Blustery day

It's a windy and rainy day today. At least it is now. Earlier it was kind of nice even though it was raining a bit. I don't mind rain - in fact I like it most of the time. So I spent most of the morning in my paddock enjoying a light rain and watching horses working in the Flat Arena. It smelled nice, and it wasn't really cold, so it was quite pleasant.

I heard my mom's car just about when it started to come down harder and by the time she got to my stall, it was pouring. She brought me out and gave me my hay snack and then went to get Sparky out of the pasture. I wondered if we might go out for another turnout together. Yesterday we walked all the way up the Gremlin Arena and had a turnout. That was wonderful! I wasn't sure about it at first. It's been kind of a long time since I was up that way and I'd sort of forgotten things. I was a little excited and jumpy but Mom kept petting me and giving me cookies and that kept me distracted.

When we got to the top, I remembered because I used to live up there. I was happy to go in the arena and when Mom and Sparky's mom let us loose, I wanted to play! Spark wasn't really in the mood to run but I made up for him because I raced around for a while. It was so fun! I was able to really stretch my legs and gallop because the arena is lots bigger than the Round Pen.

After I was done running, me and Spark played some bite face and then our moms put our halters on and led us around. I did my tricks and my mom reminded me again about manners. I was really good. Now that I can exercise, it's easier for me to remember how to behave. And I was perfect all the way back to my stall - she said. I even did some of my tricks on the way and that was fun.

But today it was just too wild. The wind started blowing and it was coming right in the door from my paddock and blowing my shavings around. Mom just closed it so she could clean and she put Sparky's cooler on him to dry him because he was all wet. We both had a nice big hay snack because Mom knows how important it is for us to eat when it's cold and nasty.

By the time Sparky's mom arrived, the rain was just pounding down and the wind was whistling. Poor Cocoa was shivering in her stall and getting excited by the wind. I felt sorry for her. The hay truck had already gone by so I was back in my stall with my alfalfa but Spark was tied in the aisly still. His mom gave him his bucket dinner and put on his rain duds. He has a rain blanket like I do now, only his is light so he wears a warm blanket under it. Spark likes to wear a blanket when it's cold and rainy but I hate it. They feel funny and I can't roll properly. It's stupid. I roll but I can't really FEEL it because the blanket is in the way.

Mom knows how I feel so she almost never makes me wear a blanket. Instead, she closed the door to my paddock so the wind wouldn't blow the rain in and get my bed all wet. I don't really like having my door closed either but I suppose it's better than being blanketed. And I don't like having a wet bed. I'm one of those horses that likes to lay down in my bed so it's important to me that it's comfy.

So we didn't do much of anything today except eat but that's okay. I like to eat, after all, and it wasn't much of a day to do anything else. Now I'm just hanging around in my stall listening to the wind rattle the doors and the rain on the roof and feeling pretty cozy. I have a pretty nice life when I think about it.

I don't have a rainy day picture to post so I'm going to post one of me in the Round Pen.