The Man with a Horse Magnet in his Bum!

Here’s hubby working on Louie. I swear the man has a horse magnet in his bum! He assures me that he used to, it’s nowhere near as good now as it used to be LOL! I have a few small videos of him doing groundwork and a very little riding, I’ll try and get them uploaded to youtube so you can see him in action! I think he’s just gorgeous ;) Hubby and the horse ROFL!

He’s started him reasonably calmly like I asked, there were a few battles of wills along the way as there always are. Louie’s not a young horse, he’s big and strong, he’s had to be very careful to make sure he’s not going to run over the top of me, as he’s always been prone to a bit of pushing people around, Kim noticed it when he was a tiny foal even.

He’s going really well under (treeless) saddle. I also bought a bitless bridle but got the wrong size, and by the time the right one came, hubby had already had his operation so riding is out of the question for now. I don’t have the skill to get him accustomed to it…it kind of felt like trying to learn to drive a car on those stupid Playstation machines, when I grew up playing Outrunner on Sega LOL! I’m certain that once hubby is up and riding, it will be a great success though :) Or maybe I’ll try it on one of the other horses if I ever get the energy, right now I’m flat out getting even some of the work that Louie needs done *sigh*

It’s cold and wet here, yesterday was filthy, blowing a gale and sideways rain, I didn’t even attempt to ride. I went out in hubby’s wet weather gear to feed the calf and check a trough, Louie thought the swish-swish of the WWG was a bit scary and that I might eat him up LOL! We had a bit of a ‘chat’ about it and I rubbed him over so he could see it was just ‘clothes’.

Better get out there, it’s not raining right now but it looks like it could come in filthy again soon…oh well, even if it’s not really raining, at least it’s not drying out like it was a few days ago. I have to try and get some mowing done today too – thank heavens for ride-ons!

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Abby Walking!

I uploaded a little video some time ago of Abby pushing the block trolley at Kim’s parents’ place in November, to our online photo album, but it wouldn’t work – today it did! So here she is in all her toddler-y glory :)

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/kimandnikki/MyVideos/photo#5131020542763206546

She can pretty much do what you see without the trolley now, and can even push things that tip over if she leans too much weight on them like the toy pram and lawnmower.

Now I know it will work, I’ll try and get some more stuff uploaded off the camera.

Love Nikki :)

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Some photos

Hi all :)

Here are some great shots of our girls. Abby and Hannah love having a bath together, we always look forward to being anywhere there’s a full size bath LOL!

Here is Hannah finally enjoying her first ice cream cone! Finally I found some gluten free ones, and she wouldn’t even taste it, so I left them behind at Grandma’s…and the first night home from holiday she wanted to try one *sigh*. Luckily I found some even nicer ones (waffle cones) in a shop in Tenterfield of all places, and she thinks they’re a bit of all right!

This is the sandpit that daddy built. Abby loves it big time, and after her first big handful of sand, she hasn’t eaten too much more LOL! We have regular excavation projects underway there, usually involving water ;)

And here’s bubby girl in the pool on the verandah. We have had some hot days in between the jumper weather this month *roll eyes* and she has developed impressive skills at climbing in and out of the pool on her own :) We have to be very careful now as she can open both the screen door and the front door and let herself out…at least the verandah is fully fenced now so she’s not going to fall overboard! I had to grab her this morning though as the cat had left the remains of last nights’ hunting expedition on the verandah, and I wasn’t keen on her patting the remains of a baby rabbit, no matter how soft and fluffy that piece of fur looked *puke*.

I’m hoping to blog more often now, I’ve found a more speedy way of uploading the photos and it’s better for entering the text too, so hopefully you’ll hear from us more often! I haven’t really made a new year’s resolution for a while, but this year it’s “to blog before all my other online interests” so it will get done instead of being pushed onto the back burner :)

Love Nikki :)

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