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Archive for November 2011
Congratulations to Mollie…
18/11/2011 by shaun.
..because she passed her BHS Stage 1 exams last week. She got the results yesterday. Whoop, whoop!
We also are patting ourselves on the back because we finished off the dairy today and tonight have Sally, Diamond, Jess, Guiness and Big Misty in the dairy for the night. That means the other pens are less busy.
And Hamish and my training of Heidi is coming on. We tried Heidi joining in the Wednesday 5.30 lesson for ten minutes. She was good but a bit in awe at the other ponies in the lesson and didn’t listen to Hamish’s legs much. So today he rode her again but just with me in the arena with a lungeing whip and used it to make Heidi move off the leg. She was fabulous and really forward going.
Finally, Princess Tiger Lilly had a bath and a blow-dry today. After spending a load of time playing in the mud we needed to get her clean, so it was into the bath and shampoo and conditioner followed by the hair dryer on her. She is now fluffy and clean.
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Dairy diary part 2..
14/11/2011 by shaun.
..as we are almost there with the dairy. It has now been emptied and I finished removing the rubble today. Tomorrows job is to chop up and move the wood left fr burning and then get it strawed down ready for the ponies using it. Whoop whoop! Its looking really great.
The indoor arena lights went on today and they were so bright after the glass fronts were cleaned. We washed down the walls, cleared all the equipment out and then soaked the surface so it was an actual pleasure to ride and teach in.
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Winter has arrived..
13/11/2011 by shaun.
..at Over Dalkeith Stables because the horses and ponies are now all coming in at night. That means that we are getting up each morning and feeding all the horses and mucking out 13 boxes and turning out all the ponies. The great news is that the changes we made this year have really helped saved us some time. The automatic water trough in the front pens saves us loads of time, and the fenced runs to and from the pens is great for saving at least two hours a day.
And the really fab news is that Baby George was ridden for fun by Freya last Saturday and was so well behaved we thought we would try him in a lesson this Saturday. So Freya rode him this Saturday in her lesson and they went out for a massive hack. He was angelic.
And so we thought we would have to finally get someone on Heidi’s back. I have been lungeing her and long reining her and so today we tried Hamish on her back. Her are our three videos of what she did…
..then..
..and finally…
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Getting ready for..
04/11/2011 by shaun.
..winter is the name of the game now. I bought a great big angle grinder on Thursday and started cutting the steel pipes out of the dairy. We still have a long way to go to have it ready for ponies but we are getting there. We have started to replace the broken light bulbs and light fittings so that we can actually see what we are doing as the night draws in and I have finally found someone with a big enough ladder to fix the broken light in the indoor school. That is planned for next Tuesday or Wednesday. And at the same time the light shining on the apron is going to be repaired so that we can actually mount using the mounting block in the light.
Saturday is going to be a busy day and then on Sunday we are looking forward to introducing polocrosse to another group of pony club riders at Gleneagles.
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No more filling..
02/11/2011 by shaun.
..up the water buckets in the pony pens. Hurrah! Because today I fitted a self filling water trough. Ages ago now I knocked a hole through the wall between the school and the pens and dug a trench and connected a water pipe to the water and put it through the wall and into the pens. Today I bought the trough and connected it.
This is what it looks like..
I reckon that it will save at least half an hour each day in winter. Yippee.
Tessa even helped me fit it…
Now I just need to finish the dairy. Especially after finishing the fenced runs from the pony field to the pens yesterday.
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