Mellow day at the yard

[glenatron]

We spent today pretty much entirely at the yard, which was really nice after a lot of hectic time over the last few weeks. We played with the ponies in the school, tidied their field a bit and generally made ourselves busy with necessary tasks for the whole day.


Thought experiment: Instead of saying "stable" say "cage" when referring to your horse's indoor accomodation (only works if you have a horse.) Zorro obviously has no complaints about being in a cage. He was actually waiting for me to get on with things so we could go and play in the school.

A couple of pictures from last weekend, when certain Small ponies decided they would rather have their hay than be caught and if they couldn't have their hay then they would damned well run around flat out in protest. Which they proceeded to do, while sleepsy_mouse, Zorro and I watched in some bafflement.

By running in arcs across the hill he used the downhill to pick up speed and the uphill to slow down at the other end.

Pony in flight! He was trying to flag his tail but his rug was a little heavy.

After about ten traversals of the field in full gallop he decided he had used up all his excess excitement and waited to be caught and come in. Still one of the most adorable ponies and I'm still ever so glad that he is going to be able to stay.

Comments

[harnessphoto.livejournal.com]

love that shaggy horse of yours.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Me too.

He says he's planning to drop his coat any day now, but he's contemplating keeping the beard as the goat look is apparently very 2008.

[harnessphoto.livejournal.com]

in that case, ozzy will be very much in fashion this year. cool :)

[tempusxfugit.livejournal.com]

Might I ask what camera you use? Your pictures- the action ones, even- all seem to come out nicely.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It's a little Canon Ixus 850, which I got for christmas last year. It comes in at a decent resolution (good enough to print A4 should the need arise) and it gives a 28mm-equivalent wide angle. Good camera but I'm currently feeling that it would be nice to have something with a bigger lens so I could play with all those nice depth-of-field effects that you can't really do with a dinky little digital compact. Also not having any control (I can find) over shutter speed can be annoying, but it takes very sharp pictures, there's no noticeable delay on the shutter if you're not using flash and the battery lasts a decent amount of time. No complaints.

[tempusxfugit.livejournal.com]

Squee, Canon loyalty. X3

I understand totally! Only this camera I have (Canon PowerShot A540) now has a retracting lens. The....two or three before it were compacts. And I love this one more than any before it. It was obselete when I got it last April, but it's still a great camera.

[http://users.livejournal.com/blitzen_/]

great pics. i love the light in zorro's 'cage', it seems super warm & inviting. i love those days when you spend all day out with the horse. i've been doing that a bit latelyl (well, not all DAY but certainly 5+hours) - but that seems to be cos i move so effing slowly in 40deg heat.

and small pony looks thrilled! i'd love to let beej out in a big paddock - i reckno he'd have heart failure first tho.

[ownedbyhorses.livejournal.com]

Go pony go!! I will need to post a pic of my Pandora for you. Perhaps tomorrow morning as the weather will be nice in the a.m.

I'm glad he is able to stay - and glad you had a day to relax! (with horses)

[foalstory.livejournal.com]

heh. you have a zebra in that first photo. it's his hidden side :)

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to say he doesn't have Zebra attitude...

[evil-c.livejournal.com]

Zorro is a secret zebra me thinks.

Small is so adorable. Maybe its something about the colour but white ponies are always full of character and cureness.

[penella22.livejournal.com]

Hooray for shaggy creatures! And adorable ponies that get to stay!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It would have broken all our hearts if he had to leave.

Except maybe Zorro and I think even he'd miss having a small good-natured pony to bite.

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

Why do everyone's horses but MINE run around in fields! Where do you buy these ponies?!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Hey, you had videos of yours running about in the field just the other day.

For maximum aesthetic benefit pony should really have waited until a) we had poo picked and b) he didn't have a rug on.

Still ever so bless.