Woodsmith Farm

We had a great drive tonight.  I wanted to try the Pacific training cart on Odessa and despite being on my own, gave it a go.  O. stood their patiently while I got everything adjusted and off we went without any problems.  Did some dressage work in the arena and then decided to do a lap around the farm.

We saw several deer on the trail including a mom and twins that appeared to have a dilemma about where the best place was to get away from us.  They moved out of the woods and out onto the lane and toward the driveway and O. and I remained walking calmly behind them but she was watching them closely.  One of the fawns ran back toward us and then turned back and went around a bend so I thought we were not going to have a deer close encounter.  Wrong.  It came frantically back around the bend and was running sporadically toward us along the fence line trying to figure out what to do.  I stopped O. with hopes that it would turn the other direction.  I even yelled at it once to try and discourage it.  It kept coming.

So I am by myself, in a two wheel cart with a significant drop off the left shoulder and a frantic fawn approaching us rapidly on the right.  There was probably 30 feet between the fence and the center of the lane where we were driving.  In scary situations I tend to ask the horse to plow right into them with hopes that the horse worries about what I am asking for instead of having time to obsess over the other distraction, so off we trotted.  O. can get very, very big when she's scared and big she was as the fawn came barreling toward us.  Thank goodness it kept moving forward and zoomed past us as we trotted on with no significant incidents other than O. was really big and floaty and very bent to the right as she tried to watch it go by.

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