Day in the life of a horse...

Today we took a very long walk. Might be the last day we can do so for a while. It's definitely becoming winter down here in Ashland. We're in for rain and cold days and nights for a while. It will be hard to find ways to keep Dakota engaged and enjoying our time, being stuck indoors. We are fortunate to have a nice big indoor arena, but it gets boring for her and for me to be in it too long. There is much to learn for us both, so I'll do my best to keep in interesting.

In the meantime, it was a beautiful day today. I love being with my little Dakota (all 775 lbs of her!) and we took a very long walk in the sun, discovering the edges of the area we walk in. There are fences, with locked gates, on the other side of a very large field which took us over an hour to get to. It is too bad, since on the other side of the locked gates is open country, and it would be great fun to be able to just keep going. Eventually I'll need to get a truck and trailer to haul us both to mountain country. For now, the fields will do. There is a lot we have yet to discover there and we can walk for hours...

Btw, the vet promises she will lose that hay belly she's cultivating, and her withers are already starting to catch up with her back end...