![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glenatronSaturday was a glorious day, blue skies, bright late-autumn colours on the beeches in the valley, more than a little glorious for a walk to the yard.
Looking across the valley from the path. Last week I rode Zorro down here.
A beechwood corridor near the bottom of the valley, very pleasant to walk or ride along at any time of the year.
It was obviously pleasantly warm after a rather rainy night and the Exmoor ponies were taking advantage of the sunny weather to bask in their field and have a sleep. Absolutely cute.
It was also the perfect day to go for a ride, no doubt.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleepsy_mouse brought in Donk to do a little schooling with him, he was his usual self while she did some groundwork so she bridled him up and hopped on. After two steps she jumped off again because he was actually shaking. We took his tack off and put him back into his box where he proceeded to lie down flat out and groan, still shaking ( not quite a shiver or a tremble, but a very clear shake ) from head to toe. It was a bit scary.
By the time the vet arrived ( out of hours call-out time again ) he was back on his feet and we'd been walking him in the school for a while. His head was low and his breathing was rapid but he wasn't as bad as he had been before. He did have an impaction but also his temperature was a little high and she thought there may be an underlying infection as he has no history of colic.
So that rather scuppered our riding plans. He was a lot brighter by the time we left, however, and after an evening at our friend's house, just stepping out for their village's locally famous firework display, he was positively perky.
Today he was pretty much back to normal so he went out - albeit in a more snuggly rug than normal - and seemed quite happy in his field. Small Pony was most unimpressed aboutsleepsy_mouse giving someone else attention and expressed this with an amazingly dynamic display of airs above the ground interspersed with highly collected trot, passage, spins and circuits of flat out gallop. I think we can be cautiously hopeful that he is beginning to feel a little bit better. It's so great to see him like this having been ill one way or another since June. Two sickly ponies, is perhaps too many to have at once.
Zorro remains, as yet, undaunted by whatever curse afflicts us, so the two of us went out for an adventure this afternoon under a much more grey and gloomy sky.
The Silver birches still have a bit of colour to them and the bracken is quite bright and russet. As it dries the bracken ( mildly carcinogenic at the best of times ) becomes more toxic. Zorro tries to grab a mouthful at every opportunity.
Looking off towards the Hogs Back ridge in the distance, the end of the North Downs and ( as far as I know ) the ridge that gives Surrey its name.
It was a pleasant, easygoing kind of a ride, but I misjudged the timing a little so we ended up heading up the lane in rapidly encroaching gloom, by the time we reached the yard it was almost totally dark. Certainly a good time to have a lot of hi-vis on.
Looking across the valley from the path. Last week I rode Zorro down here.
A beechwood corridor near the bottom of the valley, very pleasant to walk or ride along at any time of the year.
It was obviously pleasantly warm after a rather rainy night and the Exmoor ponies were taking advantage of the sunny weather to bask in their field and have a sleep. Absolutely cute.
It was also the perfect day to go for a ride, no doubt.
sleepsy_mouse brought in Donk to do a little schooling with him, he was his usual self while she did some groundwork so she bridled him up and hopped on. After two steps she jumped off again because he was actually shaking. We took his tack off and put him back into his box where he proceeded to lie down flat out and groan, still shaking ( not quite a shiver or a tremble, but a very clear shake ) from head to toe. It was a bit scary.By the time the vet arrived ( out of hours call-out time again ) he was back on his feet and we'd been walking him in the school for a while. His head was low and his breathing was rapid but he wasn't as bad as he had been before. He did have an impaction but also his temperature was a little high and she thought there may be an underlying infection as he has no history of colic.
So that rather scuppered our riding plans. He was a lot brighter by the time we left, however, and after an evening at our friend's house, just stepping out for their village's locally famous firework display, he was positively perky.
Today he was pretty much back to normal so he went out - albeit in a more snuggly rug than normal - and seemed quite happy in his field. Small Pony was most unimpressed about
sleepsy_mouse giving someone else attention and expressed this with an amazingly dynamic display of airs above the ground interspersed with highly collected trot, passage, spins and circuits of flat out gallop. I think we can be cautiously hopeful that he is beginning to feel a little bit better. It's so great to see him like this having been ill one way or another since June. Two sickly ponies, is perhaps too many to have at once.Zorro remains, as yet, undaunted by whatever curse afflicts us, so the two of us went out for an adventure this afternoon under a much more grey and gloomy sky.
The Silver birches still have a bit of colour to them and the bracken is quite bright and russet. As it dries the bracken ( mildly carcinogenic at the best of times ) becomes more toxic. Zorro tries to grab a mouthful at every opportunity.
Looking off towards the Hogs Back ridge in the distance, the end of the North Downs and ( as far as I know ) the ridge that gives Surrey its name.
It was a pleasant, easygoing kind of a ride, but I misjudged the timing a little so we ended up heading up the lane in rapidly encroaching gloom, by the time we reached the yard it was almost totally dark. Certainly a good time to have a lot of hi-vis on.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 8 Nov 2009 23:14 (UTC)God, I can't believe Donk was sick! You guys really have had a long string of ill health in sleepsy's horses. Glad to hear Small is finally looking a bit better, and that Donk is recovering.
I love the sleeping ponies picture, and it amazes me continually how different your countryside looks from mine...
no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 00:19 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 00:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 16:11 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 03:58 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 16:21 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 11:01 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 16:10 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 17:12 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 21:26 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 19:03 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 20:43 (UTC)no subject
Date: 9 Nov 2009 20:57 (UTC)no subject
Date: 10 Nov 2009 12:52 (UTC)Gorgeous photos as always!