Horse Sense....
It is seriously cool here at home!
First off, living in a herd is a really different experience for me. They need more space so pretty much we have 4 huge open paddocks for them to roam in at any time. But the biggest difference is how happy the horses are and I am seeing, really seeing how a horse family works. Not a heirachy as such but everyone has their place. And I'm fascinated because I thought that they would still hang out in a singular way but they don't. They move as one. No one stands alone or if they happen to be away from the herd then they are always still looked out for. No one will be in paddock 1 if everyone else is in paddock 4.
And the little one is so cute! I thought he would gravitate towards Sequoia and he does when he needs nurturing but it is Caps that he stands next to. It's like he knows that this is the kind of horse he wants to grow into so is kind of imitating what he does. Of which Caps loves.
And the little one is always watching me. What's she doing? Why? So, every morning I go out say, Hi! to everyone as I call them by name and give everyone a pat and stroke, checking everyone's ok. Today Jake let me come up and then voluntarily reciprocated my touch back as he sees the other horses do.
I love this phase. The very beginning, where you can hear the magic but you can't yet touch it.
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Note to self: Do not, I repeat Do Not use the phrase: I'm just going over there to do sh*te to a very verbal and put together 3 year old. The next 20 minutes was full of, Tanz, Tanz, we do sh*te! As she followed me round the place.
Not my finest moment.
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And Caps is loving this Being the Boss lark. Him and Sequoia went out to the driveway today for the first time. Well, we have been here ages and they have been very good with me. And it was good. It gave them time to look at barn and shed and spend time getting to know the arena and how the place is. They didn't go very far but far enough. Putting them back in paddock was fine but I only ever use a rope on Sequoia and I don't halter it, it literally is just draped over her. Caps never needs one. So, putting them back today, Sequoia goes in, Caps nudges her from behind so it got a bit squishy there for a minute but overall we're getting the hang of stuff. Trial and error but you know, it's ok. Az and I played in water because it was so hot. Jake, too.
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I am loving my healing stones! They are uber cool and must be grounding me at night in some way because the physical healings finished and I'm not getting bad dreams anymore. I feel great! And how weird is this...I got up this morning, 7 hours later and the stones were still hot. I love working with Spirit. I mean, don't get me wrong, they drive me nutso crazy some days but the magic over rides everything else.
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Ok, so I just got caught playing with a foal that's not mine, doing stuff I shouldn't have been doing and then getting it stuck. In my defense...no, wait...I know, that was very naughty and there is NO excuse.
But the horses talk to me. So then I have to talk back and then we're like, Well, why don't we try this... Hannah was really sweet though, she just took one look at us, gave us the feed bucket, sat down and chatted about stuff for a while, never mentioning my very un-whatever behaviour then said, Ok, I'm going now, see you guys in a couple of days.
And left us.
Still stuck.
Caps also gave me a telling off.
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And apart from that I have been doing a huge amount of weeding and cleaning up - I'm still finding broken glass, beer tops and empty beer and wine bottles stuffed in the ground, bushes and well, every nook and cranny. Also tools! I know, tools which were used and then just left to rot and they're either half in the ground or have stuff which has just been thrown on top of them. I just can't believe someone would do that. Being dirty like that, I just don't get.
And grubbing - dock and this stupid prickly, weed type thing that stands about 10 feet tall and even though it's dead still manages to prick me through gardening gloves. The dock got sprayed so it died but kind of died standing up if you know what I mean, so it looked dead and ugly, hence the grubbing and I just don't know what to say about the prickly stuff apart from it's also dead and still an absolute b*stard. On a positive note, it saves me going to the gym...oh wait...
* And we always have the stereo outside blaring out. It's great for the horses and often you see them swishing their tails in time but I love using it when I'm with the horses because it teaches us how to only listen to each other. And it's great for our timing. Think Dancing with Hooves but anyway, we're in a Rock n Roll phase at the moment. We love Fats Domino. That voice with the sax playing - it's magic. Ain't that a shame and Don't blame it on me...are our current favourites but the whole album is cool. Then we also have...Buddy Holly, Hits of the 50's and 60's, Elvis Presley...
** And on a that's a bit weird side of things...I can't keep any beef or liver down. I eat it and it's fine immediately but within 15 minutes I'm cramping so badly I'm doubled over and then bolting to the great white telephone.
I'm fine with lamb though. Fine with chicken and fish and seafood is also all Aok. Just beef, beef products (mince) and liver are definitely not fine. Either hormones have started to be put in our food, we're not eating what we think we're eating or the cows have put a spell on me.
My vote's on the cows.
*** And to the nice people who have text, called and emailed me to say that, You have lovely horses but you don't really know anything about horses...
Well, two things:
1) I must be the luckiest girl in the world then because the horses keep coming and I keep getting it right and
2) Bite my 47 year old mighty fine and extremely kissable, ass.
Oooohhhh...almost forgot. Felicity, one of my good mates who I've known almost 20 years, came over to hang out and Caps heard her car as it drove up the road, he waited at the fence by the stairs so he could see her when she first came up, called her and then snuggled. All before she came and said Hi! to me.
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Then they all came.
Wishing you much love my friends and of course, my humans.
Caps, me, Spirit, Sequoia, Ralph, Chew, Az, Molly, Jake, the cows and calves.
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