Nov 22nd, 2009 by woodstone
Yesterday was another beautiful day, so we spent most of the afternoon outside. I took a bunch of pictures, thinking it might be a good time for a picture post.
The first thing we did was let Tilly and Tucker out into the big pasture to graze.
M getting Tilly’s halter on…
R getting Tucker’s.
R kept Murphy in the pen and groomed him and got him ready to ride…
It looks like she’s giving him a talking to about something… and check out his ear turned towards her, he’s definitely paying attention to whatever discussion they are having!
While R was doing that, I was showing S how to drive the little lawn tractor so she could harrow the pasture. (The kids love any excuse to drive that little tractor!)
I love this picture… the body language says it all. S was harrowing and the tractor got stuck in the mud, then one thing led to another and it ended up rolling backwards over the homemade harrow. (Notice the wood post just in front of the back tires? It’s part of the harrow… We couldn’t go forward, but we couldn’t go backwards either… the tractor was really stuck.)
We ended up having to lift the tractor off the harrow to get it going again…
S back at work, looking much happier this time!
R rode out in the front pasture…
… then went up and got the mail.
It’s cool, she doesn’t even have to dismount to get the mail… She just eases Murphy over very close to the mailbox, leans all the way down (he’s a tall horse!) and grabs the mail out of the box.
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S rode too, all by herself… which she hasn’t done for awhile. Murphy did fine, although I couldn’t tell if he was listening to her and doing what she wanted or just meandering around the pasture while she held on.
We finished up with a quick walk up the road… I’m looking back down the hill, towards the house, at R on Murphy, and S.
M was still harrowing (it’s a good job for people who can be a little obsessive!), as we walked up the road and just as I took that last picture I could hear him screeching and howling as he drove the tractor around the already harrowed field.
So I swung around and took this picture… “The Mad Harrower”
He said he was making crop circles. 
