Peanut's Pasture Mate, Ike

Up north, here in Northern Lower Michigan, we tend to get a little slap happy from a long, long, long winter. We see glimmers of hope that Spring is not that far away. A couple of days in the 40's and low 50's, some rain, and then BAM, Mother Nature takes you back to the full force of Winter. But, we still manage to laugh.
On Sunday, March 8th, I took Peanut's pasture mate, who is a very large Belgian named Ike, up to my friend Janet's, to ride. Of course Peanut went as well. Ike is such a gentle creature and just a great all around horse. While I was there, Janet wanted to ride Ike. Well, Ike is use to just standing for most of the day and has not really had to work for the past 6 or more months. He is one of those kind of horses you can go out alone on, bath with no problems, trim his feet with out issues and just about do anything around him.
Well, Janet had a little issue with getting him to move for her. I have never laughed so hard at a person trying to get a horse to move, as I did this day. Poor Janet's legs. Ike just stood there.




Of course, Janet can be quiet the clown too! She then decided being Ike was not going to move, she would put forth the action as if he was moving at over a 100 miles per hour, then she puts the brakes on and as one can see from this next video, it was all laughter from there on out.

I often aske myself, "How does one obtain three wonderful horses, and several wonderful friend?"

Jolly Ball Fun

Ok, so we all know winter has been too long, and bordom sets in pretty easily. Peanut has been pretty bored and it shows when you look at my wooden fence, fence posts, and barn gates. He has been a busy little beaver. He is just keeping me busy, by helping me add things to Ron's Honeydo list. So to help break that bordom, I bought Peanut a Jolly Ball. It is made for horses to play with. I only had wished I had had my camera phone on, when I first gave it to him. He grabbed and was tossing it around like a kid would do. Once he tossed, and then went and got it. Tossed again and went and got it again. I walked out into the pasture and took it from him. I tossed it, he went and got it. I had some horse cookies in my pocket, so as a treat, I would give him one everytime he went and got the ball. Well, needless to say, He started to bring the ball back to me, and then he would get his cookie. Talk about a smart horse. I later went out and grabbed some short videos of him and the others in the pasture. He loves his hot pink Jollyball.

I have also noticed with Peanut, he trys to share his toys. From the paper box with Rustin to sharing his jollyball with Leaper.