Light, at last! Yesterday our mistress hung a battery-operated lantern in our stalls and this morning was the first time we had an overhead light in our stalls instead of a flashlight stuck to the stall door with a magnet. For the past several weeks, that’s all she had to work with to doctor Ziggy’s eye (which is getting better, by the way). I guess since we are back on Standard Time, she thought it best to have a more permanent light in our stalls, rather than deal with a flashlight all the time. There is no electricity in our stalls, so whatever light she put in there had to be either battery-operated or solar-powered.

Standard Time, Daylight Saving Time, I don’t know the difference. All I know is that in Springtime, my mistress leaves earlier, but also comes home earlier, and she gets to ride us in the afternoon; but in the Fall, she leaves later and gets home later when there is little to no daylight left. I will miss those afternoon rides and working different dressage movements. My side-pass is really looking good and I’m getting the hang of the flying lead changes every four strides. Ziggy is doing better with her dressage, too, in spite of her “Dressage, smessage” remarks. She’s really more into Reining and loves to show off her spins and sliding stops.

I am hoping Winter won’t be too cold or too wet. I try to get Ziggy to stand in our stalls when it rains, but she likes to stand under a big old cedar tree, instead. “I just don’t like to be confined,” she tells me. “I like being out in the open. You can go stand in your stall if you want to.” I don’t, of course. So we both just stand, side by side, under the big old cedar tree, waiting for the rain to stop.