Hestar og aftur Hestar

21.04.2013 22:45

Fákar & fjör 2013

The last weeks Ingólfur and Magnús were training very with a very strict schedule. The plan was to take part in the annual horseshow "Fákar & fjör" in Akureyri. In the beginning, we were 8 riders and 1 reserverider. Bit by bit the group became smaller and the reserverider broke his hand so in the end there were 6 riders and a lot of assistants. The trainingsessions were held in our riding hall, the program was rather easy, but we wanted to keep it that way. The surprise was that we were using sparklers and would ride in a dark arena. As one horse wasn't happy about the sparklers, we decided to have neonlights on two of the six horses.

Friday we went to Akureyri, had one last training around 9 o´clock in the evening and then the big day could come. We were so lucky to stay with Lára and Hjalti. Hjördís and Jói were spending a lot of time together and it was very clear, he was happy to have his cousin around. Saturday was quite relaxed, we did some neccessary shopping and started early to get Magnús ready for the show. Our group was the last act before the second break. It was very exciting to wait outside, sparklers to start the other sparklers ready and seeing the lights go out in the riding hall. Then everything had to go quick, light the sparklers and off they went. I think, they did a great job and the audience definitely liked it. But take a look here.

Today Ingólfur and Hjördís went for a nice ride, while I was trying my new comb. Like it a lot and my horses too! Afterwards they enjoyed a day off at the big field, running and bucking and rolling over like crazy.

Freyja's belly is getting bigger and it's just a few weeks til she should give birth to her first foal. We hope, she'll wait for better and warmer weather!

Haukur, Hildur and the new schooner Opal today

Freyja and her big belly

14.04.2013 22:12

Spring's just around the corner...

... or not? Well, if you check the calender, you'd be convinced to see at least some signs of spring, like melting snow and first flowers. Snow we see indeed a lot, but it's not melting at all... Instead it's falling from the sky, covering each and everything. The wind is quite busy piling it up where you least need it, especially in front of doors. Today we had to dig ourselves a way into the stable again (stopped counting how often we already did that). Unfortunately we had forgotten to close one of the windows yesterday so the wind was happily blowing snow inside the stable resulting in 2 wet boxes, 2 wet horses and a very wet floor. So first thing to do was putting blankets on the horses and drying the boxes and floor. After feeding we went to the meeting in the riding hall and ended there after the official part trying to improve the ground together with a few others. We watered the ground, put some special sand on part of it and Bjarni drove a few rounds with his Pajero over the whole stuff to compress it a bit. We are looking forward to see, if that effort improved the ground. If so, we will go on with the rest of the riding hall.

First the weather wasn't very good for taking outside rides, I worked a bit inside with Flugar, who got his first frontshoes 2 days ago, while Ingólfur was mucking out.

At least it was very good weather yesterday which was used for a lot of rides and a good walk with List.

Just attach you a pic of today.

07.04.2013 09:55

Þeysir

As you know, our Þeysir lives in The Netherlands now and recently I got a very nice mail and 2 pics.

Lilian, his new owner, is totally in love with him and likes, how easy he learns new things and that he's not scared of traffic. Of course he' sometimes a bit naughty, too, but which kid isn't?

Yesterday he was released to a 250 ha nature reserve, where he's going to grow up in a stallionherd. We are very happy, that he got such a good future home and are looking forward to getting news from him.