Amen sister. I live in Ohio and as soon as it was nice, like April, my horses were outside all the time till fall. (unless we had a major storm and they had to come in). We had a pasture where they could play in, with not much grass and a bigger one that hooked into it that we could turn out to eat grass.

My horses HATED to be inside. And people thought we were abusive by keeping them out in rain, snow or whatever. (I am talking light stuff, mind you).

We had a pony that lived to be 47 yrs old so we musta done something right!

Me? Errrr, did I? Oh, my finger slipped :)

I miss riding.

I came across this.

Me and Hondo a few yrs ago.

I'm really curious to see how my dog would react to a horse. She's naturally friendly and tries to wrestle with / jump on other animals. I know her paws wouldn't reach up high enough to jump up on a horse, so what then? hehe

I rode tonight again. I now have a permanent charlie horse in my upper inside left thigh muscle. It sucks getting old and out of shape.

What happened to Honda?

This is a pic of me and my first pony- Frisky aka piss and vinegar. Circa 1976. At this point I had her 2 years and was already out growing her. :( I kept her until I was a freshman in college and then she went on to carry alittle girl through 4-H.

Did you guys see they had to put Theodore O'Connor (Teddy) (Karen O'Connor's Rolex and should have been Olympic partner) down today? Guess he got loose while they were untacking, took off and lacerated his leg somehow. Sucks to hear. Now THAT was an AMAZING pony!!