Enter: the Project

And so it starts. Here is my new project. He's dirty, fuzzy, fat and four. His name is Mystic Fire and hes got a great guy personality. So far, he's done little to nothing. Today we added the dreaded saddle pad to our world and his eyes got huge, but once it was on him he didn't mind at all. Lunged well today so I thought I'd push my luck and try to introduce a bit. Yea, didn't go so well. He didn't DO anything bad, I got it into his mouth and had him playing with it for a second, but I never could get it hooked to his halter to actually have him hold it for a time. Once I figured out what was going on his mouth was like a closed trap, it was NOT opening. Maybe tomorrow we'll do a bit better... and have a chance on being at least a little cleaner.

I also need to figure out the gate to the barn. Its two big free swinging gates together with a chain. Not so bad... unless its crazy winds like last night. I kept tossing one door way far and hard and then tried to get the second door before the first one was out of reach again. It took WAY too long to actually get it to work. There has GOT to be a secret to it. (why there is no pull rope on it is beyond me)