Sales and demolitions

[glenatron]

There is evidence that we may have found a new home for our big blue bus, which we have been looking to do for a while now, this is good news- especially for my credit card company. Or for me, I guess, as they're the ones profiting from charging me interest.

Now the people who came over to look at it are Janet and Trev, friends of ours from clinics over the last few years and as they live in a clay soil area and everything around them is deep mud at the moment they thought if they were heading this way they might as well bring their ponies over and go for a bit of an explore on our relatively dry and free-draining sandy paths. The ponies in question being Fin, a little grey Connemara, and Brian, a tall and lovable fresian. They also brought along their dogs, a truly charming rottie and a beautiful but manic Northern Inuit who looks amazing and has an attention span that rarely stretches as far as seconds. The boys had been dentisted in the morning and we were reluctant to take them out so we came along on foot and I got a few pictures...


If Janet sees something jumpable, she'll probably jump it.


Brian leaves plenty of space in case the logs leap up at him...


Brian: SPLASHING! I LOVE SPLASHING!!!
Fin: Dude, WTF?


Setting off for a big old canter along the firebreak. I love how hard Brian appears to be concentrating here. He's also totally eclipsing Fin who was just the other side of him.


Those dogs are packing a whole lot of happy right there.


There goes Team Fin.


Charging off up the hill. Then they charged back to meet us. There was clearly a lot of charging about that these guys needed to catch up on...

When they got back we stowed the ponies in the barn and went off to look at the lorry and go for a little drive. Hilarity ensued as everyone else from the yard turned up to put their horses away and either didn't notice at all that the big tall black horse and small grey pony weren't Zorro and Small or said hello to them then did a massive double-take. Brian charmed everyone by being a very friendly and snuggly kind of a fresian who mostly likes to be friends with people.

Comments

[penella22.livejournal.com]

Boy they're your dopplegangers aren't they? Well, minus the dogs on your end.

Looks like lots of trompoing and stomping fun. And muddy. It looks muddy.

Fingers crossed that the lorry sells!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

It is a bit muddy, but the sand means it's pretty soft silty mud. The clay mud that they get where they're from is a great way of injuring a horse's tendons so there really hasn't been much canter time for them. And Janet and Trev do like to canter...

[harnessphoto.livejournal.com]

Ok... seriously looks like so much fun... I wanna go!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

You would get on great with Janet as well, put her on a horse and she's pretty much ready to go rampaging- endurance, hunts, XC, team chasing, her and Fin just go charging through it all...

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for Zorro's none-evil twin! Who's more well-behaved out of Small and Fin?

Gorgeous ponies, lovely photos and amazing scenery. Baaaahh.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Depends on the situation- last year they did a sponsored ride together and I think Fin had brakes for the first five miles and Small had them for the second. Small is a bit calmer in general and does kisses more readily, I think he moves a little bigger too but Fin is hella fit.

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

hope you sell the truck.
fin & brian are adorable. so nice being able to take the horses (and dogs) places to chill out for a nice ride.

[velessa.livejournal.com]

Looks like great fun! =)

[tom909.livejournal.com]

Now you are scaring me - those guys are coming down here in the summer, and I'm a bit worried 'my quiet little rides' around the moor might be somewhat compromised. And what the heck are my horses going to think about people who go that fast, and jump things. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Now they've visited us and experienced our local trails once, I'm pretty sure that our horses will be entirely used to it by the summer...

[skye-ds.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, both Connemara and Friesian. The Connemara looks a lot like my SE tank of a mare, Mirage.

Speaking of which, I am so proud of my 4 yo Friesian stallion. He gave my 4 year old niece her first horseback ride, and treated her like she were made of eggshell.

This weekend, he did mounted combat against my big SE Arabian mare Mirage, while she was in heat. He did not so much as make noise at her, much less anything else.

He is exceedingly friendly and snuggly and loves people. And most people don't realize he's a stallion until I tell them. This is not due to lack of stallion presence. He has an Elvis level of stallion presence. This is because of lack of bad stallion behavior.

:)