I live my horses but I want to take up knitting instead!!!

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(Should read - 'I love my horses!')

Horses... Don't you just love them?

Mine are now both for sale.

Turned them out after feeding this morning and got on with the mucking out. After a while I glanced over at their paddock and my heart skipped a beat. There were no horses in the paddock.

Went to investigate and eventually found them in the middle of a huge thick hedge, managed to get Titchy out, then Genie looked at me, turned, and went through more hedge, over a water filled ditch and jumped a 2'6 barbed wire fence into the farmer's field! I almost had a heart attack, as did Titchy.

Called my YO (I rent a small yard to myself) and she said she would be there as soon as possible, and told me a way through to the farmer's field that did not involve hedges, ditches or barbed wire, so after I brought Titchy in I went to retrieve Genie. Bless her she came to me in a 30acre field and was sound. I had been having visions of finding her with her legs cut to shreds, but there is fortunately not a scratch on her!

YO brought me down some leccy posts and tape to go with my posts, and I have fenced around the hedge line so touch wood it is now sorted. She's owned the yard about 15 years and never had a horse even go in the hedge. She's absolutely wonderful and so helpful. I know the fence is working as I checked it the old fashioned way.... Ouch!

So... Knitting anyone?




(disclaimer: neither of my horses are currently for sale)
 
I always decide knitting is a better hobby when winter arrives! Trouble is who wants to knit in the lovely summer sun when you can go out for a ride instead? Can't ride a knitting needle ;)
 
I am glad your horse are not for sale :D it made me irrationally sad :o I frequently used to find my shetland in the hedge in the winter. He used to hide there as it camouflaged him completely and it would take me ages to find him. I swear he did it on purpose to try and give me frost bite on my soaking wet feet.
 
You can do both (although I would not recomend both at the same time! :) ) If you get some sheep, then you can spin their wool, knit it and make useful warm and stylish garments :) Knitting and spinning are good hobbies for when it is too dark to ride :D
 
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The hedge Her Majesty went through!
 
YorksG said:
You can do both (although I would not recomend both at the same time! :) ) If you get some sheep, then you can spin their wool, knit it and make useful warm and stylish garments :) Knitting and spinning are good hobbies for when it is too dark to ride :D
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Or crochet? Could make a natty string rug?

Seriously, glad both horses are OK.
 
Horses are like drink. Once you get hooked there is no turning back. It is a disease that there is no cure for. I wish I could get into rehab for my addiction. They bring such joy but great sadness as well.
Oh how I wished I had got hooked on stamp collecting and be happy with a rocking horse, but still they draw you in. You try to ignore horses grazing in peoples fields or hacking along a road, but still you have to look and the little voice says 'go on you know you want one'
 
I took up knitting - its a good way to spend wet and cold winters but have now run out of babies to knit for - all nieces and nephews have finished reproducing for a while now!

Though knitting gave me a 'frozen shoulder' which was quite painfull and involved expensive trips to physio!

Winter is now supposed to have ended unfortunately no one has informed the weather! It's officially summer and we are expecting a frost tonight! At some point my girl will come out of her winter holiday and start working again.
 
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