I am aware you have not really had an update since we first moved up at Easter.
Things have been rather mad with a relocation at short notice with a small baby etc etc etc and now I have been diagnosed with an underactive thyriod I have an explanation for my lack of energy etc which hasn't helped the whole process.......
Well we have had a mixed year this year. The move went well and we haven't regretted it even if it hasn't been the smoothest of rides since then..
The down of 2006 has to have been Mac dying a few weeks ago aged 25
But there have been plenty of good times too!
Pablo has chilled out a lot since coming up here and did fantastically over the summer with his longreining and was happily letting me lean over him and wore a full driving harness as well without a flicker. He is also fat and happy even now despite no feed, still out 24/7 and no rug (normally he has dropped weight by this time, even rugged and fed!).
Alfie has proved to be worth his weight in gold - he is sooooo good, a real safe cob. He is just a complete sweetheart and the highlight of his year has to be his first show...where he won the championship (admittedly it was a very small show but you have to start somewhere! ) and won the 'best trained horse' trophy..against himself... however he deserved it as he did all the tests of obedience the judge asked brilliantly, despite me only teaching him to back up for the first time the day before! and I think deserved it anyway for being loaded too early and then unloaded with a rope round his neck and having his bridle put on IN the class when we got our times muddled up!
He then proceeded to dress up in his western gear the next day to take part in the 'wild west extravaganza' (fundraising event) and have his photo taken to raise money for the local church beside a bouncy castle in a strong wind..and didn't move even when the minister's stetson blew off straight into his face! He is such a star.
Rupert did some ridden work this summer and was good, quieter than before despite almost a year off when I was pregnant and Beth was little, but hasn't done much as I am a bit heavy for him still.
Gallie hasn't done much this year (apart from show himself up in the performance pony class of the Shetland Pony show...he decided he was a stallion and screamed the whole time and reared...and he is 15 and a gelding.... )
Bobby went to his first show too and was third and behaved himself so that was good.
Polo disgraced himself in the private driving class at the Shetland Pony show by refusing to stand still although he drove beautifully, so we were fourth. But he redeemed himself by winning the cones class despite being 20 he hadn't forgotten his competing days!
All in all we have had a quiet but successful year and hope for a lot more next year
Rupert is due to go off on loan once the weather gets a bit better for the ferry crossing to a very good home in lowland Scotland where he can have more work and attention with a lighter adult rider.
Oh and Beth had her first birthday last week, how time flies!
Things have been rather mad with a relocation at short notice with a small baby etc etc etc and now I have been diagnosed with an underactive thyriod I have an explanation for my lack of energy etc which hasn't helped the whole process.......
Well we have had a mixed year this year. The move went well and we haven't regretted it even if it hasn't been the smoothest of rides since then..
The down of 2006 has to have been Mac dying a few weeks ago aged 25
But there have been plenty of good times too!
Pablo has chilled out a lot since coming up here and did fantastically over the summer with his longreining and was happily letting me lean over him and wore a full driving harness as well without a flicker. He is also fat and happy even now despite no feed, still out 24/7 and no rug (normally he has dropped weight by this time, even rugged and fed!).
Alfie has proved to be worth his weight in gold - he is sooooo good, a real safe cob. He is just a complete sweetheart and the highlight of his year has to be his first show...where he won the championship (admittedly it was a very small show but you have to start somewhere! ) and won the 'best trained horse' trophy..against himself... however he deserved it as he did all the tests of obedience the judge asked brilliantly, despite me only teaching him to back up for the first time the day before! and I think deserved it anyway for being loaded too early and then unloaded with a rope round his neck and having his bridle put on IN the class when we got our times muddled up!
He then proceeded to dress up in his western gear the next day to take part in the 'wild west extravaganza' (fundraising event) and have his photo taken to raise money for the local church beside a bouncy castle in a strong wind..and didn't move even when the minister's stetson blew off straight into his face!
He is such a star.
Rupert did some ridden work this summer and was good, quieter than before despite almost a year off when I was pregnant and Beth was little, but hasn't done much as I am a bit heavy for him still.
Gallie hasn't done much this year (apart from show himself up in the performance pony class of the Shetland Pony show...he decided he was a stallion and screamed the whole time and reared...and he is 15 and a gelding.... )
Bobby went to his first show too and was third and behaved himself so that was good.
Polo disgraced himself in the private driving class at the Shetland Pony show by refusing to stand still
although he drove beautifully, so we were fourth. But he redeemed himself by winning the cones class despite being 20 he hadn't forgotten his competing days!
All in all we have had a quiet but successful year and hope for a lot more next year
Rupert is due to go off on loan once the weather gets a bit better for the ferry crossing to a very good home in lowland Scotland where he can have more work and attention with a lighter adult rider.
Oh and Beth had her first birthday last week, how time flies!
