Mary Drew's Wednesday update

MD stacking buckets like a pro

Anyone who spends enough time around me has probably picked up on the fact that sometimes, I can get a little too focused on the big picture and forget to enjoy the process, but yesterday was definitely an enjoy-the-process sort of day. It felt like spring!

We started the afternoon off with a major victory- clippers. Tip of the day: schedule clip time for central baby pony naptime. Black pony, who has previously broken out of two halters in attempts to escape the evil buzzing blades of doom, stood sleeping in the yard (no drugs, honest) while he got a bridle path (it had been a while), lost his winter beard (mostly) and started to look a little bit more like an event horse (and a little bit less like a wildebeast). Hopefully this means we'll be okay with clippers again in the future.

Neil sans whiskers

We then took our first hack of the season, hitting up the McSheffrey Rd. and hunting for hills. It was lovely out, lots of puddles to splash through, etc. - good thing he likes water- and it was a pretty nice quiet experience until Neil decided a school bus going by him was as good an excuse as any to be naughty. We had a nice little buck/canter down the road for about a quarter of a mile, after which we did walk-halt transitions all the way back to the barn. I will not be hacking him out on the buckle for some time now as you may imagine.

Funny though, I had been kind of sore and I think he may have snapped something back into place in the process of behaving like a complete ass, so he may have saved me a trip to the chiropractor at any rate.

wearing his helmet like a good PCer