Pasture Time!!

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Haven't really felt motivated to do much. Doesn't really help that I can't ride :(

Well, Dollar got kicked out into his almost 2-acre pasture today. My Dad has pretty crappy hay at home right now and since Dollar can go out into pasture, he let me know to bring him out there.

So I grabbed him, got him away from Pretty and Sue and started our nice long 1/2 mile walk to the pasture. Keith was in front of us with the car and just making sure that we'd be OK on the walk there. And we were, except for the stupid horseflies. They drive Dollar insane!

Once we got him there, I opened up the gate and let him in. Of course, he had to go tearing up to the fence line screaming for his buddies. Once he realized that he was by himself, he wandered around for a while and then settled down to eat.

And I know he's gonna be in horsey heaven. The grass in there is up to and past his belly, so he's gonna be content for quite a while.


Can you spot the horse?


Eating to his heart's content.

Picture Spam

Seeing as I don't really have anything of me and Dollar doing our normal routine, it's time for PICTURE SPAM!!


Brody riding "his" horse


Madison on "her" horse


Apparently Brody wants to help groom Dollar


"Hello little person"


Dollar loves his little person


Dollar in his new halter. Yes, it's pink and purple. Don't think he's too impressed. Lol.

Ummm...I think Dollar missed me...Or is mad with Me....

Yeah, if you can't tell by the title post, today's visit with the Old Man did not go very well. I had gone out to the holding pen to see Dollar for a bit and was going to play with him. Was. I'm getting there.

When I got there, Dollar and Mars were both laying down and just being lazy. So I said hi, climbed through the fence and went to go take some pictures. Dollar seemed pretty happy to see me while I snapped some photos of him. I went to go say hi to Mars, who still hates me. Good thing the feeling is mutual.


The boys


Mid head-shake


Being all cute


Mars not looking too impressed

I got back to Dollar and noticed that he was shaking his head back and forth, so I wondered if something was bothering him. I went up to him to check and he went to shaking his head again and in the process, managed to smack me right in the chin, which caused my teeth to go right into my lower lip.


Lip from the outside...


And the inside. Ouchie :(

Ouch. Of course, in between spitting out blood from my mouth, I yelled at him for doing that to me and gave him a good smack. He knew I was there and knows not to do that. Old Man. Of course then, he had a pitiful look on his face that I couldn't resist to get on photo.


His "pitiful face." Lol.

After that ordeal (and loving him up a bit), I just figured it was best to go. I feel really bad for him right now because I can't do much with him, given my current growing state and I won't let anybody in my family ride him. I'm trying to look for someone who'd be willing to ride him a couple times a week or to lease him out because I know he'll go stir-crazy for the next 6 months like this.

Walking, Walking and More Walking

So I decided to take Dollar for a nice 1 mile walk today. My destination? My neighbors about 1/2 mile away to see the Percherons. Once I got to my parents place, I got Dollar out of the holding pen (luckily no new marks on him) and got to tacking him up and then went on our way.



He did pretty good on the way there, but for sonme odd reason, he kept wanting to sniff the ground. And I found out why. There were some horse tracks on the ground and I guess Dollar figured that his new job could be a sniffer horse. Sigh, Old Man.

Once we got to our neighbors place, I headed to the back to see the Perchs. Our neighbors don't mind. But there was one thing that had Dollar totally stopped in his tracks and snorting a little bit...


Lol. Optical illusion?? Yup. It's actually the back door of the trailer painted to look like his two biggest Perchs are in there. And looks realistic!! It had Dollar doing a double take and backing up a little bit, going "Mom, WTF??"  I did get him past it, but he was snorting like crazy at it. Lol.



Made our way to the back and Dollar was happy to see them Perchs, but also being weird. I guess he thought that they were an optical illusion as well. Lol. The Perchs came running up and jostling each other to say hi to D. After a bit of time there, I turned him around and headed for home. And had to go past the big scary trailer again. Lol.


And now since we were on our way home, Dollar decided that he could speed walk. He did try trotting, but after getting in shit from me, he decided that he'll just speed walk all the way home. It turned out to be a good work out for him and gave me a chance to spend some bonding time with him.

Dollar's Home!!!

Yes, Dollar's going back home. After much discussion with Keith about money and future (now that I'm expecting), we decided that it was best to move Dollar back to my Dad's (hopefully it will be better this time around) just to save on money and time driving out to see him.  So I had e-mailed Brenda letting her know that Dollar was leaving sometime this week (Saskia was in Germany) and she said that was OK and that she understood.

So then Sam called me today and said that we were going to pick him up today. So I grabbed my stuff and headed out to Dad's place to grab the trailer so that we could head out. I got to the house shortly before Sam got there and then we proceeded to hook up the trailer. Turns out that the trailer was in quite a bit of water, so it took a couple tries to get the truck hooked up. Once we were able to get the truck and trailer out, we got out of the parking spot and corral and then headed out to the barn.


The trailer swamp

Got there in no time, and I headed to the back to grab him. I grabbed his halter and then crawled through the fence to grab him and then decided to hop on his bareback with the halter and lead rope and just walk back to the gate. It was pretty wet back there, and I didn't feel like getting a shoer. Lol. So he stood patiently while I climbed on him and then we treked our way back to the gate, where Yvonne let us out.

Once we got back to the barn, I hopped off and took him inside, tied him up and proceeded to throw my saddle on him and carry the rest of my stuff. Once I had everything, I led him outside to the trailer, loaded him up easily and threw my stuff in there. Got home with no issues and were greeted by the other horses when we pulled the trailer into the coral (they were all loose for water).

I had to unload Dollar first before we could park the trailer because of where we had to park it. So I opened up the back doors and went to get Dollar out. Now Mars decided that it was his turn to hop in the trailer, so he started loading himself! Silly horse. Of course I yelled at him to get out, which he did thankfully. I don't need them fighting in the trailer with me in there. Once Mars was out, I let Dollar lose so that he could walk out of the trailer himself. I for sure wasn't going to get myself into him and the other horses while they were making acquantinces again. And, Mars being Mars, didn't want to let Dollar out of the trailer without inspection first. So of course, there was the general sniffing of each other and then the sqealing (not sure from who) about all this. All this time, I was yelling at Mars for being an idiot and to let Dollar out of the trailer.

Once Dollar was out of the trailer, the kids went tearing around the arena like crazy, so Dad said he'd park the trailer where it belonged. Good thing too, because it was still a swamp and I had no desire to do that myself. Once Dad had the trailer parked, I grabbed some pics of the kids playing around. And they looked like they were having fun.


"Ooohhh....who's here?"

Dollar wandering around


Apparently Reno was in a good mood :)


And then there's Mars. Sigh.


Dollar's plea of "Mom, HELP ME!!!"


Reno's moment of "Oh, hi Mom!"


And...they're off!


Tag teaming on Dollar


Mars: "I'm just following...I'm not up to anything..."
Dollar: "F-ing brat."


Mars: Ok, maybe a little nibble...
Dollar: Oh shit!


Apparently Mars is still the school-yard bully


Help me PLEASE!!


Mars trying to look as if he's behaving. All he needs is devil horns. Lol.


Who then saw his Mom and decided it was time to run away...


See??? I've been telling Sam to put him into Dressage. Look at him!


Looks like their playing tag, trying to catch Dollar.


Whee!!!


You'd think that by now, Mars would know not to piss off the Old Man.

After we were done with everything, I bid good-bye to the Old Man, just hoping that Mars wouldn't try to kill him too much. Sigh. Horses.

I Think I Own A Woolly Mammoth

So I decided to head out to the barn today to help clean and to groom Dollar out as much as I could before I had to go to work. Once we were done cleaning the barn, I ran outside to grab Dollar, brought him in, grabbed my shedding blade and got to work on him.

I didn't realize before how much he was shedding, but after spending about 20 minutes or so just on his left side, I had a small mound of hair that was enough for a miniature pony! Holy Cow!! I had stopped and was laughing at him because he is so furry and he just looked at me with an "eh" face and went back to chill-laxing and enjoying his pampering.

I moved onto the other side and spent another 20 mintues just grooming that side! Seriously horse?!?!?! You're not a wolly mammoth!! Once I was done (or at least had enough hair for a miniature pony), I decided that it was enough for now, as I had to head to work soon. And of course, I grabbed some photos of my work. During the photos that I was taking, Dollar decided to start yawning at me and making faces, hence why he looks so weird in the photos. He wouldn't stop doing that! Silly horse!









See what I mean about the pile of hair?!?!?!



Once I kicked him back outside, I cleaned up my stuff and headed home and then to work. Sigh. Wish I could spend more time at the barn on days like this...

When 19 Is The New 2......

Well I managed to hitch a ride with my Dad out to the barn today to play with Dollar. Seeing as i can't ride and the barn has the round pen up, I decided to free-lunge him today just to get him working a bit. So once we got to the barn, I went outside to grab Dollar. Well it turned out that he didn't like me for clipping him last time and decided to start walking away from me. He was by the pen when I saw him and by the time I caught him, we were almost by the feeding spot at the other end of the pasture! Old Man....

Once I had him caught and haltered, I brought him into the indoor arena, put him in the round pen and got to work. He was moving around pretty good at the trot, but was being pretty lazy. Sam came over to take some video of us and when I asked him to lope, well, he let out a huge buck and kept acting like he's 2!!



So yeah, I was laughing at him, but also slightly not impressed because he knows better. At least he doesn't do that while I'm riding him. I kept him going around for a while and just switching up directions on him. Near the end, I could tell that he was getting tired. So I took him out of the round pen, tied the lead rope to both sides on his halter and took a walk over to where Sam was sitting while she was watching Dad ride Sue.

We stood there for a bit, talking with Sam and then I decided to put him away. At this time Dad was done his workout with Sue, so I kicked Dollar back outside and waited for Dad to finish bathing and putting Sue away.

I swear, Dollar thinks somedays that he's 2 and can geta way with it. Sigh. I do love my Old Man. At least he knows how to make me laugh, even if it's bucking when he shouldn't.