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Minnow paints a t-shirt for a camper<\/p><\/div>\n

On Monday I again had a group of campers from Fox Meadow Farm come out to Iron Horse Farm to visit the Trick Ponies and watch Minnow perform and paint. This has been a great way to get Minnow geared up for Pony Penning 2009 as it gives us a way to practice in front of an audience. Minnow can sometimes have a mind of his own (don’t all ponies) so I’m having to train myself to work through his little “miss steps”. I can never be quite sure what he will do\u00a0 (or I guess not do) with any given situation so I have to be quick on my toes to ad-lib sometimes. Sometimes I find this difficult because I’m a very quiet and reserved person and I definitely don’t have acting in my blood! I’d much rather prefer to be on the sidelines and watch Minnow perform all the tricks I have taught him, but the fact is that I’m his trainer and just as much a part of his performing as he is. I think this is why I love painting with Minnow so much, its sort of a quiet time we can share even if its performed infront of a crowd. I don’t have to talk and Minnow becomes the focus as I sort of blend into the background as his “helper”.<\/p>\n

Anyway, below is a video of “part” of our beach picnic skit – if you want to see all of it you will just have to attend Pony Penning 2009 and visit Minnow at the Chincoteague Pony Centre!<\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/span>\n-KD \nwww.ponypaintings.com<\/p>\nP.S. I’m in the works of developing some very special contests on the Trick Ponies of Chincoteague Blog. So keep reading daily to learn how you can win some fabulous prizes!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday I again had a group of campers from Fox Meadow Farm come out to Iron Horse Farm to visit the Trick Ponies and watch Minnow perform and paint. This has been a great way to get Minnow geared up for Pony Penning 2009 as it gives us a way to practice in front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10],"tags":[43,948,115,125,261,273,292,345,379,381,406,412,543,545,546],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks","tag-assateague","tag-chincoteague","tag-chincoteague-pony","tag-clicker-training","tag-horse","tag-iron-horse-farm","tag-kyley-diluigi","tag-natural-horsemanship","tag-painting","tag-painting-horse","tag-pony","tag-pony-penning","tag-trick","tag-trick-horse","tag-trick-pony"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Zr2J-6U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35784,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/35784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}