Thanksgiving and Nice Weather

Roo is growing! I'm not shrinking. You can see by this picture that his withers now hide my shoulder area.

Thanksgiving brought rain all day, so Roo was in for the duration as the fields were very muddy. We've had alot of rain and some flooding recently in low-lying areas. I went up early early Thanksgiving Day to get him out a bit and work him in the arena. The arena has new footing. It is softer and just great and Roo loves it. He sniffs it and snorts, then runs off.

My family came for Thanksgiving Day so I went home to finish cooking. We ate at 2:00 and everyone had departed by 5:00. I feed all of our horses a mash on Thanksgiving and Christmas days. So I fed the boys at home their mash, then made one for Roo and Eagle and transported it to the stable (hot water in thermos, etc.) to put together there in their buckets. I put apples, shredded carrots, applesauce and molasses in the mash. Roo slurped his down.

This week we are back to pleasant weather. It will be in the 60's all week which will give the pastures time to dry out. Roo was outside yesterday playing with Sam. They are joined at the hip I think. As it was a nice day, I left him outside to play. My theory is, he has plenty of time to grow up into work. Right now he needs to enjoy some play time! Winter is coming and it will be hard to run and play in slippery fields.

Roo is a pleasant soul and always comes up to me in the pasture to say hello when I go out to see him. No treats necessary. He just likes to visit.

This upcoming week I will work on free lunging again. I don't like putting him on a line too much yet, as it confines him to a too tight circle and they can injure their legs/splints in too tight of a circle. However, he has learned to free lunge a nice big circle around me and not run all over the arena, which is great!

More to come as the week goes on!