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AdorableAlice

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Doing the yard this evening I asked OH to go over field with the loppers and wheelbarrow to sort out a crab apple tree that the mares are reaching up to and potentially gorging on the fruit. We don't want any colics do we.

Off he disappears returning sometime later with an empty barrow. Everything OK ?, yes love, they are much happier not having to stretch up............

Give me blooming strength. Anybody want a barrow full of crab apples !
 
:) you mustn't have explained it properly to him :D
Crab apples make a lovely jelly which tastes great with goose. Must go and get some soon before they all fall off the trees.
 
TrasaM said:
:) you mustn't have explained it properly to him :D
Crab apples make a lovely jelly which tastes great with goose. Must go and get some soon before they all fall off the trees.
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You are supposed to be on my side ! he claims I did not say remove them from the horses. Chutney recipes being looked up now.
 
AdorableAlice said:
You are supposed to be on my side ! he claims I did not say remove them from the horses. Chutney recipes being looked up now.
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Lol. It's what my OH always claims when he gets it wrong. You should have seen him try to move a mattress from garage to bedroom last week. Wasn't sure whether to laugh, cry of beat him over the head! Hasn't got a single practical brain cell I'm sure.
 
My dad strimmed the grass verge one year. Complete with my mum's daffodils!

He also took it upon himself to dismantle her old piano when she got a new one...she had a bit of a shock when she went out to tell him dinner was ready and her piano was in pieces...
 
You need a Labrador. I couldn't understand why our crab apple trees at the stables only had fruit on the top branches, until I caught choc lab chewing them off the tree!
 
Honey08 said:
You need a Labrador. I couldn't understand why our crab apple trees at the stables only had fruit on the top branches, until I caught choc lab chewing them off the tree!
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We had a couple of apple trees in the garden, our old Ridgeback used to jump up and down like Tigger to reach the apples once she had stripped the lower ones off :D
 
Arizahn said:
Our labrador chewed her way through the trunk of a young apple tree we had...
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Oh well, I'm doing well then!

No, no serious farting (no more than usual anyway!) The crab apples were probably diluted by the bits of horse poo, grass and all the other crap she finds to scoff at the stables.
 
We heard a crunching noise one day, could not work out what it was till we noticed the ponies with heads in the middle of the quince hedge, so no jelly this year! None of our horses or ponies in the past have ever browsed like the current two do, they try everything they can resch, but have done as great job clearing brambles round the paddock.
 
TrasaM said:
:) you mustn't have explained it properly to him :D
Crab apples make a lovely jelly which tastes great with goose. Must go and get some soon before they all fall off the trees.
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Agreed! A good family friend of ours always gives us some jars of her homemade jams for Christmas and one of them ia a crab apple jelly. It is simply divine with a roast dinner!
 
Must go and get some soon before they all fall off the trees.
What? the geese?Have they been drinking the crabapple liqueur
 
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Another funny one this morning. For a tiny yard we certainly have plenty of fun.

Hunt down the road so all horses have to come in. Friend and I catch at 7am. I hear a scream from box number 2. Get there to find my friend had hung a soaked hay net up, the string had snapped as she heaved it up. She had fallen backwards and sat in a trug full of water. I did my best not to laugh but failed.
 
I find Husbands need VERY clear instructions!. I asked mine to frontline the labs some time ago, usual thing, between the shoulder blades, high up. He did them all on the middle of their chests !. Doh!
 
This has made me giggle. What pray tell did he think the wheelbarrow was for. Did he ask when he brought it back empty?

I do think we need to explain things extremely clearly sometimes. Dan is brilliant when he comes to help me, but my word there is so much knowledge that we take for granted and I only realise it when I ask him to do something I think is really obvious and he does it completely different. His logic is always sound...just devoid of any consideration for horses, lol.
 
Nettle123 said:
I find Husbands need VERY clear instructions!. I asked mine to frontline the labs some time ago, usual thing, between the shoulder blades, high up. He did them all on the middle of their chests !. Doh!
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That and the opening post made me laugh out loud

I'm still festering over the winters day my husband proudly told me he had turned one of the ponies out all by himself....in its brand new Thermatex
 
AdorableAlice said:
Another funny one this morning. For a tiny yard we certainly have plenty of fun.

Hunt down the road so all horses have to come in. Friend and I catch at 7am. I hear a scream from box number 2. Get there to find my friend had hung a soaked hay net up, the string had snapped as she heaved it up. She had fallen backwards and sat in a trug full of water. I did my best not to laugh but failed.
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That sounds awful for that time of the morning! Shower at the yard!
 
Mine kindly offered to bring mine in for me - he caught the wrong one! His excuse - he looks similar (different breed, colour, hogged) and he came over to him so assumed it was him - duh!!!
 
WelshD, I love that !. After a hack I asked mine to turn cob out in his head collar as farrier was due later. Farrier arrived, went to fetch my chap in......he is wearing his bridle minus the reins !!.

Another time we had the vet here to do a two stage vetting I had to nip and answer the phone so passed horse on lunge line to hubby. Vet asked for horse to be trotted in a circle, cue my husband running around in circles, the vet was in stitches !

Bless him, he always helps though.
 
my husband would do something like that as well. I told him not to put my horse out one day as they were helicopter surveying - you guessed it what did he do, although to be fair she did get her revenge. I sent him back up to get her back in again (to be fair I was at work) he was being a tad lazy and decided to ride her back in headcollar and leadrope (have no clue what possessed him as he doesn't ride and she was quite young and inexperience) she galloped all the way back to the stables with him clinging on for dear life - it is the hilliest field you ever could imagine (its in lancashire) with little sheep tracks across the side of the steep incline - and its about a mile long, anyway they both survived unscathed and he told me he just jumped off at the gate and sauntered in with her whistling whilst he went - needless to say he has never sat on one of my horses again.
He would probably say i didn't tell him not to get on ;-)
 
Honey08 said:
You need a Labrador. I couldn't understand why our crab apple trees at the stables only had fruit on the top branches, until I caught choc lab chewing them off the tree!
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Quite! They love helping take care of the apple trees - Breacan yesterday.
He was catching all the apples and then thought Christmas had come when he got this branch to play with.
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AdorableAlice said:
Another funny one this morning. For a tiny yard we certainly have plenty of fun.

Hunt down the road so all horses have to come in. Friend and I catch at 7am. I hear a scream from box number 2. Get there to find my friend had hung a soaked hay net up, the string had snapped as she heaved it up. She had fallen backwards and sat in a trug full of water. I did my best not to laugh but failed.
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Lol i would have had to giggle hehehe, something similar happened at my yard involving my farrier, it was hilarious!

We had a horse who was nasty and you had to be careful going in the field with her, farrier came the other day and my mum had to catch the pony that was in with said horse, so while she went to get pony the farrier took a yard brush to fend off the nasty mare, now picture this, my mum has recently lost weight so her trousers wont stay up, they both enter the field, nasty mare goes for my mum so she turns and legs it holding her trousers up in the process, farrier goes to help, mare turns on him so he retreats backwards and falls straight into the water trough!!!!;)

was so funny, should have caught it on camera! mum helped him out and they eventually managed to catch the pony! needless to say nasty mare now has a paddock of her own lol ;)
 
Me and Tia got caught on the Viking way once (bridle way runs close to us) picking the brambles off the bushes by a bunch of ramblers, they thought it was hilarious....

:p

Tia was picking the bottom ones, I could of course reach the higher ones as I was sat on her....
 
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