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sleepsy_mouse and I took a few days off. On Thursday we went visiting in the rain, which was good fun, and tried to do some shopping for one of my birthday presents ( after about seven years we figure I could probably use a new riding hat ) but couldn't find anything good. Fine visitings nonetheless.
On thursday evening we had band practice and a potential drummer came along. I kind of hope he's our guy cos he can play and he seems like he'd be very easy to get along with. That would complete the band and we could really be something special I'm sure.
On Friday it was dry enough to ride a bit so we took the ponies out in the arena and did some schooling. They both did really well- Small stretching down and softening better than he has in ages in the arena, Zorro offering some great yielding stuff and hardly bucking at all.
On Saturday we spent a bit more time with the ponies- I took Zorro out for a short ride up the hill. He thought about taking me home so I took him home and put him to work some. After a couple more back-and-forth sessions we went on without him having second thoughts and had a very pleasant little circuit.
Heading up the valley, on the path that was repaired last year.
"I don't know if you had noticed, but it is kind of steep up there."
This part is totally flattened by the camera. If I had been holding it level you wouldn't be able to see the top of the track here at all. Zorro's back feels pretty awesome when we hit this point.
So this little guy, a roebuck with the velvet on his antlers, was just lying down in the forest. He watched us pass in a very unconcerned way. I'm pretty sure had I not been on horseback I wouldn't have seen him at all- either he would have gone or I wouldn't have had helpful mr furryears to point him out.
Saturday night we headed out to Cardiff and met up with a bunch of people in the Barfly, drank some beer ( or JD and coke insleepsy_mouse' case ) and danced to some classic indie. Good times.
Sunday wasbaddynono and nohotashes' wedding. What an amazing day. If you're going to do the other kind of wedding to the informal party kind that we had then having top hats, tailcoats and canes, a church, a castle and a carriage to take you between the two, that's the way to do it.
Everyone looked amazing, it was a great opportunity to see some kick-ass friends we meet way too infrequently and wedding snowball fights are awesome fun. Quote of the evening must be from Lucy: "Do you want to be the person who ruins my wedding dress by throwing snowballs at it? ... Because I totally don't care about trashing your suit."
Sadly we had to be off before the late night indie disco fun began because if we were to survive the drive home we needed to leave relatively early, but it was a truly amazing day and really good fun. Also about time, given that Lucy and Gwyn got together at least a year beforesleepsy_mouse and I even met...
sleepsy_mouse and I took a few days off. On Thursday we went visiting in the rain, which was good fun, and tried to do some shopping for one of my birthday presents ( after about seven years we figure I could probably use a new riding hat ) but couldn't find anything good. Fine visitings nonetheless.On thursday evening we had band practice and a potential drummer came along. I kind of hope he's our guy cos he can play and he seems like he'd be very easy to get along with. That would complete the band and we could really be something special I'm sure.
On Friday it was dry enough to ride a bit so we took the ponies out in the arena and did some schooling. They both did really well- Small stretching down and softening better than he has in ages in the arena, Zorro offering some great yielding stuff and hardly bucking at all.
On Saturday we spent a bit more time with the ponies- I took Zorro out for a short ride up the hill. He thought about taking me home so I took him home and put him to work some. After a couple more back-and-forth sessions we went on without him having second thoughts and had a very pleasant little circuit.
Heading up the valley, on the path that was repaired last year.
"I don't know if you had noticed, but it is kind of steep up there."
This part is totally flattened by the camera. If I had been holding it level you wouldn't be able to see the top of the track here at all. Zorro's back feels pretty awesome when we hit this point.
So this little guy, a roebuck with the velvet on his antlers, was just lying down in the forest. He watched us pass in a very unconcerned way. I'm pretty sure had I not been on horseback I wouldn't have seen him at all- either he would have gone or I wouldn't have had helpful mr furryears to point him out.
Saturday night we headed out to Cardiff and met up with a bunch of people in the Barfly, drank some beer ( or JD and coke in
sleepsy_mouse' case ) and danced to some classic indie. Good times.Sunday was
baddynono and nohotashes' wedding. What an amazing day. If you're going to do the other kind of wedding to the informal party kind that we had then having top hats, tailcoats and canes, a church, a castle and a carriage to take you between the two, that's the way to do it.Everyone looked amazing, it was a great opportunity to see some kick-ass friends we meet way too infrequently and wedding snowball fights are awesome fun. Quote of the evening must be from Lucy: "Do you want to be the person who ruins my wedding dress by throwing snowballs at it? ... Because I totally don't care about trashing your suit."
Sadly we had to be off before the late night indie disco fun began because if we were to survive the drive home we needed to leave relatively early, but it was a truly amazing day and really good fun. Also about time, given that Lucy and Gwyn got together at least a year before
sleepsy_mouse and I even met...