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The first driving competition

Category: Pets and other animals | Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:29 pm

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Today was a big day at the stables. We had a club competition in dressage, jumping and driving. My pony Truls and our minder started dressage and jumping, and the girls' pony Gabriella, Ida and I started precision carriage driving. We had to get up early, since the do started at ten in the morning.

There weren't many dressage riders. The ones who participated did so to get their green cards. We need those in order to compete in open competitions elsewhere. It proves that we can handle the horse and is fit to venture outside our own borders. :lol:

Lots of equipages started in the different jumping classes. My Truls did fairly well. They had two clear rounds, so both my minder and I were well pleased. :D

Here are a few of the girls and ponies lined up to receive their prizes:



Then it was us; Gabriella, Ida and me. We started two classes, both easy and medium difficulty. There were eleven starting easy and nine in medium, so we didn't have very big hopes. After all, we've only just learned to drive and several of the other participants have been driving for years. Here we are, ready for the easy class:



Imagine our surprise when we came second! We didn't push any balls of the cones, but were a bit too slow around the course.

The medium class had 13 gates, and it was a difficult course too, so we just made our minds up to have fun and do as well as we could. Gabriella had finally found out that the quicker she raced through the sooner she would be back in her box, so she took off like a rocket. We bumped into one cone so the ball fell off, and then I missed gate eleven, had to do a circle and drive through it, so we lost some time there. Then I sent my husband, the girls and mother home because it had gotten very late. When the last equipage had driven through the course, I went to help gather together the balls and cones. Then I was told to fetch the pony and come back in because we were among the best three. Not only that, but we had won! Our first driving do ever, I still can't believe it. Now we have some nice decorations on our wall:



And now I'm off to bed shortly. It has been a very long day.

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Colder, darker and a bit of hot pink

Category: Ramblings | Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:48 pm

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We're nearing the time of the year when I really hate to live here. It's getting darker and colder, the snow limit is slowly but surely creeping down the mountain sides, and we're getting more rain, more wind and no flowers. The worst is the bare frost, when everything is frozen but there's no snow to play in. With snow the days at least have a semblance to brightness, and we can play in the white stuff. Without snow it's just boring, and I know our plants really dislike the unprotected frost.

If we have a nice snow fall, I can gallop in the fields and we can go skiing with the horses. We can make snow sculptures and snow lanterns, and the plants will have good insulation during their winter rest. Without that snow my patience is sorely tried. Our wet and grey winters are just so hard to get through, I often think about joining the starlings and move south for a few months. But being the home-body that I am, it's not a real option. *sigh*

On the bright side, my birthday is in autumn, and I got a nice present this year:



Inside that fancy carriage was enough money to buy a small wagon for Gabriella, which should keep me happy even if we get a snow-less, grey winter.

I have a small wish: Please post lots of colourful photos during our winter months! Many Stewbies have blooms when all of mine are gone, and to see them is a big help and a vitamin boost for me. Christmas isn't far away, and then it's just another couple of months before life becomes bearable again. I'll get through it this year as well. I'll get by with a bit of help from my friends.

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