day off

So I have today off, a rare occurrence for me lately, not that I am complaining.  It is nice to see the horses in the day light :)

Well, everyone had to stay in all yesterday because we had a HUGE snow storm and it was blowing snow all over.  Ugaboo my OTTB gelding was shivering, so I brought everyone inside to keep them cozy and warm.  Scooter was already stuck in overnight ( I don't trust Avante to be out at night with scooter till he is a little bigger and can defend himself more).  So It was a wild morning letting everyone out.  I turned Ugaboo and Avante out, then brought Scooter out.  Avante promptly chased Scooter out of the gate (I only had one strand of it up) and Scooter took that time to expend some of that weanling energy he obviously had stored up from being stuck in his stall for a day and a half.  He ran around in the huge snow piles bucking and kicking out at nothing than ran up and down the nice plowed driveway while I almost had a stroke because under that nice coating of snow is 3 inches of ice.  Of course oblivious to that Scooter tore up and down and I held my breath, imagining the worse case scenario and mental calculating how much I could spend on the vet bill and still afford milk.  When he got close enough I grabbed him around the head, wrestler style and fought a battle of strength (silly I know, fighting a baby that out-weights me by at least 300 lbs) but miraculously I won!  Score for today Nicole 1:  Scooter 0

So as I gaze out the window at my beautiful horses and soak in the fact that I am one of the luckiest girls in the world being able to see them out my kitchen window, I notice Scooter sticks awful close to Ugaboo.  Whenever Ugaboo moves even an inch, Scooter is glued to his side moving exactly in his shadow.  I am starting to wonder 2 things:  is it because Scooter was weaned very early and now he has formed a strange bond with Ugaboo envisioning him as his surrogate mother (this is very possibly because Ugaboo seems to have a strange attachment to Scooter also.  He is distraught when he can not see Scooter or when Scooter is being naughty, aka this am)  or possibility two is that Scooter has figured out that if he sticks next to the boss, he is less likely to get beaten up by Avante because no one messes with the 16.1 horse in the pasture :P    I guess further investigation through out the day is needed

happy trails to you
Nicole