Sonntag, 25. April 2010

Great to turn 30!

Saturday I had a great time with my family. We were eating nearly all day: breakfast, brunch, cake & coffee and my favourite dish in the evening. Between cake/coffee and supper my sister and me went shopping in Hannover and had some ice-cream later. It was a very funny time as we started to take photos of every garment we tried at P&C. Now after checking the photos I know that I have to go again and buy everything I tried :o))))

On Sunday we drove to Baga to do a walk with her. We met Simone who asked me suddenly "Baga is very coloured, isn't she?" And I was wondering, "Huh? Baga is bleikvindótt (red silver dapple dun), she is always special coloured." but then I saw what she meant:



All my tack was also decorated with balloons and paper streamer and I had no chance just to go pick up my horse and ride like she and my tack was. But of course I did :o)

Baga was a little bit unhappy with the balloon on her head so I removed it soon. The next days I will try to get the colour out of her coat. Luckily the summer comes and she is losing her winter coat but maybe I will take water for help :o) Now I have to go to work. We'll see if anything's happening there... anyhow it was a wonderful birthday and I have not one bad feeling about getting 30. Quite the opposite: I feel better than ever before!

Montag, 19. April 2010

SSSól Revival Playday

Isländischen Aschewolken zum Trotz feierten wir am Sonntag den 2. SSSól Revival Playday. Knapp 20 Teilnehmer hatten sich eingefunden, um sich im Trail, Fahnenrennen und Best of Dreigang zu messen. Bei der Parcours-Begehung gab es zwar noch großes Staunen, vor allem das Besenpolo mit Gymnastikball erfreute die Gemüter, aber in der Durchführung zeigten sich teils wahre Perfektion und Einfallsreichtum. Mit einer Mischung aus Gehorsamkeits-Prüfungen und Geschicklichkeit gab es für jedes Pferd-und-Reiter-Paar positive Ergebnisse zu verzeichnen. Das Reiterstübchen war gefüllt mit unzähligen Köstlichkeiten und sogar Gäste aus Island (Menschen) und ein echter Cowboy hatten sich als Zuschauer eingefunden.
Auch das Fahnenrennen fand schnell Anklang in der Startergemeinde und plötzlich folgten jede Menge spontane Nachnennungen. Siegreich waren am Ende Kira und Bjalla, die im Rennpass und Tölt ohne Sattel durch die Bahn flogen. Und während die Kohlen im Grill schon glühten, machten sich neun mutige Reiterinnen auf den Weg zur Ovalbahn, um dort die drei besten Gänge ihrer Pferde zu präsentieren.
Mit vollem Bauch, gebräunter Haut und einem alkoholischen Kaltgetränk in der Hand ließ man langsam den Abend ausklingen. Zum Abschluss hatten wir sogar noch das Glück, Zeugen eines mittlerweile selten gewordenen Phänomens zu werden. Wie gebannt starrten wir in den Himmel, unsicher ob den Augen noch zu trauen sei. Doch tatsächlich...ein fliegendes Flugzeug!

Hier der Link zu den Fotos:
http://skinfaxa.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=29141

Sonntag, 18. April 2010

Baga confused - too much ash in the air?

Hey my friends,
today is the Playday-day and I am hopefully ready with all arrangements! I wrote a time-schedule and starting-list, created notes for the judges Bettina & Petra and painted a plan for the trail-parcours. Actually Baga and me would be a hot favourite for the trail but anything happened with my little horse what makes her confused. It started with the day as the ash from Eyjafjallajökull came into our country. Maybe Baga is smelling her home? Actually she is acting like a horse on the right side of the brain (parelli language = RBI). She is having fear about everything. On Tuesday she was rather normal but some kind of stubborn, on Wednesday I was wondering why she was not putting her feets on the pallet (pedestal). One of our favourite tricks at normal days. But this day she was acting rather fearful. But on Thursday everything was over and I could hardly touch her head, she was in fear about EVERYTHING including me. On Friday we had a riding-lesson with Teresa and I learned that best is to give continuity to the horse, so I put more self-confidence and leadership in myself and let her feel that there is no reason to be fearful. She was still freaky but it was getting better after she used her head to listen to me. At the end of the riding-lesson she seemed to have forgotten that she was fearful before :o) It was similar yesterday as I was riding at the oval-ground the first time this year (after the snow-season). She had fear about the tie of the new fence which was laying on the ground. But after some rounds the bad feelings were nearly gone. Now I would say we are no hot favourite for today but of course will we take part at the SSSól Revival Playday! It's just a new chance to show her that there is nothing to have fear about.
I am very excited if the flight situation in Germany will change soon because actually I have to fly to Vienna tommorrow. We'll see?!
Have a great, sunny day my friends! Now I have to rush...

Donnerstag, 1. April 2010

Two weeks later

They sales-show in Hestagard and Hestabakki was great and it fell not one rain drop down on me. The weather forecast is always only as real as you think it is ;o) My favourite horses at the show were Svala vom Lordsee - 5 years old red dun mare (V: Hjalti vom Blitzberg, M: Bitta frá Hliðarbergi) and of the unridden horses it was definetely Tibrá v. d. Prignitz - 5 years old red dun pinto mare (V: Tindur von Adlerhoop, M: Rósa frá Stokkseyri). Luckily I had enough time on Sunday to look through all the pictures and uploading them immediately. That's much more than I have yet done with my pictures from Iceland but I hope that this will happen in the next days.
After the sales-show I drove to Baga immediately because I received my brand-new "Quittpad" and could not wait to use it! Baga seemed to like it and I found some tölt-scenes in the video. Often I am filming my riding or play-sessions because it helps me a lot to see my faults but sometimes it also useful to see improvements (or finding tölt steps ;o) The days after we had a mixed program of jogging together, playing at liberty or online, riding "naked" (I had my clothes on!), climbing on a pedestal, pushing a ball or eating grass!
After a great week with Baga and early finishing times at work I decided to take photos on Circle-L-Ranch in Wenden (27.+28.3.). I came home with ~ 4000 photos which I am uploading now in every free minute (not this very minute but the next again - I promise ;o) The competitions were fine and the weather much better than the weather forecast announced. There were many beautiful horses and nice people to meet. In spite of all my photo-work I could spend some minutes with Baga this week and went on with my training about collection. At the moment I could swear that Baga is tölting every day few steps. ANYTHING seems to work :o)