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Feeding Edna

I spent my morning putting everything back – everything being the buckets (empty ones, ones full of dried hard feed and ones with feed already made up), water containers that lived in the kit…

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She was hungry

 

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Stuck!

The thaw continues and so the field mud is back with a vengeance. The Minions are not using their usual buckets for breakfast as we had to leave them behind in the move. These coloured buckets are…

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Going nowhere

 

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A Bit Blowy

This morning was interesting, to say the least, trying to feed horses and ponies in a Force 12 – around 60 mph wind. I was doing quite well, walking round the outside of the shed, using it a…

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Blimey

 

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Calm Before The Next Storm

Well, I think we can all guess what I said to myself when OH shouted up the stairs this morning “There’s a really good sunrise happening now”. Well this shepherd is well and truly…

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Neverending.

 

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Cabin Fever

It’s been an ambient (read ferocious) Force 8, gusting 10 all day. When the F10 (55–63 mph) hit, it really hit hard but I was beginning to get cabin fever so I needed out. I drove to our vi…

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Outside!

 

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Tails, Worming and Floof

Another storm is on its way and this one is going to last for days *** sigh *** but it remains relatively warm so that’s a plus. After all our breakfasts and armed with a bucket of useful thi…

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Things to do

 

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Installing the Track

The dog walk started ominously but luckily the rain shower missed us. I wanted to walk round the new field track that is currently under construction. My fencer has been hard at work putting fence …

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Progress

 

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Designing Mini Business Cards

We all had a quiet day today. The weather was unhelpful (gusting F10 at times) while we were feeding everyone their breakfast and I have things to do anyway. I spent the morning finding and editing…

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Promoting the blog

 

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A Brief Thought

Now the Minions are home, I had this, albeit brief, stupid idea that it would be nice to have all the horses and ponies together in one field. This was entirely based on Kolka who quite likes the …

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Somebody talked sense

 

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Minions Playing

After breakfast, the Minions like to play while I am busy worrying that this is like swimming after a large lunch and not waiting an hour. I can still hear my mother’s voice and then I worry …

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Guaranteed to make you smile

 

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More Yesterday

These photos are from yesterday at the end of the dogwalk. The sun was out and Haakon was having a little bit of a sit because it was the last of the lovely days for a while. Kolka was guarding ag…

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Before the weather

 

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What a Day!

It’s been quite the day and we have spent it mostly indoors because, honestly, this has not been a day to be outside. Too dangerous. This morning, OH and I managed to feed everyone, though a…

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Now that's a storm

 

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In Search of the Yellow Bucket

This was going to be yesterday’s blog but the powercut put paid to that. Yesterday was slighly calmer, weather-wise, so I decided to incorporate the daily dogwalk with a search for my missing…

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I hate losing stuff

 

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Piano Practice

I knew today wasn’t going to go well. I had that feeling. The weather remained grot and I wanted to practice the piano. Not a thing I do very often, I admit, but my skills need to be honed fo…

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Never work with .....

 

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At the Bottom of my Garden

Haakon was waiting for me this morning, trying to catch my attention like someone in the restaurant wanting the bill (cheque), or a carrot, in Haakon’s case. How could I walk past and do noth…

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Always waiting, always watching.

 

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Dash To Town

Snow is forecast all week. Forecasts say it will go on Sunday but I am taking no chances. So, leaving my little preciousness behind (she was so upset), I drove to Lerwick in my van for supplies. T…

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Snow.

 

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Intrepid

The sky was yellow and I knew the forecast was going to deteriorate to snow, so I took the dogs out early for their walk. We went down to the bottom of the valley where the wind doesn’t blow …

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Intrepid or stupid?

 

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Coping

Fivla is coping better now she has her rug on, which I thought at the time fitted her well but now I’m not so sure. I think she could go a size up. This one will do for the time being, but I&…

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Lugging

 

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Rug on, Rug off, Rug on

A very snowy breakfast, this morning. No wind, but lots of fat snowflakes. So Fivla’s rug stayed on. Then there was some potential in the sky, it duly brightened up a bit and the sun shone…

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Buckets, rugs, haynets

 

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Rushing

It felt like a day of rushing. I had a dentist appointment around lunchtime in Lerwick so everything had to be done before I left, including playing spot-the-dog on the walk (how I wished I had pu…

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Exhausting day