Three out of three ain't bad
George was easier in the side reins today. It took about 35 minutes to get a really nice responsive walk on both reins, then another 5 to convert that to changes of rein as well. Much better than he has been but still some way off "easy".
Jazz and I went out between the hail showers. There were some lurid green barriers with orange feet blocking a hole that someone had made in the drystone wall over a bridge. "Here we go" I thought. And I was right. But I just let him stand and look from a distance and he took only four minutes to make up his mind to go up and sniff them. He was lovely the rest of the time, ignoring all the lamb coats blowing around in the wind.
I rode Zip in the barn and he was super until he decided he'd done enough (ten minutes, that's all!) Then he locked his back, and when I tried to push him out to free it he bucked, twice. Not serious bucks but naughty little skips as a protest. I wasn't carrying a whip but I don't think I'd have hit him anyway. He went forwards nicely almost immediately so there was nothing to gain, except perhaps to provoke a worse tantrum.
I finished off the afternoon by putting the last slices from a haylage bail into two vacuum sacks - the kind you use to store clothes in. They work a treat but I've never had any big enough before. The ones that arrived in the post today are great. You put the haylage in and then lie on it to squash out the air. You can hoover them out too, but I don't have a hoover in the stables and I couldn't be bothered to fetch one. I wonder what a visitor would have thought if they'd caught me rolling on the floor in a clinch with a vacuum sack full of haylage :-) ??
C
posted by cptrayes @ 6:12 PM
10 comments
10 Comments:
Hey, do I have to ride all three today too??? *G*
Good for Jazz. Definitely signs that he is gaining more self-confidence. He was really quite brave.
Zipster is showing his teenage self, or might just be getting fed up with having to work indoors.
I've seen those storage bags advertised. Good to know they keep the haylage fresh. I still haven't ventured into that but I've considered it. Don't know what the hay guy will be charging if and when he starts to sell it. Might not be economical.
Well if you do it'll stop me feeling quite so virtuous Jean :-)
C
Look out, it finally stopped raining. Now I don't have any excuses.
Go for it!
C
Haha can just picture you wrestling with the
haylage:)))
Jazz has come on alot bet he would have had a hair canary at that last year!
George obviously doesnt see the point in working correctly he can jump quite well without all that malarky and that where the fun is:)
Lamb coats blowing around in the wind?
ML
i'm struck by the lamb coats too, sounds intriguing!
you've had a good day all round then!
Like little jackets for sickly fairy penguins in Australia, or wee woolly hats for new-born babies in Africa, it stops them getting cold and wet and dying ...
There's a sheep farmer near Melbourne whose lambs not only wear coats, his adult merinos wear what can only be described as oversized hair nets...
Michaela
That's right, little plastic jackets that are biodegradable and drop off them after a few days. It keeps them alive in this rain and cold, just long enough for them to get the gumption to keep going by themselves. In spite of that, my neighbour has lost 40 so far to the cold and wet weather :-(((
Nicola you are right, it would have been 40 minutes last year, not four. It's really odd, Jazz pays the lamb coats no attention at all blowing in the road, or crisp packets, silage wrapper etc. But a new daffodil patch? Horrors!
I can only guess that merino wool is very valuable Michaela? Or does he show them? It must be a very funny sight!
C
should have known that, about the jackets! didn't realise they were biodegradable!
Post a Comment
<< Home