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Hestar og aftur Hestar Hestar og hestaferðir--- Myndir: Ingólfur & Karin |
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23.05.2012 23:50First foalWell, it looks like Vordís listened to me and decided to give birth to her foal a bit earlier than expected. When we went to have a look at the mares in the morning, there was something small and brown outside the fence of our pasture. A foal! It was easy to see it was Vordís foal, as Þokkadís cannot give this colour and Vordís was really worried inside the fence. After getting the little lady back to her mum, Vordís ran off with her. Well, it will be like that the next days till we are allowed to get closer to her. Bread of course will help ;) The filly is a baypinto, with very small white markings on her body (just a small spot), small socks in front and stockings in the back. We are very happy about her looks and are now looking for a fitting name.    20.05.2012 23:42So little time to write, too much to do ;)Well, there has been a lot to do since we went to "Æskan og hesturinn", riding school three times a week, shoeing, trying to organise the summerstay of our horses, thinking about the coming foals and so on. Ingólfur and Negla were competing in Akureyri last weekend and made it to the B-finals in tölt, which is a quite good result for their first sportscompetition. The other members from our ridingclub Grani made it to the finals too, which is a very good result! Next weekend, the next competition is waiting for them and maybe I'm gonna join, you never know. I attach a few pics of our horses today. As you can see, the bellies of the mares are getting bigger and bigger, just a question of time till they want to get rid of their foals ;) Vordís is in foal with our Farsæll Þokkadís (Maggi's mare) is in foal with Farsæll too. Perla gets a foal from Djákni frá Hellulandi. The father of Aldís' foal is Þeyr frá Holtsmúla 05.05.2012 21:33Æskan og hesturinn 2012Friday afternoon 14 excited kids and their horses met in Saltvík to go to Akureyri and take part in the show "Æskan og hesturinn 2012". They were accompanied by 12 grown-ups, 6 cars, 4 horse- and 1 luggagetrailer. When we arrived the first thing to do was to unload the horses and allow them to roll over in the paddock. Then we cleaned the stable, put the horses inside, unloaded the back of Svanhildur's car and sorted all saddles, bridles and helmets. Afterwards we went to the restaurant Greifinn where we had a very delicious pizza buffet. There was just one thing left to do before we could go and relax: Training! That went very well, eventhough the younger group was a bit disappointed about not being allowed to play their favourite horseback game in the huge riding hall. Well, that has to wait. What would a great trip like that be without getting ice-cream? We went 4 to buy ice-cream for everybody and I think there wasn't very much left, when everybody was finished. The highlight of the night happened at 3.30, when we could hear a loud ripping noise followed by silence and then an even louder noise and the sound of a deflating air mattress. Bensis's mattress simply couldn't bear it any longer  After breakfast most of the kids went to the swimmingpool, while the grown-ups bought the last props. Soon it was time to get the horses ready and decide which riders would go to the opening ceremony. Dagný Anna, Thelma Dögg, Hrund, Katrín, Elín and Hjördís were the chosen ones and did their job very well. Our younger group was number 6 in the program and it was hard to keep them calm as they were really excited to perform. Sigrún, Hjördís, Katrín, Garpur, Berta and Kristján did so well and we are all really proud of them. During the break in the program the older group went to get themselves ready and the younger ones enjoyed some sweets. The older group was number 10 and they performed very well too. Following the show the kids were invited to get hamburgers, fries and softdrinks. I think we had very good and funny 2 days together! Takk fyrir mig! 01.05.2012 21:26Long weekendAs Magnús went with our friends Pétur and Marietta to the East one month ago, we had to go and get him back. List travelled with us, so we could use the possibility to get lessons with Marietta. Magnús learned to use his back better and Ingólfur got instructions about how to improve Magnús' muscels. Marietta showed List and me how we can go on and how I can help her to understand what I want and bend her to the right direction. I'm looking forward to work more with List that way. Otherwise did we help with cutting hooves, moving horses, mucking the stable and so on. Well of course we didn't forget to have good meals and even better talks ;) Thanks a lot for this great weekend! 20.04.2012 21:43Finally newsThe last weeks have been very busy, but finally I have some time to put in news. First we got very nice visitors from the East, Pétur Behrens and Marietta Maissen. Pétur met his mare Pála for the very first time and I think he liked her a lot. We had a good time together, talking a lot about horses, training and much more. Then we promised to bake confirmation cakes, which took quite some time, especially decorating them. It was very interesting and a lot of fun trying to make the cakes special for the big day. I put some pics of them here. You find them on pages 4-6. Last but not least there was the big opening of the new ridinghall near Húsavík. Saturdayevening Ingólfur took part in the show "Fákar & fjör" in Akureyri and then the same group perfomed on Sundayafternoon in the opening ceremony. Hjördís and Elding took part, too. She and her friends had been training hard for their first, but probably not last, show. They all did very well. Before I forget: I discovered how much fun it is to work with wood and started to learn a bit more about wood turning. I attach a few pics of the first results.
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