06/01/2026
Day 434:
Easy is absolutely loving life right now thanks to her all-you-can-eat grass buffet. As much as she enjoys having hay available around the clock, there is just something special about fresh spring grass.
One thing I’ve always found fascinating about horses is how instinctively they know that grass is food. Even the youngest foals seem to understand it immediately. The first time many foals step out into a grassy field, they lower their heads and start nibbling as though they’ve been doing it their entire lives. No one has to teach them. They just know.
Easy was no exception. In fact, she was trying to sample hay before she was fully committed to drinking milk. Chewing and investigating food has always come naturally to her. From a very young age she was convinced there had to be something worth eating besides what was in her baba.
When she finally discovered grass, she thought she had hit the jackpot. She was absolutely thrilled. She would carefully nibble a few blades, then a few more, and before long she was grazing with all the seriousness of a much older horse. It was clear she had discovered her new (second) favorite thing.
Not much has changed since then. These days she spends her time happily wandering from one patch of grass to the next, convinced that every mouthful is somehow better than the last. Watching her enjoy herself so much is hard not to smile at. There is something very satisfying about seeing a horse contentedly grazing, especially one who has always approached food with so much enthusiasm.
For Easy, life is pretty good right now: endless grass, and no shortage of opportunities to fill her belly. Now if the sun could shine that would be great.
