Lazy hot days

It's been hot again and since I hurt my knee, I haven't been doing too much. It's too hot to do much anyway. Sparky doesn't mind the heat. He's half Arab so he says he has the desert in his blood. Well, that sounds really fancy but I don't know what a desert is and I don't know that he does either. He says it's a really hot place with sand and Camels. So I asked, what's a Camel? And he said they're animals that live in the desert and people ride them. Well, that sounds like an Arab to me. Sometimes Sparky doesn't make a lot of sense.

I get kind of sleepy and lazy when it's hot. On really hot days, my mom hoses me off to cool me. That feels good. The breeze hits the wetness and makes me feel nice. Sometimes my mom lets me drink out of the hose too. That's fun. It feels funny when it goes in my mouth because it squirts all over the inside. I love that.

Sparky doesn't like water either. Again, he says it's because he's a desert horse and there's no water in the desert. I said, if there's no water, how do horses drink? And he said they have to go to special places called oaseses where water comes out of the ground. It all sounds pretty fishy to me. My water comes out of my bucket. Why don't those stupid Arabs just have buckets? I wouldn't want to live in a dumb old desert. It sounds boring and hot.

My knee feels a lot better. It never was too bad. My mom kept me in my stall for two days and she rubbed it with medicine and put some medicine in my food during that time. Then the next day, she let me go out in the Round Pen but she didn't chase me or anything. She let me just walk around and stretch my legs. That's what she calls it. She hosed me off and stuff and gave me treats and cleaned my stall and just let me be and she did that for a couple of days. Then two days ago, she brought me to the Round Pen and asked me to trot a little bit. She was happy with how my leg looked so yesterday, she made me trot more and even let me canter some. It was fun! I got frisky and excited and worked up a good sweat. Then we played the Trotting Cone Game for a little bit and that was fun too.

I wasn't sore at all after working so she was glad. She said it was just a slight injury and nothing to worry about so that's good. I do hurt myself kind of a lot. I can't help it. I'm a Thoroughbred and we tend to be Fragile. That means we break easily.

I'm really liking having Spark nearby. It's nice to have family close. And my mom can spend more time with me because she doesn't have to go to another barn to visit him. She and Sparky's mom have chairs that they keep outside our stalls and they sit on them and chat lots of times. Me and Spark just hang around with them, eating hay snacks or just standing around and it's nice. Sometimes I can reach my mom's chair from my stall and when she's not in it, I play with it. Yesterday, I was tied outside my stall and I was picking it up and turning it upside down and shoving it around with my nose. It was lots of fun. I love to play with things. Spark thinks it's silly but he just doesn't understand. I get bored when I'm just standing around with nothing to do.

It's a nice quiet morning and it smells nice out. I'm going to have a nap and maybe later when my mom comes, we'll do something fun.