Showing posts with label Trotting Poles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trotting Poles. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 October 2009

It's two weeks since I've ridden Anky. Today I rode her up to the school. She was full of energy going down the lane, but quite relaxed when we got into the school. I only walked her around and introduced her to the trotting poles that we bought yesterday. I really miss not riding and I enjoyed it immensely. My friend has lent me the Torsion treeless saddle that I tested here and I like it very much, the pommel is much better placed and doesn't interfere with my legs. I think if I buy a treeless, I may go for the Barefoot Lexington which is a similar design but a dressage model.

On the way out of the school I popped over the jumps shown in my last post...............I wish!!!!

The frost is doing a good job of finishing off our veggy plot. Most of the plants are now dying off so Jim harvested the rest of the pumpkins and squash. He picked the last of the tomatoes, most of which were green, so hopefully we'll have chutney. The only plants doing ok are the choux fourrager (like spring cabbage) which will withstand anything and will still be going strong into next summer!!


Friday, 16 October 2009

I'm being optimistic!!

Our horses stayed in last night. Surprisingly it wasn't my decision. Jim came back from putting them out to say that he wasn't putting them out as it was too cold!!
We've sorted the rugs out today and just have to try them for size!! Anky could fill a shop with her rugs, being the smallest she has lots of cast offs from Remy and Bonbon, I just hope we have a sufficient number of rugs big enough for our growing youngsters.
We've been after some trotting poles for a while and today we went to collect half a dozen from a friend. She also had 3 pairs of small jump wings so we bought those. Talk about being optimistic, my jumping days are long over, but you never know!!