There have been a few problems this week with getting onto the thing Simon calls the "Web". It is working at the moment though. If is going to keep breaking I may have to catch one of the spiders that live in my stable, this will be a big help I am sure!
All of the hay is safely cut, dry, squashed into bales and stacked in the barn under a cover. And all before the heavy showers came.
Rain made all the dust sticky.....so I have rolled vigorously in it. As a result I am very very dirty. However it is Saturday tomorrow so don't think it will last......I might get a bath. Last week I had to have one before I went out for a trot....Simon said I was too scruffy to be seen with in public! I have a feeling it might be a 2 bath situation again this week!
Friday 26 July 2013
Friday 19 July 2013
19th July
It is quite hot already. I am mostly sleeping in the shade. And drinking plenty of water.
The grass is cut for hay. Stuart did this yesterday with a big green tractor. Next he will come and turn it over and throw it about, maybe twice! Then he will come with more big machinery to pick it up, squash it into blocks and tie it up. Simon will then stack it in the barn. BUT then in the winter they hay comes out again, gets untied are shaken loose in the field for us to eat. A lot of work to ultimately put the grass back where it came from! However I am glad that they take the trouble otherwise we would be a bit hungry in the winter!
Oh... and to get the big machinery in Simon says we may need to pull up a couple of fence posts......I am the one for that job! Though Simon has said that he wants to be able to put them back in.....not usually possible after I have removed them apparently! (How many has he broken this year with farm machinery? More than I have playing with them I think!)
But anyway, to all persons making hay whilst the sun shines. THANKYOU from all of us horses!
The grass is cut for hay. Stuart did this yesterday with a big green tractor. Next he will come and turn it over and throw it about, maybe twice! Then he will come with more big machinery to pick it up, squash it into blocks and tie it up. Simon will then stack it in the barn. BUT then in the winter they hay comes out again, gets untied are shaken loose in the field for us to eat. A lot of work to ultimately put the grass back where it came from! However I am glad that they take the trouble otherwise we would be a bit hungry in the winter!
Oh... and to get the big machinery in Simon says we may need to pull up a couple of fence posts......I am the one for that job! Though Simon has said that he wants to be able to put them back in.....not usually possible after I have removed them apparently! (How many has he broken this year with farm machinery? More than I have playing with them I think!)
But anyway, to all persons making hay whilst the sun shines. THANKYOU from all of us horses!
Thursday 11 July 2013
11th July
It is cooler this morning. But going to get warmer.
Ed went out in the trailer last night and came back quite late. I don't go in the trailer...I only go to places I can trot to.
The hay looks like it might be ready to cut. If the weather stays like this we might see Stuart soon with all his tractors and bits of machine to make the bales of hay! Simon won't be looking forward to stacking it though!
Ed went out in the trailer last night and came back quite late. I don't go in the trailer...I only go to places I can trot to.
The hay looks like it might be ready to cut. If the weather stays like this we might see Stuart soon with all his tractors and bits of machine to make the bales of hay! Simon won't be looking forward to stacking it though!
Wednesday 10 July 2013
10th July
Once again the sun is shining.
I have had a good roll in the dust. The effects of this are less spectacular than a roll in mud, but it is pleasant all the same! And if I do this enough today I may get a cold hose down again this afternoon...that would be nice!
In the meantime I have shade, water and a daft thing to keep the flies out of my eyes and the sun off the pink bit on my nose....so I have all I need! Sleep time I think.........
I have had a good roll in the dust. The effects of this are less spectacular than a roll in mud, but it is pleasant all the same! And if I do this enough today I may get a cold hose down again this afternoon...that would be nice!
In the meantime I have shade, water and a daft thing to keep the flies out of my eyes and the sun off the pink bit on my nose....so I have all I need! Sleep time I think.........
Tuesday 9 July 2013
9th July
It is hot and sunny again.
Last night Simon hosed me down with cold water which was very nice...(though I am rather hoping for a walk down to the ford on Locks Lane for a paddle one evening whilst it is hot!)....I also had my mane shampooed and conditioned with pomegranate conditioner....now I was not sure what a pomegranate was but apparantly it is something you can eat....so why do you rub it on your hair? That said it has made my mane (which is very very short at the moment) very soft!
Last night Simon hosed me down with cold water which was very nice...(though I am rather hoping for a walk down to the ford on Locks Lane for a paddle one evening whilst it is hot!)....I also had my mane shampooed and conditioned with pomegranate conditioner....now I was not sure what a pomegranate was but apparantly it is something you can eat....so why do you rub it on your hair? That said it has made my mane (which is very very short at the moment) very soft!
Monday 8 July 2013
8th July
It is hot and sunny! It was very hot yesterday. I had a nice trot out in the cart with Simon on Saturday...but it was too hot yesterday to go anywhere. I have moved into a field with lots of shade though so I can get out of the hot sun if I want too.
It would appear though that it is not summer everywhere. It is winter in Australia! (Good morning Bridie!) So,,, not only is it night there when it is day here.....it is winter there when it is summer here...how confusing.
I have not been in my stable for a while, but I have moved stables. Ed is going to have my stable because he can see over the door better than I can, and I am going to have the stable that Bubbles had. Bubbles is very happy in Letcombe Regis and has some new friends too.
Well....I must go and have a sleep in the sun before it gets too hot
It would appear though that it is not summer everywhere. It is winter in Australia! (Good morning Bridie!) So,,, not only is it night there when it is day here.....it is winter there when it is summer here...how confusing.
I have not been in my stable for a while, but I have moved stables. Ed is going to have my stable because he can see over the door better than I can, and I am going to have the stable that Bubbles had. Bubbles is very happy in Letcombe Regis and has some new friends too.
Well....I must go and have a sleep in the sun before it gets too hot
Friday 5 July 2013
5th July
I escaped this morning. Not from the farm....just from the paddock I was in. I could have done this at any time during the night but chose to do it as Simon was walking past to get my breakfast. Just to make sure he would notice. I am in a different field now. I don't think Simon was that impressed by the condition of the fence around the field that I escaped from though. If I had fingers and thumbs, I could offer to mend it.....but then if I had, I could have let myself out how Simon does it and not broken anything in the first place.
Bubbles is staying in Letcombe Regis now, and not coming back. She has decided that Richard and Tara will make good tame persons and so she is going to adopt them. Funnily enough I lodged briefly in the same field for a few weeks once....and I think I let myself out of that one too!
Anyway it is sunny and warm today and looks like it will be for the weekend too, so enjoy it wherever you are whatever you are doing. I am going to have a bit of a sleep..........
Bubbles is staying in Letcombe Regis now, and not coming back. She has decided that Richard and Tara will make good tame persons and so she is going to adopt them. Funnily enough I lodged briefly in the same field for a few weeks once....and I think I let myself out of that one too!
Anyway it is sunny and warm today and looks like it will be for the weekend too, so enjoy it wherever you are whatever you are doing. I am going to have a bit of a sleep..........
Wednesday 3 July 2013
3rd July.
It is a bit grey today! Simon seems to be over the worst of his sneezing, which is good.
A new horse has come to live with us. He is called Ed, he is black and white AND brown, and he is very tall! Bubbles on the other hand will be moving out, she is going to visit someone today to see if they get on together!
I have had a message from Bridie in Australia. I don't know exactly where Australia is....Simon says it is too far to trot there so I obviously haven't been. So Good Morning...or Good Evening to you Bridie (Simon says it is night time there at the moment.....I don't think I'll even try to understand that!). No I think Good Morning.....no-one would get up in the middle of the night to read my musings!
A new horse has come to live with us. He is called Ed, he is black and white AND brown, and he is very tall! Bubbles on the other hand will be moving out, she is going to visit someone today to see if they get on together!
I have had a message from Bridie in Australia. I don't know exactly where Australia is....Simon says it is too far to trot there so I obviously haven't been. So Good Morning...or Good Evening to you Bridie (Simon says it is night time there at the moment.....I don't think I'll even try to understand that!). No I think Good Morning.....no-one would get up in the middle of the night to read my musings!
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