However have managed to ride Oscar twice now since the flu hit me and he has been a doll. Almost toooo cruisy!! Had to remind him to wake up a bit the other day, with a wee tap from the schooling whip. Decided I was working way too hard and wasn't going to last much longer and it was time he took some responsibility.
Ellie and I bought some poles each - so I now have 4 new poles in the paddock ready to work on our jumping with. Ellie splashed out and got ten for her paddock which we have already test-ridden. We've been working on some jumping exercises in a book I got - the exercises look deceptively simple but are way trickier than they look. Highlights that we have a complete lack of bend on the right rein. Which I kind of knew anyway but hopefully these exercises will remedy that.
I've entered us for our first event for the season - a dressage day with the Waitemata Riding Club on Sept 12th. Hoping he will be more settled at Woodhill Sands this time, the other two times we've been there he was really tense and it wasn't much fun to ride. Third time lucky?
Ben has been busy on the farm chopping gorse and making a track that we'll be able to ride through in the far paddock that is mostly bush. Haven't seen it properly yet - I can walk down there but I don't reckon I'd have enough puff to get back up the hill just yet!!
And we sold six of the heifers we bought in autumn last year, plus two more and on the list for homekill, so all eight will be gone shortly. Then just have the 22 left and we'll sell five of those by the end of the year hopefully. And then get some replacements next autumn. That's the plan anyway!
We're also going to fert the hay paddock in a few weeks, hopefully will bring a bumper hay crop. And depending on how money goes will also fert the house paddock and maybe the two main paddocks I use for the horses, just with some lime.
Not many exciting pics lately, but here are a couple of the cows mowing our lawns for us
And Oscar all ready for some work (and looking half asleep...)
