Cowwork in tölt

My trip to Slovakia was fine and also the cold which I got there is getting better. As it was a business trip I was not seeing many places or doing any sightseeing-trips but one day we attended a colleague to a river-rafting-station and the next evening we drove into the mountains.


The return flight was wonderful because I could see the landscape during the whole flight.

On Saturday I went to Stolzenau immediately where Baga was still waiting for me. In the afternoon we worked with the cows and I was satisfied with the result.

After it we integrated Baga into Dimma's herd and I was taking photos of it the next two hours. Baga was very impressive like always in similar situations and Dimma was obviously very interested about her and always tried to get in contact with Baga.


One picture for showing you the proportion between Dimma (1 year) and Baga (10 years).

On Tuesday and Wednesday we had the next chance to do our cowwork. Every day we had new success and great experiences. On Wednesday Frank was taking videos and at home I could see that Baga was even tölting during the cowwork. That's just great!

Now the time has come that Baga have to learn to work with the cows alone and my job will be to LET her do this. Further we are now starting to move the cows - not the other way round as yet. I am very excited about the next week - fresh cattle will arrive on Thursday. Until then we will practise, practise and practise :o)
Baga had a break yesterday and I took the opportunity to go into the zoo with Jens and friends. It was very funny and a great day.


Now I will take care about my actual photo-orders and drive to Baga around midday. I get a riding-lesson of Klaus today and possibly we will practise some trail-obstacles and my wish was to train riding one-handed so I am terrible excited :o))))

Photos, parties and cows

Like I told you in my last blog I was working on my pictures all Whitsun days. Then followed normal days with my main work and having fun with Baga. On Saturday and Sunday (29./30.5.) I was in Soltau at the Northern Supreme Show and took many photos of beautiful Paint Horses. You can find the link to the pictures here.

After the show I made a quick stop at our soccer club house where our team celebrated the advance into the next higher league (sorry, aber ich finde keine gute Übersetzung für Aufstieg in die 2. Kreisklasse). I'll try to upload some of the pictures which I took at the celebration today and I can share the link with you also if you are interested in party-photos :o)

The next two days I had free time to edit and upload the pictures of Soltau but I am not yet ready with this. Today I will continue. I was riding every day from Monday until Wednesday and had great experiences.

On Friday and Saturday was I doing the feeding and cleaning at our horse stable and I can tell you that I love to spend the morning hours with the horses. I also took Baga for a small bareback ride at the riding ground and she was brilliant!!! After that I met my mother for dinner and drove to Stolzenau because Klaus and Gudi had their birthday party! I arrived there early enough to take Dimma (and Janine + Kate) for a walk. Our first walk! By the way Dimma is having her first birthday in few days :o)

It was a wonderful party but I left my friends at 23:48 o'clock because I have many things to do here at home and wanted to start early with it ;o)

(v.l.n.r. Horst, Ilona, Patrick, Schmitti, ich)

But soon I will be back at the Seven-Gate-Ranch like I was told yesterday by Klaus! He will order a bunch of cows (jippieh) for next week and also a week later if I understood right. The fact is that Klaus will pick up Baga on Thursday and she will stay with him until beginning of July. During weekends I will always be there and the most time we will have cows to work with. Yeah!!!!!!!!!! The rest of the time I can use all the trail-obstacles which they have and meet my friends who live in this area. That's just great. The last weeks I was only thinking on when I will have the next possibility to work with cows and suddenly I will have some weeks with cows!

The finish of this cow-month will be on 04.07.10 at the Circle-L-Ranch with the Cow Work Sunday where we will participate. I checked the tendering of this tournament and I will probably choose the cattle penning as my competition. Now I have to quit my blog because lots of homework and photo-work is calling after me - further I want to see Baga today (last chance for training)! Tommorow I will fly to Slovakia again and stay until Friday while Klaus is picking Baga up for me! I can't wait to have the cows around me soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon! Furthermore I am very excited about Baga and Dimma meeting each other the first time. In my opinion Dimma isn't much smaller than Baga now and it will be very exciting to see them together.