Umbrellas!

As the weather has decided it's autumn time, I thought it was about time Harry met an umbrella.

Actually I'm going to pause the story here to say I have accidentally managed to spoil Harry, not through treats or excess rugging and stabling, but from attention. It all started as I've been doing some work with his fieldmate Rocky, who's 3 so I've started backing him and just handling him a bit. Now Harry hasn't really cared about me taking Rocky out and leaving him alone, but the other day I brought a girl over that I know (she is a tiny pixie and Rocky is a tiny pony so thought she'd be better off actually riding Rocky, I've sat on him but I have very long legs so feel ridiculous on him!) so we got Harry and Rocky in from field, tied them up in the "yard" and I helped the girl groom Rocky and tack him up, which meant Harry was tied up and left alone and wow he didn't like it! He started stamping and pawing the ground and spinning around and tossing his head and just staring at me with a look of outrage! I'd never thought about it before but now I do I realise that whenever somethings been happening e.g. moving the ponies I've always been the one handling him, so I think he was jealous!

Anyway back to the story, so I took my umbrella out which isn't very big and is blue so fairly dull, went across the field calling Harry and Rocky who both came towards me happily, then both suddenly realised I had something over my head! So they ran away a bit and stopped to look all wild eyed, I carried on talking and they came a bit closer, then I put the brolly down and they realised it was me so came up and had a scratch, then I put the brolly over my head and they were a bit unsure but didn't run away, Rocky was more worried then Harry. I kept putting the brolly over me then down again and just wondering about like everything was normal and they quite quickly decided it wasn't going to eat them.

But now I have a big rainbow coloured umbrella borrowed off a friend! So going to see what they think of that! I will take some treats with me this time. My aim is in the not so distant future to be able to take Harry for a walk with an umbrella aswell :)