Luckily, it was a beautiful hot summers weekend for us at Badminton, well, hot compared to what we've been used to here in the North West Lancs area. Since that weekend, we have only had one day of sunshine to get excited about. Still, its great seeing families and every body out and about enjoying some quality family time. Thinking about hot weather....One of my daughters is in Crete as I type this, I'm not jealous at all, wink wink.
I just need to mention todays world news. Last night in UK time (afternoon, American time), Oklahoma suffered massive devastation with the biggest tornado recorded there in Tornado Alley. Apparently it was a mile long and at a speed of around 200 mph, also remaining on the ground for around 45 minutes. Many have lost their lives and many are still missing. It's so saddening to hear of loss and devastation. You just can't envisage what they are going through at this time. Please click the link below for the bbc news report:
BBC Oklahoma Tornado News May 2013
Myerscough have a fun Open Day in June, go along with your family and support it whilst having a fun day out, Click the link below for more info:
MYERSCOUGH FUN DAY OUT JUNE 2013 CLICK HERE
My hubby promised me a garden swing for summer this year. I can just picture myself lazing around on one of them in the sunshine. Oh yes, I just realised, I will probably fight with my teenage girls for that too. Is there any point of getting one? Will it be a waste of money? Will we get a summer this time?
We become immune to the crappy weather here , when it comes to the weather, we are quite a resilient breed of people. We easily adapt and end up again, pretty satisfied with the odd day of sunshine. We' re also pretty much easy to read, we have that traditional BBQ as soon as there's a bit of sunshine. You see guys (in general, to avoid me looking sexist ha ha) from many households, washing their cars and doing their lawns, we just do the same with a bit of sunshine around . What is lovely is, seeing all the families out and about. What we sometimes ignore here in the UK due to the weather letting us down constantly, is just how absolutely stunning, our country is. We have everything here except the guaranteed summer. Saying all this, I must admit, I did ask for rain for the fields here, seeing they have been pretty much parched for months on and off. With this, we have had concrete fields and no influx of grass growth until now! I think someone listened to my rain request too! It does amaze me how green everything becomes with a spot of much needed rain. I'm so in touch with nature, that as I drive to work and so on, I look at potential images in the environment, that will make wonderful photos.I'm boring myself now lol. Oops, I also kick myself when I put lol in my blog. I feel pretty childlike doing it and pretty illiterate, ah well, reading these you probably know my writers tongue by now.
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| April 2013 |
I've been having a tough time with the horses. I am not enjoying the place we are at in the slightest. I am only at the yard two hours tops each day. I go there, do the nedlets then go home. It is punishing me greatly. I miss pottering around with the horses, riding loads, hacking out, messing around spoiling them. I also miss just sitting there watching them. I am very unhappy and sadly the horses don't get much of me. I've been trying to move to somewhere quiet for months. Also looking at properties. Just anything to get somewhere new. The mentality of myself at this point regarding my horsey life is; go to the stables, do them quickly (normally let them play out for up to two hours, then go home), I don't even go in the day anymore, I go late afternoons/evenings. any occasion just to get in and get out. Boohoo. Awful. Even my dad and my horsey daughter don't go.
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| April 2013 |
This means, my young coblets training has been very behind on progress. In fact, he has only been ridden twice since I have re-backed him after his winter off to mature. And wow, he has matured well. He's filled out, he's got taller again and his mental state is cheekier but he's still a gent, aww love him. This also means the little zigs monster hasnt done much either, he's probably only been hacked out a handful of times and ridden a handful of times in all the time we have been there. Six months! It's just not us at all.
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| Taking a bow April 2013 |
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| Alfie being re-backed after his winter off April 2013, just getting a pat for good boy stuff |
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| Alfie being re-backed after his winter off April 2013 |
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| I've put this on because its a daft kind of photo ha , one in the moment, |
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| lovely |
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| A wave from a shadow of myself |
COBS;
Aren't they just amazing? They are so faithful and loyal. They just 'do' what is asked of them. They are hard workers and just seem to understand what you are asking of them. They just comply like a well trained husband lol. You all know , I adore my boy, he is such a special one. He loves humans and giving them hugs and kisses.He's just generally an all round goody. This year as he is four years old this time. He is really maturing well, he's quite a chunk and has took his mums Welsh cob stamp rather than his dads cib stamp. He is now verging on just over 15.hh stood correctly, with once again, him being a touch croup high. His mane and tail are growing back after my horror of him being scalped by a foal at the barn.I nearly died when I saw all his mane had been chewed off all in one day! Its taken months to grow back. I'm just glad I caught the tail in time as that was scalped short on top too. I just wish the people would have told me they had a youngster that did that. In fact, I did wonder why all the horses had no manes and tails! Thankfully it is starting to flow again. I do miss a warmblood though. So I have lots of plans for Alfie. I need to get my act together and seriously need to look for somewhere so I can continue his education and do all the horse fun things we like to do.
We also have to buy, yet again, another horse trailer so we can go on horsey holidays and designated treks, trips to somerford park, beach, alsorts. Notice I haven't put shows haha, I just dont do them anymore. In fact. I havent done them personally since I was a young teen/kid, except showing Alfie the ropes as a yearling. I have just done too much of it as a girl it bores me to death as an adult, if you're not a kid or stud or dealer , or young horse trainer etc, I just can't understand the whole point of showing. It's not my idea as a fun day out on a horse. Hours and hours of end of grooming prep, in fact, days of, hours and hours on end waiting around for your classes to start, then hours for a huge class just for your two minutes of activity, nah, can't think of anything more boring. I've always been the behind the scenes kind of girl as an adult, the breaking, schooling, the groom at the events, the eyes on the ground, the husbandry side of things, the horse kitchen side, the science side, you get the idea, in general.....The Boss haha, of course. I have done the Boss at dressage, jumping, cross country and showing scene for decades and it's what I like best. So in my forties, i'm looking forward to horses as a fun leisurely hobby.
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| Show prep |
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| Hard work paying off |
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| A day in the life of a typical show day |
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| Homework |
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| Babywork |
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| The grooms job |
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| The groom |
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| The prep for breaking work |
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| The day olds job |
I haven't proof read it, so it will be a lot of jibberish talk, but hey, any excuse to throw some photos in here.
Oh by the way, not sure if I ever told you? with all the emotional hurdles through loss of loved ones........... I DID IT!!!
