Friday, October 22, 2010
Random Pics!
I have gone blog crazy today to make up for my lack of blogging!
View to the sea, from one of the paddocks
Rio out on a walk around the village
We have really pretty scenery on our trial-rides
Lisa and micky on 'the bridge'
Plum wants to join in-getting bored with being left in the field!
I had my first go a driving a tractor,i chain-harrowed the field!
I have been very busy!
First a little update on Plum,she was getting alot better,my trimmer came and we concluded that the absess had gone and she just had a little infection in her frog.So she was on that treatment and by the end of the week she was sound.Next day i find her hopping around on 3 legs,the absess is back,so lots of soaking her foot and i wait for the absess to burst! The fun part was conviencing Plum that having her foot in the water was not so bad,2 sessions and lots of positive reinforcement later and now she can't wait to have her foot soaked!
Rio has been having lots of attention since Plum has been out of action. We went to a playday at Sharon's last Sunday,the theme being Parelli games and Spotlights. Me and mum both took him around the Parelli games,and scored quite well.Although the highlight for me was the spotlights,i did a liberty spotlight with Rio,and it was the best liberty i have ever got with him,it really made me realise how far he has come since i got him in 2008,he has been one of my biggest challenges! Lisa took her little shetland 'Jaffa' to the playday,they did really great and tryed out some new patterns,that they'd never done before.
Watch this space,there may be new additions to the herd soon!..........
Finally,more photo's!
Lisa and Jaffa,'lead by the leg'
again,mastering the figure 8 pattern
Spotlights: Rio and Jaffa on the 'pony carousel'
Mum and Rio on the circling challenge
'Stay out there Rio' ,Rio attempting his favourite game of knocking the cones over! ;-)
First a little update on Plum,she was getting alot better,my trimmer came and we concluded that the absess had gone and she just had a little infection in her frog.So she was on that treatment and by the end of the week she was sound.Next day i find her hopping around on 3 legs,the absess is back,so lots of soaking her foot and i wait for the absess to burst! The fun part was conviencing Plum that having her foot in the water was not so bad,2 sessions and lots of positive reinforcement later and now she can't wait to have her foot soaked!
Rio has been having lots of attention since Plum has been out of action. We went to a playday at Sharon's last Sunday,the theme being Parelli games and Spotlights. Me and mum both took him around the Parelli games,and scored quite well.Although the highlight for me was the spotlights,i did a liberty spotlight with Rio,and it was the best liberty i have ever got with him,it really made me realise how far he has come since i got him in 2008,he has been one of my biggest challenges! Lisa took her little shetland 'Jaffa' to the playday,they did really great and tryed out some new patterns,that they'd never done before.
Watch this space,there may be new additions to the herd soon!..........
Finally,more photo's!
Monday, October 4, 2010
Opps,i was busy over the weekend so i forgot to blog,i need to make it a pattern!
Sunday was quite a busy day,in the morning a new livery horse arrived owned by some lovely Parelli people from north Cornwall,they are loaning him to a local girl (so mabey we will have another natural horsemanship student at the yard?!).Then it was off to a playday at Sharon Haines's yard,I took Rio and Lisa took her horse 'Micky' (Lisa is my friend from the yard who has just started her Parelli journey).I played with Rio for abit,(i forgot how fun he is to play with) then mum spent the rest of the time playing with him.As i didnt have a horse to play with,Sharon gave me the privlage of playing with her 'Rio', he was alot of fun,what seemed like a low spirited horse came to life when we left the sand school and went and played in the field! Lisa also did really well for her first playday with Micky.
Plum is still a little sore on her foot,but definatley getting better,there is still abit of puss in her heal that needs to come out,so a few more days with it bandaged up and soaking it and hopefully she should be back to normal. She was not happy at being left behind on Sunday and is eager to be played with,but did appreciate the 'Winnies cookie' that i brought her back from Colorado!
I will have to take some more photos to show you what it's like in this part of the world ;-)
Sunday was quite a busy day,in the morning a new livery horse arrived owned by some lovely Parelli people from north Cornwall,they are loaning him to a local girl (so mabey we will have another natural horsemanship student at the yard?!).Then it was off to a playday at Sharon Haines's yard,I took Rio and Lisa took her horse 'Micky' (Lisa is my friend from the yard who has just started her Parelli journey).I played with Rio for abit,(i forgot how fun he is to play with) then mum spent the rest of the time playing with him.As i didnt have a horse to play with,Sharon gave me the privlage of playing with her 'Rio', he was alot of fun,what seemed like a low spirited horse came to life when we left the sand school and went and played in the field! Lisa also did really well for her first playday with Micky.
Plum is still a little sore on her foot,but definatley getting better,there is still abit of puss in her heal that needs to come out,so a few more days with it bandaged up and soaking it and hopefully she should be back to normal. She was not happy at being left behind on Sunday and is eager to be played with,but did appreciate the 'Winnies cookie' that i brought her back from Colorado!
I will have to take some more photos to show you what it's like in this part of the world ;-)
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Back home!
I arrived back home yesterday after 36 hours of traveling. I couldnt wait to see the horses today,they were already at the gate waiting when i arrived and i was shocked at how hairy they were,already getting their winter coats.When i brought them in i found that Plum was lame,i'm pretty sure its an absess as her heal is soft and she's flinching when i touch it,so its been polticed and i wait for it burst!
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