long weekend

We had Gordon, the farrier here yesterday. Luckily, the rain held off until after we were finished. We even had a few rays of sunshine. Generally, standing still and holding horses on a cold winter's morning isn't nice. But yesterday, it wasn't too bad.

This morning, we worked Funa again. We are still at the groundwork stage with her. Yvonne took some photos the other day. Today, I decided to play with some of the photos, because I think the mane looks incredible. Here is one of my experiments.

a nice morning

We had a relatively pleasant morning. Sunny but a horrible cold breeze. This afternoon or evening, we expect more rain.

We worked Funa for a while and then we went and rugged most of the horses again. I took out my new camera to take photos of the stocksaddle I have for sale. Please check out the gear for sale page shortly, I'll be putting those photos up. Please note that the Syd Hill swinging fender saddle has been sold.

While I had the camera out, I visited the stallions, and managed to get a sleepy pose from Ramirez, and a curious look from Rolly. No decent photos... Max decided to get excited, and I did catch him a couple of times while showing off. Here he is...

winter is ... brrrr!

We have Nele's Icelandic mare Funa here for training. Luckily it's nearly mid semester break for me, so I have a bit of time.

We've had heavy fog since last night, and it wasn't in a hurry to lift this morning. When it did, there was wind and drizzle. So lovely. But we did work with Funa for a bit. I must say though that it was nice to come back inside and warm up my feet again.

Yesterday, I played around with my new little compact camera. I have a lovely SLR camera, but it doesn't lend itself to going places inside my pocket, it's just too big. So I've been toying with the idea of  something small for a while, and the other day I bought a Nikon Coolpix.

Yesterday evening, when the light was low (but at least we had sun!), I took a couple of photos of Speedy (aka Narrawin's Speed of Light). The moving photos are blurred, as I didn't have the camera set correctly. But here's a nice head shot of Speedy.

And doesn't he have a lovely winter coat :-)