Back To The Normal Routine
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 05:51 pm... Yes, it was Wednesday and I had arranged to meet both Ros and Toni to ride with.
DJ must have known that - either that or he and Conrad had fallen out during the night. Over the last few weeks they have been living in 2 large fields and when I got there this morning Conrad was fairly near the gate in field one ... Guess where DJ was? Yes - if there was a diagonally opposite across the 2 fields and around the boundary there was DJ ... eating away as if that was all he had planned for the morning. Well, probably that was his aim - I had other ideas!!
Anyway he came in nicely and even let me get a comb through about 3/4 of his mane - I had to start that at some point, didn't I?
Ros and Cherry arrived just as Toni and I had tacked up Smudge and DJ/ Smudge was in a weird mood, which is to be expected. He has lost a good friend last week. When Jaykub died he seemed to sulk - now he is quiet, but doesn't want to be fussed with. Still it is early days and getting back into our normal routines will help us all.
We went down to the village Church and back - so we were out for about 75 minutes - walk with a bit of trot ... and a lot of gossip.
There was a lot of traffic around today - nothing big and nothing noisy, just a steady stream of vehicles.
So, although aa easy ride it was great - good weather and good friends ... And, DJ was a good boy!!
Once back, DJ was a bit warm as he has a lovely winter coat at present - he is not dressed for work! So it gave me a chance to grab a coffee while he settled before I fed him and took him back to his field.
DJ must have known that - either that or he and Conrad had fallen out during the night. Over the last few weeks they have been living in 2 large fields and when I got there this morning Conrad was fairly near the gate in field one ... Guess where DJ was? Yes - if there was a diagonally opposite across the 2 fields and around the boundary there was DJ ... eating away as if that was all he had planned for the morning. Well, probably that was his aim - I had other ideas!!
Anyway he came in nicely and even let me get a comb through about 3/4 of his mane - I had to start that at some point, didn't I?
Ros and Cherry arrived just as Toni and I had tacked up Smudge and DJ/ Smudge was in a weird mood, which is to be expected. He has lost a good friend last week. When Jaykub died he seemed to sulk - now he is quiet, but doesn't want to be fussed with. Still it is early days and getting back into our normal routines will help us all.
We went down to the village Church and back - so we were out for about 75 minutes - walk with a bit of trot ... and a lot of gossip.
There was a lot of traffic around today - nothing big and nothing noisy, just a steady stream of vehicles.
So, although aa easy ride it was great - good weather and good friends ... And, DJ was a good boy!!
Once back, DJ was a bit warm as he has a lovely winter coat at present - he is not dressed for work! So it gave me a chance to grab a coffee while he settled before I fed him and took him back to his field.
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Date: 2008-02-20 06:27 pm (UTC)I've been riding this evening - my goodness I was rubbish! LOL!! I have the chance to ride again on Friday morning as it's half term which I'm really looking forward to. :)
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Date: 2008-02-20 07:05 pm (UTC)I know what you mean about riding - the last lesson I had about 3 months before we left the stables I don't think I could have ridden any worse if I had tried to!
Glad you have managed to get a second ride this week - will that be "out" as it is during the day? I am hoping to ride again on Friday as well.
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Date: 2008-02-20 07:11 pm (UTC)The Friday ride contains a couple of novices, so we tend to stay inside.
I think it'll still be fun though.
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Date: 2008-02-20 07:15 pm (UTC)Novices - that means you will be able to show them the correct way to get the horse to lsten to you ... or not, if you borrow DJ!!
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Date: 2008-02-21 01:17 pm (UTC)Awsome icon - and you are right about that one of Kazzy's - it is great isn't it?
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Date: 2008-02-23 09:29 am (UTC)Glad you like the icon! It's from the film, Ladyhawke. Kazzy's is great. I have happily run off with it! :)