An evening (power)walk
02 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: tinker
Since it stopped raining by the time I made it back to Västerås and Garre I decided to take him for a little walk. Åse and Maria accompanied us on horseback.
G seemed happy to get out and took every chance he got to to munch on some grass.
Although it was cold it looked quite summerish.
Putting Garre in the stable next to Valle was as uneventfull as working a regular sunday.
Stage one of today
01 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: horse, tinker
Garre survived the trailer-ride to Västerås and looked surprised at us when we opened the door.
Unloading was less exciting than loading and soon G was standing on the aisle. It took a little convincing to get him to walk into the stable – there was so much to look at and so many new smells.
Since it’s raining outside G got a blanket on and a pile of hay to munch on out in the field.
Exploring was more interesting than food and us humans.
G seemed quite pleased about life so we left him there in the field and we’re now halfway to Örebro.
On our way
01 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: horse, shipping boots, tinker
After some mane and tailcare it was time to get G ready to go.
Terese braided Garres manes as per my request (so that his neck wont get so warm).
It took us a little effort but we got him on the trailer eventually and now we’re on our way.
The shipping boots were really creepy… Especially the hind leg ones… Garre was so pissed off with them, haha. Poor horse.
The horse is showered, packed, and ready to go-go
31 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: horse, tinker
It seems climbing and then getting shampooed in the rain (I figured since he was already soaked…) makes Garre a sleepy horse.
I’m quite sleepy myself after a busy day of packing for both myself and the horse. It also requires a bit of planning what with the swapping of cars and all…
Nice and colourful, aint it? Now we just need to hook on the trailer, load the horse, and we’ll be on our way. First a little sleep though.
Bad weather coming in they say…
Rain, rain and even more rain
31 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: cars, weather
It’s 19.5 degrees in here. My hands are cold as ice. Outside it’s raining. Oh summer, where did you go? On todays agenda:
- Finish packing
- Pick up horse feed for Garre + some other necessities
- Swap car with little brother
- Ride
- Pack Garres stuff in the car
- Shower the poor horse?
I’m going to start of by having breakfast. Then I’m going to pack all that can be packed and head out to pick up the stuff needed. At 16:30 I’m swapping car with little brother. Then I have to check oil etc. and air pressure of the tyres so that it’s fit for a drive to Västerås and back tomorrow. After that I’m off to spend a couple of hours at the stable and after that it’s probably bedtime for me. We leave at 9 am tomorrow. I suppose now is an ok time to get excited about it??!
Flowers and grass and a roll around
30 May 2012 Leave a Comment
I couldn’t not shoot a little video clip when riding next to the river today…
And then the boys followed the same pattern as yesterday.
Garre first and Deedoo next …
I got a bucket, got a bucket (full of sunshine)
30 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: bucket, horse feed, kraft
So tonight a feed-lecture at the track was on the agenda. With the race horse in focus.
The three of us were all a bit, so? Afterwards. We didn’t learn anything new and the guy holding the lecture just babbled. I suppose that’s what you get for sponsored lectures. In this case it was a maker of horse feed, that’s probably the biggest on the market here, who stood for the lecture. So, what I got out of it?
A bucket! And I’m thrilled because I needed one!
Looks alot like summer
30 May 2012 Leave a Comment
Don’t you think?
Lovely ride out today in, as you can see, lovely terrain. Wating for Jenny and Terese to pick me up to go to a horsefeed lecture at the track.
“Space-food”
30 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Food & drinks, Life, Nerdyness Tags: food
I’m a bit bad at this whole eat lunch thing so I try to compensate by eating a mealreplacement bar before I ride. Usually they are quite alright but it seems that I, in a hurry, bought one with chocolate and orange flavour.
Not sure I’ll be able to finish it. I tried chewing fast to get rid of it but that nearly had me throw up… Oh joy.
It’s getting close!
29 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: horse, riding, tinker
On friday me and Garre moves to Västerås! I still can’t belive it. We’re going to have so much fun!
Today, as you can see from the previous post, I actually started packing. Very boring. And I packed way to much, go figure… After that was sort of done I left for the stable where I started of mucking. Then Garre played hard to get out in the pasture … But eventually I outsmarted him – using his will to do as asked – against him and rewarding him as he let me put the halter on.
Once in the saddle we had a great ride out. Main focus was to walk on in walk. When I ride out alone he tends to drag his feet in walk. Another thing we worked on was to slow the pace in trott. He sort of wants to trott real fast while I want him to keep the momentum but gather himself up a bit. By using my voice we eventually did get there. It might seem a small thing but it’s a good preparation for paddock riding where he won’t be able to run all over the place. So after an hour and a half (I walk next to him the last half an hour, so you don’t think I torture the poor horse the whole time) I had a moderately sweaty but clean horse.
Well… He was clean. Before I sponged him off and let him out.
Shortly there after Deedoo followed suit (omg! It’s contagious!).
My least favourite thing
29 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Life, Nerdyness Tags: agony, packing
Packing. Doesn’t look so bad on this picture does it?
Give me five minutes and this is how it looks at the moment:
It’s not all black. There’s pink too, and orange. I wont even wear half of what I pack but how will I know which half to leave behind?
Things we do at Stall Södra Valla
28 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: Horses
Today it was Jennys turn to suddenly get the urge to chase the poor unsuspecting horses. They are a tough crowd… really.
Shiney new shoes
28 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: farrier, horses shoe, tinker
Pedicure time for the hairy ponies today. Me and Jenny pitched in helping the farrier, although I must admit that my effort was fairly useless… I tried though and I did better than last time so that’s something.
I woke up this morning feeling a bit off… Oh, joy. Time for the monthly torture. As I drove to the stable I started feeling rather nauseous. Perfect start of the day.
Garres long long leg hair got a comb-over and quite a bit of spray on shampoo to sort it out.
It took shy of three hours to get both horses shoed and done. Then it was time for something both Polly & Deedoo knew would not be pleasant: deworming. Garre? He just gulped down the paste while we stood there wondering what happened. Haha. He’s such a weird giant of a horse. After the busy morning I decided to let him have the day off. I was simply feeling to sorry for myself to drag him out for a ride in the cold windy weather.
I don’t think he minds one bit. And I’m much happier curled up in bed with my heatblankie on max.
High life!
27 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: farrier, gallop, tinker
Behold my fiery steed ready to rush into battle… Actually, he looks more inclined to fall into a heap never to get up again.
Garre is not thrilled about the summer heat, that much is evident. But he did wake up once I got in the saddle and we had a pleasant 1.5 hour ride out.
A couple of nice, fast, gallops aligned with the setting sun (I could see how we galloped in the shadow that we casted – rather cool!). Garre is really starting to wake up and find his own mind, his own wants. And as it seems what he likes the best is to stretch out in a nice gallop. We’re like made for one another! ♥
But now I must sleep, early date with the farrier tomorrow. Time to get new shoes before we leave to Västerås.
Pictures & videos (3-årstest)
27 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Horsies, Life, Nerdyness Tags: 3-årstest, Horses, Wittvång
I allready made a post about the 3-years test yesterday. So here comes a few pictures and videos of the horses I did get to see. Since I spent half of the day at the track I missed most of the test. I did get to see a few nice horses though. Corinne NG was one…
And since she’s such a looker she got two videoclips.
Flip’s fairytale (with the famous mother Butterfly Flip.
Filip H was next.
Then of course, Pickaboo (who I did film but I don’t have the footage cause I used Jannas camera, hopefully she’ll put the film up soon!).
And last, but not least, Billie.
