So Bren-Bren is absolutely LOVING her new digs…she is now, and almost was right away (mind you we have only been there for 2 weeks now, though it seems like longer) out with other horses…she is even out with a big ‘ol giant retired bull! Remem­ber, this is the girl who sup­pos­edly ran through fences.….. and fought with other horses…I think the horses attacked her to be hon­est and her being thrown in a dry lot only served to give her rea­son to ‘move on to greener pas­tures’ so to speak! lol. She is SO com­pletely happy,

that even when she comes in for grain time and evening hay, she eats half or so and munches absentmindedly…but then stands at her win­dow star­ing in to the back pas­ture intently as if it could make her mag­i­cally appear in the mid­dle of ‘her’ field! So much for being food-crazy…I think she was more pas­ture long­ing than any­thing. I’m so happy for her right now to be out run­ning, graz­ing and social­iz­ing all day. She has a beau­ti­ful corn field next to that pas­ture too that absolutely glows golden orange-yellow in the sun­set in the evening. She is stretch­ing out her legs and work­ing her mus­cles and STILL runs like she thinks she’s an Ara­bian with her tail held high. I got to watch her train­ing ses­sion on Sat­ur­day (see the pics below) where she is learn­ing to bal­ance the weight of a rider and her­self with sad­dle too. She’s almost an ace now with lung­ing and chang­ing direc­tion and stands so per­fectly still with no aid for tack­ing up. She has a won­der­ful look in her eye when she trains, focused and pay­ing attention…you can tell she enjoys it…though of course, she does pull out the occa­sional ‘test­ing the trainer’ to see if *she’s* pay­ing atten­tion still too! lol. But it’s all in fun with her and never out of angst. She really is a bit of a prankster! Think I might rename her Loki…kind of suits her. lol. Though her hair is com­pletely dif­fer­ent of type than Sorcha’s and breaks off quite eas­ily with her very thin strands, it grows long very quickly and her mane is able to be split in to a dou­ble with the way it hangs actu­ally, though not strictly because it is too thick. I think it will be bath­time this week­end and if the weather is nice, field pics!