I just wrote an email to a friend about having "room for a pony" in my stable yard and in my heart and I thought about Hyacinth on Keeping Up Appearances! I do have the room and the need for a pony in our herd. I have a lot of parents calling about lessons (come Spring!) for small children and all my horses except Penny are big enough to be a bit intimidating for the little ones. Penny can only teach so many lessons in a week! To have a sweetie little one to help her would be nice.
I have known great ponies and frustrating ponies and all the equines in my life have taught me much. I had a Shetland in Tucumcari that took incredibly good care of kids, but one day after he had climbed through the fence and meandered a half mile away in the desert - I caught up to him with halter and lead. I decided to ride him home and climbed on. He laughed at me, dumped me and galloped another half mile away. His name was Dusty and he had a little pony mare friend named Molly who was too tiny to ride. I loved them!
This top photo is from the old days when no one wore a helmet unless they were jumping - we are wiser now.
