Silly Liberty

The other day, it was warmish out, and when I went out to feed the ponies their dinner, I got distracted by Mo and Zephyr. I had some cookies in my pockets, which I was sharing, until I decided to run away from the congealing group of ponies.

Mo and Zephyr both took off after me! Mo went over the three log jumps with me, and Zephyr just galavanted by. Mo got cookies, and I ran away again, and both of them came after me again! Zephyr was running all out up to me, and so when she passed me, I would turn and go the other way. She would slide to a stop on the slippy grass, hope her front end over, in a kind of half rear bounce thing, and then give a little hoppy buck straight up in the air, as if to say 'harrumph, no slipping for me!' and canter after me again!

Mo was more clever, sticking close to me, knowing where the cookies came from! She trotted and cantered with me, offered some really nice close circles too! We played some tag and catch me and then circles, with Mo close to me, and Zephyr out on the bigger circle - though still connected! It was really cool to be able to have that PLAY with them, and TOGETHER! It was the neatest feeling.

I really havent even 'done liberty' per say, with Zephyr, but she had amazing AMAZING canter/gallop draw to me, and then when we circled, she stayed on the pattern - it was a bigger pattern, probably somewhere between a 15-20' circle, but shes young, its hard to do close, little circles, AND she is exuberant and excitable, so I am pretty ok with those feet further away from accidentally kicking me :)

This is a tiny video of just the tail end of the draw, I was to busy enjoying myself to think of taking a video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRFAmM7lRvs

We had so much fun, running and cavorting around :D

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Nick Names

I wonder if everyone has so many nick names for all of their animals? I was thinking about it today, as I was running through Zephyr's multitude of names... its a little embarassing how many she has [and still responds to!!! ]

Zephyr - Phyr- Phyr, Ze-FUR, Fur- Burglar, Zeph, Ze-fur-fur

Indy - Stinky [to be fair, last summer when she lived in Russell by the river, she really WAS stinky, and it just stuck] Spotty pony, Stinky horse, Spotty face

Gambler - Gambleroni, Roni, Roni-horse [a more modest list, havent known him as long ]

Mo - really, I just call her Mo.... once in a while, Baby Mo, or Mo-y or My Mo. But nothing really un-Mo-like... weird huh?

Even Jax has a trillion names.... His name is AJAX but I call him Jax, Jaxie, Goober... fluffy dog, smelly dog... the list goes on!!

Just my musings while I was out with my frozen brain :)

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