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 :-)

sales listing update

I've taken down the current sales listing as I'm about to review it completely.

I've changed my mind on selling some horses, so they will be no longer available. All prices are also under review and will be published within the next couple of weeks. Hopefully with new photos and current information.

The new list will replace and supercede all previous lists and advertised prices.

If you have a question about horses available in the meantime, please get in touch with me.

Chris

out with the old, in with the new

I have been thinking of transferring the news and updates section to a blog for a long time.

Now it's done. This allows you to use all the great blog features such as tags. The old page was getting too long and cumbersome in any case...

So here it is. Enjoy.

Chris

out riding..

Yvonne and I have been out riding. Riding meaning taking you youngsters and broadening their horizons :-)

Here we took out Dacio a day after some heavy rain. We made good use of existing scary objects, which included puddles. After a couple of minutes of discussions and a big leap over the big scary puddle, Dacio happily walked through it on a loose rein. How good was that?

That's how we spent most of May. Taking out youngsters when time and weather permitted.

We've had a lot of rain, so the paddocks are nice and green. Although it's getting a bit cool...

April roundup

The colder weather has started. The horses are sporting lovely winter woolies!

Due to studies, I haven't had the chance to get quite so much riding and horse training happening, but we are working with Ron and a couple of Yvonne's youngsters. We've had a few rides out with friends, and both Smokey and Max were roped in for riding duties.

We've been working on upgrading existing fences and making new ones. All yards are now divided by 6 meter laneways, so we can keep stallions in any of them, or if we have visiting horses, they can be kept isolated. No squabbling over fences! Aside from being more practical, the new wooden posts on all corners also look much nicer. Still a lot to do, but we are making progress.