Hello friends!
This has been an interesting spring and summer for me! I left Countdown Stables at the end of February and came to Dancing Horse Stables (Kellie and Peter Larsen). They are my new foster people and Lisa, my old foster mom, is still coming to visit and ride me once a week.
I have been getting used to my new digs. I have two new friends, Felina and Cardi, on either side of me. I have a stall with a run attached and I get to go out to pasture for a few hours most days. They feed me 4 meals a day, plus supplements and pellets twice a day!! I even get carrots and apples…but they don’t hand feed me much because I’m still kind of “mouthy.”
I’m continuing to learn how to stand quietly in the cross ties, not hassle the shoer so much, and to get shots and fly spray…
I’m working on getting this dressage thing down tho’! Apparently, I’ve been a bit “stiff” and having a hard time cantering to the left with a rider on my back. To which I say, let’s go right all the time! No big deal! But in late spring, after making myself sore by being “silly” and slipping around on the lunge line and out in pasture (and almost falling), they had this guy out to look at me. He is a veterinarian — a horse doctor I guess — and he made me do all these funny tests and walk/trot/canter on the lunge line forever! It looks like I’ve made myself sore in the stifles (whatever those are!!), so, I had to get some more shots and now I’m getting back into work! We have to go slow tho’… (works for me! I thought I was on vacation until they said I had to go back to work!!).
So, I’ve been getting my “work ethic” back (?!) and doing a bit more work this last month of summer. I’m still a bit stiff starting out. Kellie and Lisa are trying to convince me that bending left is okay now, but I’m still a bit skeptical. What do they know? They should try some of this “dancing” stuff with a rider on their backs and see what they think! Oops, I think my Appaloosa girl attitude just took me over!
So, come visit me in a little bit when I’m stronger! I love Lisa, Kellie, and Peter, but, I think I’m ready for a permanent mom or dad. I guess I’m not a “beginners’ horse”, but I love my people, I’ll come up to you in pasture, I love to go on the trails and I’m getting better at this dressage thing. Maybe I do have a wee bit of an attitude, but Kellie says I’m very smart and hard working! So I’ve got that going for me!
Whinnies,
Misty
