Accident prone

I threw a shoe today. I'm not sure how it happened. It came loose and I lost it in my stall. It was the same back foot I've lost shoes on a couple of other times. Mom says I'm accident prone.

Hopefully the Shoe Man will be along to put it back on soon. I imagine Mom told him about it. She noticed it first thing. She sighed and said, "Oh, Bella!" I didn't mean to throw my shoe. It just happened.

But it meant that we couldn't ride today which is too bad. I was pretty frisky and looking forward to it. In fact, when Mom brought me out to the Flat Arena to lunge I was so frisky that I kept breaking into a fast canter and kicking up my heels. I was pretty silly. It was fun though. She'd ask me to trot and I would but then I'd suddenly burst into a canter and tear off to the end of the lunge line, bucking! She didn't get mad at me though because I wasn't pulling away or anything - every time I did it, I'd hit the end of the lunge line and she'd just tweak it a little and I knew I had to come around to get back into a circle. We know each other pretty well now, my mom and me.

I got a good workout lungeing. It was awfully fun! Mom didn't really ask me to do anything special - she just let me play and run. Toward the end, she had me walk, trot and canter both ways just to show I could do it I suppose and I did, then she stopped me and petted me and gave me a cookie. I like cookies. She walked me around a little and hosed me off, too. Then she looked at my feet again and told me I hadn't messed up my bare foot which is good. I don't want to have to go through that whole bandaging and soaking thing again! That was no fun at all.

It's funny. I seem to have lots more accidents and problems than Sparky does. And even when he does have them, they heal up faster. He shared my hay snack again today and I was sniffing at a bite he has on his shoulder. He got it out in the pasture a few days ago and it looked awful! His mom put medicine on it and my mom did too when she took care of him but today it was almost all healed up. It was lots worse than the bite I had last week but mine took forever to get better. I guess I'm just more delicate than he is.

Sparky has good feet too. He has big round feet and he doesn't wear shoes. He told me he never has! My feet would hurt something awful if I didn't wear shoes. And they'd get all worn down. His feet are like rocks. He just clops along on them everywhere and they never hurt. He's lucky. My feet aren't terrible but they're not hard like his. And for some reason one of them just doesn't want to hold a shoe.

I hope the Shoe Man comes to fix it soon. I don't like it when I can't get out and do stuff.