New start

Visited Janet and Mike Sunday and met their two new horses, Dixie and Digger.  Dixie, the new mare is just the sweetest girl.  Look at that face.

Janet says her gait is really special, too.

Here she is checking out a saddle she's never worn before:

She had no problem at all trying it on.  Good girl.

Their other new horse, Digger (still a stallion) is really gorgeous.  But because he IS still a stallion, he and Knight spent the afternoon while we were there running up and down their fence lines, looking suspiciously at each other across the paddock divider path!  

Knight (left) and Digger (right)



"Digger"





"Knight"





Knight



Knight IS a gelding, but he didn't get that way until he was 10 or so and I don't think he's forgotten the pasture stallion he was before I adopted him.   Janet did me the biggest favor of my life when she adopted him from me because when I had him he was a REAL pill around other male horses (gelded or not).  He kept trying to attack any other males who showed up at the barn where I was boarding him.  But Janet has gotten him to settle down SO much.  Still, meeting stallion Digger seems to have wakened some of those old dominant feelings in him. 

When I walked out to his paddock with my camera, Knight walked over to me, but he was still keeping a very close eye out for Digger! 

He is such a pretty boy, isn't he?  Sure wish I were 50 lbs. thinner.  Knight is actually rideable these days -- but not by (ahem) a "maxi-person."

Oh, well . . . fortunately, all of our horses are feeling perfectly fine at the moment. Duke looks a little beat up for some reason -- I think he may have been sticking his head through the barbed wire on the back side of the pasture. Anyway, for whatever reason, he DOES have some scrapes and cuts on his face. So we're planning to bring Duke home when Mark gets back home in two weeks. We don't have the stall dividers installed or the paddock fences finished, so we can only bring home one horse at the moment.  But since Duke needs to get AWAY from the barbed wire and INTO a pasture with some shade, he's been chosen. CAN'T WAIT!!