Friday, July 24, 2009

Welcome!

To new Massie Lodge resident, Silent Beauty (aka Beauty - pictured above) ,who has come to us for some well earned R&R after having her very first prep.

Beauty is by the now Victorian-based Sire, Sunday Knight and she is real stunner.

Beauty is up with us in the house yards being looked after by TMSMOTP (The Most Spoilt Mare on the Property), Pip and Gossy (Local News) on one side and Dirty Girl and Creds on the other. We always find that these ladies have a way of comforting new arrivals straight off the track.

I see the rumour mill is hard at work (if you have been following Pip's Twitter). Yes - Erik is due out today to do a few things and YES Pip you're one of them!

I have to say that Iam very amused to see that Pip's Twitter has quite a following out there. I still dont see how she can get to a computer?

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Massie Lodge on Saturday


um, er, well maybe it wasnt this bad (and no we havent inherited a colony of penguins!) but it was very close. Today It felt as if we were living next door to the Antartic with a temperature of 13 Deg and 35kph gale force winds gusting at 65 kph.

Yesterday the temperature was 14 Deg (with the same wonderful winds) and Adam the farrier was booked to come and trim Angel for the first time and to do the young Connie boys, Harry and Buster. We were actually quite impressed with the way the 3 youngsters behaved in the howling winds.

Evan was browsing through the BOM site and noticed that there was temperature reading for the Antartic. -40 Degrees at one stage of the day. Hmmm (Im not sure that I will be visiting there anytime soon).

It really makes working outside very difficult and we finished up early today to rush inside and put the fire on.

So, it has given me some motivation to update my blogs (this one and Massie Lodge - Dog City) and have made my study quite cosy... problem is I have Bessie Merle flat out in front of the heater. Matilda next to Merle, Ruby under the desk (where do I put my legs?) and Pikey laying down behind Merle. Ok, how am I going to move out from here? lol

TMSMOTP and her offsider, Gossy have finished their dinner and are standing at the fence wondering when I will make my final appearance with their supper (yeah, well ... they get some extra hay normally when I get home from work ...) - so I cant disappoint them today, which means putting on 3 layers, a red tartan scarf and a very becoming cream crocheted beanie that I bought for 50c from the Salvation Army shop! Yes, I know, a most becoming look, lol.

So I guess if I can just budge Pikey abit I can swivel around and jump over him and Merle without disturbing them.

You can see that I run the show in this household!

We're Still Wild About Harry...


Maybe even more so now that he is growing up. Both Harry and Buster were excellent boys yesterday in the howling winds when Adam came to do their feet.

The last photo comes with a story... and the reason for it is because the halter suffered a technical malfunction just as I was taking the picture and the back strap came off. Harry being the gentleman he is, he just stood there and waited for whatever came next.

Both boys have plenty more growing to do.






Still Being a Little Angel


Every so often a horse crosses our path that I think is special and breeding has nothing to do with it (mind you if you had just bought a $1,000,000 yearling at the sales you would want it to be something pretty special, lol!).

Angel is the girl I'm thinking of. Her temperament is just so even, her will to learn and to try something new is more than enthusiastic. Her ability to connect with humans on an emotional level is amazing.

We were both pretty impressed with the way she handled getting her feet done in the howling gale force winds that would see a seasoned performer start to spook. Not the little Angel, she just took it all in her stride. The last time I was lucky enough to meet such a wonderful soul was little Isabell (now registered as Rockon Ruby). I am blessed!

I had to laugh when Trix (her friend, pictured below) had to come and stand with her while she was getting it done.

To our friends the Koch's who own the special little girl, you are very lucky indeed.
:)





Some Pics of the Residents

Balls (Ballasario) who is going back into work next week.



Southern


Nottie


Trix who is going off to be broken in in the next couple of weeks.



Vicki (Vimala) settled in at Massie Lodge. Will be with us for the next 6 weeks or so.