14 posts tagged “ponies”
I hate this thing sometimes. I just wrote a whole blurb about the snow & the ponies. Then I tried to insert a photo and VOX ate the post. I'm not computer-challenged, so it's not me. The thing doesn't even auto-save so that you can recover what you've done if it goes haywire mid-post. I am most aggravated.
This time: photos only.
Some pics I took of the four-feet in the snow this morning. Morgana & Myfanwy were playing when I grabbed the camera & went out, but once I got out there, all they wanted to do was follow me around.
Merry was worse than the pony-girls about wanting to be right next to me.
This is basically just going to be a photo-dump post. I tried posting a bunch of these with commentary a week or so ago, but VOX was being evil and repeatedly ate my post.
These next few are from Morgana's 2 month birthday.
These were taken by the husband of one of my law school friends when they came down for Easter, and posted here with his kind permission.
Everyone was so fuzzy then! They've all lost a lot of hair the past couple weeks. Everything is much greener now, too.
Next set of photos posted will be of the new paddocks!
Today I took Gimli and Myf out into the arena together so they could get to know one another. I may start putting Myf in with Gimli at night. Annie can get a little cranky with her at times and a 12 x 12 stall is really more room than one little Shetland needs all to himself.
I had hoped for a bit that they'd both get a little wound up and play -- take advantage of the big space -- but this was the most action from either of them.
Meanwhile, other people were having snits...
It amazes me the way she respects that little fence even in full snit mode. She and Merry are two of a kind, though. Bossy-boots, the pair of them. In the end they were hollering back and forth to each other about how upset they were more than they were talking to their respective missing redheads. Gimli and Myf paid no attention to their carrying on.
While Gimli does play with the big boys, I think it's going to be nice for him to have a buddy who is, at least temporarily, his own size. She'll get bigger, but not as much bigger as Merry and, to a lesser extent, Zahr.
Here the girls are following me along the fence line as I use the Deere to move straw bales 'round to the back of the barn. It was pretty cute -- Myf would actually trot along to keep up.
Looked Annie up on the Pedigree Online database; her pedigree is here. Several of her ancestors have photos and info on them, which is quite interesting to read.
Here's Myfanwy's dam's pedigree, and her sire's is here. (take a look at the photo for Louisiana Lagniappe - gorgeous!)
An finally, the pedigree for the stallion Annie's in foal to.
Yesterday went something like this:
- Got up at 0500 hours; fed the multitudes.
- Left the house at approx. 0600 hours.
- I, thankfully, was not the one doing the driving (light as the Brenderup is, my Jetta cannot tow it), so I listened to music on my iPod until it got light & then I read the book I brought along.
- Made a few stops along the way (filling up the fuel tank, taking potty breaks for both humans and the terrier who got to come along for the ride, eat lunch)
- Spent outrageous amount of money on gas.
- Arrived at pony farm a little after 1300 hours.
- Loaded ponies in trailer and headed back towards MN (total stop time 15-20 minutes).
- Stopped once to let the dog pee and to check on the ponies and once to refuel (& check on ponies). Finished reading book.
- Arrived home at approx 2000 hours.
- Unloaded ponies (much to the amazement of Crickhollow's current equine residents) and let them stretch their legs in their paddock off their stall.
- 2045: gave horses their supper slightly early (very light supper for ponies) and closed up everybody in their stalls who get closed up for the night (i.e. everybody but Merry & Gimli -- I won't start shutting them in at night until it gets much colder). Went in house to give indoor cats their dinner.
- Approx 2200, had dinner. Sent e-mail to woman I bought the ponies from so she'd know we arrived home okay.
- After dinner, darted out to barn to check in on everybody. Myf was curled up in the corner of her and Annie's stall (it's 10x14 and they're small, so they get to share) on a thick bed of shavings, sleeping. Annie was standing, relaxed, towards the front.
- 2300: went to bed.
I've taken a few pics of the girls so far this morning (it's overcast & threatening to rain, so it's actually good light for photo-taking), including one of Annie enjoying a roll in the paddock. I'll be taking many more in the next few days, and I'll try to have a few posted before I go back to work on Thursday.
