I Can Haz Followers!?

Yay! Two of you have decided to become Followers of Chronicles of Ernest!

I'm probably way more excited about this than I should be...thanks to Andrea over at Eventing-A-Gogo for featuring me and Ernie on her Sunday Success Stories. Ernie really does have a fantastically interesting, up-down history, and I think his story is like so many other horses out there.

Speaking of Ernie, I'm pretty sure he's not happy with me right now. He HATES the new barn (it's more like the new-old barn; he's been there before and was completely content, so I'm not sure what his issue is right now). He and Stella have been going out in a dirt round pen outside with lots of hay to keep them busy until I can get Stella's staples removed and turn them out in grass. Really, right now, I would LOVE to just throw them in a nice, big field and let them graze to their heart's content, but I just can't with those staples in, and they can't come out until Wednesday. And Ernie can't be out by himself, so for now he'll have to deal. However, for whatever reason, he gets really anxious and begins to weave as soon as he comes in. As long as there are cars in the driveway or people moving around the barn, he weaves, and probably weaves for some time after until he realizes no one is coming. I don't really have much of a choice at this point; I don't know if he's all the sudden become claustrophobic in that particular stall (although all the others are the same size...) or he's so attached to Stella that it's making him more nervous (then again, he was stalled away from her up at the old man's barn, too) but he is seriously pissed.

I've only ridden him once since they moved down because it's been so hot and muggy, and it's just not worth it at his age, but I think once he starts getting worked regularly again, and gets out into a pasture, he'll calm down. I hope, anyway.

39 day. 39 days until I go back to school and get total control over my own horses again.