Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Aucune leçon aujourd'hui........

..............parce qu'il y avait un divertion qui, comme la plupart des divertions ici, vous prennent si loin que possible et puis rapportez-vous seulement 50 mètres davantage en haut la route.

Le temps a été affreux aujourd'hui, pluvieux et venteux, donc nous avons fait quelques travaux dans la maison et Jim a remplacé la fenêtre dans la grange.
Assez du français.........
........we had an afternoon of DIY - I'm not very good at DIY, firstly because I'm too lazy and secondly because I don't really have any talent for it (perhaps that's a bit of an excuse). I'm more in the DDIY camp, but I spent the afternoon rubbing down cracks in the kitchen walls ready for painting. Jim gave me a tube of filler, and like a little kid with a new toy I went around filling every little nook and cranny I could find.
Jim changed the old plastic sheet covering the window in Remys stable with a sparkly new piece of transparent sheeting. I didn't give it a thought until I brought Remy in from the field.  He's a sensitive soul (ahem-wimp) and he stopped halfway down the passageway to eye it up. I suppose from his perspective it was very bright and spangly and was reflecting quite a lot of light into the stable. He followed me in and stood up to his full height snorting at it like it was a portal to a world full of horse eating monsters. I stood next to it and asked him to walk towards me. He reached out and touched me with his nose, wanting some reassurance so I touched the sheet and then asked him to touch it. He took a step towards it, so I clicked and rewarded him and then he walked up to it and touched it with his nose. I clicked and rewarded him again and then he just turned towards his feed and started eating.  I love my boy. He's a bit sucky at the moment, he whinnied to me from the field today and I just love the way he looks to me if he's unsure about something.

1 comment:

allhorsestuff said...

That's funny...Wa mare will only Whinny to me when she needs rescuing!
KK