{"id":667,"date":"2020-12-16T19:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:59:03","slug":"tigger-and-ragtime-buddies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/tigger-and-ragtime-buddies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigger and Ragtime: Buddies"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a cold night, what a horse wants is a good breakfast and then a sunny day without too much wind…the two of them stood side by side, broadside to the early sun to catch the first warmth of its rays.\u00a0 Then they burned through a good amount of hay.\u00a0\u00a0 And then, full and at peace with the world while R- was picking up manure in their lot, they did this:<\/p>\n

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Tigger, muzzle on ground, snoozing, taken with 200 mm zoom<\/p>\n

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But then noticed R- across the field<\/p>\n

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And spotted me as I moved near the carport.\u00a0 R- said Rags lay down first, even stretched out, before Tigger decided it was OK to lie down.\u00a0 But he’s the alpha and therefore the one on guard duty.\u00a0 “Are you bringing more food?”<\/p>\n

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I tried to go back into the house, through, out the front door, and then–using the carport and hay barn for cover, get to a better angle to show both horses without being noticed.\u00a0 You can see how well that didn’t work.\u00a0 Tigger was staring at me when I got to where I could see him again.\u00a0 And Rags took his cue from Tigger.\u00a0 This was taken with a normal lens, then cropped…I wanted the two white stars to show.<\/p>\n

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This is also taken with the 200 mm zoom extended.\u00a0 These days I need something to lean against to keep my hands steady.<\/p>\n

Here Rags is already lowering his head to snooze some more, but Tigger’s keeping an eye on R- and out beyond the fence.<\/p>\n

The next time I went out, an hour or so later, they were up again.<\/p>\n

Tigger’s definitely buddy-bound (he gets upset when I ride Rags out of sight) and Rags is a little buddy-bound (will move away from Tigger, but reacts to Tigger calling for him.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a cold night, what a horse wants is a good breakfast and then a sunny day without too much wind…the two of them stood side by side, broadside to the early sun to catch the first warmth of its rays.\u00a0 Then they burned through a good amount of hay.\u00a0\u00a0 And then, full and at Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,16],"tags":[49,17],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-horses","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}