Chrome is so full of himself! (and other random pictures... again!)

First of all the best side effect of all the rain is that the pond is full again!  It wasn't even half that full two days ago.  :)  Okay remember how in my last post I said I like taking pictures of the horses rolling?  Check these out...

 Going down!

 

And back up!  It's so funny seeing a picture of a horse standing up because it happens so quick you never realize how awkward they look.  I love his flying forelock hehe.

 He knows he's gorgeous!  Getting ready to do the other side.. yeah he only rolls on one side at a time, then stand ups, shakes off, turns around so he's rolling uphill and lays down to do the other side.  He will not roll downhill.  I think that's the reason he can't roll all of the way over is because he aims for uphill.  Dork!

 Going down again...

 .. and I missed the roll that time, but here he is coming up.  I LOVE his expression and splayed legs. So cute!

 Gross... just gross Chrome!

 I wish this one hadn't turned out blurry.  I caught him mid snort hehe.

I'm not done yet, check out Led Zeppelin!

 Feels so good! 

 After rolling he yawned...

 He does roll all of the way over by the way.

 ... and another yawn.  So cute!!

Okay enough of that.  Here are the pictures that give the post it's title...

 The blurriness in this one is totally my fault.  I messed up the focus. I wish I hadn't cut him out of the shot, but I still love it.  One day (hopefully 20+ years from now) when Chrome is gone I will love all of these pictures and not care one bit that they are blurry. :)

 I LOVE this one (even though it's over exposed)!  I got the focus right on this one, so the blurriness is due to dropping the camera.  I don't care though, I love it.  :)

 

 

 He finally enticed Faran to play!! I don't have many rearing shots of Faran.  I love it!

He would make such a great SCA jousting horse if he could be ridden.

 

 This is what Faran puts up with daily.  :)  What a pest!

Finally when I walked over to the gate to talk to mom, I was leaning against the gate and Chrome walked up beside me and hung his head over the fence like he was joining in our conversation.  I twisted the camera around and clicked the shutter even though I couldn't see what was in the frame.  I think it came out great (below).  The angle is coming from underneath because he had his head that far above mine.  :)

And a close up of that gorgeous eye!

That's it for now.  Keep your fingers crossed the rain stops so I can ride!

Random photos of the handsome beasts!

Okay I figured out what my problem was.  It wasn't blogger or my browser, it was my mouse!  I had dropped the poor thing so many times that is finally died.  It was doing some weird stuff highlighting and moving things I didn't want highlighted or moved.  It made blogging difficult.  :)

So I want to thank everyone for their awesome advice and I know it's time to stop babying my 'not a baby anymore' horse and start riding him!  So I am...... as soon as the rain stops.  Of course I would decide to start riding more and then it would start raining... literally ALL day for two days straight with more on the way!  So as soon as I can walk out of my house without sinking into the mud and possibly drowning (you know I'm exaggerating right?) I will get to work getting our butts in shape.  Until then, enjoy the pretty pictures from earlier sunny days.  :D

 I'm still loving his Mohawk!  However I also love Faran long, thick mane too.  :D

 I can't tell if he's starting to dapple or if the hair is just growing in white where his sweet itch sores were....

I know this is my horse blog, but I had to share a picture of my sidekick Jackal.

He's always out there right by my side when I'm photographing the horses.

 Zeppers is getting his curly winter coat (and it's brown ick!  I prefer when he's black hehe).  

 Biting Faran in the butt trying to get him to play...

 When that didn't work he decided to scratch his back. 

I love taking rolling pictures!

Here is another one!

 Chrome wants to know if I'm going to play... Zep is staring at... my dog maybe?

 One of the best (not blurry) bucking shots I've gotten in a long time.

I love the way the sunlight highlights his tail and hooves.  

 I want to do a watercolor of this picture (above)!!  I love the backlighting!  I just need to practice some more because I think that one is a bit advanced for me (a friend just started teaching me to paint watercolors!).  Isn't it crazy how the light makes Chrome different colors?

November 2013 Progress Report

I haven't done a progress report in a long time... oops.  I kind of miss being able to look back at them to see how Chrome has changed (especially with his coat getting lighter and lighter) so I'm going to try to start doing them again.  :D

Date: 11-21-13 (yeah I'm a couple of days late...)
Age: 4 Years 6 Month (and two days hehe)
Height: 15.2hh  (hubby said fifteen two and an eighth of an inch lol)
Height Gain: None.  I'm fairly certain that he's as tall as he's going to get.  Now time to widen out some Chrome!
Weight: N/A 
Weight Gain: I didn't have time to get his weight measurements, but he looks good. :)

Progress:  Progress... what is progress?  Or goals?  I'm just playing.  2013 got completely consumed by house building, moving, settling in, etc. so I didn't accomplish anything really.  We had some fun rides and we had fun goofing off, but I think it's time to get our butts in gear!  So let's move on to goals.

 Goals: My goals for this next month are simple.  Exercise.  For me and Chrome.  I want to start riding more and I really want to start ground driving him again.  That is all.  I want to see how the weather and my motivation are before piling on too much.  

And since I haven't done a comparison in a while either, here are pictures from previous years' progress reports.  :D

2009

 

2010

  

2011

 2012

  

 2013

And looking at the other pictures I just realized how dirty he is!  Oops!  :D

Well I hope this post works because I'm having some weird, weird problems with either blogger or my browser....