Roo and Sam

I know I have mentioned him before, but Samarai (Sam) is truly Roo's most favorite friend. They can often be found grazing side by side or wandering up and down their large pasture together.

Today we had 70 degree weather with lots of sun for most of the day. I spent the better part of an hour watching Roo and Sam play in the field. Sam is only a bit over two years old, so he is the youngest member of Roo's pasture buddies (Andy is around 12 and Sin is 13 or 14).

I gave Eagle a bath today and stood outside with him and let him hand graze while he dried. The entire time I watched the two buddies at play. Head play, head bobbing, going for the front leg, all the usual horse play activity, followed by running away, chasing, then stopping and doing it all over again.

I had asked Lori if she ever caught Roo laying down. I know from having our Belgian, Gifford, that younger horses like to rest and sleep flat out. Today she told me she finally caught Roo not only laying in his stall flat out last night, but also SNORING! LOLOL...

Roo and I continued our ground work over the past several days. The only thing new I added was putting Roo in crossties while the food cart goes around and puts in the late afternoon/early evening meal. He was a little "dancy" during this activity, but nevertheless, heeded my command to at least not back up or not go forward in the cross ties. We'll have to work on this, as he clearly wants to be where the food cart is, and if he sets his mind to it he, obviously, can be there just by making short work of the cross ties!

Tomorrow rain all day and possibly into Monday. I will go up later in the day and do lunge line work.