It stormed all day today. at one point i thought we were having a tornado. My boys were out in front and got started playing and it was so awesome to watch when they do that... i can hardly break away to go get the camera, i want to watch all the little subtle wartime maneuvers. This was the first time Trausti played with them. He hooked up with Nasi and curly ray with fox as their fearless leader. Only everytime they heard the thundering hoofs of the mccurdy herd coming fox would lose courage and go yiiii and do a sorta goose step behind the cotton candy stand and nasi and trausti would be on their own. Curly ray would gallop through trees so close the big horses couldnt follow his path and nasi and trausti just started runnig and didnt quit. They must have run the entire property at a hard gallop a full ten minutes. I was so scared one would hurt himself, especially trausti not knowing the obstacles like the others. it was breath taking. I laughed so hard at fox tho, he would hide in bushes he thought concealed his whole body and you could just see him plain as day. I was also relieved to see the mccurdys chase trausti and when they caught him just sparred with him in a play fight and thundered off, back to sabatoge them on their next circle round the path. When Trausti and nasi and fox and curly came through the woods you could hear trees crashing and then curly would come running out all high headed, he would do lead changes. gosh he is funny to watch. anyway. we wre supposed to have a photo session at the conservation area today but it was canceled due to rain. It was a nice day, and thinking of Wanda and her Gusti, I am so grateful to God that my herd is safe and happy and no one is sick! but even if they were, i would know they had a great day today. i appeciated them more today, thinking of wanda and her loss and grief. Janice
-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
