Beach Fun :)

Hello everybodies, how are you? I am fabulous. Today I did some more beach pony riding, and I did pretty awesome if I say so myself! I didn't start out awesome though. I actually started pretty bad. Right after we left my house, Cyd saw there was a school bus coming up behind me, so we put me in the entrance way for the trailer park opposite my house. Of course the bus needed to let small people out here, but we waited so it didn't end up behind me again. Some peoples were all "Oooh look, it's Bugsy, we love Bugsy" cos for me being a bit famous in my neighbourhood. Cyd said that sorry, we couldn't get me pets today cos for me being too excitable and trying to get my brain in working mode. I thought I should demonstrate my excitability by jumping straight in the sky when the air brakes went swooosh, and again when the doors closed. Cyd told me off and made me do behavings, and then we were off on our adventure. I did a little prancing down the road so needed some reminders to do walking like a grown up. Cyd wondered to me if maybe she was being silly taking me to the beach in this mood without anyone to help us, and cos for us testing out how I like my new hackamore. It is flower kind, which we think we like so far.

Flower-hack

Once we went across the highway and onto the trail, Cyd hopped on me. She didn't stay up very long though, cos for me being a buttface and not wanting to walk past the scary fire. I was quite happy to follow Cyd though, that way if there are monsters they will be busy eating her so I can run away to safeties. That was the only time she had to get off me though, I did everything else by myself like a grown up. Except for when the RV came by. It was just little, but going quite fast, and even though I was safe on the trail I couldn't tell if it was going to eat me. To protect us, I did trotting in place, then sproinged into the sky, then trotting in place then sproinged in the sky. Cyd laughed and told me to knock it off, so I continued walking politely. 

I'm a beach pony!

Once we were on the haul road, I got laughed at again. Even when there was lots of grasses between us and the edge, I was watching the ocean in case it was going to come get me. I was super brave at hopping down onto the beach. We had a minute to do deep breaths, and let me suss things out. We walked along with no problems. I had to go around two dead trees, which are a bit scary when you kick sand on them so don't do that, k? I got up off the beach back onto the road, and was being so good that we went around again! I did great again, until it was time to come off the beach again. There was a person and another person and a little tiny person. They put the tiny person in a seat on the back of a bicycle, and one person pedals and the other person runs and takes pictures. Right at the end of my trail. I couldn't possibly go up there. We waited until they were gone, but then another bicycle came and this one had some kind of kite made out of plastic bags, so Cyd was quite glad I hadn't made it up there yet. See, sometimes being wimpy is smart! But that was the only bad thing I did on all the beach time, and it wasn't even bad. 

I don't go near the oceans yet, but that's okay. Today was kinda high tide anyway, and sometimes there were big waves, not a good day to learn that oceans are not scary to ponies. On the way home, I was so good, just walking on a loose rein, being polite. I crossed the highway with no problems, and even rode past where my friends live without stopping. I did ask Cyd if we could go visit but she said nope and did boomp boomp with her feet so I kept on going all the way to my house, didn't stop once! Once I got home I was so tired. My brain had to go over all the things I learned, so I fell asleep while I got brushed. I think I like beach pony riding!

Not even 3 miles, but it's my naptime!

New Grown Up Adventures

Hey everybodies. How are you? I am fabulous, and while my little body is not too tired, my brain certainly is. We did two times of pony riding this week, and they were short rides where I had to learn a lot of stuff. I mostly did everything right, but of course I had some silly moments too!

Ready to pony ride

My first being-a-grown-up day was on Wednesday. Cyd got me brushed which took forever cos for me being super dirty. Then I got my things on, Cyd put on her helmet and we walked to where my friends live. Or so I thought. We totally went in that direction, and Aunty V was in the driveway, and I tried to turn to go in ready to get on the pony trailer, but Cyd made me not do that. She told Aunty V we were going to somewhere called South Trail. There was a man there wearing park uniform, and he said there was chainsawing happening, but he would walk with us and make them stop so I didn't get scared. Thank you nice man for making me not be scared. We went across the highway and down to the trail. I was a bit nervous and did some dancing when it was mounting time, so we did some deep breathing. This made me more calm and Cyd hopped on. I was doing super bouncy walking, and was very looky at all the things. We had to go past campsites and there were big people-sleeping-trailers and tents and small children doing running and fires and just so much to look at. A bit of the trail goes along the road between Lake Cleone (more of a big pond) and where it is all flooded or maybe a pond, we don't remember. I was a bit scared to go through and we discussed it for a while. I still didn't want to go, so Cyd hopped off and let me walk behind her. It wasn't so scary when I could let her go in the front. She got back on and off we went again. Next obstacle - going under a bridge. This was barely a big deal, I was a little confused by the extra noise my hoofies made underneath but it was okay. Then the biggest problem of all - moving off the grey ground to step on the black ground. I decided this was absolutely not okay, and I couldn't possibly step on different coloured ground. Lucky not many cars wanted to come past, and even a motorcycle came by and didn't scare me, but that black ground was awful. We finally ended up hopping the little fence to get to the trail that way, with a promise from Cyd that we would not be going home until I walked on the black ground. I liked going up through the long grasses that came up to Cyd's knees.

We took a grazing break at the top, cos for my brain needing to settle down and process all the things I saw and did already. Our next adventure was not exciting for me, I do walking on woods trails all the time. But we came into a clearing and WHOA! There's the ocean crashing around being all scary. Emergency stop! 

Once I got my breath back, we ambled around the bluffs for a little bit then went back to face my nemesis - the black ground. I didn't want to go again, so Cyd hopped off me and turned my reins into a lead rope. Then she made me do circle practice. What?? We don't do circle practice up here on the trail. Some people started watching me go around. I never noticed that we were sneaking closer to the black ground until "cliphcloph" I was on the black ground. Boing! I jumped right off. We went back to it, and Cyd said I had to follow her. I did a jump and made it on the black ground. Deep breathing Bugsy, s'ok, you can do this. Off the black ground, on the black ground, off the black ground, then Cyd got back on. We did the same thing again, which was boring now cos for me being totally over it. We went all the way down the path back to the road, where Cyd had to have a noisy discussion with a stupid head who was convinced that her kids needing to see the pretty pony were more important than what was appropriate or even safe for all the people involved. The ponds didn't scare me on the way back, and then we walked on a sandy bit to practice for beach pony riding when I'm more grown up. I was a bit looky again on the way home, but super brave when the chainsaws were going. Finally one of the guys spotted me and made the noise stop so I didn't get scared and cross the highway at the same time. I waited patiently for all the cars and when there was a gap I politely walked across to go home. What a clever pony I am!

You know how we're waiting for me to be a grown up before I go to the beach? I'm totally a grown-up now. Yesterday, I went to the beach kinda all by myself, with Aunt-T on foot. She wanted a test subject to practice taking photos and she thought of me cos for me being so nice to look at. She told Cyd we should go walking to the beach, but Cyd had already been planning to ride me to the Haul Road and go on the beach if I felt okay. It would be perfect to have an extra person, cos for in case I make Cyd (or me) fall down. I was much braver going down the trail this time, with just a bit of looking at all the things. I got a bit stuck when the trail went from gravelly path to paved, but Aunt-T walked over and gave me some pets, then walked away so I followed her to get unstuck.

The road was mostly not scary, there was some stuff to check out but I did good. Then it was time to be really good, and go on the sand. I was so brave! I sampled some sand grasses cos for it being important to try new things. I also made a hole in the sand with my nose like a silly pony. We walked about for a little bit, and I did lots of looking, and staring into the distance doing contemplating cos for being a thoughtful grown up pony now.

 We walked over to somewhere called Seal Rock where all the seals do their sunbathing to do resting from swimming and safeties from the sharks. I should probably not go in the oceans so I don't become a shark snack either. 

Seal Rock posing

Basically my beach riding was all uneventful. This is exciting cos for now we can go on short rides and do pony riding more often. Before, we had to go on long adventures, even our short rides took a long time, so when Cyd had lots of people things to do, I didn't always get to go pony riding. Now I have more options for short rides. Yay! Thanks Aunt-T for taking all my beach pictures, I hope I was good to help you practice. Here's my other pictures:

Hiding From Winds

Hello everybodies, how are you? I am trying super hard to not blow away cos for it being windy and stormy where I live. I haven't done pony riding in a week cos for Cyd going away to do a people race called ultramarathon (she did one hundred kays on her own two feeties - 62 miles!). Thanks for Aunty V taking care of me when I was all alone and bringing me my snacks and making sure I didn't get hurted. Cyd gets picture updates of me to show I still have all my legs and the blood is inside my body where it should be and it makes Cyd happy, like this:

Yesterday we were going to do pony riding with Aunt-A and Maggie-pony but the winds were starting to be windy and it was quite cold. Cyd said it didn't feel like good pony riding weather. Now we have to wait until Sunday or Monday and hope it's not too stormy then for us to go pony riding. We want it to be stormy cos for needing the rains but we want some occasional pony riding time too.  In the meantime I got to wear Cyd's hat to be super cute.