White

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frost, horses, pony, seasons, snow, video, winter

I’ve long been waiting to do some overexposed snow photos, but when we finally had two whole days of the stuff, the flesh just wasn’t willing and with that goes my creativity. The costochondritis aspires to yet higher levels of pain whenever I think I can move around like any other person. Or just out of spite even when I don’t.

Nevertheless, I did promise you a wind free video and this is how long it took me to have another go, so my technical skills haven’t exactly improved yet. 😉 It’s not very interesting, but I felt that just photos were lacking that delightful squeak and crunch of frosty new snow.

Back in the saddle

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between the ears, cat, crafts, health, horse, life, Painting, pony

Literally and figuratively.

Such a/n/ice cold morning

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country life, horses, nature, pony, seasons, weather, winter

Winter indeed. Dog walk at sunrise.

Så er vinteren skudt i gang, frost ved solopgang.

Neighbour’s lawn had an unauthorized visit by this Houdini pony. I was thinking just yesterday that we hadn’t seen him around for a while, he must have heard me!

Naboens græsplæne med besøg af udbryderkongen Buller som bor længere nede af vejen. Jeg tænkte så sent som i går da jeg passerede hans fold, at det var længe siden, han har nok hørt mig den lille bandit.

You must be joking, right?

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horse, intention, longe, pony, training

Somebody has been having a very long vacation. Said vacation is now officially over! Last year I tried to teach the two remaining ponies to be free longed together in preparation for “ponying” the little one when I ride. (for the non-horse savvy this means towing him along on a rope). Little brown boy has a very firm idea about such things and he’s having none of it, also called ponytude. So I need an assistant and there never seems to be the time for it no matter how we plan.

Anyway, I finally got my own A into G and started them off today, and they remember perfectly, we’re right where we left off. How cool is that?! Would be fun if we could get to doing various moves and tricks as well apart from going round in circles at various speeds and turning.

“And now, cookies please”

Åh nej, ferien er slut

Efter en meget, meget, meget lang pause, har jeg endelig taget mig sammen til at få rørt ponyprutterne lidt. Sidste år begyndte jeg at lære dem at blive løslongeret sammen som forberedelse til at tage den lille brune bisse med som håndhest når jeg rider den store. Han vælter nemlig rundt over det hele eller nægter at gå, og manden i huset har aldrig haft tid når vi ellers havde planlagt, når han har ferie har vi jo også en milliard andre ting som skal ordnes.

Men de kunne sørme huske det hele, vi starter fuldstændig hvor vi slap. Lige nu kan vi bare rende i rundkreds og skifte retning og tempo, men det ville være sjovt at arbejde med lidt tricks eller finesser igen – det bliver noget af en udfordring fordi den lille er arbejdssky og den gamle synes det er noget pjat, han vil kun på tur.