Teh rope is loose again. Teh rope is stronger tahn me- what teh heck? Tehn she asks again, and sumetimes has to remind me wiht teh tap on teh belly. She says its not teh normal way of doin' tihs loading stuff, but we have to be different to change teh way we normally react to tihngs.
Over and over again, I suddnely has no wanting to run very far backwards.She asks for forward on teh rope, and if i don't give, teh stick comes out to do teh annoying tap tap tap.
Teh weird part is taht my partner is IN teh trailer, and I am not. She says we are gonna do tihs together. And soon i figure out taht if I go into teh trailer when she clucks tehn no rope pulls and no sticks...and I gets a treat if i stay long enough! over and over and over. She says it doesn't matter if it takes 2 million tries.
Teh backing out part is trouble- i just has to run out fast- who knows wehn teh door closes? My partner doesn't buy it. In and out, over and over again. Soon I stays in teh trailer for lots of time, and she begins asking me to take a step forward in teh trailer! OMG! But i soon do it. and when i fly out, she asks me to come right back in- she says I has to learn to give to pressure on my head when she asks- and she will do nothing to hurt me. And about a million loads later, I can take a step forward and back in teh trailer, and i can back out halfway and go right back in with a cluck of teh tongue.
She says taht is teh right stuff, goe Ernies!!! And tehn we're done.
I dun't knowe waht tu tihnk of all tihs just yet. But she says we're doin' tihs every day tihs week. I dun't knowe why cuz teh trailer never takes me anywhere. Its weird- but teh treats are good!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Release that Teaches
I has been struggling wiht waht i want to do wiht my skillz of speeds. Manee human mares i knoe don't necessarilies enjoy my speeds, and I has a hard time trying to has slow moves. Sumtimes I worrie about it so much I has sickness and tenshuns in my muscles.
My current partner has notices teh tenshuns. She has lots of other human mares to help her figure out waht to do, and I has feelings of loss during tihs time. Sick of waiting for somewon to get it right, i'd rahter not do anyhting at alls. I has memories of my past tries and tribulashuns, and I dun't know if I can do it anymores.
I saw her worries on her face, and saw her trying to tihnk of waht to do. She asks me, "Ernies waht do you want? waht is best? if you want to be in teh pasture forever, taht's okay. if yu want to just goes, tahts has rightness too- we all has understandings and yu deserve to be free."
I has time to tihnk about it. In teh meantime, we just spend times in teh arena. I has no halter or rope, and i just run. First i has nervousness abut it. No one wants teh speed of Ernies- maybee not even me. My partner decides to chase me. WaHT? I has more nervousness. She says "just goe, as fast as yu can!!" I tries, but i tihnk she really wants slow ernies. Stop chasing me!
Teh next time she tries again. I has nervousness. I hate trotting, I cannot tihnk when i trot. She asks for canter. I goes, and I looks at her. A few laps, she says again, "just goes, as fast as yu can!" I cannot goes. She asks again. I still cannot- i don't knowe waht will happen to mee- she may has anger. She asks again, OMG I goes!
She stops moving, stops chasing mee. She just stands in teh middle. She waits for me tu stop moving. I look at her wiht my head high, tehn my head low- waht just happened? I goe to see her in teh middle and she gives me a treat, pets me and says I has good-boy tendencies. She tells me to not be afraid of my speed- it is my best quality of alls.
And just wehn i tihnk we are done, we go teh other way. Tihs time i goes fast teh first time she asks. And tehn she just waits for me to come back down- it doesn't matter how long it takes- I always get a treat at teh end.
Tihs weird game happened for a few days. Each day it seems easier for me to use my speeds. And for some reason, I begins to has better feelings. My partner sees me on sun-day, and says we are gonna ride todays.
Really? We gets ready. Saddle, bridle. We goes in teh arena, and someone is taking pickshures. We do some moving, and by now i knows its ok to use my speeds with her.
Tehn she climbs on. OMG do I use speeds now? I can't I can't I can't. But I has want to. She just sits there and tells me its OK. I break into trots, she goes too. OMG I can't do it. We stop. She says ok, and start again. OK, goes. Teh speed picks up and suddenlies we are cantering, but OMG i has to buck a little, i can't do tihs wiht a rider. She says to try. We goes again, its easier to canter. Around and around we goes- I want so much speed but teh arena is too small. she helps me stay up with teh reins and teh leg- she says don't fall down! Okays.
And soon its over. OMG I did it! She says, yes, yu did, and gets off.
Teh video of teh riding part. I still has good looks!
My current partner has notices teh tenshuns. She has lots of other human mares to help her figure out waht to do, and I has feelings of loss during tihs time. Sick of waiting for somewon to get it right, i'd rahter not do anyhting at alls. I has memories of my past tries and tribulashuns, and I dun't know if I can do it anymores.
I saw her worries on her face, and saw her trying to tihnk of waht to do. She asks me, "Ernies waht do you want? waht is best? if you want to be in teh pasture forever, taht's okay. if yu want to just goes, tahts has rightness too- we all has understandings and yu deserve to be free."
I has time to tihnk about it. In teh meantime, we just spend times in teh arena. I has no halter or rope, and i just run. First i has nervousness abut it. No one wants teh speed of Ernies- maybee not even me. My partner decides to chase me. WaHT? I has more nervousness. She says "just goe, as fast as yu can!!" I tries, but i tihnk she really wants slow ernies. Stop chasing me!
Teh next time she tries again. I has nervousness. I hate trotting, I cannot tihnk when i trot. She asks for canter. I goes, and I looks at her. A few laps, she says again, "just goes, as fast as yu can!" I cannot goes. She asks again. I still cannot- i don't knowe waht will happen to mee- she may has anger. She asks again, OMG I goes!
She stops moving, stops chasing mee. She just stands in teh middle. She waits for me tu stop moving. I look at her wiht my head high, tehn my head low- waht just happened? I goe to see her in teh middle and she gives me a treat, pets me and says I has good-boy tendencies. She tells me to not be afraid of my speed- it is my best quality of alls.
And just wehn i tihnk we are done, we go teh other way. Tihs time i goes fast teh first time she asks. And tehn she just waits for me to come back down- it doesn't matter how long it takes- I always get a treat at teh end.
Tihs weird game happened for a few days. Each day it seems easier for me to use my speeds. And for some reason, I begins to has better feelings. My partner sees me on sun-day, and says we are gonna ride todays.
Really? We gets ready. Saddle, bridle. We goes in teh arena, and someone is taking pickshures. We do some moving, and by now i knows its ok to use my speeds with her.
Tehn she climbs on. OMG do I use speeds now? I can't I can't I can't. But I has want to. She just sits there and tells me its OK. I break into trots, she goes too. OMG I can't do it. We stop. She says ok, and start again. OK, goes. Teh speed picks up and suddenlies we are cantering, but OMG i has to buck a little, i can't do tihs wiht a rider. She says to try. We goes again, its easier to canter. Around and around we goes- I want so much speed but teh arena is too small. she helps me stay up with teh reins and teh leg- she says don't fall down! Okays.
And soon its over. OMG I did it! She says, yes, yu did, and gets off.
Teh video of teh riding part. I still has good looks!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
To My Friends
Sorries! I has not had good internets for sumtimes for manee reasons. First my partner has sickness she called flavor poisoning. WAAHT?! Hasing sickness from flavors? Oh noes!
Tehn I needed sum times off to figure out exactlees waht I want to do. Maybee it has to do wiht teh winter weather but, I has teh blues. My partner has busies at work and can't make it to teh barhne lots. Tehn my partner scared mee by bringing in another mare and starting to play wiht ohter horses. I has so much sadness I dont even has feelings about taht. She tells me she tihnks I may need a break cuz I has bad 'tude about teh work.
But teh weather has had goodness- finally teh sun comes out for a few days, and teh ground gets better. I has 3 mare friends and life is good. I meets massage therapist who helps my muscles, though it has funny feelings and I don't know if i has likes for it. My partner also gives me tihs special stuff called flower essences (she has crazie mind, I knoe, but I takes it to not hurt her feelings) after tihs woman who can talks to animals talks to me and I tells her a few tihngs, mostly about my bad feelings, and waht I want to do in my life. I want to has speeds outside.
We start werking again- but a little bit differentlies. Normally i has a lot of challenge to do teh trots. So we don't do much of taht anymore. A littel, cuz it has importance, but my partner is trying to push me to has speeds. I don't knowe my feelings about tihs. I has worries cuz I don't know if she can handle my speeds. I hasn't really opened up yet, but maybee one of tehse days I will.
So all in alls I has much better feelings. Hopefullys i will has more updates in teh coming days.
Tehn I needed sum times off to figure out exactlees waht I want to do. Maybee it has to do wiht teh winter weather but, I has teh blues. My partner has busies at work and can't make it to teh barhne lots. Tehn my partner scared mee by bringing in another mare and starting to play wiht ohter horses. I has so much sadness I dont even has feelings about taht. She tells me she tihnks I may need a break cuz I has bad 'tude about teh work.
But teh weather has had goodness- finally teh sun comes out for a few days, and teh ground gets better. I has 3 mare friends and life is good. I meets massage therapist who helps my muscles, though it has funny feelings and I don't know if i has likes for it. My partner also gives me tihs special stuff called flower essences (she has crazie mind, I knoe, but I takes it to not hurt her feelings) after tihs woman who can talks to animals talks to me and I tells her a few tihngs, mostly about my bad feelings, and waht I want to do in my life. I want to has speeds outside.
We start werking again- but a little bit differentlies. Normally i has a lot of challenge to do teh trots. So we don't do much of taht anymore. A littel, cuz it has importance, but my partner is trying to push me to has speeds. I don't knowe my feelings about tihs. I has worries cuz I don't know if she can handle my speeds. I hasn't really opened up yet, but maybee one of tehse days I will.
So all in alls I has much better feelings. Hopefullys i will has more updates in teh coming days.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Poke N Prod Pony Day
Well, teh poking and teh prodding happened today. I has no good feelings abut tihs. Well okays, it wasn't so bad. Has fleckshuns testing too. I has clean fleckshuns except for some minor stuff many horses have.
But my back has 'nother story. Has such tightness taht teh vet had hard time even feeling teh spine, nevermind adjusting, which I didn't really like anyways. Recommends massage to loooooosen me up between adjustments.
So now my partner has to find me one of tehse human mares who knows how to do tihs. If yu know of anyone, let me knowes please.
Tahnks!
But my back has 'nother story. Has such tightness taht teh vet had hard time even feeling teh spine, nevermind adjusting, which I didn't really like anyways. Recommends massage to loooooosen me up between adjustments.
So now my partner has to find me one of tehse human mares who knows how to do tihs. If yu know of anyone, let me knowes please.
Tahnks!
Buzzzzzz, I has even better looks now!
Yesterday started totally normals. Went outside, ate with my mares, toyed wiht Franks on teh other side of teh fence. Partner came, brings me afternoon snacks to eat while normal groomings.
When I finish my snack, My partner tells me we are gonna do sometihng different. Like wahts, I say? Well since yu ask, she says....here! She shows me a small stick and its going like BUZZZZZZZZZZ. I go, OMG is a bug stuck in tehere? Beeeeeees! NOOOOO!
She laughs and says, chill out. She walks away and then turns it back on. Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. She's not getting stung. Waht teh hell? She shuts it off. She has teh power! She brings it closer, turns it on again. Buzzzzzz. OK, so teh bees are trapped, I get it.
Turns it off and touches me wiht teh stick. Okays. Turns it on. touches again....omg I love teh massage on my mouth! BUZZ BUZZ don't stop! Ooooooooooooooo.
So we played wiht this for awhiles- turns out i gots a trim on my muzzle and under my jaw and stuff. My partner says it'll be easier now to fasten up teh bridle. Hmm okays. I'm just happy I has even better looks for teh mares.
When I finish my snack, My partner tells me we are gonna do sometihng different. Like wahts, I say? Well since yu ask, she says....here! She shows me a small stick and its going like BUZZZZZZZZZZ. I go, OMG is a bug stuck in tehere? Beeeeeees! NOOOOO!
She laughs and says, chill out. She walks away and then turns it back on. Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. She's not getting stung. Waht teh hell? She shuts it off. She has teh power! She brings it closer, turns it on again. Buzzzzzz. OK, so teh bees are trapped, I get it.
Turns it off and touches me wiht teh stick. Okays. Turns it on. touches again....omg I love teh massage on my mouth! BUZZ BUZZ don't stop! Ooooooooooooooo.
So we played wiht this for awhiles- turns out i gots a trim on my muzzle and under my jaw and stuff. My partner says it'll be easier now to fasten up teh bridle. Hmm okays. I'm just happy I has even better looks for teh mares.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Ernie teh Predator
Bwahahaha, I has so much fun again todays. Ok, not so much wehn my partner comes to mees and says "Ernie just a minute yu need to be dewormed again, but yu has such large size, yu need many tubes" Somehting called instistent strong something. I has worries I has bugs in me. Damn. Do teh dewormer, equines.
But back to teh fun! Since we're in teh businezz of killin' stuff todays, I has predator tendencies too.
Taht ball has NOT escaped teh arena, and I was so gonna kill it before my partner stopped me. Teh stroke of death goes like tihs: bite teh ball. Swing leg over teh ball. Use head and neck tu lock it in. Tehn lay entire bodee on it. Wait for partner to run over to say "stop it!" and take off laughing. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
She tehn challenges me wiht a plastic bag on a stick. Whatevers, I eat those for lunch. STOMP STOMP STOMP MUNCH CHASE when it moves.
I point to teh plastic and I tell teh ball, "hey Greenie, tihs is what yu has to look forwards to" STOMP.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH.
But back to teh fun! Since we're in teh businezz of killin' stuff todays, I has predator tendencies too.
Taht ball has NOT escaped teh arena, and I was so gonna kill it before my partner stopped me. Teh stroke of death goes like tihs: bite teh ball. Swing leg over teh ball. Use head and neck tu lock it in. Tehn lay entire bodee on it. Wait for partner to run over to say "stop it!" and take off laughing. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
She tehn challenges me wiht a plastic bag on a stick. Whatevers, I eat those for lunch. STOMP STOMP STOMP MUNCH CHASE when it moves.
I point to teh plastic and I tell teh ball, "hey Greenie, tihs is what yu has to look forwards to" STOMP.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Has a Ball!
OMG I LOFF my new friend Juliane. Yesterdays she brought over teh best tihng ever. A big green ball! I has tons of fun wiht it. We gots some videos and pictshures, but teh indoor suns don't werk very well for videos and stuff.
Click here for teh video of me rippin' it up!
Click here for teh video of me rippin' it up!
Has Fat!
It has been a long winter of lots of inside times and under blankets to keeps warm. Yesterday with teh help of my human mare friend Juliane, I has pictures taken of me outside.
Here is me. Notice how much handsome I has, which is why I basically has to wear a sheet- to hide it from teh mares in teh pasture. Though my partner says I need to be vacuumed cuz I has dust magnet properties. I dun't knowe waht taht is really so I has no worry.
Hey good lookin'....
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Head Banger
OMG today I has teh worst headache. I can't even stand it.
We has boredom today, so we decided to do sometihng outside of teh arena. My partner realizes I hasn't really ever seen teh ohter side of teh barn, or explored teh front with all teh new gravels. So we goes tehre.
I got to walks on gravels up and downs, sniff lots of stuff, go to teh trailer, back over teh streams of waters, jump over tehm too *grins* Tihs all has fun.
Until we goes into teh ohter side of teh barn. Concern #1: washrack. Its ok, just white and eery looking. Nohting good can come of standing in tehere, i just feel it. But I did it anyway and we played wiht teh hose but no waterz cuz its cold! My partner said all I has to do is hold teh mats down on teh floor wiht my hooves ohterwise tehy will float away. Easy enough.
Concern #2: Whiles I has a nap in tehre, I start hearing bang, BaNg, BANG BANG BANG! I looks up and teh biggest horse I has ever seen is in a stall smashing his hoof into teh wall cuz he wants us to see him. Ohh wahtevers, hi big horse. BANG BANG BANG BANG! I looks at my partner and says "I has to leave cuz I can't take anymore banging." BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG She agrees and we leaves. But we both has headeaches now tahnks to teh big horse.
We goes back and each has snacks and tehn I go back to teh pasture to nurse my hurting head and Faith goes to get ridden, hahahaha.
We has boredom today, so we decided to do sometihng outside of teh arena. My partner realizes I hasn't really ever seen teh ohter side of teh barn, or explored teh front with all teh new gravels. So we goes tehre.
I got to walks on gravels up and downs, sniff lots of stuff, go to teh trailer, back over teh streams of waters, jump over tehm too *grins* Tihs all has fun.
Until we goes into teh ohter side of teh barn. Concern #1: washrack. Its ok, just white and eery looking. Nohting good can come of standing in tehere, i just feel it. But I did it anyway and we played wiht teh hose but no waterz cuz its cold! My partner said all I has to do is hold teh mats down on teh floor wiht my hooves ohterwise tehy will float away. Easy enough.
Concern #2: Whiles I has a nap in tehre, I start hearing bang, BaNg, BANG BANG BANG! I looks up and teh biggest horse I has ever seen is in a stall smashing his hoof into teh wall cuz he wants us to see him. Ohh wahtevers, hi big horse. BANG BANG BANG BANG! I looks at my partner and says "I has to leave cuz I can't take anymore banging." BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG She agrees and we leaves. But we both has headeaches now tahnks to teh big horse.
We goes back and each has snacks and tehn I go back to teh pasture to nurse my hurting head and Faith goes to get ridden, hahahaha.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Big Circle, Little Circle
Ohhh yesterdays was interesting. First of all, a new mare came to live with mees. I saw her, I tihnk she's beaoootiful.
Teh problem was taht i has work to do and teh new mare was in teh arena. Even though she has good looks, she takes up space and I need teh arena to myself. Oh okays my partner says, its nice to share. Fine. But i has talls and fats, and i need space!
So we played a new game cuz we needed a break from teh poles, which keep getting taller, by teh way- and tehy must be breeding cuz each time we play tehre are more poles to work wiht. Teh new game is called big circle, little circle. at first I tihnk tihs game has stupidness, but tehn I see how it works. We start at a walk, my partner at my shoulder on teh big circle. she asks me to bend my head around a little bit, then take a step sideways wiht my front hooves. We do tihs a bunch of times. tehn teh small circle happens. but tihs time my partner stays in teh center and asks for soft head and points at my shoulders, I gives. tehn after a lap teh circle gets bigger and i suddenly has teh urge to streeeetch down and make springy steps. when i get stiffs and stop stretchings, we make teh circle smaller again and start over. Tehn we go teh other direction, tehn we progress to teh trots.
Tihs is very hard werk and only athletic equinez shuld try it. but I can doe it cuz I is just taht type. My new mare was impressed.
Teh problem was taht i has work to do and teh new mare was in teh arena. Even though she has good looks, she takes up space and I need teh arena to myself. Oh okays my partner says, its nice to share. Fine. But i has talls and fats, and i need space!
So we played a new game cuz we needed a break from teh poles, which keep getting taller, by teh way- and tehy must be breeding cuz each time we play tehre are more poles to work wiht. Teh new game is called big circle, little circle. at first I tihnk tihs game has stupidness, but tehn I see how it works. We start at a walk, my partner at my shoulder on teh big circle. she asks me to bend my head around a little bit, then take a step sideways wiht my front hooves. We do tihs a bunch of times. tehn teh small circle happens. but tihs time my partner stays in teh center and asks for soft head and points at my shoulders, I gives. tehn after a lap teh circle gets bigger and i suddenly has teh urge to streeeetch down and make springy steps. when i get stiffs and stop stretchings, we make teh circle smaller again and start over. Tehn we go teh other direction, tehn we progress to teh trots.
Tihs is very hard werk and only athletic equinez shuld try it. but I can doe it cuz I is just taht type. My new mare was impressed.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Hot to Trot!
I'm just sayin'....I has teh looks. My partner has been pushing my fat bum over trotting poles to make me lifts my hooves up cuz she says I may just be lazy or sumtehing. I dunno, don't feel lazy but maby i has it?
Todays when she was putting teh pole puzzles together she brought me into teh arena so i could have a good dry roll in teh dirt. after teh roll i followed her arounds and soon after we gots down to it. HOLY CRAP teh sides of teh poles are lifted off teh ground...and tehere is too manee to jump. te first pole teh left side is up, teh second pole teh right side...and tehn teh left and finalee teh right (we has only 4 poles- we has needs for more)
After all tihs crazy work we stayed inside to cool down cuz it was rainin' hard and i didn't want to get wet. I has a good walk and i feel my partners eyes on me. and tehn i hear teh words "Ernies, yu is a hottie." Who mee? I never knew ;)
Todays when she was putting teh pole puzzles together she brought me into teh arena so i could have a good dry roll in teh dirt. after teh roll i followed her arounds and soon after we gots down to it. HOLY CRAP teh sides of teh poles are lifted off teh ground...and tehere is too manee to jump. te first pole teh left side is up, teh second pole teh right side...and tehn teh left and finalee teh right (we has only 4 poles- we has needs for more)
After all tihs crazy work we stayed inside to cool down cuz it was rainin' hard and i didn't want to get wet. I has a good walk and i feel my partners eyes on me. and tehn i hear teh words "Ernies, yu is a hottie." Who mee? I never knew ;)
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Pole Dancing
Winter is teh worst cuz we're stuck inside wiht teh fake suns. Teh ground is OK, though. Just small. I has boredom- so does my partner. On teh never-ending quest to build top of teh line muscles, we keep werking. But shakes it up a bit- lets do different stuffs, okays?
So one night we has long lining day. It was so much funs- long lines, zipping around teh arena one way tehn teh other way walks and trots, weeeee! Teh only tihng missing was teh cart- too small for one- but I culd so pull it.
Teh next afternoon was back to teh longe- but tihs time we use poles on teh ground- 4 of tehm, like a compass. All I has to do is step over tehm. Sounds easy, ehs? NOT! i has to keep moving at teh same pace, which means I has to stretch my legs to make it over teh poles. I has to bend my hocks, wich sux, to be honest. And If i dont look where I has to go, I trip and look stupid. Its really hard werk! My partner let me use teh body wrap which helped a lot wiht knowing where all my bits and parts were.
Tehn last night we did teh same tihng, but we has 2 big circles- warms up without poles, tehn the one center pole in teh middle, tehn we drift from one end to teh other- so sumetimes I has poles to go over, ohter times not. Tehn after taht we moved all teh poles down one of teh long sides. Tehn my partner drove me over teh set up- just walking for nows. She says soon we will raise teh poles a little but not for jumping. Darn it. I has good jumps.
So one might ask mee, "Ernies, how yu get so much energies to do all tihs stuff?" I tell yu. For teh last few days I has been getting special powers from tihs magic stuff in a tube called PowerPac. My partner says today is teh last day of getting teh power, but now I has it permanently in my bodee until next year. Tu much powers and yu can overdose and get sick- no good.
One last tihng before I goes. Tank Yu to Mister Baker for fixing my driving lines. Teh snap broke many months ago and so we has to use 2 different kinds of ropes- wich was noe goods. Now we can go back to driving teh right way! And tahnk yu to Valerie and Blanket Express for fixing my coats so nice. I hope teh mares don't rip tehm again, trying to get to mee ;)
So one night we has long lining day. It was so much funs- long lines, zipping around teh arena one way tehn teh other way walks and trots, weeeee! Teh only tihng missing was teh cart- too small for one- but I culd so pull it.
Teh next afternoon was back to teh longe- but tihs time we use poles on teh ground- 4 of tehm, like a compass. All I has to do is step over tehm. Sounds easy, ehs? NOT! i has to keep moving at teh same pace, which means I has to stretch my legs to make it over teh poles. I has to bend my hocks, wich sux, to be honest. And If i dont look where I has to go, I trip and look stupid. Its really hard werk! My partner let me use teh body wrap which helped a lot wiht knowing where all my bits and parts were.
Tehn last night we did teh same tihng, but we has 2 big circles- warms up without poles, tehn the one center pole in teh middle, tehn we drift from one end to teh other- so sumetimes I has poles to go over, ohter times not. Tehn after taht we moved all teh poles down one of teh long sides. Tehn my partner drove me over teh set up- just walking for nows. She says soon we will raise teh poles a little but not for jumping. Darn it. I has good jumps.
So one might ask mee, "Ernies, how yu get so much energies to do all tihs stuff?" I tell yu. For teh last few days I has been getting special powers from tihs magic stuff in a tube called PowerPac. My partner says today is teh last day of getting teh power, but now I has it permanently in my bodee until next year. Tu much powers and yu can overdose and get sick- no good.
One last tihng before I goes. Tank Yu to Mister Baker for fixing my driving lines. Teh snap broke many months ago and so we has to use 2 different kinds of ropes- wich was noe goods. Now we can go back to driving teh right way! And tahnk yu to Valerie and Blanket Express for fixing my coats so nice. I hope teh mares don't rip tehm again, trying to get to mee ;)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Winter Sux!
First of alls, let me say I has nohting to do wiht teh horses taking down teh fence. It was all Franks and teh others.
Second of alls, let me say: I hate winters. Today I has a special treat cuz my favurite Pam teh Trimmer came and did my hooves. I has good manners, she luvs me. All teh human mares do- teh horse ones too!
My partner luvs me today too- I has such better moves tehse days- today I was warming up and i streeeeetched all teh way down for all teh laps on teh longe- and took big steps too- no tiny ones like i used to. I impressed all who watched.
But dun't make me goe back in teh rain!!! Ewwwww. Is taht how yu treat a fine horse like mee? Guess so, cuz yu made me go back out teher.
Second of alls, let me say: I hate winters. Today I has a special treat cuz my favurite Pam teh Trimmer came and did my hooves. I has good manners, she luvs me. All teh human mares do- teh horse ones too!
My partner luvs me today too- I has such better moves tehse days- today I was warming up and i streeeeetched all teh way down for all teh laps on teh longe- and took big steps too- no tiny ones like i used to. I impressed all who watched.
But dun't make me goe back in teh rain!!! Ewwwww. Is taht how yu treat a fine horse like mee? Guess so, cuz yu made me go back out teher.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy Birthsdayz!
To equines teh world over- happy birthday! And to teh human partners, has a happy new year (dunt ask ur horses if tehy has resolutions- cuz we don't- its only something yu do as humans)!Uf course we each has individule days to celebrate, but tihs is teh official day- so I hopes you all got special prezents. I gots a carrot and had to share with Faith. Yum yum yum!Teh wind has been amazing today- it keeps opening a gate down by teh pasture- and BANG scares teh mares every time. And so, todays I do not leave teh pasture to do work- it has importance to stay and protect teh herd. On days like tehse it is best to stick together- or at least in pairs. In tihs pictshure you can see Faiths has a hiding spot behind my bum teh gate is just out of view down teh road. Dun't worry, I has talls and strongs, so I can protect my marez.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Libertee
Sumtimes after lots of hard werk, its good to take a break and has playtime.
Yesterdays my partner and I has fun with no ropes. First tehre was ropes- teh long one. But i still has backing up with just teh finger wagging. Over a pole, between teh jumps- I has skillz backing up!
Circles and sideways too- i can do it all.
Teh best fun was when we took teh ropes off. My partner had a small jump set up and I LUV jumping! so we plays first to make sure we want to stick togethers, and then wooheee we jumps! Ok i jumps cuz i has teh longer legs. so much fun! she points teh finger and i take off- weee! Tehn teh other way!
Tehn we plays circling which is hard cuz teh arena is not a circle- but I knows what to do- and sometimes i take teh jump just for fun- other times i goe around for breaks.
We has lots of fun, and if my flavors weren't waitinf for mee in teh stall, I wuld've stayed longer jumpings.
Yesterdays my partner and I has fun with no ropes. First tehre was ropes- teh long one. But i still has backing up with just teh finger wagging. Over a pole, between teh jumps- I has skillz backing up!
Circles and sideways too- i can do it all.
Teh best fun was when we took teh ropes off. My partner had a small jump set up and I LUV jumping! so we plays first to make sure we want to stick togethers, and then wooheee we jumps! Ok i jumps cuz i has teh longer legs. so much fun! she points teh finger and i take off- weee! Tehn teh other way!
Tehn we plays circling which is hard cuz teh arena is not a circle- but I knows what to do- and sometimes i take teh jump just for fun- other times i goe around for breaks.
We has lots of fun, and if my flavors weren't waitinf for mee in teh stall, I wuld've stayed longer jumpings.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Teh Hardest Werk Ever!
Hai! It has been so long since my last post. I has taken some time off posting cuz nothing new has happenings. I cannot has boring tendencies on my blogs- so I just dun't write anything.
Well, yesterdays I had teh hardest werk out ever. Feels good after, but really, it was so hard.
First reason it was hard: 2 other horses shared teh arena with me! Whatever, tihs gelding who has talls and fats needs his space. We has goings in different directions sumtimes and I swear tehy were aiming to crash into mees. How can a horse concentrate wiht all tihs stuff goings on?
And I guess teh second reason teh workout was hard was cuz i perhaps culd've paid more attentions and has more trust onto my partner. I realized by teh end all she was asking me to do was teh same stuff we've been doing all along. But seriouslies it didn't seem taht way with teh other horses in tehre.
I tolded her i culd not longe in teh arena wiht teh horses. Oh yes you can she says, try it. Ok I tries, but i bend teh wrong way to make shure tehy dun't crash or kick mee. No she says, bend teh right way. Hmm no, I tihnk its better to go faster and keep bending teh other way- or just not move at alls. Nope she says, not an option, GO FORWARD, don't care waht speed as long as yu go. Ok FINE but if a horse kicks mees, I is gonna has madness towards yu. Trust she says. I has so much fast cuz I just didn't believe i could make it 'round teh other horses. So we goes and goes and goes. So a little of taht and no horses crashed. So i finally slowes and do my works.
Ok so it turns out she has rightness and knowes we has space to do our job. I guess she can see teh ground better cuz she's shorter tehn me and is closer to it. From up heres, it looks like no room atalls.
She says i was making teh whole tihng much harder tehn it needed to be. And by teh time she helped me figure it out, I was definitelies sweaty cuz I has so much running. We has nice long cool out and practice walking in "Teh hand" as she says but wiht my head down down down, like i was gonna roll in teh dirt but kept walking instead. And wehn teh steam was off my backs we goes inside.
I feels so good after hasing hard werkouts- I shall be in tip top shapes in no time.
Well, yesterdays I had teh hardest werk out ever. Feels good after, but really, it was so hard.
First reason it was hard: 2 other horses shared teh arena with me! Whatever, tihs gelding who has talls and fats needs his space. We has goings in different directions sumtimes and I swear tehy were aiming to crash into mees. How can a horse concentrate wiht all tihs stuff goings on?
And I guess teh second reason teh workout was hard was cuz i perhaps culd've paid more attentions and has more trust onto my partner. I realized by teh end all she was asking me to do was teh same stuff we've been doing all along. But seriouslies it didn't seem taht way with teh other horses in tehre.
I tolded her i culd not longe in teh arena wiht teh horses. Oh yes you can she says, try it. Ok I tries, but i bend teh wrong way to make shure tehy dun't crash or kick mee. No she says, bend teh right way. Hmm no, I tihnk its better to go faster and keep bending teh other way- or just not move at alls. Nope she says, not an option, GO FORWARD, don't care waht speed as long as yu go. Ok FINE but if a horse kicks mees, I is gonna has madness towards yu. Trust she says. I has so much fast cuz I just didn't believe i could make it 'round teh other horses. So we goes and goes and goes. So a little of taht and no horses crashed. So i finally slowes and do my works.
Ok so it turns out she has rightness and knowes we has space to do our job. I guess she can see teh ground better cuz she's shorter tehn me and is closer to it. From up heres, it looks like no room atalls.
She says i was making teh whole tihng much harder tehn it needed to be. And by teh time she helped me figure it out, I was definitelies sweaty cuz I has so much running. We has nice long cool out and practice walking in "Teh hand" as she says but wiht my head down down down, like i was gonna roll in teh dirt but kept walking instead. And wehn teh steam was off my backs we goes inside.
I feels so good after hasing hard werkouts- I shall be in tip top shapes in no time.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Bending Blues
I culdn't belieeve it when my partner showed up at teh barn today. Ew, it was raining and cold! But not for me cuz I has a waterproot 220gram high neck rug on. Oh but tehn I rememberd, we have teh arena wiht teh cover and teh fake suns. And latelies my partner spends time watering teh dirt in tehre..so far no grass is growing, teh suns aren't strong enough I guess.
Anyways, todays I get tacked up wiht teh saddle, which is a change cuz latelies I has been doing ground work. Whatever, no big deal. Tehn teh boots on, and tehn to teh arena. Warming up I showed my partner how much practice of streching and trotting all at once. My steps are still a little small, but I has stretches and it has good feeling.
Once warmed up, we do real stretches of teh legs, I has hard times stretching my hind legs. My partner laughs and says I need yoga. Is taht a flavor? If so I want it!!
A little more work on teh longe, and tehn we go for a ride. Apparentlies tehre is a lot of decisions to be made cuz I want to control teh bit and I want to control wehre we goes and teh speed. And apparentlies taht is not waht my partner had in mind. So todays I tried to ignore her leg until it was so damn annoying I just muved over already. and tehn teh other way. I didn't really like this at all, but muving to teh right from teh left leg was much better for me. teh other way has difficulties! I try to grab teh bit and run away, but taht doesn't work so well- but I still try every now and again.
Wahtever, we didn't even has speed. No trottings. Just tihs moving over stuff. Bending tihs way and taht, me trying to eat teh reins inbetween cuz I am hungry and wants flavors and don't really want to do much more of tihs.
Finally it was all over and I got my flavors afterall. Good ones too, but nothing new in teh bucket.
Anyways, todays I get tacked up wiht teh saddle, which is a change cuz latelies I has been doing ground work. Whatever, no big deal. Tehn teh boots on, and tehn to teh arena. Warming up I showed my partner how much practice of streching and trotting all at once. My steps are still a little small, but I has stretches and it has good feeling.
Once warmed up, we do real stretches of teh legs, I has hard times stretching my hind legs. My partner laughs and says I need yoga. Is taht a flavor? If so I want it!!
A little more work on teh longe, and tehn we go for a ride. Apparentlies tehre is a lot of decisions to be made cuz I want to control teh bit and I want to control wehre we goes and teh speed. And apparentlies taht is not waht my partner had in mind. So todays I tried to ignore her leg until it was so damn annoying I just muved over already. and tehn teh other way. I didn't really like this at all, but muving to teh right from teh left leg was much better for me. teh other way has difficulties! I try to grab teh bit and run away, but taht doesn't work so well- but I still try every now and again.
Wahtever, we didn't even has speed. No trottings. Just tihs moving over stuff. Bending tihs way and taht, me trying to eat teh reins inbetween cuz I am hungry and wants flavors and don't really want to do much more of tihs.
Finally it was all over and I got my flavors afterall. Good ones too, but nothing new in teh bucket.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Getting teh Hang of It
I really don't want to admit tihs, but I tihnk my partner has rightness wehn she asked me to soften to teh bit. And maybee she has rightness wehn she says I shuld try to stretch wehn I trots. Waht I didn't knoe tehn is taht teh whole system helps me has better moves, which I definitelies want!
So the past cuple dayz we has been playing on teh longeing line and on teh ground, mostlie working on my manners wiht teh bridling process and making better moves trotting. My partner says I has to build more top of teh line muscles.
No matter how much ass-behavur I has, no matter waht I do taht may make sumeone mad or scared, my partner has no anger to me. I really don't get it. She just says "try again." She has no scaredness or madness about teh tinhgs I don't like and try to get away from. Wehn I see her not so scared and has focused look on teh job, I realize maybe I shuld has more focus too and perhaps maybee less ass-behavur.
She told me I worked hard yesterday. I tried my verry best. Like I has said before, I has no problem pleasing teh mares.
So the past cuple dayz we has been playing on teh longeing line and on teh ground, mostlie working on my manners wiht teh bridling process and making better moves trotting. My partner says I has to build more top of teh line muscles.
No matter how much ass-behavur I has, no matter waht I do taht may make sumeone mad or scared, my partner has no anger to me. I really don't get it. She just says "try again." She has no scaredness or madness about teh tinhgs I don't like and try to get away from. Wehn I see her not so scared and has focused look on teh job, I realize maybe I shuld has more focus too and perhaps maybee less ass-behavur.
She told me I worked hard yesterday. I tried my verry best. Like I has said before, I has no problem pleasing teh mares.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Bit o' Fun
Humph. Apparently teh idea behind my tooths getting a float was so I could start wearing a bit. Lets say teh first day I has bad feelings towards tihs idea. But my partner tells me I culd has so much softness and better talks wiht her if I gives it a try. Ok, so I tried to pull teh reins out of her hands, hahaha. I knowes I shuldn't do taht but I like to try to chew on teh reins.
She kept trying to change my mind and finally it worked, but I was pretty stubborn about keeping to my ideas. I guess it does feel better tihs way afteralls.
She kept trying to change my mind and finally it worked, but I was pretty stubborn about keeping to my ideas. I guess it does feel better tihs way afteralls.
Monday, November 19, 2007
A Letter to teh Big Guy...
Dear Santas,
I has had very good manners tihs year. I eats all my flavors and takes people for rides.
Taht said, I wuld like to ask yu for a Christmas present. I wuld like to have a pair of easy boot epics. My hooves has better feelings wiht tehese boots and I has better moves. Teh size I need is 2. New or gently used is ok- whatever yu have at yur shop.
Otehr tahn that, flavors! I luv tehm.
Love,
Ernies
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