Mighty's First Saturday

Last week was Mighty's first Saturday. I decided it might be best if Pinta and Mighty went out together in the pasture and Shiloh spent her time talking and petting them from the inside of the corral. Then no matter what shenanigans they decided to perform, she would always be on the other side of the panels. She thoroughly enjoys climbing up and down the panels ... and since it is cold and frozen and she is wearing her leather riding boots ... I am always worrying that she might slip. Thus far this has not happened and she frequently tells me that she is being very careful. Mighty is quite friendly and enjoying all of the attention he is getting.

After an hour or so I brought Mighty into the smaller paddock by himself and Shi stood next to Pinta's small-hole-hay-net to begin the process of teaching him how to tease out the strands of hay from the bag. He's got to learn that it takes finesse with his lips, not brute force with his teeth ... lol. Shi loves feeding the horses small handfuls of pieces of hay. She stood for at least half an hour and pulled small bits of hay out of the net and fed him, and then pulled small loops of hay out of the net and let him pull them out. He was quite happy. Eventually we saddled Pinta and Shi rode down the road and back, but by then the wind picked up and we were both cold so we didn't go far. A good day.