Story #2 is...difficult. It didn't used to be. But now it is. Sigh. On the plus side, I figured some things out today. I figured out a technical detail that I must not try to slide by without proper knowledge so the significant detail is correct. Yes, it matters. And it's not one of those things I can just ask Weatherdude about. It's not physics. I already asked all the physics questions I needed to. I was all out of sorts and had to be pushed and prodded into evening horse work. It wasn't the right words before or after, but yes, it makes a difference. Working takes you out of yourself. So does sleeping, but animals always come before sleep, as children do.
So there's another photo of Judy on Capria and me on Pandora, but this is the one I want to blog. Stacey taught me to do ground work with Pandora and I was practicing that tonight. What was fascinating and really took me out of myself was that Tia decided she wanted to mirror what Pandora was doing, on my other side. At first I wasn't sure what she was up to and I worried that she would upset Pandora. But she didn't. She was thinking and trying to learn and Pandora respected that, clearly. Here I am, between the two of them and only Pandora has a bridle on. But Tia walked as if she wore one too. When the time comes and she has her growth, she's going to be all ready to go under saddle. When this photo was taken Pandora was saddled and this was the second time Tia shadowed us. She did it before Pandora was saddled, when I was walking her on her halter.
So there's another photo of Judy on Capria and me on Pandora, but this is the one I want to blog. Stacey taught me to do ground work with Pandora and I was practicing that tonight. What was fascinating and really took me out of myself was that Tia decided she wanted to mirror what Pandora was doing, on my other side. At first I wasn't sure what she was up to and I worried that she would upset Pandora. But she didn't. She was thinking and trying to learn and Pandora respected that, clearly. Here I am, between the two of them and only Pandora has a bridle on. But Tia walked as if she wore one too. When the time comes and she has her growth, she's going to be all ready to go under saddle. When this photo was taken Pandora was saddled and this was the second time Tia shadowed us. She did it before Pandora was saddled, when I was walking her on her halter.
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The fact she did it with another human/horse pair blows me away. She studies Capria, sees how Capria shares and teaches, and she's bound and determined to be Just Like That.
And Pandora, of course, seems to be the greatest horse.
Capria has been Judy's mare for 17 years. Carrma (Traci's horse) is Pooka's mother. Ephiny and Tia are sisters out of Gabriella and not closely related to Pooka. Pandora is a relative outsider. Khep, the gelding is out of Capria. Camilla is Pooka's full sister, I believe. So Tia is working with 2 horses she's not related to, but admires and wants to emulate. Judy says that Tia has informed her she will be Capria's replacement for Judy some day and Pooka's alpha mare, queen of all she surveys. At the moment, she's almost the bottom of the herd, a kid.
The scorecard to keep your players straight: http://www.sff.net/people/judith-tarr/dhf.html
I met Tia when she was pretty young and not in her 'brat' phase yet. Just full of baloney. And now she's learning to be a young lady, taking lessons from two very experienced horses.
Shaughns is my arab in the icon. She's fleabitten grey,and in her case, the grey gene is affecting a chestnut base coat, and is leaving dots of the chestnut color as it greys her out. Tia has a black base coat, and is greying out in a more 'traditional' way.
Grey is the most common lipp color (though there are Bay lipps!), but the grey gene is also common in arabs,and other breeds, too.
There is some more info on color coat genetics here: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horsemap/hgpcoatcolor.html.
Finally, indigo_room, a baby horse is a foal until it is 1 year old, regardless of sex. A young horse from birth to four years of age is known as a colt if a boy. and a filly if a girl. After four years, they are called stallions if left intact, geldings if neutered boys, and mares. Hope that helps!
Shirley