{"id":771,"date":"2010-10-04T20:11:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T01:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=771"},"modified":"2010-10-08T00:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T05:03:40","slug":"powders-progress-two-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/powders-progress-two-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Powder’s Progress – Two Years Old Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Powder - October 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was born two years ago.\u00a0 Her birthday is today!\u00a0 But hold on! She’s going to be two again in 2011…for showing purposes!\u00a0 Powder is two, she’ll have two birthdays.\u00a0\u00a0 Isn’t that two cool!<\/p>\n

Powder was born in October and the rule is…Oct. thru December babies are deemed to attain their age in the following year.<\/p>\n

In this past few weeks, I’m determined that Powder will have the best horse development ever.\u00a0 I’ve been playing with her at home and taking her to Pine Dell.<\/a><\/p>\n

Taking Powder to Pine Dell is totally cool. We have to get into the trailer.\u00a0 At Pine Dell, we have two indoor arenas and two outdoor arenas in which to play. We also have a covered round pen.\u00a0 Life is good for us.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 But next to the smaller outdoor arena, cars and trucks and bigger trucks zip up and down that road.\u00a0 We even had a motorcycle zip by and put on the big ZZZZZZZooom for us.\u00a0 You know that big load snort horses have for big danger warning?\u00a0 \u00a0I’d forgotten about that snort until it went off in my ear.\u00a0 Powder did the Big Exhale Snort right into my ear.\u00a0 It made me yell.\u00a0 Ouch<\/p>\n

Tonight we played in the small arena.\u00a0 There were little sounds in the rafters…like little feet pattering above Powder’s body. SNORT!!!\u00a0 Whoo WEE!<\/p>\n

Later we had another horse come into the arena.\u00a0 He was having some fun on his lunge line..bucking and carrying on.\u00a0 Then we had the rumble snorting from Powder.\u00a0 I got to see Powder with her tail straight up running around for a while.\u00a0 But when she hit the end of the rope, she softened and came right back into softness.\u00a0 Love that horse!<\/p>\n

After we get done with all these new experiences…maybe this could be called seasoning, we have to get back into the trailer.\u00a0 This isn’t our favorite thing in the world. Tonight we had horses all over the place and a tractor.\u00a0\u00a0Powder got in the trailer and ran out several times.\u00a0 We waited until she was semi calm in the trailer before I threw the lead rope over her back and let her stay in.<\/p>\n

It’s a short ride home..perfect for trailer “seasoning”.\u00a0 She was really upset when we got home.\u00a0 I opened the door. She came out with her front feet and started eating grass.\u00a0 Her back feet were forgotten as they stayed in the trailer for a time.\u00a0 Yep, the trailer is a big deal!<\/p>\n

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Powder- October 2010<\/div>\n
12′ lead rope around her neck<\/div>\n
22′ rope is how we play!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 She was born two years ago.\u00a0 Her birthday is today!\u00a0 But hold on! She’s going to be two again in 2011…for showing purposes!\u00a0 Powder is two, she’ll have two birthdays.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I’ve been playing with her at home and taking her to Pine Dell. Taking Powder to Pine…<\/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":[22],"tags":[4,7,121,6],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powder","tag-missouri-fox-trotter","tag-natural-horsemanship","tag-powder","tag-susan-engle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}