Freya escaped her pen and laid herself down for a nap with her head in the road?
Photo bombing Hannah and Martha refilling the water trough
Freya, the funny girl
Horses have horsersonalities, and Freya certainly has a comical one. If you’ve read this blog before, you know that she is extroverted, friendly, persistent and curious. She is gentle and teachable, but in the herd she is boss girl. She knows how to point her ears and shake her mane to move the herd around.
But it turns out, she is also very funny. I’ve seen this before. One of my favorite horse stories is a time I was out feeding in the mean depths of winter. I found myself standing close wedged between Tasso and Koa. I was loving on them, brushing and talking with them. But I was also complaining about how cold I was and how much my fingers hurt. And then the Holy Spirit told me to listen. Not with my ears, but in my spirit. All of a sudden, I was awake, and I could feel Tasso and Koa kindly laughing at me. I felt the sensation of their laughter and their commiseration for being a small, flat-faced, bi-ped creature who is very susceptible to the cold. God showed me the humor of the horse.
Freya takes it to another level. She purposely goes out of her way to get attention. You could say I am anthropomorphizing her actions, but she rolls the emotion across her horse face or through her body for just a moment, and I realize she is communicating. Kind of like when you talk to your dog, and your dog turns out to be more human in the end.
I’ve included a few photos here of Freya and her antics. Overall, she’s growing so well. We ride her regularly. She’s coming along very well. However, she is still not mature enough to put the whole package- the cues, the rider, the trail, the horse string- together. Like a twelve year old driving a car, she can do it, but it’s clunky.
So we are giving her time to grow up. She’s 3 years, 3 months. We’ve got time. But in the meantime, it’s all giggles.
Standing at the basement door of the The Meadows watching construction of a new bunkroom
Her thoughts and feelings about bath time loud and clear
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