Lazy Sunday

[Cinnamontoast]

I’ve done almost nothing today bar dog walk, shopping, school work, washing (ok, I did some stuff!) so slouched round the house, mostly with a dog on my knee.

Puss cat doing his leopard in a tree impression then Bear who believes he should be on my knee at all times but then would prefer not to be disturbed, thank you very much.



What have you been up to with your packs today?

 

[Clodagh]

Ours are being unbearable, from shooting pretty well every other day to nothing. So I did some hide the bear training and tried to wear them out with walking. It takes them a good few weeks to switch off. Love your pics. 😊

 

[twiggy2]

Walked the dogs, cleaned out the kennels, cleaned out the ducks (a new closable door was made in the duck house as himself crawled in the tiny door to clean them out this time and decided the current door was too small for people), made a round pen for the ducks, did some training with the collie pup, chopped lots of wood, went to the pub, prepared pheasants/woodcock, skinned and prepared a hare, watched a film and ate dinner.
It felt like a quiet day but written up there it oops lie a reasonably busy one.

 

[Keith_Beef]

No lazy Sunday for me. Normal lesson in the morning, and when I got there at about 10h, I found that "introduction to jumping" at 14h on 10 Feb had been turned into "advanced jumping" at 14h that day (3 Feb), and that I'd been allocated the same horse for both morning and afternoon. This is the lazy, workshy lump who chucked me off a few weeks ago, and who I got again last week.

So instead of being a small group of relative novices, we were a group of quite varied ability.

One way that the instructor worked around this, was to have us all ride over the same obstacles, but have the more advanced riders put one hand behind their backs after getting lined up for the approach, and advising novices to grab a handful of mane just before take-off.

Another thing she did, was to raise the height of the second obstable or for both of them, and ask the advanced riders to go around a second time at the new height; then she'd lower the bar for the next variation...

Except that at one moment, she shouted out the names of three horses she wanted to see go around again and among them my horse, so I set off around the arena. I came around to the approach, got the horse up to canter, then the instructor saw me and started calling out "NOT YOU! NOT YOU"... too late. Jumped over the first obstacle, but having a tight grip on the mane with the left hand, I couldn't manage to keep the horse aligned with the centre of the second one, and he ended swerved off to the right until his nose was against the upright post. He stopped dead, but I stayed on.

"Why did you come around again with the bars still up high?"
"You called out for us to come around again; that's what I did. If you're not ready for me to come around and jump again, don't call out to me to do it."

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Walked the dogs, cleaned out the kennels, cleaned out the ducks (a new closable door was made in the duck house as himself crawled in the tiny door to clean them out this time and decided the current door was too small for people), made a round pen for the ducks, did some training with the collie pup, chopped lots of wood, went to the pub, prepared pheasants/woodcock, skinned and prepared a hare, watched a film and ate dinner.
It felt like a quiet day but written up there it oops lie a reasonably busy one.

Bonkers busy day!

 

[oldie48]

OH and I took Stanley for a very long walk in the sunshine, the ground was frozen and it was cold but beautiful.The arena stayed frozen so Rose had a day off and I sorted out riding gloves, I've several pairs of leather ones that had got dirty/gone hard so I set about renovating them (with some success). I could, of course, have done something much more useful but I am feeling very lazy ATM and spent the rest of the day finishing Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, which I thoroughly recommend.