the power of mint and the big 4

It was another mob visit today, TW Boblet and the dawgs. The weather was a bit tricky, it was sort of seemingly sunny with some kind of cold wind thing going on. Not of that really mattered though cos we just got down to the hay and yeast feast. Nom.

Anyhoo TW offered reiki but no-one was in the mood. Dilly suggested maybe she focus on reiki-ing herself rather than us cos we are cool beans so TW said she would make a note of this for later. Then her and Dilly had a little pootle in exchange for some mints and grass on the track. As an extra reward TW covered her in lice powder too! Lol.

Mikka wanted a go next so she went for a walk down the track and did some nomming too, I was shouting my head off the whole time but no-one cared.

Next TW said I could have a go, I was feeling good and relaxed so she tacked me up and popped on in exchange for a mint. We are having girth issues again and some slippage, gah. TW had her cool head on today and just kept making me face the gate. Then I walked up to it. And got a mint. Interesting. We did it again. Another mint. Hmmm. Tw said walk to the first bush. So I did. Mint! Awesome. Back to Boblet. Walk to the second bush for a mint? Yeah go on then. Back on the yard she said have you done enough or do you want another mint? So I walked up to the second bush all on my own, had a mint and came back where Boblet gave me another. Ha!! Like this game. TW popped off and we had a stroll to eat some cow parsley and then I went back to the girls. Good work, TW was pleased and so I was I.

Last was Jez. Headcollar on and led round the hay bit perfectly, out of the field and TW and her did a bit of bareback meditating in the sunshine.

Even Boblet was impressed. And that is saying something.

reiki

TW didn't hang around much this morning, just chucked us hay and yeast and popped off. Rude. It was a tad nippy though so we just settled down to the nom-athon.

After she went Boblet and the dawgs appeared and nobbed about a bit and then they popped off too. We kept nomming.

Anyhoo, just as the hay munching was coming to an end TW reappeared followed by the reiki lady. WTF we muttered and stood and waited to see what was happening. Aha TW had been on her reiki course and was coming to practice. Nah I don't think so lady, we ain't your guinea pigs. Every time TW tried to scan our chakra's we wondered off. In the end I made everyone bog off down the field. Mikka was a bit interested but then Boblet reappeared with some mints so she buggered off to him. Poor TW!!

Eventually TW gave up and reiki lady went home so TW and Boblet had a picnic and we had a run round to celebrate our fun. Then we nommed some grass and Jez did some browsing the edges for various tree bits just to make TW a bit more paranoid about lammi.

A bit later on the arab lady and her girls came. They bought their dawgs too. The wierd staffy was wearing a bleddy hi viz coat. She thought she could boss us about so we had a great time chasing her about the field until TW dragged her off and gave her to Boblet. Jeez wierd puppy. Bracky was full on after her.

The the girls and the cobs did a bit of pootling about and then I went for a pootle too. All very good. A bit more mucking about and then they all went to the pub leaving us to nom more hay. 

Competition

TW, Boblet and the dawgs arrived together this morning and the sun was shining. TW got us a nice big bale of hay and we nommed and nibbles yeast.

Boblet says that Madam Lyra is getting too big for her boots so needs do a bit more something. TW chucked my muddy blue rug down on the ground and waited. Lyra was watching out the corner of her eye. Headcollar on and then a slight wrestle away from the hay. Lyra was intrigued. Wierdo. She stamped and pawed on my rug a few times and then walked over it and said "piece of piss", had a scratch and went back to the hay. TW was impressed.

Next Mikka did a teeny bit of stuff, she was keen too. Jez obviously wasn't and eventually had a smacked bum threat and then all of a sudden she realised she could be a good girl too. Not without scaring TW that she might have lammi though. Yeah cos that's the reason she plants her feet! Good work Bella.

Anyhoo, TW was feeling confident by this point and I was nice and relaxed so she took me up to the stable where Boblet was playing with his quad and tacked me up. No bother at all. I let her get on when she dropped her stick and then I decided I was too scared to leave the field. Bad move. TW and Boblet had a row cos he said he was too busy to help her. Lordy she screamed some bad stuff at him. I was even more scared after that! Not really! Boblet eventually walked out of the field and I followed him nicely all the way up the track and we practiced stopping and starting. Boblet reckons I've lost my confidence and need some practice to get it back.  Then we turned round on our own and started back up the track but the nobby horses who act like they've never seen horses before started twatting about so we came back and walked up and down by the stables instead for a bit. It was all good. TW said I was a very good boy and blew me some balloons up for a treat. That was nice of her. No-one was bothered about the balloons apart from the dawgs.

Next her and Dilly pootled about all over, nice and relaxed. Dildred works well in exchange for mints it seems. Even when Lyra knocked a barrow over to scare her she stayed cool. me and the arab girls were so jealous of the mints and Dilly even got some grass too ffs. Boblet says maybe TW could ride Dilly more if she is being good. Gah!  As soon as Dilly was back in the field Mikka said she wanted another turn so she went out and had a saddle on and did some grazing while TW drank her pop. TW bought Mikka today, I reckon Mikka was pleased to know she is staying with us forever. Cos when she tried to batter me in the field and TW got in the way she restrained the kicking and biting . The noises still made me and TW shit ourselves though. She must love TW i reckon.

snow in spring

The weather has been wierd. It has mostly been sunny and baltic with some snow and sleet. very wierd.

Yesterday I had my second session of nomming different stuff and sniffing things. It was interesting and I felt less sad this time and more relaxed. TW was frozen solid lol. She came back in the evening and did a teeny bit of groundwork with me, Jez and Lyra but I was a bit grumpy. Mikka ran off!

Today she came up twice again. The first time we had hay and another groundwork experiment. I was a very good boy and she was super proud of me. Jez was just Jez and Mikka and Dilly were perfect. Lyra is being a ratbag and pretending she is the boss. TW was surprisingly strict again. Today Lyra stole Mikka's hay, tried to kick me and tried to barge through the gate. Tut tut.

Anyhoo, TW came back a few hours later with the yeasty stuff so we had a nom. TW went and sat and had a chill and I picked her a dandelion which made her smile. Then Dilly got the gate open and bogged off to a big of grass and Jez followed. Jez was a good girl but Dilly took a while to be convinced to come back.  TW and Jez did some meditating in the sunshine and then she pootled off again. She's not doing a very good job of not working this week.

choices

So TW came up again yesterday evening while the sun was still shining but the weather was cold. Brack was stood all on his own at the top but still he wouldn't let her catch him but they had some cuddles. Then TW wondered down to the trees and sat and watched us and listened to music until she got too cold. We mostly ignored her. On the way back Brack was still on his own so TW played him a bit of Crowded House. I think he must have liked it cos he decided to follow her up and wait while she caught him. Then he got covered in the deosect and came running back to us. He likes to do things in his time.

Today it was windy and rainy. We had some hay and then Mikka went into the stable and had a tantrum in her purple fleece and pretended she was scared of the trailer. TW was surprisingly strict with the Monkey. Then a physio lady came and did some treatment stuff on her and said she had a sore neck from being a stress head and sore withers and back probably from a pinchy saddle. Mikka pulled some reet good nippy faces it was all good fun to watch. The physio lady says her stifles should get better but she has brushy back feet. Mikka has some exercises to do and then she is back in 4 weeks.

I got mostly neglected today but TW said my tummy seemed ok. Boblet is on his "they need discipline" rant again but not sure TW listens to him. We shall see.

romance

Happy anniversary to TW and Boblet. They've been married for one whole year today. This is apparently something to celebrate. And tbh as much as TW doesn't really need a man cos she has me, that Boblet is a useful dude.

Yesterday we got two bales of hay cos they were going away for the night but they were back at the yard with the dawgs by 11am this morning. We all ignored TW for ages and kept grazing further and further down the field. In the end she had to walk down and convince us to come up by walking ahead of us and then waving hay at us. It was all part of a cunning plan. We had a nice wee hooly on the way.

When we were nomming she got to work. First Dilly out and while she was distracted with a hay net, TW wiped her all over with the smelly deosect. Then it was my turn, I stood perfectly while she sprayed me all over. TW was very proud. Then Jez had the spray too cos she's also a brave one.

Next it was Misty's turn and by this point TW looked like she was gonna pass out from the fumes. Looks like Misty has popped out another abscess too so that's also good news so the pocket rocket can tear about again.

Anyhoo, Mikka was refusing to be caught so TW shouted Boblet to help with the baby Lyra but TW couldn't get her out the field. So Boblet did it. I think I might have heard TW growl under her breathe. Boblet was told to hold Lyra while she got wiped all over but Lyra was a bit scared. My favourite bit was when Lyra dragged Boblet off and ran into a wheelbarrow, shot forward and reared and looked like she was going to land on TW's head. She didn't though and just clonked her wrist instead. It's a bit lumpy now. So Lyra sort of got a half wiping and managed to get some grass nomming and mint eating in while she was at it.

Mikka spotted the mints and decided she would go next as long as she could barge Boblet over when he wasn't looking. This made TW laugh out loud. Quietly. She was good for her wiping really though apart from wanting to lick the stuff. Wierdo. Boblet got a bit cocky at this point and said he was gonna catch Bracken too. Obviously he didn't.

After the deosect action we all just chilled in the sunshine and mooched in the field. Jez wanted lots of cuddles and Lyra had some scratches and picked her feet up for TW to apologise for the other stuff. Then we had another little hooly in the sunshine and went off to the woods to chill.

Scandalous

Houston we have a problem. TW has acquired a taste for drinking beer on a school night and mostly watching lots of UFC fighting. She is also doing more work than we agreed. Therefore we have done feck all this week. And for the first time in a million years she did not come up before work. WTF?

Anyhoo, apparently it is 3 years since I had the shitty colic. This makes me and TW sad cos -

she shouldn't have let Bee and Frankie leave me
She shouldn't have moved me to a different yard with mean rules
She shouldn't have believed the back lady who said I was fine when I obviously wasn't

But on the plus side she had paid a gazillion pounds trying to make me feel better which includes collecting a whole herd of ponies and buying me some land. One day I am sure we get back out hunting and endurancing.

Today she arrived at the field and about 3.30 looking like a bag of shite. She said she had a pressy for me. I hoped it was lice treatment for the fleabags but thats not all arrived yet. But she had bought me a bag of burdock root. Nom. Me, Jez, Lyra and Misty nommed some down and Mikka had a wee nibble. Then she sat in the car eating biscuits while we ate the late hay.