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Please change your favorite/bookmark to point to www.zegifts.blogspot.com – I won’t bore you with the details, but the blog will be much easier for me to manage if it “lives” on the blogspot web servers instead of my own.  I will no longer be updating the blog files at this address (zegifts.com/blog/index).

Zephyr’s First Day of School!

Well, that’s what it felt like anyway.  This morning, Gary and I finished up the fence tightening and got it turned on.  About 2:30 I walked Zephyr over there.  I walked him down to the pond and the stream so he’d know how to find water, then turned him loose and spanked his bum.  This was the only movement we saw for the next hour other than chewing!

As I said, this is all we saw after that.  I think it was at least 15 minutes before he even moved one hoof… and it truly was just one hoof, and only by a few inches!

He got to stay out for 5 hours.  When it came time to go collect him, I brought grain in the bucket he recognizes as the YUMMY BUCKET, but I didn’t really need it.  He’s accustomed to being collected from the electric pen in our front yard at twilight, so he was waiting at the front fence line.  What a good boy!

Tomorrow I’ll bring him over before work, and he’ll come home at 4 to have his shoes pulled, hooves trimmed, and be measured for Easyboot Gloves.  The “Fit Kit” came yesterday, so we’re all set to go.

Zephyr’s New Summer Pasture

I’m totally excited.  This is where Zephyr will be spending his daytimes, starting any day now and lasting until the snow flies.  There are two pastures, the summer pasture is about 6 acres, and the fall pasture (for after it gets hayed) is a little more.  They’re both across the road from my house… a neighbor is letting me use them for free! 

Zephyr will have to share with a few cows, but he won’t mind.  These pictures are from the summer pasture, which I spent some time in yesterday, putting surveyors’ flagging on the wires.

The grass is up to his KNEES.  (Yes, I am weaning him onto it slowly).