Another weekend ends

[glenatron]

I keep coming out with phrases like "only six weeks left in this decade!" For some reason it rarely cheers people up.

Yesterday we had really stormy weather- gales, torrential rain, the whole lot. Not too many trees down, considering, but it was exceptionally blustery. So much so that when we went to bring the ponies in, Donk appeared to have been picked up by the wind, blown clear over Zorro's section of the field and into the end area which is currently being rested. The wind hadn't seemed strong enough to pick up a 16.2 warmblood even with a camp rainsheet.

This morning he was very excited to go out and sure enough the moment the halter was off, he cantered down the hill, cantered up the hill and then did this:

Why yes, he was once a grade B showjumper...


Most of the rest of the morning I dedicated to the fine art of going out for a ride on my pony while the weather stayed pleasant. It was bright and sunny and generally kind of alright.

We're on a different common from usual for most of this, so there's a bit of slightly different scenery and lots of autumn colour. The slightly-hard to recognise black thing about half way along is a crow having a bath in the puddle in front of us. I felt a bit bad about disturbing him, but he didn't seem to mind- about twenty seconds later we had a bit of a spook ( you may even be able to spot that if you watch closely ) which I think was caused by the crow coming back to have a bath in the puddle behind us and bringing a friend. Zorro's mistrust at blackbirds appears to have been extended for the day to birds that are black.

In spite of our anxious moment a couple of weeks ago, however, he really didn't mind a greyhound coming charging up to us, circling us and then standing looking at us wondering what on earth he was supposed to do at this point. In fairness it was a pretty friendly greyhound but I was very glad that after being anxious about a dog previously that hadn't turned into a thing.

Also at one point we stop so Zorro can show me the kind of place he'd like to live.

This common is right behind my parents' house ( in fact we dropped by there on the way past for an apple) so these are the trails I grew up mountain biking along and I just love being there on my horse.

Comments

[sabr.livejournal.com]

Aww, I love your riding video. I love the steady clip clop of his feet, which is a slower more deliberate movement than that of my flighty Arabian, and the rhythmic squeak of the saddle leather. Bliss!

[penella22.livejournal.com]

Yes, good video, I agree. And yay for accents!! I always love watching people's videos from other regions because it's always amazing to me how many different ways one language can be spoken. (Now if someone from texas would join my f-list and start posting videos from there...)

Nice scenery...all the trees here are leaf-less already and everything has gone November grey and depressing. Funny, that whole decade ending thing hadn't really occurred to me yet.

[serennig]

Haha. Go Donk!

[dreamswept.livejournal.com]

Nice video.

I'm wondering though ... how are you filming? I'd guess you've got a camera capable of doing video shorts, but wouldn't you want to have both hands free in case something dire happens?

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I just use a regular camera. Most of the time I'm riding one handed with my rein bridged anyways and I keep the camera looped around my wrist so if anything does happen I can drop it instantly and have my hand free.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Slower is certainly the word :)

The saddle is so squeaky. If I'm listening for birds or things scuffling around in the bushes it can be really hard to hear anything over it. I love it though, it's a really nice piece of kit.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

No no no! Don't go, Donk! Stay in your own field! It's nice there!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I've been surprised by the leaves if I'm honest, normally it only takes a gale at this time of year for the trees to all reliquish them but this year there are still a lot on the trees even after a couple of really intense storms.

[shiva-matimbres.livejournal.com]

i for one am happy to be done with this decade - the teenies or whatever we call them are going to be awesome I reckon

[spirithorse21.livejournal.com]

Haha! Donk and several of our naughty ponies would get along great. They could start a pasture jumping party!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

They could well be better news I think. There have been some great years in the zeroes but also some totally lame ones.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Show him a jump in an arena, though, and it's another matter. He nearly had the legs jumped clean off him a few years back and he's not enamoured with the idea of going anywhere near a jump now...

[serennig]

The grass is greener on the other side!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately this is literally as well as figuratively true.

[spirithorse21.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor guy. I hate it when people do stuff like that.

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

LOL. I don't know if it's just the angle, but that photo of Donk is the weirdest ever ... I want to stick a horn on his head and paint a trail of sparkles in his wake.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It is taken looking at him across and down the hill. I think being able to see the little white bit at the corner of his eye probably makes him look more weird too...

[oifonly.livejournal.com]

blimey...I'd not thought of the 'only six weeks left in this decade' but ow you metion it that's pretty cool....

excellent vid and pics, as always! :D

How is Smallster getting along?

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Small Smalkin is getting along pretty well actually, he went out for a short ride on Sunday. Only a very short one but a pretty big deal for sleepsy_mouse - I didn't really mention it because I figured she might want to post about it herself, but I don't know if she will...