The pn0ys are getting their heavy winter coats. Tess is like a huge teddy bear. I have to work on getting her to be more huggy. Of course, my teddy bears are never as dusty as that...
Some progress, still behind schedule. Preface and first chapter are now online here. And someone I don't know wrote a comment on the preface: "Right now I can say that the writing mechanics are quite good, despite an over-abundance of commas..." All I can say is better commas than question marks.
The boyz are huggy. Bubba has been coming up to me a lot for scritches. He doesn't seem to lean into me or anything, but he sure seems to like someone to give him attention now and then. The boyz (JT and Huey, the warmblood geldings) also like coming up to the fence ... and just the right spots will get them to lean into me, heh.
Different personalities and socialization. Boys and girls behave differently too. Mares generally seem to be more independent unless they happen to have formed specific attachments. Getting them to have special friends is more work usually, and I've been working on Tess for five years now. I think I'm finally making some headway. Like dogs, one key is spending time with them. Unlike dogs, you usually have to go to the horse because the horse can't follow you around. ;)
I dunno, JT and Huey try now and then, and a few years ago I had a roommate with a Percheron gelding who tried following me everywhere ... fences and obstacles in the way were just annoying objects to smash through in his quest to follow me around, in fact! lol.
Well, yeah. Some will go through fences. Most, however, just stand at the fence staring longingly after you. Tess hollers for me the same as she would for a foal.
Heh. With Tess it's more like she wants someone to boss around. She'd like to be with other horses, but wants to be boss mare. It's taken a while for her to really trust me, but I think she does now.
She has nipped me a few times, but that's not the target zone. She also kicked me once, years ago, but has never tried that again. (It was right after Dawn was born.)
Hmmm... interesting work thus far- at first I was going to say it seemed like more of the end of a story than a beginning, but then the last part is definitly a grabber.
It can't be helped- I'm distracted by numerous thing going on in my life, which came up in a very small amount of time (as usual), so I'll have to play catch up when I can...
BTW, my answer to the question I posed is on my new entry...
She gets extremely fluffy. She grows white feathers on her legs and her body and neck get all wooly looking. The boys do that too, but Tess is more extreme. It seems odd, because she spends more of her time in the arena pen, which is under a roof and partly sheltered from the wind, while the boys spend every day out in the open. Before I bought Tess, she was a brood mare and probably spent much of her winter in an open pasture, though, with only a windbreak shelter.
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