07/05

The mini's have a doggy door and run back and forth from paddock into pasture and back and forth all day.  

06/14 -The good old boys club.  Hero, Jack, Timber Cruiser.  They live up on the hill - they are retired.

06/01 I can't believe Shane got a therapy massage.  I'm the jumping pony!  So unfair - I could have used a nice therapy muscle relaxation and therapy touch to put my neck muscles back in place!!

05/17th - I have my camera back and I am once again a photographer.  Mom has again started what she calls riding and I call balancing her.  I guess we do that balanced riding.  BUT, I love my Mom so I make sure her butt doesn't slide off the saddle.  Not an easy task, but I am a very talented pony.   Here is Dusty and Quincy running and bucking.  Quincy is multi tasking - he can eat weeds on the run!

03/29 Although I didn't take the picture, if it wasn't for me yelling "Devin, Take the picture!"  He would have missed it.   I am just such a wonderful pony!

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03/19 - Yes, I have a new camera!  I decided I need to be more of a journalist so Mom said since that is a positive thing she will help me.  I told her I first required for my new job a new dressage saddle.  Mom told me that is not what a photo journalist needs so she bought me a camera.  Maybe later I will trade it for a new saddle!  Our pasture has grown in and it is like running through a FOOD BUFFET!!!   Here I am with Cajun and here is Prinz Mueller.  

02/27 - I am happy.  My trainer rode me since I wanted to jump.  Mom is going to be in her first horse show.  Of course it is only walk, trot and she will wear the number face not showing so she won't be judged.  We have to start Mom on things slowly!  Someone else will ride me to jump or canter.   Right now I only have mom's promise she will go in the ring with others but she may have a panic attack so our next plan is she just rides to the middle of the ring and waits for everyone to finish.  But, it is a start!   Now here are some pictures at the top of the hill where it was about to storm and of Jack looking at Mom cleaning his stall and he wants back in that stall!

02/08 - well another rainy month on the ranch - I sure hope this ends soon.  the only  nice day we had the buzzards were drying out their wings all over the pasture.   Mom thought they were sick BUT they were just sunning.

01/15/10 - Well, I'm about ready and happy to be ridden and Mom says she has to go get a dog.  I looked at Quincy and said, "A dog?  there is nothing on the ranch to do?  Mom is going to get a dog?"  Luckily it wasn't for here because I would have to really put my hoof down on that - Mom hardly has time now.  I actually get stuck lunge lining the mini's - well I just bite them on the ass and make them run around the round pen.  Anyway, this is my cousin Noi with the new dog.  He wasn't any good at herding goats.  I like goats, they are small - I can be a Goat Herding Pony AND jump over them too!  Goat Jumps!  

01/10/10  Well, Mom mentioned no new saddle BUT I am going to be good and no complain.  Here is Prince trying to make friends with the Monster Quincy.   And who I call the three amigo's since Mom will make them be friends whether they want to or not.  She claims they need to be a herd since they are all small.

01/04 - It is a New Year and I am sure Mom will buy me a new saddle blanket, saddle, all new things since it is New.  She explained it doesn't mean you get new things but then it would be just like the old year.  Mom gets confused since I am sure the New Year means new things.

 12/28 - here is Blonde boy Prince Mueller.

12/15 - Here I am at a Xmas show being ridden by a friend of mine.

12/14/09  This is not what I call Sunny California!  It snowed - it is cold, now it is raining!  Mom had to put Jack in the barn he was so cold.  2,000 pounds of shivering old Percheron!  He lost so much weight on the hill in two nights of snow.  Mom is always complaining she needs to lose weight so I told her to stand out all night with us.  She failed to see my sense of humor.  Here is Timber trudging along - I was in my nice warm stall yelling - HEY SNOW HORSE!

12/12/09  I had to work less when I was sick!  Now Mom thinks I have to catch up with discipline.  She said she saw drunken sailors on shore leave back in NY that side stepped better then me.  She said I acted like I was staggering!  So I did my front legs but she wants all four!  So I just kind of swaggered over but I would not call it stagger!  Now I am back in discipline with K. Mckee!   Mom is SO lucky I love her!

 11/15/09  I am better!  No more puffy pigeon and I didn't have a lot of those abscess things that Mom nearly fainted over!   AND Mom bought me a new dressage bridle!  AND mom bought me a new dressage pad AND I love my Mom and will have all new pictures.  I think I gained weight standing in a stall for all these weeks.  I was stuck in quarantine almost 3 months!!!   Mom said we will work out together starting tomorrow.  

11/01/2009 - I had to baby-sit Prince since he has no one to graze with.  Mom came home from her trip with some new idea that Prince needs to graze with another horse and he can't graze with Quincy.  I'd rather have been in the pasture with horses then a Shetland Pony!  But since I'm a Welsh/Hafflinger Pony I did what Mom wanted me to do.  

10/13/2009 - It is a storm! I am sick and have an abscess - Mom, as we know, does not excel at swabbing things out.   I had to keep telling her to sit down or she would faint.   I kept saying, "Mom, just put the syringe in and flush it out, I'll stay real still"  I was like a stone statue and she is saying Cody don't move!  I didn't want to say she was an odd shade like she was about to throw up and that it was her hand shaking and I wasn't moving!   I finally had to get her doing it right since she was moving the damn thing like she was looking for a vein for a needle.   FLUSH IT OUT!!!   Finally Mom figured it out but after a lot of instructions from me but that is why we all love Mom.