Pink Planks and Other Excitement

in retrospect, jill thought the pink planks might have been intended for her and the little bug bait bay. because it was going up until she left the ring and then it was down again before the green pony tried it. jill said she thought it looked like a puppet theatre in its former life, near the house, around a fire pit... it had been left on the property by the previous owners. funny the different purpose for this gang. there was a big huge shutter for a much smaller, plain brown plank new jump too, and new standards made by the kid's dad, whoo hoo!
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she thought a great date with a new friend would be dinner at her place and a drive to the horse show the next day. the kid and their mom and their friend/occasional teacher would be there, and it would be a good place for her/them to market horse messages and products... but she was afraid to offer to cook, and tired of rejection and decided she was better off just practicing her music.
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it was so hot, she tried the road. she thought the farrier might be right about the shoes, because that was not hospitible ground - the gravel then asphalt driveway first of all, and then not always a soft shoulder, espescially when you were spooking a little.

jill thought they would be better off if they could just get trotting. but barefoot? when could they make it all the way to the end, right, left, right again to drop off her teacherness resume??

they went up the road to 246, an arbitrary number where she chose in advance to stand still for a minute. then cross. and head back. she laughed to see two geese waddling across the road to their very driveway pond, creeping out her pony the most when they splashed into the water and swam/flapped over a fallen tree in there... just as a car came by on the road! such a crossing!the pony waited for the geese as the car waited for the pony. Fun!
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Jill took pleasure in the farm owner's comment that pony was developing a more sweet personality. It wasn't exactly credit extended to her, but at least someone else was witnessing what SHE saw.

The vet said that when she first put the stetescope on the old guy, his heart rate almost gave HER a heart attack. But that when Jill had come and stood in front of him, his heartbeat could be HEARD to instantly slow significantly.