Talladega Nights - Bugsy Styly

Hello everybodies. How are you? I am fabulous. Today Cyd says I was like a firework pony, cos for wanting to speedy everywhere. She totally said I was channelling Ricky Bobby cos for being a bit like this today:

I haven't done pony riding since trying to be a kinda rescue pony, and it would seem I saved up all my energies since then ready for our next pony riding adventure. Though Cyd says we need to do more pony riding, cos for only just squishing into my girth. I'm still young and still growing, but apparently I'm supposed to be growing my muscles, not my belly! I walked up the road pretty good, when the deer spookied me. Look, I'm being grown up - calm but alert.

I didn't have my bit today, since we were just doing a short after-work good-for-Cyd's-brain loop. She wasn't going to take my saddle either but for the purposes of needing to run fast tomorrow she decided to put it on me. Lucky she did! All my pictures today are blurry cos for me going fast.

I did some walking and some trotting, and very occasionally did some canters practice. We didn't take my dressage stick today, so I had to not get stuck cos for no way of doing tap tap. I did do some stopping, but after a pause and a pat I got going again.

Got my thinking face on

I totally did not do any bucking today! Also, Cyd didn't have to get off me the WHOLE PONY RIDE (well except for hopping off to adjust my saddle when it slid, but that doesn't count).

Starting to get dark going home

While I was most certainly not a super well behaved pony, we both had fun, which is what counts most of the time!

Rescue Pony (Kinda)

(After taking forever to do my typing for me, Cyd then forgot to post my story. She is a fail :/)

Hello everybodies! How are you? I am fabulous. Today I got my feeties all trimmed up, and I was mostly good at behaving myself. I can't believe I didn't tell you about my last week pony ride. Cyd made plans with Aunty A to meet up on the trail and so we can pony ride together. This is not what happened.

I started off by being mostly good walking up the road, but there was a smidgen of excitement, and I got a bit fancy:

High alert!

We weren't in a big rush, which is good, cos for me not really wanting to jump my ditch. While I was contemplating my options, Cyd got a texting from Aunty A saying she thought she was lost. Cyd was juggling texting her directions and coaxing me. I finally jumped over and Cyd checked her last message.

"F*** I fell she ran off"

Cyd asks if she's hurt and that we're on our way. She leaped on me and off we went. Except for then I thought maybe I'd rather stop for a snack first. Cyd said "Hey Bugsy, we really gotta go find our friend". I took some snacks to go, and had a little bounce before trotting off. We didn't get a reply from Aunty A so Cyd called her. No answer. Called again. No answer. And again. Uh oh. So we called Uncle J and told him what was happening and that we were adventuring to find her so somebody knew where we were. We didn't spot hoofie prints near our meeting point, so we went the direction they should have been coming from. Soon we found pony skids, and speedy prints heading back toward where Maggie-pony lives. There were no people prints though. I was all snorty snorty coming through here, so maybe something spooked Maggie-pony too. Cyd said "Okay Bugsy, this way. Maybe we'll find them soon!" Off we went carefully cos for it being all slippy. I totally got a bit stuck at a puddle cos for not wanting wet hoofies. Cyd got off me, we didn't need to spend time schooling me through it when our friends might need our help. There was a few spots she got off before I did misbehaving, so as to not get stuck. Mostly I did trotting where it was safe. We kept following hoofie prints but no sign of them, or of people prints. Cyd figured by now that probably Maggie-pony was home. The problem was not seeing people prints or catching up to Aunty A yet. We kept trotting on hoping that she hadn't got disoriented on foot and taken a wrong turn and got herself all lost in the woods. Trot trot trot through the woods. 

Uh oh, now which way? There's two ways to get to Maggie-pony's house from here. We looked for hoofie prints, and maybe saw some going the long way. So that's the way we trot-trot-trotted. We soon got to the road, and we just walked. Luckily, we turned up the driveway and saw Aunty M (Maggie-pony's owner) feeding ponies. No Maggie though or Aunty-A though. Turns out they were just hiding around the corner. Nobody was lost, or ouchied too bad, just Aunty A with some bruises.

We didn't hang around for long, it was going to get dark before we got home even if we hurried. Cyd took me on foot for a while to give me a rest, I was a little bit tired.

Phew, it's tiring trying to be a rescue pony

She got back on and we did some more trotting, but I got to walk each time I asked. I also got to practice getting snacks to go. At one point I pulled Cyd over to the other side of the trail from where we were, cos for being thirsty so I was willing to brave the scary puddle.

Then I drank another puddle! Cyd was so proud of me for taking care of myself. After my drinking I was happy to do lots more trotting. I even wanted to trot the downs, but Cyd made me do walking cos for not wanting for me to hurt my legs. Troubles was, we were still three miles of slippy trails away from my house, and the sun was going down!

Then it got a bit darker:

Then it got really dark:

I did pony riding in the dark before with Aunt-E and Ike-pony when I was a super-baby pony in only my second month of pony riding. But this time I was by myself. Know what I did? Just kept trotting right along. We had no lights since we didn't plan on being in the dark. I'm so brave. There wasn't even moon under the trees. I did get stuck at one bit, which was not good for hurrying home in the dark. It was the only trail that takes me home, there are no other options. It took me about ten minutes, maybe a bit more, but eventually we crept closer to the trail, and finally got me on it. Once I was on, I trotted away nearly all the way home. I'm the best pony ever!

Visitors and Explorations

Hello everybodies! How are you? I am (of course) fabulous, and well rested. Cyd went on people holiday last month for eight days, and we were supposed to pony ride the day she left but the weather was a bit funny and Cyd just had a feeling we should not pony ride. When she visited me later it seemed that was a good option cos for me being bratty. When she came back from people holiday, her mummy and her nana were here to visit us. So on Tuesday we fetched my Aunty V and went for a pony ride. Cherokee was not behaving super appropriately so we just did walking for safeties.

Then I had five more days off. Then I did a mini lunging session in my crupper. I started doing good, so we were going to stop, then I went into crazy pony mode. I'm definitely getting better at it though. Then Cyd made me a thing called 'fauxssoa' for encouraging me to keep using my back good. These can be harsh, but we kept it gentle for me. It will have its own post soon for you to see. Then I didn't get pony ridden again til Sunday, when I went exploring with my bestie.

I got a bit chubby in my time off. I also did some bad pony riding things like bucking for funzies, which got me laughed at, and even did kicking which got me in Big Troubles cos for kicking is NOT OKAY!!!!! Lucky I didn't get anyone hurted. We did kissing too, so he's still my bestie. 

Aunt-T got video of my trying to buck but we can't make it work yet. We went exploring down a new trail. It was really overgrown so we had to adventure our way through. I totally barged my way into the wilderness and got laughed at again. Instead of ducking my head, I just squint my eyes closed and push through. It got too grown over for even Cydvto go on foot so we turned around. My bestie didn't seem to be feeling super awesome so we took the short way back, and we got led on the downhill. We did some practicing of my manners too.

This is me being full of myself!

And being a polite grown up pony.

I got ridden down the road cos for being good, and was even brave when the super rattle old truck came close past me. I did jump when a baby pony came to say hi. 

This baby pony lives right next to my trails so we might see a lot of each other. I used my own saddle today (we had been using a loaner treeless kind) and neither me or Cyd liked it so much, we got spoiled. My saddle hunt continues!

I have only done pony riding two times in six whole weeks, and I totally didn't forget what to do. I even tried jumping a little tree, but didn't do super good at it yet. I will practice soon though :)

Happy Halloween

My costume is to be a quarter horse!