Overnighters on the Way Home from Tuscon

Jelly Bean and Reggie are overnighting here tonight on their way from the Tucson winter jumper show back to Colorado. Having guest horses always excites the crap out of Belle, who runs around whinnying with her tail in the air, then sets to work on freeing them, by mouthing the heck out of the stall latch. Obviously Jelly Bean and Reggie (who was champion in one of the jumper divisions) are old hands at traveling because despite Belle's insistence that they must come out to play, they just settled into their stalls and commenced eating and drinking.

Seeing other people's horses so polished and polite makes me think I should spend just a little more time making my guys look presentable. Right now, they're hairy and shedding and dirty.

I also spent some time working with Belle today for the first time this winter. Her third birthday is next week, so I feel like I should be doing something with her. So we lunged a bit and she was bratty. Very bratty. Hopefully it's a phase.