Just Being Pampered!
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debris4spikeWhen i arrived at DJ's this morning I had been planning to ride with Ros (seeing as it is wednesday), but by the time I had battled across his 2 fields ... He wasn't sheltering, but Conrad was and thay are obviously having a "friends" day today ... Then walked into the yard I was feeling slightly wind-swept, my hand was really hurting (even though I had a fleece lined glove on) and DJ was glaring around as the stable was rattling ...
So I phoned Ros and said - "Thanks, but no thanks!"
I am not great riding in the wind, although we get used to it. I just decided that we had been too intermittant with work recently due to the 10 weeks off, and with my hand causing me a lot of grief - I decided, "better safe, than sorry"
So - I set about giving him a good brush ... yes he was one dusty boy, obviously having decided that a mud overcoat was the best protection from the storm force winds.
Amazingly his tail and mane weren't too tangled - so lots of chatting, lots & lots of brushing - and a couple of stops for a cuddle we were done.
He had a carrot and his meal and back out into the wind and to tell his friends about his tough morning .... All together, now ... Awwhhh!!
This was taken last week - but gives you some idea of what a "clean" horse looks like ... LOL
So I phoned Ros and said - "Thanks, but no thanks!"
I am not great riding in the wind, although we get used to it. I just decided that we had been too intermittant with work recently due to the 10 weeks off, and with my hand causing me a lot of grief - I decided, "better safe, than sorry"
So - I set about giving him a good brush ... yes he was one dusty boy, obviously having decided that a mud overcoat was the best protection from the storm force winds.
Amazingly his tail and mane weren't too tangled - so lots of chatting, lots & lots of brushing - and a couple of stops for a cuddle we were done.
He had a carrot and his meal and back out into the wind and to tell his friends about his tough morning .... All together, now ... Awwhhh!!
This was taken last week - but gives you some idea of what a "clean" horse looks like ... LOL
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Date: 2008-03-12 04:06 pm (UTC)Good idea about the hand. I have a headache from a really stressful day, but I'm still going up the stables I think to let the wind blow away the headache and have half an hour of horsey fun. :)
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:22 pm (UTC)Yes, I wished I had been able to ride at lunch time as the wind had died down and the sun was out - sometimes RL is a pain!!
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:11 pm (UTC)Aww... DJ is so fuzzy!
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:24 pm (UTC)Yes, that winter coat is great - if you can find it under the mud!
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:12 pm (UTC)better to be safe than sorry with the hand
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Date: 2008-03-12 05:25 pm (UTC)Yes, his coat is lovely, if you can find it through the mud!
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Date: 2008-03-12 06:49 pm (UTC)As in the icon that I use (which was him last summer) He is a light dappled grey, with silver tail and mane ... although that does change every year ...
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DJ loves rolling - he loves wet weather - and so spends half his time upside down!! So - he ends up mud coloured. In this picture he has a lomg, natural winter coat as he wasn't ridden for 11 weeks while I was injured ... he has then rolled and rolled, then dried - and that's the lok you get!
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Date: 2008-03-12 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-12 07:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-12 10:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-13 08:45 am (UTC)Yes he does get warm if I ask him to do any hard work - but other than that it works to keep him snug. His breed is such that he should be living on the hills in Ireland - a very wet and bleak place
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Date: 2008-03-13 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
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