A little update

I'm sorry, it has been a while now, hasn't it? Well, here i am, and here is a short update on the happenings the last week.
Mulle has finally started to settel in a bit, and she feels a lot more supple and relaxed than she has done. I am glad that i have 4 month instead of 3 here, so that it does not matter so much that she needed the first month just to settle in. We still have loads of time to learn and get better together. Mulle is such a brilliant horse, so kind and well behaved always.
An though her body is built slightly unfortunate she always works hard and tries her very best.I am so proud of my little horse!!! We are working on the quarter in and the shoulder in on the circle right now, in forward down and in collection. I don't think it will be too long until we are back to were we used to be.

Blåi is doing very well. I had a lesson on her today, and for the first time her right hind leg was acctually better then the left one. This is normal when focusing on excercising the weaker leg for a while, it suddently ends up beeing the better leg.
So now she knows the aids for making the cirkle bigger and smaler on the circle in both hands.

Tomorrow we will start working carefully on the sidemovements on the circle. And soon also try to trott a little bit. She is such a sweet hearted and kind horse, always very polite, but in a playfull and happy way. She seems to enjoy the training a lot.

Both Mulle and Blåi have gotten used to the mirrors as well now, so that is good.

I have not ridden Filur so much this last week. We are still only on time number 197, but hopefully I will get to work him more again now. I already have a little bottle of Champaign in the fridge for the day we will celebrate our 200. ride together :-)
I feel that i still need some time to get into riding him propperly again. I have not been riding regularly for 1,5 years before I came her now, so ot takes time to relax and start feeling through the horse again. But we will get there!

From Thursday til Thuesday I had a visit from my boyfriend. It was great, he helped out with all the chores every day and made great food. On saturday we all went for a ride in the wood together, we were 6 horses all together. It was a great day, and we all enjoyed it very much!

Will put in more pictures of our hack if Tom or Emma have some nice ones.

Now i have only 2 days left being the extra practicant. From the first of next month I will be a normal stable practicant, and i am really looking forward to it.

Until now I have helped out with the normal stable duties on top of doing the other chores that i have been given this month. Yesterday and today I have fixed the stallion padock, and before that i worked a lot on the old barn. Will show you pictures of how nice it all looks now soon!

I'd better get to bed, will write again soon!

Sleep tight and stay in the now!

m x

Kimo and the cats, and a bad riding day

This will be a bit short today, as I don't really have a lot to tell right now....
Kimo has now lost yet another of his sleeping places to the cats. On saturday when we came in from the stable the first thing that met him was two cats on HIS doggy bed :-)
Poor boy! He settled for a place on the floor as close to the bed as possible, hoping to reclaim it if the cats moved. Blææææææ! I had a really bad riding day today! Rode Filur, worked Mulle in hand and Blåi on the longje this evening, and nothing really worked. It's all my fault off corse, but hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day!

Other then that I have had a great weekend. I was in Hamburg to go to a concert yesterday evening, and came back again today, so I've had a mini holiday away from the farm.
So the horses got a day off yesterday, which I am sure they enjoyed out in the sun!

Before the weekend the riding went well. I've had one lesson on Blåi and one on Mulle since I
wrote last. Taking it very easy with them both still and don't ride more then 10-15 minutes on the lessons. On Mulle my focus is to get her relaxed and supple again after the journey here.
And with Blåi i am working on strenghtening her right hind leg so that we can start the side movements when it is a bit stronger.

I train Mulle and Blåi mostely twice a day. Morning and evening. Filur I ride once a day.
I am looking forward to getting lessons on Filur again as well next week, now that I won't have to babysitt any more. I'll try to get someone to take pictures of me when I'm riding again this week.
Will write more when I got more to tell :-)
Love horses, listen to Marillion and stay in the now!
Hugs m xxx

Babysitter Blåi and Mulle Pilar horse

Time for an uppdate again :-)
Kimo wants to start off today by showing the world how rude these stupid cats can be:
This is what he found when he came inside yesterday and wanted to take a well deserved nap in his favorite spot after a hard morning of being a dog: HOW RUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But being the gentle man that he is he let the cat sleep and layd down under the table with a huge complaining sigh.

Mulle has found out that this place is acctually quite cool, and has desided to start her career as a
high school horse now. So what better way to start then a foto session of her in the right surroundings?
I rode Mulle on my first lesson yesterday ( I did not have to longje her).
It went well, she is still a bit stiff after the long journey, so we took it easy and worked in long and low most of the lesson. She is wonderfull my little horse!!!
Here she is between the Pillars:
Blåi seems to enjoy herself here even more then Mulle. She is always very positiv and wants to work and tries her best. The last two days she has started to come to the gate of the padock when ever she sees me. I rode her on my lesson today. We worked on the circle, teaching her the aids and getting her hind legs to stride good forward and carry and for her to seek forward down.
She did good! Her right hind leg is a bit weaker then the left one, but she is starting to use it a bit better already. This is gonna be fun!!!

Bent's children are here to visit him this week, so that has ment a lot of babysitting for me.
It's okay, but a bit sad because I miss out on seeing all the others ride. And yesterday and today I didn't get time to ride Filur :-(
But today Blåi desided that she could help me out a little bit with the babysitting, and she did a brilliant job!!!!
We went for a little hack together all 4 of us and Blåi was wonderful.
The children really loved riding her! And I thought it was nice too!!!
That's all for now. Will try to get someone to take some pictures of me riding Filur, Mulle and Blåi over the next days so that you can see what it looks like at the moment. :-)
Take good care and stay in the Now!
m xxx

A busy weekend

Time for a little update again! It has been a busy weekend with lots to do.
Hmmmm, were shall I start? Lets start with the horses first:
Filur and I are starting to work better together with the riding now and get used to each other again. We are both far more relaxed, and manage the things we have been working on in walk
okay. The count is up to 191 now, 9 more days now and we will have cake and carrots to celebrate ride nr 200. He is wonderful and lightens up my day a lot! Blåi is doing well! On saturday I worked here on the longje and in hand, and on Sunday we went
on a short hack out in the sun and I rode her a bit in the arena in the evening. She is well behaved, and a joy to work with.
Today was our first lesson for Bent together. On the first lesson here the practicants always have to longje the horse, to show that it has the basic education, and that the practicant knows how to longje. Blåi is really very very good on the longje, and I think she really likes it.
She did it all perfect and Bent had no corrections on my work with her at all today.

Mulle on the other hand does not find longjeing very much fun at all, she hates it.
All is well when I work her in hand or ride, but this thing with going around me in a circle she finds daft and dumb! So she gives it a half hearted effort so that her mom won't get too upset, but that is all. I will show her on the longje on my lesson tomorrow, and I really really hope that Bent will except our work and agree with me that she simply hates it! I will work her a bit in hand after longjeing so that he can see that she does a lot better there.

Poor Mulle, it's a hard life! I rode her yesterday evening though, and that is totally different.

She was energetic and did all the side movements very nicely. Looking forward to our riding lessons, and learning more together!!!

There is one little problem with both Mulle and Blåi though.......

They are totally and utterly in love with their own reflections in the mirrors, and every time we come close to them they lose their consentration and want to go over to great that amazingly beautiful horse on the wall. But I guess they will get used to it in time....

Maybe....

Hopefully....

Kimo is fine to, he is starting to get used to being outside all day long again and seems

to be less tired. But he still goes to sleep as soon as we get inside for a rest. When I am working on the barn or with the paddocks he mostly finds himself a nice spot where he can sit and keep an eye on me to make sure I'm ok and that I do my work propperly.

The cleaning out of the old barn is going quite smoothly, I am finished with half of the room now,

and it starts to look a lot better, but there is still a lot left to do.

Here is the part where I am almost finished, nice eh???

So I have had a quite good weekend and kept busy. My friend Maria came and visited me both Saturday and Sunday. She sometimes rides Hugin in the weekends. On Sunday she rode Blåi and I rode Mulle when we went out for a hack.

Hugin and Maria:

There, I think that was all the news for now. Even though today has not been my day at all, the first week here at Lindegården has been nice. It is wonderful to ride so much again and to get lessons and be around the horses all day long.

Sleep tight and stay in the now!

m xxx

A great day!

This day has been brilliant!!!!
The stable work was easy and quick this morning, and ride number 188 with Filur today finally went a bit better. I managed to sit down and relax and ride him propperly in the things we have been working on in the walk.
And then at 11.45 Mulle and Blåi arrived. They where both calm and looked good when I took them out of the transporter. Mulle had not been drinking a lot during her journey, but except from that all was well with them. Bent came out and had a look at Blåi which he has not meet before and thought that she looked good and had nice movements. I let the out in the padock at once, and I think they really enjoyed beeing able to graze. Must be strange since it is snow and full winter where they come from. Blåi arrived as a white horse, but looked rather brown after having a good roll in the mud.

At 3 I took them both for a walk in the sun. It was wonderfull how well behaved they both walked with me and they seemed to enjoy our walk as much as I did.

When we came back to the farm I showed them the indoor riding arena before I let them back outside.

I took them in when I had finished my stabel duties this evening and gave them a litttle brush.

They seem to like their stables and standing on straw.

Then I first took Mulle into the riding arena for about 5-10 to do a bit of stretching and bending with them from the ground after the long journey. She was fine, but a bit stiff in the neck.

Blåi was next, and she seemd as if she had never done anything else then be here in Denmark and work with me. She was calm, supple and consentrated.

They are both such brilliant horses, behaving like this after a long journey and being on a completely new place.I am very proud of them.

Gonna go out and say good night to the 3 beautiful angels now and check that they are ok :-)

Waiting.....

Hi again!
Now my 4th full working day here at Lindegården has come to an end, and all is fine.
My working days have been divided between stable work, repairing paddocks and starting the huge project of cleaning out this room completely:

Everything has to be taken out, so I have my work cut out for me.... But it'll be ok:-)
Will show you pictures about how I get on.

The riding has gone sort of ok. I have now ridden Filur time number 185,186 and 187.

But since I have not ridden propperly for such a long while now I need time to relax, start feeling again and get into how to ride Filur good. We are only working on getting the walk good, forward down, in collection and in the side movements. And I feel like a total beginner again. He is not an easy horse to ride, but i really enjoy it!!!

I found these wonderful two black furry friends this evening. I know it's a bit hard to see on this picture, but the left one is a rabit, and the right one is a cat. Just found it so cute that I had to show it to you all.

Mulle was transportet to the stable where Blåi lives on Wednesday and spent the night there together with Blåi. Mulle (as always)cared more about the food then about Blåi the first time they met, but they got along ok. Today they have left a cold and snowy Norway and are heading

to Denmark as I write. I am very exited and a bit worried about them.

It's gonna be wonderful when they finally arrive here tomorrow!!!

Mulle looking gorgeous for the camera :-)

Here you see the first pictures of Blåi as well. I don't really know her very well jet. I have only

met her a few times when I have given her lessons together with her owner Unni.

But she is wonderful, and I can't wait to get to know her and work together with her!!!

Will write more soon :-)

Take care and stay in the NOW!

Hugs m

Finally arrived in Denmark

Monday evening and I have finished my first Practicant day in Denmark.
I arrived yesterday evening and my long travell from England went well.
The weather here is freezing, and I am looking forward to all my winter clothes arriving.

It was amazing to meet Filur again yesterday. I ran from the car and straight into his stable,
rather rudely ignoring people who tried to say hi to me while running by.
I had a dear friend I had to say hi to before I did anything else!
And the reunion was great! He greated me with joy and love and forgot about the eveningmeal I had interupted. It was wonderful.
Today we have spent some time together in the window as we always used to do before.
He always manages to bring me into "the NOW" and make me forget about everything else when he hanges out with me like that. I love every second of it!
And it feels good that he really wants to be with me and seem to enjoy it to.

Bent rode Filur today so that I could see how he was doing, but he was a little bit tense today because of the strong winds that seemingly tried to move the whole riding arena.
But of course he was as beautiful as ever :-)
Tomorrow I will start to ride Filur myself again, and I simply can't wait!!!
It will be time number 185 that I get the honor to ride him!
The rest of the day has been quite calm, I have helped out the regular stable practicants today, and with 3 people instead of 2 everything goes very quickly.
But since I have arrived here one month early I will be a handy man, no, handy girl around the farm and work on fixing fences, cleaning up some old stables, that are gonna be renovated, helping out with a bit of baby sitting and doing all sorts around the stables and farm.
But I will take care of Filur myself and help the other practicants with the stable when I have time. I think it will all be good.

There are a lot of people and nationalitys here on the farm right now.

There is German Ute who is a week student here for 4 weeks.

There are the Swedish familly Christofer and Rebecka Dahlgren and their two kids who are here as week students for one week.

Then the two practicants: Swedish Emma and Norwegian Tom

German house practicant Bianca.

And of course Bent who is Danish.

So I am very glad that I am fluent in all these languages and can be a bit of a interpreter for everyone, but I do get confused sometimes.

Mulle and Blåi are arriving here on Friday, and I am really looking forward to it!

I'll write again very soon, take good care and stay in the NOW!

m xxx