New Pasture

The boys moved to a new pasture yesterday. It's a little bigger than the one they've been in all year, the west boundary is lined with big cottonwoods, there are new, strange horse neighbors, and the water tank is in a different place. A hot air balloon HORSE-EATER flew right overhead this morning. It's all very unnerving for Jay and Orfec. They have no idea what's going on.

Moment of clarity: The new pasture is DIRECTLY ADJACENT to their old pasture. Seriously, it shares a fence line; it has better (not great, but better, and certainly more) grass, so you'd think they'd be pumped about that. But this morning both horses were sweaty from having spent the night running, trying to get back to the "safe" pasture.

I feel bad for them, but I know in a couple days they'll be just fine. It's still hard to watch them get so worked up. Not so hard that I didn't take a couple shots, though ....


Jay coming in to see me. When he's nervous, he definitely likes to be close to me.


Listening to new sounds. These sounds can be heard only from this side of the fence. The other side had safer sounds.


Getting braver.