Johanna Speaks

I have been reading horse books. I do really like to read and I want to learn more and more about horses. 

The book that I am reading is called " How To Think Like A Horse " by Cherry Hill.  It's about where a horse can't see and how much they can see and well, to think like a horse and just a lot of interesting things!

 I am only on chapter two right now. But each chapter is a lot to read!! 

Here are some things they talk about in the book:

Sounds that trigger anticipation.

Horses link certain sounds to specific activities, such as feeding. Just like Pavlov's dogs that salivated when they heard a bell ring before being fed, horses anticipate being fed when they hear sounds they know precede feeding. Here on our ranch, the horses respond by becoming more active physically or calling for feed when they hear: 

The very first word or morning yawn from the house.

The back door to the house opening and closing. 

The barn door sliding open or the feed room door opening or closing. 

That is a little bit of what they have in the book. 

Horses can be restless when there are in the wind because of what they hear and what they can't hear. 

Yesterday I went to my brother in-laws parents house to ride horses! I got to ride Cameron’s sister Elianas horse! The breed was a beautiful painted horse!! The tail was very long and beautiful! I got to trot it around the arena with me on it of course! :)  It was so much fun! I would love to do again sometime. 

About a week ago I went to a rodeo with Cameron and Noelle and Cameron’s sister Eliana. It was on a Friday night. A hour before we went to the rodeo we were sitting in the car waiting for Cameron because he was getting tacos for us at Taco Bell. It took about 40 mins! Cameron wanted to be early to the rodeo so when he came back from getting tacos he hopped back into the car and drove pretty crazy! We were trying to not to get food on ourselves and soda too! I did get some soda on my pants but it was fine.

We got our tickets! And now we had to go sit somewhere. We got to our seats. 

Cameron kept on disappearing to get food and drinks like in the middle of the rodeo. He got the drinks from the car and the food from the rodeo. 

There was barrel racing, bull riding, ect. 

When they were bull riding after the bull flung the person off the bull trotted to where the people were and literally jumped up and over the gate. Everybody was freaking out! The bull went to tTurtle Bay bridge! Turtle Bay bridge was right next to the rodeo. Nobody got seriously hurt but one person did at Turtle Bay bridge and had to get sent to the hospital. Thankfully we were not where the bull jumped over the gate! 

Here is a video where the bull jumped over the gate!

My favorite part was the bull fighting!

There was a painted horse that I really liked. I don’t know why I love the breeds so much! But I do! :) 

Yesterday my friends and I went to the lake with a kayak but with no ors because we wanted to jump off the kayak and swim in the water. The kayak was a kid's kayak so we easily got tipped over and it was a lot of fun actually! I would love to do it again sometime! 

It was a very hot day so swimming in the lake felt so nice and refreshing! 

All the friends who brought me there were, Abbygail, Annabelle, Rosie, and of course their mom. My friend Rosie, her name is actually Rose but we call her Rosie. And my middle name is Rose. :)

After we played in the lake for an hour, two other families came. I came out of the water and tried to get warm because I was a little cold and there were no towels because we forgot to bring some. So I just laid in the sun and my friend Abbygail also was trying to get dry. So we sat there watching other families play. And when we left the lake we went back to my friend's house and I asked my mom if I could have dinner there and she said yes. We had pizza for dinner! I love pizza!! They were very tiny mini pizzas so we each had two and after we ate our two we were still hungry so we had bread with butter. :) 

They had their grandma there and she said I should come on fat night. Fat night is on a Friday and you clean up all day intell like dinner time I think or a little bit sooner and then after dinner, they eat basically junk food and then play video games and stay up pretty late. And the grandma is going to make a really good dessert for fat night. I kinda forgot what's its's called but it's something to start like sweet and salty or something like that. I told the grandma I have never tried it before and asked what it was and she said " You never tried it before? It's super good! It's chocolate and then a cracker and then homemade caramel ". And told me I should definitely come for fat night and taste it! It sounds sooo good!!! And I asked my mom and she said yes and I can stay there intell 9 a clock! Now I can't wait for tomorrow cause tomorrow's fat night!

I love taking pictures and then editing them! 

My brother Simeon is a really good photographer I think. :)  He is teaching me how to edit and take really good pictures and different angles and stuff like that! I am really thankful that Simeon is teaching me how to use and showing me buttons on the camera.

Here is a picture of me holding the moon. It looks pretty cool! 

And there are other pictures on Simeon's Instagram account.

Here is a picture of me that is taking a picture of my mom. :)

Simeon and I this morning at 5:00 AM woke up got dressed and brought the camera outside and waited a little bit for the sun to rise and then take really cool pictures. The reason why is because sunrises and sunsets are the perfect time to take really cool and pretty pictures. So we did that. And we did get actually really good pictures. I am really happy with it! :)

Why do wolves howl at the moon? Good question! Here are the reasons why:

Wolves howl at night because of a hail to hunt or as a territorial expression. A howl can even help a lost wolf find its way back home. Howls can inform the pack of its location. That's pretty cool that wolves can do so much with just howling!! 

Some people think that wolves howl as behavior directed at the moon. 

You always see it in cartoons and other shows that have a wolf howling at the moon and turning into a wolf savage or something. Sorry but that actually is not true of course. :) And also sorry I have seen a couple of shows that have a wolf howling at the moon and then turning into something. :) That's why I said that.

I really like wolves. They are so beautiful with their color fur and they seem actually kinda cute to me!

Here is a picture of two beautiful wolves that I really like: