\ntrotted over to meet her was a buckskin fox trotter. They looked
\nexactly alike!
\n
\nNova galloped and ran and bucked. She met some of the other
\nhorses. No one tried to kill her.<\/p>\n
Did I mention that Nova has learned to walk on water and escape from
\nthe pasture. That was when the water was ice. Then she learned to
\nwalk on real water and escape from the pasture too.<\/p>\n
The fence guy showed up today. Thank Goodness. When Nova comes
\nhome from Pine Dell, she won’t be able to escape.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to Pine Dell. A new training horse is kept in a stall
\nfor a day or two while it gets accustomed to the routine. Then the
\nhorse is let out with the training horses in their own pasture.<\/p>\n
Nova stayed in her stall with me visiting her on Monday & Tuesday.
\nShe got to have her first lessons. It then became the last possible
\nshopping and wrapping days for Christmas and I didn’t make it to
\nPine Dell to see how she was doing.<\/p>\n
Monday, I visited Pine Dell to find Nova in a stall. The stall
\ncleaners told me that she had been turned out, but discovered the
\nfew places where the strand of hot tape wasn’t hot. People would
\nlook out to the pasture and see Nova in the adjacent pastured with
\nthe turn-out horses. They would look again later and see that she
\nwas back with the training horses. They discovered that she just
\nducked her head under the place where the tap was not hot and
\nsqueezed under the fence. She was nice and didn’t break the tape
\n…just squeezing underneath it.<\/p>\n
Nova’s \u00a0stall cleaner on this day (the day after Christmas when Nova
\nhad to be in a stall all day and all night) told me that Nova had
\nbeen naughty. The stall cleaner was in the stall with Nova and had
\nfilled the wheel barrow completely full. There were a few more
\nscoops to get…and Nova pushed the wheel barrow and knocked it
\nover. After the stall cleaner got all the muck picked up again and
\nwas leaving the stall, Nova kicked the wheel barrow.<\/p>\n
I thought…oh no…we have to find a place for her to be turned out.<\/p>\n
So, Nova got to be turned out with the real horses. Horses that
\nlive permanently in a pasture. Horses that are self-divided into
\nthree separate herds in the large pasture (there are three round
\nbales in the pasture and the horses sort themselves out into three
\ngroups! The pasture has real fence. In fact Nova’s mother, Sage,
\nis in this pasture!<\/p>\n
When Nova first was let free in the pasture, the first horse that
\ntrotted over to meet her was a buckskin fox trotter. They looked
\nexactly alike!
\n
\nNova galloped and ran and bucked. She met some of the other
\nhorses. No one tried to kill her.<\/p>\n
Nova is free!
\nHer ground training continues….
\nI’ll load some galloping pictures of Nova into the photo album and
\nyou can see what Nova looks like at one year seven months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did I mention that Nova has learned to walk on water and escape from the pasture. That was when the water was ice. Then she learned to walk on real water and escape from the pasture too. The fence guy showed up today. Thank Goodness. When Nova comes home from Pine Dell, she won’t be able to escape. Fast forward to Pine Dell. A new training horse is kept in a stall for a day or two while it gets accustomed to the routine. Then the horse is let out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}