New Adventures

[glenatron]

There is loads of stuff to post about at the moment, but time is short so a couple of significant points:

A week today I go to Australia. My first visit to the southern hemisphere at all. I won't be touristing it up so much there- the goal is to spend a couple of weeks riding with Steve at Silversands. I'm really looking forward to it, aside from the parts where venomous snakes, scorpions, spiders and emus are fighting one another for the right to bite me first. I don't know how many venomous emus there actually are, I just hope they are less common that drop bears. Much like my Texan adventures I shall endeavour to post about my daily adventures.

Yesterday I agreed to buy Cash. It's a bad time to be buying a horse, but the little guy was looking very likely to go in a bad direction if I didn't and for the horse he is I got an extraordinarily good deal on him. He'll be staying where he is until I come back from Australia and then coming to stay with us. Hopefully we'll be able to put some miles on with him and find a really nice home for the little guy. He deserves to have good things.

Oh, and buymeaclue? I think you might have been right...

Comments

[bunting.livejournal.com]

Enjoy Oz!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, you were just there. How many times did you get bitten to death by venomous beasts?

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Have a good trip! Take good notes...!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping there will be plenty of notes and pictures to share...

[fleefloodle.livejournal.com]

Enjoy Australia, and avoid poisonous bitey things.

Congrats on the new pony, new ponies are always fun :)

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

This one is lovely, I'm looking forward to having him to stay...

[dreamswept.livejournal.com]

Good on getting Cash. Sometimes never is the right time for buying a horse (ask me how I know) but you gotta do it.

Don't forget the vegemite Down Under.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Well, we have marmite here which is much similar. One thing that people from the US seem to find hard is that actually marmite or vegemite is the natural and correct accompaniment to Peanut Butter. Jam has no place being near it.

[serennig]

My biggest fear of Australia are the venomous things that seem to dwell in every corner. But I still want to go...

Hope you have fun. And hope you have fun with Cash.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

I think it's going to be really interesting. Seems like people who go/live there are relatively unmolested by the relentless venom, so I hope I may survive...

[skye-ds.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your new pony-child :) Wind to your wings and safe journeys to Silver Sands, wing-brother.

*hugs*

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[oifonly.livejournal.com]

coo, good luck with avoiding the multitude of venomous beasties in Oz. Have you read Terry Pratchett's 'The Last Continent?' ...

I'll look forward to hearing all about your adventures with Cash when you get back! He does look like a sweetie.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

He's superbless. Hopefully he'll have a nice visit with us and come out of it as a pony who is well suited to life with people.

He certainly likes hugs and scratchies, now he is starting to learn to accept them.