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glenatronIt's been nippy but pleasantly sunny this weekend so as you might expect we've shared what time we could with our beasts.
This was to illustrate a really good little exercise I came up with working with Zorro on Saturday- the concept being that I walk along one rail shadow, Zorro walks along the other, putting about five feet between us. There was nobody around to take pictures unfortunately so I had to use the timer on the camera, which mean't I didn't manage to get a single one where Zorro and I were actually both where we were supposed to be. It's something useful to try if you have a horse who likes to push into your space a little,though, because you can see very clearly if that is what they are doing.
Small Pony is fascinated by clothes. In this case he had grabbed my sleeve and was waving my arm about. It was actually very funny indeed and - as with almost everything Small does - absolutely bless.
Today we went out for a ride on the Punchbowl, which is a big valley not far from the yard. We tend not to go there that often, probably because they normally have cattle or ponies grazing there and we're not sure how the horses will respond, but today we figured it was worth a try. This is on the path up the hill.
More riding through the woods.
Heading over the brow towards the valley.
I meant to get a picture of the view over the valley, which Zorro was enjoying here, but instead I got a crazy impressionist kind of thing that although entirely unplanned is quite an interesting photograph, by my standards at least.
The Punchbowl is National Trust land and has gates and cattle grids on all the trails where they cross over onto it. On the way down the hill I didn't open the gate wide enough and Zorro had to scrape through, of course, the widest bit of him was my leg, which was a little unlucky. It could have been a lot worse though - I lost a bit of skin and I think I'll have some bruising to show, but thanks to long boots and multiple layers for cold weather everything seems to work fine.
This was to illustrate a really good little exercise I came up with working with Zorro on Saturday- the concept being that I walk along one rail shadow, Zorro walks along the other, putting about five feet between us. There was nobody around to take pictures unfortunately so I had to use the timer on the camera, which mean't I didn't manage to get a single one where Zorro and I were actually both where we were supposed to be. It's something useful to try if you have a horse who likes to push into your space a little,though, because you can see very clearly if that is what they are doing.
Small Pony is fascinated by clothes. In this case he had grabbed my sleeve and was waving my arm about. It was actually very funny indeed and - as with almost everything Small does - absolutely bless.
Today we went out for a ride on the Punchbowl, which is a big valley not far from the yard. We tend not to go there that often, probably because they normally have cattle or ponies grazing there and we're not sure how the horses will respond, but today we figured it was worth a try. This is on the path up the hill.
More riding through the woods.
Heading over the brow towards the valley.
I meant to get a picture of the view over the valley, which Zorro was enjoying here, but instead I got a crazy impressionist kind of thing that although entirely unplanned is quite an interesting photograph, by my standards at least.
The Punchbowl is National Trust land and has gates and cattle grids on all the trails where they cross over onto it. On the way down the hill I didn't open the gate wide enough and Zorro had to scrape through, of course, the widest bit of him was my leg, which was a little unlucky. It could have been a lot worse though - I lost a bit of skin and I think I'll have some bruising to show, but thanks to long boots and multiple layers for cold weather everything seems to work fine.
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Date: 8 Dec 2008 10:03 (UTC)