Oscar meets the others

Oscar has been in the driveway paddock with Em for the past few days and today he went into the big shed paddock with the rest of the herd. Maddy left on Saturday so it's back down to five horses again - although hopefully I will get around to selling Dee sometime soon. Anyway here are some action shots of the meet and greet...

Mexican stand-off part I and II:

Then the fun begins... Choc of course was the ringleader although Bert (in the blue rug) and Dee (no rug) had a bit of a turn too.


Oscar and Bert do actually get on quite well, so Bertie is obviously just putting on an act in front of the herd. Both of them were meant to go to a dressage day at Woodhill Sands on Sunday - Bert was entered and Oscar was going to go along for a look-see. I borrowed a mate's float on Saturday afternoon and we had a practice load. Oscar loaded fine and Bert did too after one mini tantrum. Problem was on Sunday morning Bert had other ideas and after 40 minutes we still hadn't got him on board. I had also woken up with a temperature, achy and feeling generally crap so it was a bad start to the day... In the end no-one went anywhere and Bert's owner Sarah and I (especially Sarah) just got frustrated. So Bert is in for some float training.

Turns out I have probably got campylobacter (third time!) as well which explains the flu-like clinical signs on Sunday. Not really eaten anything for three days which has made me a bit grumpy but things seem to be getting better and have had a little bit to eat this afternoon that has actually stayed in my tummy, yay!

The garden is coming on too, quite a few peas have sprouted, the lettuces are mostly doing well (there always seems to be one dunce) and we are due to plant some more of everything soon. I bought some mint, basil, capsicum, zuchinni and gherkin seedlings the other day so those are ready to plant, along with dad's tomato seedlings. The mint and basil are already in planters but the blinkin chickens keep walking on them, grrr. The cucumbers have taken a bit of a beating from slugs and bugs, I think only three have survived so far. Bit of a bugger, will have to get some more.

About to lock up the hay paddock too, Mike's cows are having their last rotation through it and then we just sit back and watch it grow. We are locking it up earlier than last year so hopefully this means more hay, which means more $$$.