Monday, August 16, 2010

The Little Red Ball

We haven't been able to play in the paddock as its been so wet.

I wanted to add some imagination into playing with my horses and felt i was far to focused on the tasks.

So we have been having some fun with a new red ball.  Dotti loved the big blue ball, the green one has a leak.  I brought the red ball as it has a handle and i thought it would be fun to teach her to pick it up.

Armed with a pocket full of sticky dates i went out this afternoon with the intention of playing with Dotti but The Boss aka Buzz had other ideas.  Protecting his herd of two Dotti was sent to the far corners of the paddock.


Buzz plays "put your nose on this" game quite well.  It did not take him long to get the idea and my intention was to ask him to pick it up.  It didn't take him long to get this either.  So we quit there as he gets easily bored.


So what did i learn from this?

1. How much fun we have together.
2. How quickly he learns fun things.
3. Interesting how he thinks of me as his herd - or was he protecting his date source.

4 comments:

  1. Vicki, thanks for the tip BUT it still took me ages and i lost the first attempt and had to recreate the post again. Would have been quicker with a slate board and chalk.

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  2. Keep it up Hana- I enjoy all the blogs and it helps to keep me inspired as well...I had a red ball like that one too- even the cows enjoy playing with it..BUT I think I need a new one- it's no longer red, it's faded to the same colour as the muddy paddocks. Ugh. I wonder if a moonhopper would be good they have handles too. Please keep blogging X Kathy

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  3. you'll have to practise your cutting and pasting mouse action - it takes me just a few tics...

    Great photos though..... awesome....

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  4. I'll show you how I do it one day..... easy.... just have to know the tricks... my bain is that our internet means it takes 5 minutes to load your short 58 sec video!!

    He's so clever and you have SO MUCH GRASS!!

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