Oscar has been going great guns, and the lesson we had on the Monday after the dressage day pretty much cemented in my mind that he is the right horse for me. We did some jumping, which is not really my thing at all - or so I thought... we started off doing some trot poles and while I was trit trotting around my trainer, Laura, started fiddling around with the poles and next thing you know they were getting higher and higher. We got to the dizzying heights of about 35-40cm but the best thing was that Oscar just cruised around really happily. He was as forward as I asked him to be, if I dropped back then he did too but when I rode him forward we had a lovely bounce through a couple of grids followed by (get ready for it) left canter at the end of the grids!! Yahooooo!!
Then we got a left canter again on Wednesday night at adult ride. Asked for canter over a pole and he leaped over the pole which I wasn't expecting at all but then cantered left for a good 10-12 strides. Clever pony :-)
And to top off a great week me and Ellie went to the forest on Saturday and we had two lovely canters through the forest. I forgot how much fun that was. Bowling along happy as larry and when we stopped cantering he just cruised along again, wasn't all razzed up about it. Only time he did get a bit full of beans was on the second canter when we ended up in front - but still completely controllable and nothing to worry about at all.
He is really coming along well with all the work we've been doing on schooling him to what the different rein aids are as well and we can now move his shoulders over really easily. Love my pony!
We also have a new addition to the family - a wee black and white kitten who is only about 7 weeks old. She is very cute and full of energy, bounces around all over the place. She and Sunny are still not too sure about each other and she got a smack from him the other night when she was playing with his tail a bit too vigorously... Anyway here are (lots) of pics of her:
The day she arrived home - pooped after exploring
Snoozing on the computer desk
Watching Sunny
Rrrooooaaawwwww
Rrrooooaaawwwww
Little poser! Watching birdies outside
And a cute one of Sunny, all curled up in a platter - the perfect size for a cat as it turns out!
The garden is coming on really well and we have had our first harvest of peas, yummmmm. Also had the first lot of carrots, and the zucchinis are days away from being ready. The tomatoes are coming along slowly, not sure what is going on there. Ben put some more manure around them the other day so hopefully that gives them a boost. The capsicums are doing well and one plant has a little capsicum growing quite nicely on it.
The first lot of peas with the day's eggs
And tomorrow is Christmas day so it will be all go around here. We have 13 adults and 3 kids coming over, so it'll be a very full house. Not sure how the wee kitten is going to handle it so may have to shut her in her room when everyone is here if it's all a bit much for her. My niece is very excited about seeing her (she is animal mad) so she will have lots of cuddles tomorrow I suspect.
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