Ron's Weekend Report

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Dear Readers...

Saturday was a bit of a write off really, Mum was busy entertaining grandma with a garden (or something like that) and Tom had to stay in because the vet had turned the voices in his head off for a bit and poked his legs with sharp things on Friday and had told grandma that he had to stay in so he didn't get them dirty.... He obviously hasn't met Tom before. He can get dirty just by thinking about it! When Granddad turned us out Tom hit the dirt quicker than a very very quick thing!

Then today Mum and OH (i suppose one of these days I ought to call him dad, but it's a habit i guess) took me to the place where all the jumps live. There's about a million jumps, and 4 outdoor schools, an indoor school, and an all weather galloping circle thing, and a little cross country course. It's a lot of fun normally.... But today Mum made OH and I do stupid circles, and then straight lines... One moment I'm not straight enough, then the next I'm too bendy! A lad just can't win!!

We went into the indoor school to practice a stressage test as all the jumps were enjoying the sunshine today, and I saw the most handsomest horse in the world - he looked a lot like me. I wanted to stand at his end of the school all day and just admire his manly buttocks, his muscley legs and neck and his unusual markings... OH laughed at me when I called out to this handsome stranger, and my distress at leaving him upset mum so much that she was crying! How mean can one man get?!

Anyway, a few minutes later OH had got cross as I wasn't really concentrating so we went outside and got to do some girly jumps - you know the sort... fall over at the slightest waft of a hairy fetlock... - and Mum actually let us do some reasonably big jumps, but she did make one of them a bit scary by putting fillers in front to make it a spread at the front of a double... I hate it when that happens, I panic about not having enough room for my ego between the two fences so don't jump the first one properly and the pole falls off :(

When we'd played about in that school for a while we went onto the cross country course and mum let us go and have a play about. I didn't think OH was concentrating at the first one, so I threatened to nap back to the trailer until he was! Hehe! that got him back for the indoor school! Then mum had us doing twisty turny things between the fences, making OH look where he was going so that I knew too.

By the time we got to the start of the gallops I was wound up and raring to go, so mum said we could go flat out down the first straight bit as long as OH balanced us round the corners and once we'd done one lap we walked the next one to calm down! Ha. what does she know, I just ignored OH as we galloped down to the first turn and round that, and the next one, and the one after that.... then ran out of steam and dropped back to a canter at which point OH made me walk. I was absolutely lathered and blowing out of somewhere I shouldn't have been blowing from :eek:

So, it was a very lovely day really, and when we got home Tom had been watching grandma doing the gardening so he'd hardly missed me for a change!

Problem is,... I just can't get the handsome stranger out of my head! :D
 
Brilliant!
I must admit that Tom's troubles took a bit of interpretation, I haven't read any of your recent posts, so an explanation would be very welcome. Hope he's ok now.
 
Dear Ron, Whatever is the problem with Tom? :eek: How did they turn the voices?

We had a nice day, but I don't understand why I am the only one to do any work! The two big numpties got to stand in their stables, just having their manes and tails prettied up (mind you I know they are more in need of being made pretty than I am :D ) While I got to be a film star. The only problem is that Auntie A is not very good with the camera and I was made to walk in staight lines for ages. This is apparently since we did a strssage test and I was accused of walking like a banannanana. I have still not met one of these things by the way.
Grandad came to see us yesterday and he always brings treats for us, we all love Grandad :)
Hope the hansome stranger is not a stranger for too long.
Love the Current Appy
 
Pearlsasinger said:
Brilliant!
I must admit that Tom's troubles took a bit of interpretation, I haven't read any of your recent posts, so an explanation would be very welcome. Hope he's ok now.
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Mum says - Tom has bone spavin in his hocks, and had to have steroids injected into the joint on Friday to try to help him stay more comfortable - he will never be a field ornament so the longer we can keep him busy (even just hacking out) the better.
He's not an easy horse to have around - he's like a child with ADHD and OCD, he thinks he's human and behaves like an overgrown pony, he can't be left on his own for more than a couple of hours, and if on his own can't be in, he can't be stabled, even with company, for more than 9 hours or he box walks, you can't leave anything in his stable or it gets thrown at you, or drowned in his water barrel (and that includes any offending bits of hay)!
Ron is the complete opposite. He's in love with his stable and his field, he doesn't care if he's out or in, alone or with company, busy or not. As long as he has food and water he's more than happy!
Both boys are 17 now, but for whatever reason Tom hasn't aged as well as Ron. You might want to put it down to conformation, but Tom's is technically better on most counts. You might want to put it down to work load in the past, but Ron's hunted in the UK and in Ireland since he was 3, Tom's pretty low mileage. It's just one of those things!

Ron says - me? 17? nooooo I'm a 3yo racehorse, what are you talking about mum?!

YorksG said:
Dear Ron, Whatever is the problem with Tom? :eek: How did they turn the voices?

We had a nice day, but I don't understand why I am the only one to do any work! The two big numpties got to stand in their stables, just having their manes and tails prettied up (mind you I know they are more in need of being made pretty than I am :D ) While I got to be a film star. The only problem is that Auntie A is not very good with the camera and I was made to walk in staight lines for ages. This is apparently since we did a strssage test and I was accused of walking like a banannanana. I have still not met one of these things by the way.
Grandad came to see us yesterday and he always brings treats for us, we all love Grandad :)
Hope the hansome stranger is not a stranger for too long.
Love The Current Appy
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Thank you TCA - Being a film star sounds a bit boring if you're only allowed to walk in straight lines! Mum tried to give me a bananannannaaaa a few weeks ago, but it was too slimy for me, Tom tried a bit and said it would have been ok apart from it felt slimy between his teeth, so he spat it out on aunty Ro. :D:D Your granddad sounds nice, can he come visit me?

Tom is now laughing at me, apparently the handsome stranger was me, but not me really, but a reflection in a shiny thing.... I think he's lying. But then - how can there be two horses as handsome as me?:confused::confused: Real or not, he was very handsome :D More horses should look like him or is that me?!
 
Dear Ron,

I think you'll find that the horse you saw in the square place was actually you, in a mirror! I learned about mirrors some time ago, and unfortunately, the horses you see in them aren't real horses. On the plus side, they can't kick you or bite you!

Dear Current Appy,

I think I've explained about bananananas before. They're yellow and bendy. I get compared to one a lot, but I don't particularly like eating them, even though they are sweet. Perhaps you would like to eat one?

Carrots,
the Spooky Pony
 
Dear Ron and Spooky,
I know about shiney things. I look in Windows when we hack through the village and I see me! :D
I have been trying to get the Person I Own to give me a banananana, but she is VERY resistant, just says I bend like one! I would like to meet one and possibly eat it, but my ambitions are thwarted!
We don't have enough Grandad to share, it's bad enough having to share him with the two big numpties :eek:, he was MY grandad first. I don't mind sharing hin with the Old Lady though, 'cos he is her Dad and she has known him for a very long time (they are both old)
 
Hi Ron,

I had a real breakthrough this weekend, mom thinks she might have found someone to have or at least help with Annoying, either permenantly or for a bit, so I will get to go to fun places too a lot more. Our new yard has a shiny thing, mom calles it a mirrra, I can see her in it so I guess the very pretty mare she's sitting on could be me.

We had no stables this weekend as the Belton horses were in them, Belton isn't very far away so if they're all Belton horses I don't understand why they couldn't use their own stables but anyway, we got to camp a bit earlier in the year than normal and mom put loads of rugs on me so I was nice and warm, it was good fun, we've only been here a week so I was very brave not to be scared in the dark.

Then she washed me on sunday, full hose pipe jobbie the lot, brrrr it was cold, but loads of rugs again till I was dry and then I got to JUMP!!! Oh I do hope this person likes Annoying and wants to play with her for a bit, I do like having mom to myself a bit more.

I like the sounds of where you went, we have some where a bit similar that I am hoping mom will take me to soon, and there is some mumbling of xcountry next weekend. . . I'd better not drop the old dear or she won't take me again.

Apples
Beau
 
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