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.

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 ;)

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 ;)

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.

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.

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.

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.