Wrangling Bailey Back

From time to time, horses manage to get out. So it was with our Bailey this morning. His old legs are pretty creaky so he usually just slowly makes his way around the property and grazes all day. So I rarely put the barrier up across our driveway anymore. But this morning he must have decided to sample the greener grass (of course) on the OTHER side of our fence. Our good friend and neighbor, Gianna, called us up to let us know that Bailey was in her driveway. Well, he's not a dummy. Gianna has two mares grazing in her pasture. Not only did Bailey get to hang out with them, but he got to munch on green grass alongside the road all the way from our driveway to Gianna's.

Gianna kindly slipped a halter on Bailey and walked him up the road toward our house, meeting Mick and Sean who went out to bring him home. Sean is used to walking a lot so this little stint was a piece of cake for him. I liked the way he had his arm over Bailey's back most of the walk home.

I am including one shot of them all as they came into our driveway.Even though the halter had been taken off Bailey by then and he was free to go whereever he wanted on our property, you can see that he kept in step with Mick and Sean as they walked back toward the house.

Happy Father's Day! I hope any fathers reading this is as happy as Sean's father is!