ranch notes, mmxxi-x-viii

One of the newer boarders mentioned she had already taken her shy horse out to the main road.

I hadn't done that with Cora yet so this morning I thought, let's try that, and

when we got out the front gate Cora turned into Crazy Happy Adventure Girl. 

"LET'S GO THAT WAY!" she said, and I had to turn myself into a hitching post.

Her face twisted in her halter, then her neck and finally her body came back around,

so she said "LET'S GO MEET THAT HORSE ACROSS THE STREET!"

 I said, uh, no, so she said "OK LET'S GO BACK THE OTHER WAY!"

Which worked out once I got her to slow down and graze a little.

We stayed up there 10 or 15 minutes, mostly grazing in front of Chief's paddock.

One car went by and she had no problem with it, and when it was time to return

she followed me back in calmly and quietly. 

IDs: monarch, gulf fritillary, and one of the last coreopsises of the year.