Well, I have a lot to catch up on even though I only missed one day of my blog. My life is just so interesting! There's always stuff happening. Really, I'm a very lucky horse.
Yesterday, Mom came and got me out and then got Spark out and we had a hay snack together. We'd just finished it when Spark's mom arrived! That was nice. Spark and I figured we'd get to ride together and that's always fun. First though, our moms took us to the Pony Arena for a turnout.
I was so happy about that because I was very frisky. I think my mom knew it because she put my chain lead on over my nose. She hardly ever uses that one anymore because I'm mostly a Good Girl but every now and then when I'm especially bouncy, she does. She's gentle with it and never yanks on it or anything but it does remind me to behave.
First we stopped for a drink at the trough like we always do and then Mom brought me into the arena. Then she made me stand there and wait while Spark examined the trough and decided that it wasn't going to eat him. I think I've mentioned that Spark is kind of nervous about water. You'd think he'd be all right with a trough since he has one in his pasture but it's a different trough and I think he gets kind of freaked out by my splashing and playing.
So I had to wait. It seemed to take forever! I was fidgeting and bouncing and trying to rear and Mom was making me stand and be good and I could hardly contain myself. Finally, Sparky's mom brought him in and let him loose and my mom took my lead off and I just FLEW across that arena, bucking and snorting and playing! I raced up to Spark and slid to a stop in front of him, reared right up in the air and tried to bite him, came down and bucked and asked him to run - I just wanted to go!
Mom flipped the whip at us and we got moving, Spark trotting nicely and me putting my head down and pounding for the other side! Oh, it felt good! I ran and played and bucked and reared and kicked and snorted! Spark got into the spirit too and ran with me a little bit and then got all snorty and dancy when he heard some people talking beyond the fence. It was a lot of fun.
One of the girls that works with the Camp Kids was watching and she pet us and talked to our moms once we were calmed down. She thought we were pretty. That was nice.
When we were all done running, our moms put our leads back on and led us out. I was still kind of bouncy and tried to bolt and buck when we left but Mom made the Bad Girl noise at me and I remembered to behave. She let me have another drink and then we walked back to the barn to get saddled up. We rode up the hill to the Gremlin Arena and went in there.
There were already two horses and their people in there trotting around but we joined them and did a lap around at a walk. Then my mom asked me to trot and before I even thought about it, I broke right into it. I was so eager to go along with the other horses that I forgot that I didn't like to trot. As it turned out, it was fine. My back didn't hurt at all and my mom felt perfectly fine up there. I was happy about that and we trotted around a few times. Spark was trotting too and he was feeling great as well.
Then the other two horses left so we had the arena to ourselves. We went the other way and trotted again. It was great. I usually have trouble bending in that direction but I really didn't yesterday. I was just trotting along like it was no big deal. Spark did the same and he used to have trouble that way too. I was hoping that Mom would let me canter when the Bad Thing happened. Spark's mom asked him to canter and he popped right into a beautiful, smooth canter as nice as you could want. I was in the middle of the arena watching and suddenly he stepped in a soft spot in the dirt and lost his footing. He tripped and came right down on one knee and his mom pitched off over his head.
I felt really bad for Spark. And for his mom. It can't be any fun to fall off a horse but I know it's no fun for a horse to fall down. Spark was shook up, you could tell. And he felt bad because no one likes having your mom fall off you. You always feel like it's your fault. She was okay and checked him over. He seemed to be all right, just shook up so she got back on and just walked him around a bit and then we rode home. There's no sense pushing it when you've just fallen. Sometimes you can't tell if you've hurt yourself until after you've rested.
Today just my mom came and she got both of us out again. Spark told me while we were eating our hay that his knee was kind of painful. I tried to be nice to him on account of that, and not lay my ears back when he ate my hay. Kia squealed at him a few times because he was tied in front of her stall. Oh, yeah, Kia's back and I saw Beau in the trailer when she got off it so I bet he's back in his old stall. It's too bad he's not next to me anymore but at least I have Kia. I missed having someone there.
After Mom did my stall, she put me back in it and took Spark away. I saw her hosing off his leg. That's what she does when we have hurting parts. She's done that with my bites. It does help. The cool water feels good on it and it helps bring the swelling down. Later when she walked him past, I could smell liniment on him so she must have put some of that on as well. That will help, too. She's used liniment on me. It smells funny but it feels good.
Then she got me out and we went to the Round Pen. She started free lungeing me and I was kind of trotting around a bit when she told me to get going. She flicked the whip and I speeded up a little bit but not much. I just didn't feel like it. So she flicked it again and then started trotting next to me! Well, that was fun! I started trotting faster so we could race and she trotted along with me and suddenly I saw her change into a canter.
Well, if she was going to canter, I was too so I broke into a nice canter. She laughed and called me a Good Girl and we cantered around and then she went back to a trot so I did too. We trotted for a little bit and then she cantered again so I cantered. It was so much fun to run with my mom! I loved it. Then she slowed down to a trot so I did and then she stopped so I did, too. She was breathing kind of hard but laughing and she told me I had to keep going but I wasn't going to if she didn't. It was too much fun doing it together and I didn't want to do it alone.
She ran around with me a little more and then we did some of our fun games where she walks around and I follow her. She had me back up with her and go in circles and lots of those things. I like those games. Then she hugged me and told me I'm the best horse ever and we went and got me some cookies and brought me back to my stall where I had my bucket dinner. It was a nice day. I sure hope Spark feels better tomorrow though.
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