She was born two years ago. Her birthday is today! But hold on! She’s going to be two again in 2011…for showing purposes! Powder is two, she’ll have two birthdays. Isn’t that two cool!
Powder was born in October and the rule is…Oct. thru December babies are deemed to attain their age in the following year.
In this past few weeks, I’m determined that Powder will have the best horse development ever. I’ve been playing with her at home and taking her to Pine Dell.
Taking Powder to Pine Dell is totally cool. We have to get into the trailer. At Pine Dell, we have two indoor arenas and two outdoor arenas in which to play. We also have a covered round pen. Life is good for us.
A couple of days ago, I decided that we would play in the small outdoor arena by the road. We don’t have a busy road at home. But next to the smaller outdoor arena, cars and trucks and bigger trucks zip up and down that road. We even had a motorcycle zip by and put on the big ZZZZZZZooom for us. You know that big load snort horses have for big danger warning? I’d forgotten about that snort until it went off in my ear. Powder did the Big Exhale Snort right into my ear. It made me yell. Ouch
Tonight we played in the small arena. There were little sounds in the rafters…like little feet pattering above Powder’s body. SNORT!!! Whoo WEE!
Later we had another horse come into the arena. He was having some fun on his lunge line..bucking and carrying on. Then we had the rumble snorting from Powder. I got to see Powder with her tail straight up running around for a while. But when she hit the end of the rope, she softened and came right back into softness. Love that horse!
After we get done with all these new experiences…maybe this could be called seasoning, we have to get back into the trailer. This isn’t our favorite thing in the world. Tonight we had horses all over the place and a tractor. Powder got in the trailer and ran out several times. We waited until she was semi calm in the trailer before I threw the lead rope over her back and let her stay in.
It’s a short ride home..perfect for trailer “seasoning”. She was really upset when we got home. I opened the door. She came out with her front feet and started eating grass. Her back feet were forgotten as they stayed in the trailer for a time. Yep, the trailer is a big deal!
Wow what a wonderful account of Powder’s adventures. Knowing Powder she will love the 2 birthday part. I have the sense she has “more ideas of her own” than Nova,Diva or Tenor. She had so much stimuli(sp?)and sounds like she(you) handled all well-all that great PNH/Vaught work by you.way Fun for both of you.Can’t wait to watch you two together.