Abby is only four years old, and still growing...
Although we have mentioned to her that she can stop almost anytime now, as soon as her front end catches up to her back end! (That's how horses grow, in spurts, getting higher in front, then higher behind.
The hope is always that they finish up higher in the front end, slightly, because it makes them easier to balance with a rider)
Abby was born here, and it's been great fun to watch her grow, and come through the various training stages.
Now she's well underway in her under-saddle schooling, and proving to be a sensible, talented young lady indeed.
But the lake... now that was a big question for her. She went in with her Mom when she was just a wee foal, splashing about, but with a rider on her back, being asked to wade out into that huge expanse was a bit too much. She wasn't frightened of the water, just unsure how to proceed. With Uncle Bailey along to lend her confidence, she would splash into the lake right beside his big gray body. On her own... not so much. In fact, for a while there, the only way she would get her feet wet was if she backed into the water.
Once in, she had no issues, was calm and happy, but that business of stepping in over tiny lapping waves was beyond her.
Not now! Now she wanders happily down the field, through the ever increasing herds of deer, past the bonfire pit and the airplane hangar, and splash! In she goes.
Today, in this very blog-worthy photo, Sue captured her discovering that if she blows at the water, she can make ripples that spread out and out and out...
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