We stole the "mummy's" laptop

Hey ya’ll! this is from MarK and PHEeonIX! Thoroughbreds Extraordinaire!

Hi there! The twos of us dont post much, but yu mightn know about the learnin’s we been putting on our feed gatherer-scratcher persons…Sum reason the scratcher person likes us to call her “Mummy”…Who’d wanna be called Mummy?
But we digress.
“Mummy” decided she wanted us to teach her how to jump the big scary jumps in the “cruss cunntry” fields. So, We gotted loaded up in the equus-eating red stinky bouncy monster.

Mummy and her “screamette,” I think the mummy calls her “rashlee” but we just refer to her as Ms. pokeybuttbones…thought that this picture was particularly funny. We dont see the big deal. We know that a big butt doesnt mean you have a big stud-tool under your flanks…not that they work for some dreadful reason I dont remember…AND we know that a big skinny butt doesnt mean that you are anorexic. I mean, CEeee–ripes! I eet like a HORSE!!.
So, we roll down the road, and what is the DEEL with all of these pony-eating TRUCKS that go flying by! And WHO cares if we want to lift hour tails in out of the trailer and poop in the highway? Hey, you ever seen a ponytail-gatin 'vertable make such a fast move before! And those humanfolk can yell and scream! Boy, Me and Phoenix had some GOOD guffaws on that one. Just remind me to eat more next time.
So, we get there and the humans put that horrible stuff called “tak” on us. How barbarian like! I mean, what do we look like, eohippusesssess? Sidenote: “Hey mark, Whats the plural for eohippus?”

Anywhooo…Off we take the humans, “mummy” seemed abnormally shaky, no matter how many quick spins I threw in to get her mind on track. All she kept saying was, “I shouldnt haf had so much caffeene”

More later…the cat has gotten into the grain.
We MUSt insist on stomping that cat flat…but OH!! she is a sly one…

Hey ya’ll! this is from MarK and PHEeonIX! Thoroughbreds Extraordinaire!

Hi there! The twos of us dont post much, but yu mightn know about the learnin’s we been putting on our feed gatherer-scratcher persons…Sum reason the scratcher person likes us to call her “Mummy”…Who’d wanna be called Mummy?
But we digress.
“Mummy” decided she wanted us to teach her how to jump the big scary jumps in the “cruss cunntry” fields. So, We gotted loaded up in the equus-eating red stinky bouncy monster.

Mummy and her “screamette,” I think the mummy calls her “rashlee” but we just refer to her as Ms. pokeybuttbones…thought that this picture was particularly funny. We dont see the big deal. We know that a big butt doesnt mean you have a big stud-tool under your flanks…not that they work for some dreadful reason I dont remember…AND we know that a big skinny butt doesnt mean that you are anorexic. I mean, CEeee–ripes! I eet like a HORSE!!.
So, we roll down the road, and what is the DEEL with all of these pony-eating TRUCKS that go flying by! And WHO cares if we want to lift hour tails in out of the trailer and poop in the highway? Hey, you ever seen a ponytail-gatin 'vertable make such a fast move before! And those humanfolk can yell and scream! Boy, Me and Phoenix had some GOOD guffaws on that one. Just remind me to eat more next time.
So, we get there and the humans put that horrible stuff called “tak” on us. How barbarian like! I mean, what do we look like, eohippusesssess? Sidenote: “Hey mark, Whats the plural for eohippus?”

Anywhooo…Off we take the humans, “mummy” seemed abnormally shaky, no matter how many quick spins I threw in to get her mind on track. All she kept saying was, “I shouldnt haf had so much caffeene”

More later…the cat has gotten into the grain.
We MUSt insist on stomping that cat flat…but OH!! she is a sly one…

Not sure why, but my “spook at my own tail” horse walked right up, and right INTO the ditch and kept going like no big deal. Granted, it was dry at the bottom, but still…Both horses went through like grain was waiting on the other side!
We only jumped that once since it was “no big deal”

hehe…Wish I had a pic of that one!

the meowser got away again, even though we tried to stomp it good. why must humans want to be owned by royalty such as US, AND that vermin who walks around like it owns the barn!
pure evil, in fuzzy form.
Mark says I’m going “off the beaten trail” again, so i’ll continue.
So, here we are, taking ms. bonybuttbones and Ms. Feed-gatherer scratcher person, AKA “mummy” to the big fields by the jumps. We know our persons are acting “up” and no matter how much we try to teach them to relax, they keep those tense bones wrapped around us. We know its just to make them think we will stay under them for longer, but we know better.
So, Marks person decides that she is feeling a little brave so I decide to take her over a little jump. I almost stopped at first because she wasnt sure, but I taught her good. Then I let Pheenix go and my human took something called a Pick-ture.
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For some reason, pokeybuttbones decided to really congratulate me for that little pee-on of a jump. But I was a little proud that my human learned someting and I carried her safely over.
The DANG CAT IS BACK!
We gotta hoof it…
Be Bak soon!

and absolutely fun day…Much needed one at that.
Jumped the biggest jump I’ve done in three years yesterday…And i’m VERY proud of myself!!!
This trip was very reassuring to me, especially since I havent had a lesson in years, none of my show clothes fit, and my horse Used to have the tendancy to be a bit…ummm…
Unconventional.

Anyhoo…I had an absolute blast and want to do it again soon…

I’m going to type because Mark hasnt gotten used to typing on the laptop. I tell ya, hoofs with no opposable thumb…who says we werENt using it? Huh? Hoo else has a big old, crusty thumb haffway up their legs? Who the heck, in evolutions long scheme of things decided THAT was a good idea? Ever tried to scratch your own butt without an opposable thumb?
AND that CAT! Pointey-eared spawn of the devil! It torments me and my friends. Sleeping in the Alfalfa, flaunting her access to the delicacy and pretending its not the most FABULOUS tasting stuff shes ever set her hooves, we meen…PAAAws on. And she doesnt even eet it! But we know she sneeks in and …
"ALRIGHT! Mark…I"M typing already!!!

So anyhow,
My human is pretending that she knows what she is doing. I’ve only been teaching her for a year now! You’d think that when i say she’s ready to jump that she would trust me…
Anyhow, I took her over a few jumps, and marks person took more “Pick-tures”. We went over a bunch of times, because I dont know if she was “getting it”

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I keep telling her…I’ll GET THERE! stop tryin to hump my neck! wait, wait wait for me to get to the dang thing!!!
so, around I go again…
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I swear, humans are so UNTEACHABLE! I’m a THOROUGHBRED! Not a shetland! Oh, Mark wants me to tell you that he got some “pick-tures” too.
“We’ll get to them mark, just poop in your water bucket or sumthing, I’m tellin a story!”
So, over we go again…
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Hey now! Aint I dashing!
Wait…somebody knocked over the trash…I gotta go spread it around, thats too good to miss!
We’ll be back…
Pheenix and Mark.
Trashmasters

Have trailer, will travel! It has been over 20 years since I have been to Frying Pan, I am thinking my neice and Pockets need a road trip for some real fun!

Thanks so much for sharing your experience.

That was some FINE trashin’ goin on. Old Lady April can really move when she gets a cat food can stuck in her tail! And Willhe and his affection for old hay string. I tell ya, we just dont get it! I mean, there is ONLY so much you can do with haystring. Dont get us wrong, we love a good hay-string ball as much as the next horse, but there comes a point where you should just seek professional help. Mark and Me got into the cough syrup…you know if you eat enough of it you go to the “special place”…
Mark says I’m off the trail again.
So, where were we?
So, we had just been trying to teach our humans how to jump the little jumps and not hump our necks and wait for our command before they clumsily crash all over our necks. How the heck are we supposed ta balance if you got your lips on hour ears? come ON! pashawww.
The day was getting warm, and I was workin up a little sweat. The annoying flying beasts were all up on my grille…Where is that special anti-flying beast perfume when you need it?
Anyhoo, me and mark decided that hour humans were ready for the water jump.
My person seemed pretty confident, and her balance was good for ONCE! I coulda bucked and farted when she figured out how to sit my canter! Anyway, I took my person right through the water on the first try cuz she didnt even try to hesitate! I went extra slow the first time, cuz the water was a little brown and i didnt want to get my stockings dirty.
Marks person had that black-box thing on her face the whole time…I guess it was for the “pick-tures”
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Now, to get my human to keep her elbows from sticking out. What does she expect, to fly or something?
“FINE! Hold ON!~”
Boss mare April says they found a good clover patch by the groundhog hole. you all know what that means!
Mark!!! Wait up!
signing off for now. Be bak

Lets do a COTH ride/school at Frying Pan!
Anybody up for it??
How much FUN would that be? We could all go out and play cross country, or play in the lovely rings and then have a tailgate party!

It has to be close for a bunch of us!
Comeon ETBW! Lets rally the troops!

FW

Always,
FairWeather
Stall rest is over! Hand walking may begin…but don’t forget the stud chain over my nose :stuck_out_tongue:
http://www.fairweather.bizland.com/entrance.html

I loved your presentation on the exracers board. Great pics btw.

Aimee and Pockets are ready, willing and able! Well, Pockets can be bribed He hasn’t had that special perkiness since the last time he encountered KS.

Frying Pan Park is just down the parkway. ETBW hasn’t tried out the partition for her brand new previously owned trailer yet. Princess Maddie thinks it is her private traveling box stall. Time for a lesson in sharing.

I had better keep Maddie away from your guys!

Thanks, we needed a story.

I’d go for an outing at Frying Pan. Whenever we go there, I tell B that we are going to playland.

Your horse’s are very talented, figuring out the internet soooo quickly. I bet they could program the VCR to tape the horsey events if you let them!

What a wonderful tale. And if memory serves Phoenix is your rescue horse? My hasn’t he come along nicely.

Thanks for the lift.

“The older I get, the better I used to be, but who the heck cares!”

Clive’s Mom, Inverness, Kennett Square, Jacksmom, HN73, are you guys willing?

I will cook

Thats what I get for leaving the laptop laying around!
I’ve since ‘shooed’ Mark and phoenix off…
I’ll share the rest of the pics myself.
OH, and dont believe a word those two say!

These were all taken down at Frying Pan yesterday…It was my first trip there riding and my first time jumping anything more than piles of poles in a loooonnngg time.

Mark surprised me by being VERY good and going over some really really whacky stuff. I finally think he has gotten past some of his “issues”
You know the type, must have cocktails and weiner-dogs with a jump before actually going over it. Since I’ve started back riding I’ve really been working on getting him over NEW stuff…
Anyhow, He took very good care of me.

Phoenix has been sitting idle for the last few months ever since the “head incident”. I started riding him about two weeks ago and recently started lunging him over some jumps. His method of jumping at home sometimes involved jumping with his front end then STOPPING mid jump. He’d stand there, look at me like…What?

He needs a firm leg and some encouragement to get over a jump so when I put Ashlee up on him I wasnt so sure we would be doing too much with him. I wasnt sure if he WOULD jump, and how well he’d do…BOY did he prove me wrong!

When we hit the water, Mark decided that I had to be wrong, and horses were definately NOT supposed to be in there.

I told Ashlee I wasnt sure if they would like this too much, and I circled to come out. Well here Phoenix comes like a train through the water and leaping out with this priceless look on his face. My jaw hit the ground…

He went up…He came down…
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He ran around to do it again…

He jumped up the big side, he jumped down the big side
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Lets pick a day!!!

Always,
FairWeather
Stall rest is over! Hand walking may begin…but don’t forget the stud chain over my nose :stuck_out_tongue:
http://www.fairweather.bizland.com/entrance.html

He was positive I wasnt serious about going IN the water…

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He finally figured it out and we managed a few scary leaps out of the water. It took me a while to figure out that he was jumping so funny because his nose was buried in the water and by the time we got to where we were going he couldnt get out of his own way…

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coming up…
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Always,
FairWeather
Stall rest is over! Hand walking may begin…but don’t forget the stud chain over my nose :stuck_out_tongue:
http://www.fairweather.bizland.com/entrance.html