Just as I recover from the flu, the rains have become heavy which makes riding without an indoor challenging in the Northwest.  But, it also makes small, repetitive work on basics a little easier since there's no field calling us to gallop through it.  Frost and I have been working on the all important inside leg to outside rein, degrees of half halt, and all of our gait transitions in various terrain and conditions.  She continues to prove herself to be quick to learn, wanting to please, and happy to work.  She is still a spoiled Wild Pony Princess, mind you.  Frost is currently a bit upset with the whole idea of my working with her herd brother, Marcos.  Tacking up in a stall next to Frost, Marcos has had his saddle pad snatched off his back several times now.  Frost also took advantage of the Mama leaving the rolling grooming bin in the barn aisle this week.  She managed to reach it and pull it close enough to her stall to open the drawers and sort through the items.  Her brushes and boots were placed neatly in a corner of her stall.  Anything belonging to her brother, in the water bucket!  You cannot convince me that this mare does not think things through.  Okay, perhaps she is a bit impulsive and even devious at times, but she is a very cerebral wild event pony.

Frost cools down after a ride and hams for the camera with a funky hay hairdo.