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"Did you say 'cookie'?"

First day of 'pole work' this morning.  Nine poles, spacing about 10 feet pole-to-pole, in a shifting line, like so.  Walking only, total time about 10 minutes.

I expected a lot of attitude from Ruby, but I only received a little.  One of Ruby's best traits is that while she will tell you what she's thinking, she still defers to her rider when you say 'tough' - though you can bet there will be some sulking and 'you're an idiot' faces involved.

She isn't hard on the eyes, either :) 

And Abby?  Abby thinks that last week's weather was winter's last hurrah.  Yesterday I brushed enough hair off her to keep the neighborhood birds in nesting materials all spring.  As of this morning, she's almost completely shed out.

Sent this pic to her adopter this morning. 

And this is what she thinks about me taking pictures.

There are no plans for me to take on another mustang at this time, if you are curious.  Jennie only has two that need to be adopted out including Rango, the three-year-old gelding mentioned in a previous post.  Jennie has decided that he needs to grow up a bit more, so he'll get a 3-6 month break and then they'll try again.  Then there's Sally, the mustang that Jennie was trying to talk me into taking way back before she even took in Ruby.  Sally apparently 'hates people and hates work'...not that I blame her at this point.

Abby will be leaving on Thursday and her new mom will be out to visit her this weekend.  We've discovered that she was captured Sept. 7, 1996 as a yearling, and is from the White River Nevada, HMA.  No word on how old she was when she was adopted, or anything else unfortunately.