Festive Outfits - chapter 2

ENTRY #3
I see many of you are celebrating a green holiday season like we are -- it's chilly here, sunny -- but by no means a typical winter.

After my first chapter in garish holiday dressing, today  my thoughts were drifting toward sparkly and tasteful :)  With another seasonal holiday in mind -- an early Chanukah celebration with blue, white and silver as my theme. But it certainly fits Christmas too !

OYY Beowulf - my silly buckskin pony stud volunteered as my highly decorated victim today.
He's a coming three year old, but still stood very patiently on the cross ties while I tied him up in bows and bells.  I have not harnessed him since mid November -- and here I am adding quite a bit more to the mix.






Even with the game of dress up -- it is still a training session also.  I hitched him and ground drove him a bit around the yard to be sure he was tolerant of all the extras.  Beowulf was fine and excited to get down to business.

After a few turns in the yard, we headed down the driveway to the big ring.  There we practiced walking in serpentines around the cones - then Beowulf accommodated me with a very nice quick trot over the bumpy frozen ground.

he is looking so handsome - I am forced to share more photo's !!  what a great Holiday pony

this is the first time I have gotten a nice trot from Mister Wulfie.  Of course, this is only the third or fourth time he's been down here in the big ring.


Today he was in a merry mood. He has bells around his neck and bells on his front legs.

We head out onto the tar end of the road for a nice trot back and forth and practice our turns.

We met some traffic -- and gained a lot of confidence.

Time to end the festivities and head home. Zoe did a great job manning the camera - she hops in the cart for a ride home. Now comes the hard work for Beowulf... he has to pull us both up the hill.  He needs to build up his endurance so he can someday travel miles about the countryside like Miss Nimue -- who is now in her new home in northern New Hampshire.  This is Nimue's cart actually.  it's not a perfect fit -- and the harness needs some changes and tweaking.. but all in all -- I believe a successful day with schooling and decorations.

This lovely gala Chanukah pony is for sale by the way --  he's all wrapped and ready to go !  If you are curious to watch more of our adventures today, the entire video is on you tube. I left all of Mister Wulf's goofs in - because he did such a great job working through them.

Stay tuned for the next installment of Dressing for the Holidays from Top O' The Hill Farm !

And a quick note to the grand mam of RAC -- Denise... on the topic of santa hats and securing them in place. You might remember my video from our last year's trek through the town of Chester when we had to stop several times to put Keri's Hat back on.    Cut a hole for one ear and tuck the fluffy white band of the hat solidly under the browband and chin strap of the bridle.  This seemed to work for me and Keri this time :) But Reese may have a quicker stronger head shake than Miss Keri !

Betsy and OYY Beowulf - with Zoe behind the camera lens in Vermont