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Date:	6/17/2013 11:10:02 PM
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How are you doing? It finally snowed here and we have about 6 inches. It's the perfect amount, just enough to be really pretty, especially at night with the Christmas lights glittering off every facet and the almost full moon illuminating everything else. But not too much so that we're snowed in or have to shovel much. It's cold enough that the roads are still covered in snow but it's drivable if one doesn't speed. Yesterday evening I decided to take both Pippin and Melian on a walk. Melian was loose and I had Pippin on his lead. He was pretty good in the forest and we were going at a nice amble as he dragged his nose through the snow and grabbed mouthfuls every now and then. I saw quite a few hare footprints though I haven't seen a hare in quite some time. I know Melian would love to chase one or two. Then we came out on the road and I wanted to run a bit so that he could let off some steam. He was raring to go and the feel of the snow under his feet put a bounce into his step and he pranced along trotting and then went into a really nice canter. Suddenly he stopped at the sight of a child! He lifted his head and flared his nostrils and had that stallion stare stance down pat. The child's grandmother came out and called her in. I suppose she thought that Pippin was going to eat her or something. Or perhaps she was worried at the sight of me, all bundled up and looking like a tramp or worse. Anyway, that threat gone Pippin relaxed and suddenly in the middle of the road he lay down and rolled for awhile in the shallow snow. I'm glad no cars were coming because they would have had to wait while he played out his fun. We walked some more and then we turned around and ran back down the road. Melian was having the time of her life in her first snow. I decided that it couldn't hurt to let them run together so when we got back to the forest I let Pippin loose and he and Melian took turns chasing each other. And sometimes Pippin would run after me. I saw a really nice fallen tree, about 2 feet high and I ran towards it and jumped over hoping that Pippin would follow. He did and he jumped over it so effortlessly. Remember, he's only 6 inches taller than that. They ran some more and Melian kept bringing him back to me. Except when he turned around and chased her. Then she'd hightail it out of his way. He took the opportunity and ran over to the neighbour's horses. I figured he might decide to do that so I followed his footprints in the snow. It was misty by now and as I walked down the road towards him I could see his hazy shape prancing back and forth across the road from horse to horse. He was having the time of his life. By the time I got there he was busy chewing on a gelding's nose while the gelding chewed on his face. He didn't want to leave but he was easy to catch and we headed back through the forest, over a rickety wooden plank that spanned a ditch, and back home.
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