Monday, January 28, 2013

my best boy...

joaquin gets good n muddy out on winter pasture


all of our horses are bell trained. i ring the bell, they come. it's a way to be able to check on them when they're far out and i want or need to see them. with echo and smoke close to the house in their habitat and joaquin and helaku in the pastures with the cows, when i ring the bell they all get to gather, see each other, and get their daily oats and scritches. the other nite when the moon was full i went out later than usual and joaquin and helaku didn't come in. now mind you i not only ring the bell but if i don't see them coming i call them. my call echoes across the 120 (acres) and is loud. WAAAAAAAAAkeen! hayLAAAAAAAAku! still, they didn't come. so i walked way out and found them. joaquin came first and i asked him "hey bud what's up? why didn't you come when i called ya? let's go get some oats". on the walk back he stayed right with me. i have a really hard time walking on ground that's not even and he knows it. so when i have to he walks right by my side and let's me put my arm over his back for support. this time he was behind my right shoulder on the cow path and every few steps he would nuzzle my ponytail or my ear. he loves to do this and it tickles so we always have a fun time when he gets silly this way. he was really into it and seemed to be making up for the fact that i had to come fetch him. helaku was behind him and nickering the whole way. i love joaquins wild heart. he won't let me catch him very often unless he's in a small space and runs as fast as he can out there sometimes just for the joy of running. no matter how much time passes or how aloof he is at times, he will still lend me his heart and soul and comfort my tattered heart with his soft breath and velvety muzzle. he's my best boy....  

so many changes!

pableu and rosebud share...

it's been so long since i wrote on pableu's blog and so many things have happened. some good, some very good and some not so good. after moving all of us, ponies, pups and tiger to a place with jobs and a home that promised to be too good to be true (it was) we are at a new location in the shasta valley that we are now calling home. smoke and echo are in their habitat right outside, joaquin and helaku on winter pasture with the cows out back and pableu has gone to live at dreamcatcher's sheep rock with rosebud (remember her?) her mama sage, some calico horses and some others from twin peaks and elsewhere. we could only have 2 horses here we had to decide who to keep here and who to send there. since pabs has family there it turned out to be the best place for him. he will be free again soon to travel the hills, buck and play, surrounded by the beauty of sheep rock and many many pretty fillies. my heart misses him very very much but i know he couldn't be in a better place. i went to go see him yesterday and he was glad i did. he's growing straight up like a weed and is as sweet and friendly as ever. so...even tho this blog will feature him from time to time, i want to also write about the other boys and talk about how they are coming along too. blogging is good. you get it out, let it flow. and even if no one reads what you wrote you have a place to put what you hold in your heart. for now, here's a pic of pableu and rosebud drinking water together. pretty darned cute hm?