My mom came out yesterday and took me out to play first thing. I was happy about that because I hadn't gone out the day before. She surprised me when she got there - I was in my paddock and all of a sudden I heard her call me from right outside my stall! I rushed in whinnying and poked my head out my window - she was in her car and told me she'd be right there.
Coco's mom and some other people were standing around and they all laughed when I came in like that. They thought it was cute. Well, I'm always glad to see my mom. Really, all the horses here do the same thing when their person comes to see them. Horses are like that. We're friendly.
She put my halter on and we started walking but there was a horse already in the Round Pen so she told me we'd go find another place to play. I was perfectly happy to do that so we went for a walk. That was nice. We haven't been for one in a little bit and it was fun to get out and see what was going on. I was being a Good Girl and walking nicely and we went along by the Little Rolling Arena where the big horses were going around with their little girls jumping on and off them. I could see the Pony Arena from there and there was a horse turned out in there, too, so we couldn't use that one.
We went up the hill past the Rolling Arena and stopped to say hello to Indian. He was glad to see me and sniffed me all over thoroughly. We sucked on each other's lips a little bit and wrapped our necks around each other in greeting. It was so nice. Indian is one of my very best friends.
Finally my mom told me it was time to go. I didn't really want to but she said. So we started up the hill again and came to the Gremlin Arena. The gate was open and nobody was in it so my mom said we'd go there. She started leading me toward the open gate and I got a little excited and rushed toward it but I hit the end of the lead which made me turn in front of my mom and suddenly I was rushing toward the fence.
That didn't work well, so I quick turned away from it and there was a hill going down right in front of me. My mom was tugging on my lead but I thought I'd just better get down that hill for some reason and so I did and somehow my mom ended up on the ground and I ran across the road to the nearby barn where I found some grass growing near Lily's stall. Then Merlin's dad came and picked up my lead and handed it to my mom who came to get me.
It all happened kind of fast and I'm not really sure how. Sometimes things are like that. Mom says I don't think and I guess she might be right. She walked me back to the arena and led me into it and than let me go to turn out. I started kind of walking around sniffing poop and she told me I was silly because if I was in that much of a hurry to get in she would have thought I wanted to run. Well, I didn't really - I just wanted a turnout.
But she went and got a whip and made me run a little bit which was fun. It always is. But I mostly wanted to walk around and eat stuff so she finally let me do that. I had a nice time, and found a big sort of bushy thing to eat but then Sparky's mom who was near the gate with another lady took it away from me. That was pretty dumb and it made me mad. I don't know why Sparky's mom should be taking my food away.
After a while I walked up to my mom to visit her and noticed she had bloody scrapes and scuffs all over her hand. I sniffed it carefully because I was concerned about her and hadn't noticed any cuts before. She said I did it but I don't know how. I didn't bite her or anything. Maybe she did it when she lied down in the road when I went to eat grass by Lily's - I don't know why she did that. People do funny things sometimes.
We had a nice walk back to our stall. I kind of forgot my Manners one time when we first started down the hill but she reminded me and after that I was Good. She was happy with me even if I did get a little silly up by the Gremlin Arena. I didn't mean to and I think she knew that. She cleaned my stall while I ate my hay outside and she gave me a nice new bed and my beet pulp.
Later, I was eating my beet pulp when Sparky's mom startled me just like my mom had earlier! She had walked down the hill from Sparky's stall, I guess, and suddenly she called my name just outside my stall! My head popped right up because I know my name! She laughed and said hello to me but she didn't have any cookies or anything so I just said hello to her and went back to eating. But it was kind of fun.
I hope my mom's scuffs are okay. I really want to play again today.
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