Bruja here……

With……

Your Monday Morning Bru!

We have gotten to do riding every day for the past few days. He promises to go again today too. The rides are really nice now because there is SO much grass and dandelion grown up big. The dandelion is my favorite of course. There’s also lots of horsetail. So much horsetail that we have look for good places to snack because He doesn’t want me to eat the horsetail. He says it will make me sick. I usually grab some anyway if I can. It tastes really good to me. They put brewers yeast in our evening mash this time of year to keep us from being affected by weed. It’s everywhere now and we do eat some occasionally.

Day before yesterday, He took Luna riding first. She had been reluctant to go to daughter’s house. She said the road that way seemed wrong somehow. She told me that when they got to the end of the driveway and she said no, He got off and led her down that way. They made it ok and she saw that the big truck in a neighbor’s driveway was not scary. Part way back He got back on her and they rode home. They came back by way of the paddock trail.

Yesterday, He rode Luna down the driveway again to see if things had changed. The truck was gone but Luna still said no. The road or something there was still scary. He told her that He believed her and she didn’t have to do it if it was that scary. He told her they will try again soon.

After that, He rode me that way too. Since Luna told me some scary was that way, I was anticipating the scary. When we got to the bottom of the driveway, a couple of magpies were screeching, yelling about whatever bothers them. I think the parent magpies are concerned about their babies. They are really noisy!

The one magpie bird was on the ground in front of us hoping around. I don’t like things that hop around. I stopped and we waited till I could be brave enough to go one. Sometimes I just have to take a moment to calm down. He lets me because He understands.

We went all the way to daughter’s house after that but she wasn’t home. Going back, we too used the paddock trail. At the top of paddock trail, He had me turn left instead of right to the tack shed. We went to the apple place and back. Last time up there I was spooky but this time I felt ok. The paddock trail isn’t spooky to me anymore either.

Coming back from the apple house, we turned left on the road to the big highway. He wouldn’t let me trot. He wants me to relax and just walk. I want to move more! Back home we did the gate trick with Him riding me. He does it riding Luna too these days. It’s how we get back in the paddock most times if we’ve been riding. Luna is almost as good at it as me. He likes that.

Oh yeah, a couple of times now we’ve left Luna alone when She was riding Moon and pulling Wren with a halter on and a lead rope. Luna didn’t get upset about it. She knows we will always come back and is secure in herself.

We need to go somewhere else to do riding. I’m putting pictures in their heads about the horse park and the beach. I want to go back to the beach. The weather we’ve been having lately is good beach weather. Rain happened last night and a bit today but it’s warm and just a light rain. We even did some riding in the rain.

I hope you all get to do some fun things like riding. Summer weather is here.

May you be happy and ride safe and find lots of good grass .

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