Photo Friday :D

These Photos have been taken over 3days in the last month. 

17th Oct

 7th Oct

 15th Oct

When the going gets tough, the tough get baking

I had a day, well an afternoon in the kitchen, baking up a storm :D
Here is a snap shot of the baking:

Aunty's box of baking( I baked so much, i thought it not a good idea to keep it all in the house :D )

We had a beautiful sunny day today. so Mama and me went for a bike ride and visited family and friends along the way :) Hopefully the weather sticks to being sunny tomorrow as i need to spend the day out with Chester  tidying(poo picking) the paddock and making sure everything is okay with him before i leave on Tuesday for a few days holi in the Naki. I also need to worm him tomorrow too. I had hoped to get a ginger slice made also but didn't quite get there, so that is on the to do list for tomorrow as well. Sounds like it might be a rather busy one tomorrow, i prefer the busy days thou, gives you a feeling of accomplishment, when you finish the day with lots of things done :D Hope you all have been out enjoying the sun :) 

Just a little Dedication to My Uncle Richie R.I.P 

Rough Translation:

Love is an inspiration

that wells up

like a river that springs

from the tears of the heart

its roots are deep

and when it flows

its roots are deep

and when it flows

it becomes an ebbing, flowing tide

a synthesizing tide

indeed a great tide

Sunshine :)

We have sunshine today YAY! it isn't supposed to stick around all day but i sure hope it does, i've missed it so much! I biked out to Chester this morning, once i got there i gave him a good brush and a scratch, to get all the bits'n'pieces off his coat that had gotten stuck on it. i was halfway thru grooming him when he decided he wanted to lie down, he looks so cute! i think he has a mild case of colic, as he wasn't very interested in his feed, and kept looking around at his belly, but he did eat some of his feed and a little grass, he also refused a banana yesterday so poor boy isn't feeling to chipper. It is quite cute thou because whenever he isn't feeling to good, he gets really smoochy and cuddly :D I am going to put the wormer thru him on Monday, i use the equest wormer and really like the results i get from it, the first time i used it, it seemed to knock him back for a few hours, but after that he was great, im guess it happened that way because he had encysted larvae. I shall leave you with some photos of Chester and Polly in their *new* paddock :)

Mama's Birthday

Today was mama dearest birthday, my present to her this year was a week off work so i have been doing her night job for her this week(cleaning a local office), which i have quite enjoyed. She also had a cuppa tea(Rooibos) in bed :D. We got off to a late start today so didn't end up biking out to Chester which i have started to do on Mon,Wed,Thurs,Sat & Sun, it is a 20 - 30min ride depending on the direction of the wind etc. So Mama and me drove out to Chester & Polly, I feed Chester checked their water bucket gave him a hug and a kiss and left them to it. I became a chauffeur for the day, We drove around all the 'good' op shops(good will shops) while mum browsed and enjoyed herself, i twiddled my thumbs(i don't tend to like rummaging, which is what you tend to do at op shops) But i do enjoy the driving. We had lunch at McD's and i had a yummy mocha, i think i am now quite hooked on them. We went to one op shop and i thought no i'll just wait in the car, but mum did end up dragging me in, and clever me locked the keys in the car oops! Just as well we have a knight in shining armour(My Uncle) who came to our rescue with a spare key :) Tomorrow is a *big* busy work day, but hopefully, if the weather is nice to me, i can spend the day out with Chester on Saturday. I will try to get some updated photos of the paddock and Chester, oh and i also brought a wormer so shall hopefully do that too. I am heading up to the Naki to spend a few days with a friend and help her out with her horse next week from Tues - Thurs so shant forget my camera so i can show off what we get up to :) her blog is here: A Kaimanawa Called Prince I am hoping to get Prince's feet trimmed, him ridden hard for a few days and teach him to canter and jump with a rider, he can do this just needs to build some confidence :) shall be fun, he is a small pony so will be a big difference from Chessie Bear :D

Day off

Well today being my day off, meaning to*day* literally as i work tonight. i thought i could spend a nice day with Chester, grooming him, riding, groundwork etc. But what does the weather go and do...Rain! soooo not fair! I biked out this morning, gave him his feed and a hug, then biked back home. I have no worries about the rain, a little water can't hurt you, its just like having a cold shower, right? Anyway i do have another morning off tomorrow so lets hope the weather is nice! Chester is moulting at the moment, gradually thou, as i have taken his cover off and he has been coverless now for about a month give or take a few days/weeks. He is in a new paddock with lots of grass(rough sea grass not clover or rye) and he has a paddock mate, i can't quite work out who is boss it does seem to change quite often. I shall leave you with a few photos to look at :D

A little late in posting

I had a wonderful ride last Thursday, Just a quick one. I hadn't ridden Chessie bear for a few months being winter, i had done quite a bit of groundwork thou. With it now coming into summer it is the time to get into gear and ride :D so i jumped on bareback with just his halter and lead rope tied around his neck like reins(I never ride in a bit with Chester, he is very soft and respectful just with a halter) I took him for a short hack just a little ways away to see how he would act when he could no longer see his paddock mate Polly, i was so proud of him, he did so well and didn't do anything silly, he was very keen just to hack around and spend time with me :D Aww what a sweet boy. Anyway, we came back into his paddock, which has hills in it, steep ones and not so steep ones, we did a few of the 'not so steep ones first' we cantered up those, then i got really keen and we tried some of the steeper ones which was great fun! There is a flat piece at the top of the hill also so we practiced 'just' cantering. I think i may need to invest in a new saddle i am not sure, as when i ride bareback he is happy and willing to do everything, but with the saddle at the moment(which is a treeless) he doesn't like to lengthen his stride.., hmmm maybe if i just invested in a 'better' saddle pad?? I already have a Old Mac's therapeutic half-pad  with memory foam so can't get much 'better' than that. Before my treeless, i had a Bates Caprilli which we both liked and felt comfortable in so maybe back to that? Or..., i know one of his previous owners had a Isbell Werth dressage saddle on him which is the same brand just a dressage version. But i would like to stick to a jumping or GP saddle as i am not a big dressage rider, although Chester has hidden talents in that area, he apparently is quite the 'dressage horse' his previous owner not the one mentioned before but another(i know he has had alot, poor boy being passed around so much :( )
brought him just as a return to riding, hack horse, but she had a friend come around and ride him once and he was just fair prancing around the paddock doing all sorts of fancy things, im not exactly sure what he did and didn't do as she wasn't a dressage person and couldn't tell one thing from the next so im at a bit of a loss at what he can actually do, but fancy footwork works well enough for me :D I think as a saddle pad i would use a BJ Merino they look soooo comfy :D shall keep you posted(no pun intended) on the goings on when it comes to saddles and changing etc. We have a local show coming up on labour weekend, next weekend on Sun 23rd, The 'Petre Mini Show' Shall hopefully get some pics for you all to oggle at there is a few gymkhanas and other shows going on but unfortunately they are on the days im working :-/

Quote for This Week

"A pony is a childhood dream, a horse is an adulthood treasure." 

~ Rebecca Carrol

Again.., another new header :)

So yet again i have changed my, header. What do you think, change for the better or...? Had a little spare time on my hands so i played around in Photoshop and this is what came out.

Feeding time - Video

Just a Chester Afternoon :-)

Friends, Polly being cheeky :P 

The Grass is greener on the other side.

Again: The grass is greener on the other side :P

Just about got the spot :)

Lazy Saturday Afternoon - Pony Pics :)

Best way to spend a Saturday afternoon: with your ponies :)

Brushed and Loved on both ponies :) 

Took Pol for a spin, well not really... just a walk around with and a small trot, didn't want to do to much or go to far with her feet as they are at the moment after i trim them i will take her for a good ride :)

So i just jumped on bareback with the rope halter, sorry no pics or video's shall try and get some asap.

Enjoy the photos: