Wild Time in the Round Pen

June 23, 2021Posted inDelta, Fancy
Delta has her own story.  She didn’t fare well in the human world and was ruined.  She was drugged and met new to horses (green), Kevin who purchased her.  Kevin and Delta went through early hell.  Florida based Kevin started going through the Parelli training with long distance coaching from Tony and Jenny Vaught, living in Missouri at the time.  Kevin and Delta connected and bonded.  Kevin only broke one bone riding Delta and that was in their bonded stage. some years later living in Florida, Delta became allergic to…

Fancy, Fancy!

June 23, 2021Posted inFancy
Fancy made one of my dreams come true yesterday.  She was eating grass across the dam.  I walked started walking to the barn to get something.  Fancy saw me and galloped to me.  Good Lord!  She left the herd and came to me!  So I fed her and brushed her while she was eating.  Plus, this was after an earlier group lesson where she had to exert a lot of effort for me.  Again, what the heck! Today, I took her into my newly mowed round pen after saddling her…
Mouthy Horse Tales

Mouthy Horse Tales

June 20, 2021Posted inFancy
I turned off the fans last night.  This morning, the box fan had been toppled and I found the electric cord had been chewed.  Also, Fancy drug the manure fork into her stall. Delta is shown today with the manure fork.  Fancy wanted Delta blamed for all incidents.  Delta is the herd boss and Fancy wants her to be the one “in trouble” with the human.  (Note:  Another lie about how horse’s brains do not work.)

Mouthy Horse and Summer

June 19, 2021Posted inFancy
Fancy is what we call a mouthy horse. Her mouth likes to explore. The curiosity in her brain manifests itself through her mouth. It’s hot and the herd of three patiently stand in their shady run-in stalls trying to keep from going mad with the ever present flies. They have fans on the stall doors. So far this year, Fancy has chewed thru the electric cord twice on the high dollar fan. It will be fixed again and I’ll run an extension cord from another plug in socket. The electrical…