I was sitting at the computer (can't remember what I was doing) today, when dad called and said, "Is Sarah feeding the horses". Of course I wasn't. So he said, "Well then, Valley's out." I was like, "WHAT!?!? But dad already put a fence up so she wouldn't get out!! GUR!" So I went outside (in my PJ's. I slept in LATE), got some food, and put it in Valley's usual eating spot. I got her halter and leadrope, and tied her up. Then I went and got Chloe, and just fed both of them as normal.Valley was wet all the way up to the top of her neck. She swam in the lake again. About an hour or two ago, dad came in, and said Valley was out again! So I went out and caught her and put her back in the pasture, and dad put up some more fence. *sigh* She is one smart horse!-Sarah
A canter is a cure for every evil.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Valley Likes:
- Apples
- Attention
- Carrots
- Celery
- Company
- Grain
- Grass
- Having her ears scratched
- Hay
- Swimming across the lake to visit her horsey neighbors
- Wide open space to run and buck :)
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. ~Winston Churchill
Valley Dislikes:
- being locked in the back pasture
- being away from my other horse, Mississippi
- being ridden
- Having to stand still
- anything I want her to do
- being ridden in a direction that is not towards the neighbors horses or the barn
- The 'Jolly Ball' I bought her. Lol
- Being tied up without food to eat
- Having her hoofs picked (although, she cooperates)
- lunging
- Taking worm medicene
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.
~Helen Thomson
Things That Valley Does...
- bites sometimes..
- bucks
- swims through lake to get out of pasture to visit horsey neighbors
- chase my dog
- anythin to be stubborn. She likes being stubborn.
- Gallop and buck when I put her back in the pasture after she's been out for a while
- Licks my hands
- Tries to eat grass while I'm leading her
I bless the hoss from hoof to head -From head to hoof, and tale to mane! -I bless the hoss, as I have said,From head to hoof, and back again!
~James Whitcomb Riley
A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham
The horses paw and prance and neigh,Fillies and colts like kittens play,And dance and toss their rippled manesShining and soft as silken skeins;...~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Names I Call Valley (in order of what I call her most)
