{"id":1783,"date":"2011-03-24T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2011-03-24T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T18:10:27","slug":"rainy-day-on-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/rainy-day-on-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day on the Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;ve been taking it a little easy since we&#8217;ve returned from the <a href=\"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/02\/extreme-cowboy-race-2011-preliminary-round\/\">Extreme Cowboy Race<\/a>. Those 6 weeks leading up to the event were pretty intense, so for most of March I&#8217;ve been enjoying taking things a little slower. The ponies are still being worked, in fact Minnow has begun a little exercise regime &#8211; to shed some pounds before the Spring grass hits. Being that he has Ringbone (equine arthritis) he can&#8217;t be ridden like he used to, so instead I&#8217;ve been hand walking him through the woods &amp; bareback riding him in the arena (mostly walking with a little bit of trotting). Although Minnow is still as feisty as ever, and on occasion he decides that a little case of arthritis isn&#8217;t going to keep him from racing around at top speed.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly though, I&#8217;ve been enjoying just spending time with the boys and catching up on things at home. And all of us can appreciate when a little rain forces us to take things even slower.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1784\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1784\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1784\" title=\"Blitz in the Rain\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/img_6533_2.jpg?w=400&#038;resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blitz<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1785\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1785\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1785\" title=\"minnow in the rain\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/img_6536_2.jpg?w=400&#038;resize=400%2C260\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnow<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1786\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1786\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1786\" title=\"boomer in the rain\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/img_6560_2.jpg?w=400&#038;resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boomer<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1787\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1787\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1787\" title=\"spider the kitten\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/img_6585_2.jpg?w=400&#038;resize=400%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spider<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1788\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1788\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1788\" title=\"ammo the dachshund\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/img_6501_2.jpg?w=333&#038;resize=333%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ammo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit, I&#8217;ve been taking it a little easy since we&#8217;ve returned from the Extreme Cowboy Race. Those 6 weeks leading up to the event were pretty intense, so for most of March I&#8217;ve been enjoying taking things a little slower. The ponies are still being worked, in fact Minnow has begun a little exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,43,60,99,107,108,948,114,115,125,154,164,200,204,205,261,273,290,292,332,382,399,406,422,432,484,543,545,546],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","tag-ammo","tag-assateague","tag-beautiful","tag-cat","tag-chesapeake-boomerang","tag-chesapeake-lightning","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-minnow","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-cute","tag-dog","tag-extreme-cowboy-race","tag-farm","tag-farm-life-2","tag-horse","tag-iron-horse-farm","tag-kitten","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-misty-of-chincoteague","tag-painting-pony","tag-photos","tag-pony","tag-pretty","tag-rainy-day","tag-spider","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-sL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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