Tania Kettle

Minus 2 Degrees this morning and Mumma LOVES me - that jacket was the best thing ever.  

She is always trying to connect in with me now.  We're also making movement forward in the way that I wish.  

What I mean by that, is that we are doing the no pressure moving.  No force, just me and my way again. 

That's fucking awesome.

I honestly was having doubts when she first moved home, that it wouldn't be ok.  That we wouldn't be able to get to that place that I live in with my horses.

But like normal, just when I had given up all hope, we got it.

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And I met a new friend today!

Honestly, if there is any breed of horse that I love the most, not including the Gypsy's who are just so freaking gorgeous, it's the Welsh.  

Particularly the 12.2 to 12.5 kind.

They're awesome.

And I love them because they talk for me.

I'll be walking along and the next minute, Psssssst...hey...babe, how you doing?

And then we're talking and touching and playing and being.

So my new friend is just fantastic.  We were chatting away with another friend (human) and there he is, Yes, that's true. Mmmmmmm correct.  Yes, very stupid, Tania.  Then I get blamed for this!  Very unfair!  I'm veerrrry helpful.

I gave him a look, at which point he did look a bit sheepish.

Ok, well, I could be.

OMG he's just so damn cute!

Then...wait for it....he then proceeds to show us how clever and helpful he is. 

And I have fallen in love again.  Falling and falling and falling.

Then we were having a chat away about riding and he was like, But they tell me they can ride, Tania and then they do this....then that...then this....and gives me a look as if to say, What can you do? 

What you did, kiddo.

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So Mumma has this weird ass quirk.

All the paddocks are open so everyone can wander and frolick as they please.  Which they do.  And love.

But everyone has decided that they wish to eat in the Welcome Paddock.  That's cool, not so much mud, concrete so they can keep their hooves clean and well, everyone likes it.  So that's where I feed.

Then everyone wanders off.  Normally down the paddock, through the gate, up the next paddock round the corner and normally graze at the top paddock.

Come dinner time everyone does the reverse.

Except Mumma.

Top paddock, round the corner, down the next paddock - and this is where things get interesting - she bypasses the gate, goes through the next one, does a hard turn right, shoots up to the top of the next paddock, does another hard right, then hoons down a tiny hill, slipping and sliding on the mud, to come screetching to a halt at the feed buckets.

Everyone else is eating, naturally, since they got there two paddocks earlier.

It is the oddest thing in the Universe.

All the gates are exactly the same, and she never has any problem with any other gate.

Too weird for words.

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Very hard to Touch/play at the moment because Caps is like, Thank you, but no and Mumma is like, Hell, no!  However, she is super snuggly and we do what we can.  I guess, I have to trust that doing right by Mumma is the best thing for Boo.  

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You know, I really, truly love Chew.

He's like a furry person.  No really, he is.

And he's the only soul who I have ever met that I can catch red handed, straw hanging from his mouth or hard feed stuck in his whiskers, and he just stands there, Zen like, eyeballing me, as if somehow I have done him wrong and let the side down.

That's a real talent.

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Oh wait, I almost forgot...I've noticed the little babies help each other.  

They had a fair few months by themselves before they got together, so have learnt different things.  

I watch Belle teaching Ruby, Hey Rubes, don't be like that, watch....and then she shows her how it's supposed to happen.  Then I watch Ruby say to Belle, Oh no, Belle, that's very naughty, you have to do it like this... and then she shows Belle the correct way.

It's super fucking cool to watch but more than that, I see their generosity of spirit, and I fall just that little bit more in love with them because of it. 

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So that's been our week:  The Energy has been very strong and cool and yes, challenging in parts.  But for everything which hasn't worked perfectly, something else has  stepped up and taken it's place and shown itself to be stronger and more vibrant.  Wilder but more stable.

A truly, truly unusual week.  

You know, I really love the work I do and as I've said many times before, I would live a thousand lifetimes to be able to do this.  

But I look at it like reading a book.  One minute there I am enjoying the journey, and the next there's like a major plot twist and I'm like...

Oh

Ohhhhh

Click...click...click...click...

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...