Country Frank’s Lucky Star

Last time I told you how Lucky Star fell in love with Dazzle. He was smitten by her. Dazzle is a beautiful dapple bucksking mare with blaze, white foot and foot long eyelashes.  Turns out, Dazzle was smitten by Lucky Star too.  They became a couple.  Unfortunately, Lucky Star and Dazzle are rather bossy horses. They decided to keep the round bale to themselves. They decided not to let the other horses in their pasture eat the round bale.  Lilly, Cappy, and Outlaw were looking longingly at the hay. They…

Lucky Star decided to help Jedi with his natural horsemanship training with Jenny Vaught today.  Neither Lucky Star or Jedi had ever considered someone would ask them to cross over such a big log.  Lucky was certain that Jedi was being asked to cross over the log and not him. But he was willing to help Jedi discuss it. These small logs were not such a big deal.  Lucky Star wanted in on the action.  He thought it was great fun to help Jenny with her rope skills. Lucky Star…

Talk about lives turned upside down and we'll talk about a day at For the Horse Ranch!  Firstly, Lucky Star had his life upturned just a couple of times since his amazing birth survival story.  He did go away for training when he was younger.  That was his first time.  After that, he settled in to be a friendly pasture horse for about two years.  Nothing was required from him.  Suddenly his life was turned around when he got into my trailer and was inserted into a pasture with Velvet, Goldie…

Here's the morale of the story.  If the horse is doing something that is not normal or weird or bad behavior, we rule out the physical first. Lucky Star still had his grumpy spots during the lesson.  He flashed his ears back again when I put my feet in the stirrup with a little weight transfer.  Sort of like I was going to get on him, ya know like mounting him.   That's just not his personality. So, Lucky Star got to go see Dr. Randy again, but this time for…

Lucky Star and I went over to Pine Dell for our 2nd group lesson.  Lucky Star learned how to skip and stagger. Well, really he learned how to stay calm and quiet while I skipped and then staggered around him.  It's a desensitizing thing.  He got to have all the fun, watching a lunatic and then get petted.  I was dressed in my sexy red Christmas Rueben fleece coat (50% off from Curvy Cowgirl) and my Santa Claus hat.  It had gotten up to a 60 degree grey day and…

I told Lucky Star we needed to get a good picture as I had not put his picture up on Facebook for a while. Then I had to explain Facebook. I explained that he had fans. I explained that his fans were following his progress on this blog. Well, Lucky Star wants his own Facebook page so he can tell the truth about how he's coming along. He's afraid I might not tell everything. sigh...who am I to deny "Mr. Cuteness" anything. We played in the small outdoor arena at…