Play day

I had such a good time today! It was wonderful and I can't think of the last time I had that much fun.

My mom got to the barn and cleaned my stall. She got Sparky out too and gave him a little hay snack. I didn't think anything of it because she often does that but when she got done with my stall she grabbed his lead and then grabbed mine and started leading us together.

I was pretty excited and frisky. We hadn't ridden yesterday so I was frisky anyway and it's always exciting when Mom leads us together. So I was kind of bouncy and ready to go while Sparky was sort of pokey and kept lagging behind. It made it hard for Mom, I suppose though I really didn't think about that. Anyway, she led us toward the Round Pen so I figured we were going to have a turnout together. I tried to hurry up the hill but Spark stopped and I got impatient and somehow our leads got all tangled up and his lead ended up pressed against my chest. Well, I pulled on it and that alarmed him and he pulled back and that's when Mom got mad and yelled at both of us. So we behaved ourselves and went in the Round Pen nicely.

She took off our halters and leads but instead of coming in with a whip and chasing us around, she just left. That was different but we didn't mind because we could still see her as she went back and forth from my stall. She was carrying my riding duds from my stall to the place where Sparky's mom generally puts his duds on so I figured we were going riding. But meanwhile we were out together and I was feeling frisky.

First I flopped down and had a good roll and when I got up, I bounced up and began bucking and running around! Sparky looked at me like I was crazy so I just charged at him and tried to get him to play. He wasn't sure at first but after I did it a couple of times, he got in the spirit and then we had a great time together!

We started running around that Round Pen, playing and kicking up our heels, biting at each other and trying to head each other off. Spark was pretending to be a stallion and herd me around and I was pretending to be a wild mare and get away from him and it was just the most fun ever. We'd race around a bunch of times, then stop and look at each other, then one of us would make a move and off we'd go again! The dust was flying and the walls of the Round Pen were shaking because we kept kicking it in our excitement.

Every once in a while I'd stop and look over the fence to see if Mom was watching and she'd call out to me and tell me I was a Good Girl or that Spark was a Good Boy so we knew we were okay and we'd go back to playing. We ran and bucked and played until we were tired and covered with sweat and all the farm horses in the field nearby were watching us and getting excited just seeing us play like that.

Finally we settled down and by that time, Sparky's mom was there. She and my mom came and got us and they petted us and praised us and told us how good we were and how nice it is that we're such good friends. We are, too. It's nice to have horses you can relax and enjoy yourself with. At one point, Mom remembered that I was supposed to go out with Indian today and we both felt bad about forgetting but Mom will probably talk to his mom and set up another day for it. It's a little harder now that we don't live so close to each other.

Our moms got us ready to ride - Spark's mom rode him bareback but my mom put my saddle on - and we did a poop loop. Then we rode for just a short time in the Flat Arena. I was still kind of frisky and would have liked to have done some trotting but Spark was ready to go back to the pasture and my alfalfa was waiting so we finished up.

It was a really fun time. I'm so glad I have lots of friends to play with!