Red headitude

Played with Josie some more today. She is pretty funny- gotta show a little bit of 'tude, but basically she is pretty good and such a smart filly. I started out by taking her for a bit of a walk, and we found a log to walk over, at least I walked over it... Josie had to make a bit of a production out of it first. Once she discovered that it had nice nibbly green grass on the other side of it, it became important to step over it. So we worked on that until she didn't hesitate to step over it. She reminds me of Rio a little bit in that if something startles her she makes a big move and then stands there and figures it out, only she is a whole lot smaller than he was at this age so much easier to hold. Then there was the old glass window still leaning against the house from last summer's renovation- very wide eyes as we approached that and checked out the pretty horse she could see in it.
After that I turned her out for a bit in the turn out pen, still a bit soft in there but she really needed to let loose for a bit.

On the way back to her pen, we have to pass a big hay tarp that the hay farmers next door left lying in a heap. I noticed that on the way past it the first time she gave it the hairy eyeball, so I figured maybe I should load her front feet onto it (insert evil grin).
So I tromped about on it and made a bunch of noise with it until she stopped jumping and stood and looked. Once she thought about it a bit, she loaded one foot....

Yeaaaaaaaahhhhh, I got this......

and then after a bit she loaded both front feet.

Good girl Josie! I gave her a treat for that and called it a day.