Letters
to Pam
Hi
Pam,
I would really like to send you pictures of Rocky but I don't
have a digital camera. Also I don't know how to upload photos.
I am sooooo obsessed with Walt Disney World. I probably know
as much about Disney as I do about horses. Did you know the
horses that pull the trolleys down main street at the Magic
Kingdom wear horseshoes made of plastic?
I have a question for your dad. Is there a way to keep ticks
off my dog besides medicine. We've been giving him all that
tick stuff and he seems to get a tick everyday. Please help
him.
Somebody has been digging up my racetrack!!!!!! There is a
dump truck that goes there everyday. GRRRRRRRRR. I gave Rocky
a hug and he said he was Hungry. That's really the only thing
he says. He has a new saying. It's posted on his website.
Give Lightning a hug and a cookie for me.
Ur number 1 fan,
Gabby
Dear Pony
Pal Gabby
#1 fan?
Wow. Do you have a friend or parent who could help you with
digital picture taking and uploading? A lot of cell phones
have cameras in them now.
About the
ticks – my dad says garlic is good. Feed the dog one
or two cloves a day, mashed up in the feed.
You can
also put just a drop or two of rose geranium essential oil,
on the collar of your dog. (If your mom is going to have baby,
she should not touch this oil. It is also bad for cats.)
You can
put cedar boughs or other aromatic leaves under your dog's
bedding. Ticks and fleas do not like aromatic foliage.
Your racetrack
story reminds me of when we were locked out of Pony Pal trail
in "Keep Out Pony." Maybe we can come up with a
Pony Pal Plan. Who is digging up your track? Who owns that
property?
My plan is
that you and your parent talk with the land's owner. What
is your plan? Let me know.
The Disneyworld
horses are BIG. They are draft horses. It is a lot of work
to shoe a draft horse. They have big hooves, their plastic
shoes would be a lot lighter than steel ones.
I will hug
Lightning and pass along a cookie. Those are always a big
hit.
Hug Rocky
for me.
Your Pony
Pen Pal,
_______
dear
pam my best friend
max goes crazy sometimes but he’s a good dog i love him. i
made a new friend. she loves horses and she loves you guys to she
has like all the books. funny aye.
how old are u and jack and jill.
i turned 11 on september the 22. cool aye.
tamara hates doing shows to but me and tamara had a fight so we
aren’t friends.
what you up to?
from your good friend
amy g
Dear Amy
Max sounds like
Woolie! Every so often he just starts barking and running around like
crazy. Sometimes he and Jack and Jill all chase each other and mom
and me start laughing. Last time that happened I laughed so hard that
I had tears coming out of my eyes.
Your new friend
sounds great! Did she join my mom’s club yet? What’s her
name?
You are just a few
months older than me. Jack and Jill are little. They don’t go
to kindergarten yet.
It is cold here
now. This week it got really cold. But we wanted to ride anyway. On
Monday we rode out to the Wiggins estate. Ms. Wiggins came out to
talk and she said we should put our ponies up and come in the barn.
There was an old set of sleigh bells there.
The leather strap
they were on was all dry and cracked, but the bells were ok. Ms. Wiggins
took the bells and put each one on a little clip and gave us each
one. She gave me the biggest one, Lulu the middle one and Anna the
smallest one. She said they matched our ponies.
Then she made us
promise that whenever we ride from now on until January we should
clip the bells on our ponies. She said no one hunts on her land, but
deer hunting season means that somebody might think our pony was a
deer. So every time we went riding this week we clipped on our presents.
Anna said now when
we trot we jingle down the trail. ;-)
It’s pretty
fun. What you up to?
_______
Pam,
Good, Thanks. Being a vet wouldn't be a practical career for me
because I'd get too attached to the patients and there'd be to much
Math involved. Math's my worst subject in school. Your dad's a good
vet. I'm actually planning to go into teaching. My tutor inspired
me to
be a teacher. However, my back up career is to be the world's first
cat massage therapist. It could catch on. 7 years ago my cat Spicey
had an incident with our neighbor's dogs, and earlier this year
I started massaging her. She loves it. Now Spicey's walking normally
again. Mom's an ex-vet assistant. Mom gave up nursing for a little
while a few years ago to be a vet assistant, but it didn't pay enough
so she went back to nursing. When Mom retires she's going to volunteer
for our cats and dogs vet. She used to work for our cats and dogs
vet. Have a good Thanksgiving.
Friends, Cayce
Dear Cayce
Anna’s tutor
says being good at math is just getting someone who likes it to explain
it to you. She has lot of tricks and games to play that help Anna
learn. She likes math. Funny, I think sometimes Anna does, too.
Did
you know there are equine massage therapists that work on horses and
companion animals? Maybe the most famous is Linda Tellington-Jones
http://www.lindatellingtonjones.com/whyTTEAM.shtml
But her website says:
....we get calls
from people who want to make a career change and wonder if they
can make a living as a TTEAM practitioner. Anyone who has been in
the horse business knows that most people work with horses more
for love than for money. Unless one has a supplementary income,
we do not recommend TTEAM as a career.
When I asked my
mom what she thought, she said that math is one of those things that
just takes work. Study. Spend time on it and then study some more.
She told me dad was not good at math until he got into 8th grade.
There he had one really good teacher.
Mom said some math
teachers do not understand what they are trying to teach, which means
their students don’t get a very good description.
I’m glad you have a tutor to help. What are you studying now?
_________
Dear
Pam,
I think that is a great idea! I can't
wait to try it. I am wondering how you start planning meetings.
What is your favorite color?
Where do you get your riding clothes?
Your pony pal
Ellie
Dear Ellie,
Maybe you can start
by asking Verena what days she takes lessons. If it’s not the
same day you take lessons, maybe you can do a sleepover at her house
the day she goes to a lesson. Or maybe she can come to your house
for a sleepover the day you take a lesson. Ask your mom, maybe she
can help you call Verena’s mom and figure it out.
Anna, Lulu and I
voted. Periwinkle blue is the official Pony Pal favorite color.
Mostly I ride in
blue jeans and boots. We buy those at Kline’s Hardware here
in Wiggins. They sell saddles and bridles and stuff too. Sometimes
my mom mail orders riding clothes but I don’t know where from.
Where do you get
your riding clothes?
