Hot Stuff

Siesta was waiting very impatiently for me to finish my chores yesterday so that I could play with her.  She would trot to whichever end of the arena I was working outside of and holler at me to hurry up, and she tossed a couple of good bucks my way to emphasize her point. 

She is quite the little princess and knows when it should be her turn for fun.  She loves to hang her head over the rail and watch me clean stalls.  Peek-a-boo is her favorite game!

There's something about Siesta that puts all of the other mares into heat when they are around her, even this gorgeous Nokota mustang yearling filly.  The two of them enjoyed some "necking" yesterday.  They checked each other's udder out, too, as if to ask, "Got milk"?  "Nope, I don't.  Do you"?  "Nope."  Two silly fillies!

Adopted!

It's official!  The paperwork is in, the check has been cashed, and the travel plans have been made.  Siesta has a new mom and dad, and you'll never guess where they live.  In Oregon!  Not just anywhere in Oregon, either, but in Burns, right where Siesta came from!  How about that?

So here's Siesta's life story so far:  Born wild in the Palomino Butte Herd Management Area, which is just 15 miles from Burns; gathered at a year and a half of age; brought to the corrals in Burns to stand around and look pretty for fifteen months; hauled to Northwest Washington State to be gentled, trained, and fussed over by a crazy mustang trainer; and now she's going right back where she started from.  Except this time around, she'll be part of a horse-loving family that logs up to 1200 miles on horseback each summer.  Can you imagine such a life?  I can only dream about it.  Siesta has got to be one of the luckiest dang horses out there, don't you think?

Siesta isn't going home until June 12th, so I have four more weeks to play with her and advance her training.  Yes, I'll miss her.  Siesta is one of those horses that will linger in my heart for a long, long time, but I am so happy for her that she gets to go home, the only tears I'm crying are happy ones.  Mustangs and happy tears seem to go hand in hand, don't they?

By the way, if any of you folks here in Washington would like to meet Siesta before she goes home, she and I will be at the BLM mustang adoption in Ellensburg June 11th for a little bit of Show and Tell.  I'll be choosing my next TIP horse from the ones at the adoption, so if anyone is interested in adopting a mustang gentled by me, contact me and we can work out the details.