A couple weeks ago we lost one of the best ponies our farm and lesson program have ever seen. Since words cannot adequately describe how much he meant to each of us, I encourage everyone to go to the facebook page made in his memory and read all of the wonderful stories about him. And share some of your own pictures and memories!!
Now that the leaves is starting to change, and everyone is back into school, I guess this means it is times for me to gets back to work writing in the blog!
The Mounting Block had a fantastic summertime, starting with the Saddle up for St Jude event! All the persons and horses had tons of fun, and we raised $2500 for the charity!
Our show season started at Wheeler Green. Ebony took Bev and they had a great experinece. The next show was at Stoney Creek stables and Cocoa and I took Kaytee the Traynor. I gots a yellow and a pink ribbon, and Cocoa gots herself eliminated, because she had to jump a lot of jumps and got tired of jumping them half way through the course.
After that the remainder of the shows for the season were at Rolelu. Me, Cocoa, and Princess all gots to go! And we all did really well! We are hoping to maybe finish out the season with one more show of horses in October.
Also, I’d like to welcome Chloe and her person, Jamie, back to the barn. She lived here before I did, but has come back. Chloe says that the horses here are much nicer than her other barn, and she is glad to have been able to come home.
Good riding weather is coming now, we can works hard without always needing to get sprayed with the bath hose. And it is time for pretty changing leaves and trail rides! Hope to see everyone out riding their ponies before the snow flies!!
We is only a few days away from the big event!! A lot of excitement around the barn as the persons are getting last minute chores done! Even velocity is doing help!
All persons are invited to be here Friday night to set up the Mare’s Fair and all the decorations. That is when we is all getting our baths, so i is hoping that the sunnyness is shining that day. i is looking forwards to laying in grassy spaces and sunning myself. And hopefully it does not rain on the event day. If it does, the persons have set up a rain date of 5/14.
But we is all hoping for sunshine so we can see all our students on Saturday! Here is a pic-chur of some prizes available in the Mare’s Fair!
So we hope to see everyone there! Saturday May 7th, 10:00am-2:00pm!
Hello Everyone!
There is so much going on at The Block!!!
It seems as though springtimes has finally showed up. It is not snowed on me for at least a week! So now that we gots rid of the snow, we just needs to get rid of the mud, and I will be a happy Mouse again. Although, it has been quite entertaining to watch the persons when they get stuck in the mud. Max told me that his person, Aly, got stuck in the mud and just a few weeks ago the Carrot’s Lady got stuck. She tried talking to her person caller, to get someone to come help, but no one talked back. Cocoa, Annie, Princess and I enjoyed our breakfast theater, watching her try to get herselves and her boots out of the mud. And she kept touching the zappy ropes, too. Unfortunately, JJay came out and helped her, and ruined all of our entertainment.
Since then Katie A and her helper, Lexi, have been working on building trenches to help with rain drainage. But I just thinks we just needs a lot of sun. So why don’t you persons work on that, instead of playing in the muds?
Besides all of this, all the persons are working hard to get the barn and property ready for the Saddle up for St Jude’s event!! St Jude’s Children’s hospital is a hospital for small persons to go to when they gets sick, to help them get better.
The big day is a week and a half away, and all us horses will be getting baths before hand, and getting braids!! Here is a pic-chur of a practice braid on me.
I is looking forward to the big day! All of us horses will be looking our best and all of the persons will be having fun and raising money for a good cause!! Hope to see everyone there!!
i has thought that Groundhog Phil didn’t see his shadow…and that this means no more snow. i must be wrong. Because it snowed LOTS yesterday. Here is a pic-chure of the ponies in the snow.
i sure does hope that all of this snowyness stops. i thinks everyone is ready for springtime and trail rides!!
i knows all you persons out there likes to think you are teaching us, but we is not dumb. In fact, we spend most of our times teaching you all how to behaves around us. For examples: if we wants you to play with us when you visit us in the paddock, we just don’t let you catch us. Now you is running after us and playing! And often times this ends with a treat! Or, when we wants you to come pet us, and maybe gives us a scritch behind the ears, we will whinny and nicker until you can no longer ignores us!
i was talking with Heffy today, and he tells me such a funny story, and it made me realize that i needs to make sure everyone knows how to do this one simple little thing properly. That one little thing is how to walk next to us while we is leading you. i knows it is harder for you humans to walk, since you only has two feets, and we has four, but it really is quite simple. All you has to do is stay at our side and put one foot in front of the other while we drags you along. And i would recommend that you don’t let the lead rope dangle, because you only has 2 feets, and if one gets tangled, then you only have one left to walk on. That’s it, that’s the big secret on how to do it. We is currently teaching JayJay how to do this.
You see, earlier this week, Heffy was walking JayJay through some deep snow, and she is keeping the lead rope loopy. Heffy tries to warn her, but she is in the deep snow and she doesn’t keep up with him and the next thing Heffy knows, she is laying flat on the ground. Face first. He thought it is awfully strange that she wanted to be lead from down there, but she was laughing, so he figured she was enjoying herself. So Heffy just kept on walking, leading her to where he needed to go.
Heffy told me that it was quite difficult to lead her while she was like that. So even though you crazy humans might think it is fun to be drug around on your bellies in the snow, please remember that we would much prefer you stays up on both of your feets!!
i has been thinking i was getting the entire snowy wintertimes off, and would not have to do much works. But this is not how things have been turning out. i was having most of December off, but without exercise i was feeling a little anxious, and i needed to stretch my legs, so i has been finding ways out of my Mouse House. Katie A is not happy with me. She has been fixing many a fence.
So together, even with all this snowyness, Katie A and the Carrots Lady have been making sure I has been getting exercise. i thinks i likes the Carrots Lady better, i gets away with doing less work when she is around. But that Katie A is tough. She makes me all sweaty, and then my pretty winter coat gets all slimy. i does not likes this much. But Cocoa says Katie A is what they call a “Tray-nor”. That means she can teach me how to do lots of things that will make me prettier and will make the Carrots Lady very happy. Cocoa says that Katie A Tray-nor’d her last year, and then took her to a place where all kinds of horses gathered to show off what they had learned. Cocoa said it was fun and exciting and she even won special ribbons!! This sounds like a lot of works and hassle to me and i don’t like to do any works at all. i would rather be eating hay and grasses and apples.
Here is a pic-chur of me in some of my latest tray-noring sessions.
Other than this, things have been pretty quiet at the block. We all (horses and humans alike) is looking forwards to the warmer weather!
Us horses love to be visited and loved and ridden!! So if you is still needing gift ideas for the horse person in your life, consider a gift certificate for a Riding Lesson!! See JJay for details. (i has hooves, so i can not write up a certificate for you.) i thinks all horse loving persons should come visit us and bring us carrots and apples!
Hi Mounting Block Readers! My name is Mouse. i is a new addition to the Mounting Block Horse Family. i has lived here since June. i is owned by The Carrots Lady (aka Katie C). Since The Carrots Lady has become quite neglectful of this blog, i is taking over.
i is 5 years old. i is a blue roan standardbred and i is learning dressage, and over the snowy wintertimes i is supposed to learn how to do jumping. i don’t think i is learning as quick as The Carrots Lady would like, though. i is not as good as some of the lesson horses, like Dusty, Heffy and Bud. But they is geldings, so really, what do they know anyway!? At least i is more bee-yoo-ti-ful than they is.
It has been snowing for days here at the Block. All of us horses has had to put on our winter blankets (sometimes TWO blankets!!). And Katie A (the Barn Manager) has been taking very good cares of us, making sure we is getting dry food, that our water buckets aren’t frozen and that we is always warm enough!!
But i has had enough of this winter and snow business. It is no fun to always have snow landing on me, and wind blowing up my rump-end under my blanket!! i has to spend a lot of time inside my shed to avoid these things. i much preferred sunning myself in the grasses in the Orchard. i is ready for sunshine times and going on trail rides in the creek!!
Congratulations go out to Bev and Shannon on their recent success at Rolelu!
On August 14th at Rolelu Stables, Shannon and Bud had a 4th place finish in Beginner Novice A (Combined Test). Bev and Ebony got 6th place in Beginner Novice B (Combined Test). Both rode well, despite some of the antics of their horses.
On September 18th Shannon and Bev again tackled Rolelu and this time they were joined by Katie A. Shannon and Bud got 4th place and Bev and Ebony got 2nd place, both competed in Beginner Novice Combined Test. And Katie A and Cocoa had a 1st place finish in Introductory Dressage Test B!! A great time was had by all!
We would also like to send out a warm welcome to our new Boarder, Shelley and her adorable paint, Princess! We can’t wait to see you two work together!
And we would also like to Congratulate Katie C on her purchase of Mouse, who she has been leasing since Spring. We are looking forward to watching them grow together as a team!
