well i'm now getting alot more adjusted to nights, and now feel like i have a bit of energy to do things.
have started to sort out alot of the ex's stuff in the garage - wells its been 3 years and after voicing it several times she has not come to collect it all. its sad in some ways because i know this stuff has memories in it for her but if she doesn't want it what can i do ? i have decided to keep some of the really special stuff and send it to her brother at some point, just to take some of the guilt away from me. however on a more positive note i'm really happy that its all going, i am sorting things to go to charity and recyling what i can - again just to make me feel alot happier.
its strange to see photos of this person who took me to the worst point in my life, after everything i think that i am really starting to let go of things now, if i see a photo all i can see is a person who i don't know - dunno if that makes sense, perhaps i thought that i knew her, however after everything that happened her true self came out and the person i thought i knew just disappeared.
oh well i can't say that i'm unhappy about it all as it lead me to meet sara, so i'm very happy about it in some respects.
again as i said earlier haven't done much with vinur this week, but we clipped him a week ago, for the third time in his life, the first time he was clipped he was very unsure and just let us do it, last year he wasn't happy about it, but this year it went extremely well.
we did lots of friendly with the clippers then did lots with the clippers on, and then slowly clipped him and retreated when he need us to. we started with the areas where he would be most happy with us clipping so his shoulders and neck (didn't do a full clip just the underside of the neck to his chest) then very slowly clipped his chest, he wasn't sure about this so i stopped and did lots of friendly and then back to friendly with clippers on.
it was a big thing for him as we got lots of chewing and we did what we could to reward him with lots of carrots, scratches and just nothing.
i think that we have hopefully set ourselves up for success for when we need to clip him again.
as for the rest of the week i did very little due to me being dead, however yesturday after a very normal horse car boot ( where i sold an old halter and rope before even getting it out of the car) we have introduced the yard owners 1 and abit colt in to vinurs field. the colt took alot of time to catch and to lead out the field (very little interaction with humans - something we hope to work on a little) and we introduced the two together we watched for quite some time vinur and this colt meet properly in a field and not over a fence. so now all fingers crossed that these two get on and vinur can help the colt with his insecure feelings.
måndag 28 september 2009
tisdag 22 september 2009
right well i´m back after my hols and lots has happened since then
we went to sweden to go on a course by Eyjólfur one of the the horse masters of iceland, and his lessons were very interesting, i very much like how although he works soley with icelandics, he isn´t closed minded and shuts off everything and everyone who is slightly different.
it was interesting how principles and techniques used with cutting horses can be used with icelandics.
something that i was quite humbled by was that i went out for a ride and Eyjólfur said that he was impressed that I was riding in just a halter.
i also had a lesson with lollo and found it to be very interesting, i rode a horse called totte, it was an excellent lesson as i got to try not only the pure clean gait of an icelandic but i was also able to disturb the gait so that i could feel how different gaits can start to develop in the gait that you are in. i.e. how you can have a pacey tölt. i´ve since had a play with vinur with this new knowledge and could feel how it was wrong - however as he was out of training it was very difficult to infulence him back into a clean gait.
i can certainly understand how gaited horses are considered to be on a different level to dressage horses. i also think that it is weird and fantastic how such a complicated horse can be used just for hacking and their real abilities never used. in my terms it would be like having a 3 day eventer and just going round the local lanes. but it fantastic that these little horses have such ability and potential and aren´t focused on one particular aspect with the rider and horse becomming highly strung.
it was also nice as lollo commented on my seat and my feel of the gait, so i am now quite happy because ive not had a propper lesson for years and never on this type of horse.
oh i almost fogot to write that i had a good go at flying pace, which was like really good, felt like my innerds were being re-arranged but was really good, again comming back to the different league of horse it amazes me how you have to give little adjustment aids to adjust the gait to make it pure.
right now since i had´ve been back i have got to moan. the apprentice professional predator has just changed bit again. she has a 4 or 5 year old very green horse and only had him less than a year and shes changed bits (that i know of ) 3 times since she got him. it pains me to think about him and how she´s is going to destroy him. i can´t watch and try to avoid them as much as possible. dont know what breed he is but he has got the ability to do a very very very bad pace, obviously pace is two beat like trot and so this little lad is going into this bad pace and the girl thinks that its trot and is trying to rise to it.
we went to sweden to go on a course by Eyjólfur one of the the horse masters of iceland, and his lessons were very interesting, i very much like how although he works soley with icelandics, he isn´t closed minded and shuts off everything and everyone who is slightly different.
it was interesting how principles and techniques used with cutting horses can be used with icelandics.
something that i was quite humbled by was that i went out for a ride and Eyjólfur said that he was impressed that I was riding in just a halter.
i also had a lesson with lollo and found it to be very interesting, i rode a horse called totte, it was an excellent lesson as i got to try not only the pure clean gait of an icelandic but i was also able to disturb the gait so that i could feel how different gaits can start to develop in the gait that you are in. i.e. how you can have a pacey tölt. i´ve since had a play with vinur with this new knowledge and could feel how it was wrong - however as he was out of training it was very difficult to infulence him back into a clean gait.
i can certainly understand how gaited horses are considered to be on a different level to dressage horses. i also think that it is weird and fantastic how such a complicated horse can be used just for hacking and their real abilities never used. in my terms it would be like having a 3 day eventer and just going round the local lanes. but it fantastic that these little horses have such ability and potential and aren´t focused on one particular aspect with the rider and horse becomming highly strung.
it was also nice as lollo commented on my seat and my feel of the gait, so i am now quite happy because ive not had a propper lesson for years and never on this type of horse.
oh i almost fogot to write that i had a good go at flying pace, which was like really good, felt like my innerds were being re-arranged but was really good, again comming back to the different league of horse it amazes me how you have to give little adjustment aids to adjust the gait to make it pure.
right now since i had´ve been back i have got to moan. the apprentice professional predator has just changed bit again. she has a 4 or 5 year old very green horse and only had him less than a year and shes changed bits (that i know of ) 3 times since she got him. it pains me to think about him and how she´s is going to destroy him. i can´t watch and try to avoid them as much as possible. dont know what breed he is but he has got the ability to do a very very very bad pace, obviously pace is two beat like trot and so this little lad is going into this bad pace and the girl thinks that its trot and is trying to rise to it.
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