a picture report

The days are getting longer and longer - and I swear tha the grass had started to grow. And then, one morning we woke up, and it was all white outside!!! I pulled my head underneat my blanket, hoping it woud dissaper... but no - it still is all white - one week later!!! The snow also managed to distroy my thelepone line - so I've been witout internett for a week!!!
I got to take som photos of the horses thou.

Corny is back home - spending his time with Sinclair. The use a lot of thiere time to play. I'm not shure, but it seems like Cony is the boss - even thou Sinclair is one year older.
Playing...

Sinclair has his summer coat already - but look at his mustasje:) In May he is going to a new home. Fist he has to be gelded and ridden.

My little Penny girl. She has the moust amazing colour. Will be one year this year.

My pretty Thinka girl. She is the fist one to foal this year - I'm guessing it will be witin 14 days. She is so heavy now - and I'm so excited

And Rosie, my por special Rosie. She is still very sceptical to things humans do - but in the heard she is the calmest. I wouder what se has experienced to be like this. She is expecting her foal with Ickie april 8.
Rosie is two years - Her eyes facinates me!
And then Nerfetiti - she is setteling nicly in the heard. Still not 100% acsepted, but she is workin on it:)

My girls

Finally - after months of bad weather - we had a beautiful day with sunshine!

I had to snap some pics of my little "girls" (sorry - they are really dirty.... *blush*

It is not easy keeping them clean in all the rain and mud we`ve had.... )

But here they are talking a walk in the forest :)

Lilo and Irina - two little teddybears!

They will be 1 year this summer - and it will not be long before they will have brand new sisters and brothers now !

I can hardly wait for this years foals to be born :)

And here`s Olivia - my little sweetheart. She`s turning 2 this summer.

~ Elisabeth ~

I've forgotten to share...

Say hello to Nerfetiti.. my new mare. Last weekend we visited a horse dealer.. Off course the purpouse of the wisit was to say hello, and to get a free cup og coffe. Actualy I promisen my husband not to by anything as he agreed to drop by.
Well, som one knows us as crazy mummy maniacs.... This pretty and small little girl was standing there, telleing me that she wanted to go home with me. How can a husband ressist that?? Mine can for shure not. He needed a couple of houers to think, but I guess he knew he had to give in at the moment we saw here.
As you can see she is a silver dapple one. I just love her colour. She is also the smaller kind. I guess her to be about 135 cm tall!! And then the is the big tummy... I wounder if the is someone inside - it shoure seems like it!! The dealer didn'n know what she is breed to. I guess we just have to wait and see.
She is setteling nicely in with the other horses, and it seems like she is well ridden and handled. My 5 years old daugter had a ride on her, and it went wery vell. She claims that it is her mare - so ther is my dillemma. I promised my husband that she was to be put out for sale - okay so she is for sale - at least for as long as it takes my daugthe to convins her father that the mare belong to her. I wounder where she did learn all that.. again "crazy mummy maniacs"

Woho - stallion of the day!!!!!!

This weekend we brought Ickie and Corny (Camella Boy Warrior) to the stallion approval.

And we are so proud to tell you that Ickie was approved as the best stallion at the show!!!

We are also very, very proud of the fact that he got the highest score ever given to a tinker here in Norway!!! :)

The jugdes liked him very much and said about him:

A stallion of really good type with a nice and harmonic body, beautiful head, nicely shaped neck and back. Well muscled body with good feet/bones and nicely feathered. Good movements and very well tempered.

The vet found nothing wrong with him at all and therefor he got a full score there too :)

And here he is - our pride and joy!

Do I look okay like this?

Ahh, I`m gettting a little impatient where are the other ones?

Mikal and Ickie

Corny and Ickie "talking".....

Corny felt safe when "uncle" Ickie was there to protect him from all the other big fellows at the show :)

Two happy boys!

Corny was not approved this year.

He is not fully developed yet and needs more time to become the stallion we think - and hope - is hiding inside him.

But he was clean at x-ray and did a really good driving test -

we are very happy and proud of our little baby! :)

When does this end?????? I`m sooooo tired........

Corny and Mona during their driving test - they did the best test among the Tinkers - way to go!!!!!

He is a really nice driving horse - so sweet an calm - and he is always eager to please us :)

Let`s dance!

Sorry, I know you all must be tired of our favourite object Ickie now - but I just had to snap some pictures of him playing in the field today.

We are taking him to the stallion approval next weekend and we are very excited to hear what the judges think about him now....

Well, here he is - trying his best to impress me with his acrobatic stunts!

Enjoy :)

~Elisabeth ~

Ickie

Finaly I figured out how to make a wideo. Just had to play a bith with Ickie to day - and do a test. The poor boy - he wasn't in the mood for playing to much. Yesterday he had a hard riding trip in the forrest - and he was trying to tell me tat all his mussles vas sour... and he was missing one shoe. The por boy did his best to pleace me anyway.

Enjoy!

Teddybear

I had to blog some pictures of our mascot Lilo - she is so hairy - just like a teddybear!

She is 7 months now and a real heartbreaker - I believe she will grow into a beautiful little lady :)

Not to clean though - it is unfortunatelly almost impossible keeping the horses clean in all the rain and mudd we`ve had this winter......
She looks like a fuzzy, little donkey hihihi......
I can`t wait to see what hides beneath all that hair :)

~ Elisabeth ~

woho - snow!!

Today we woke up and it was all white outside. Its so nice - we've had rain, raind and mor rain this month. The horses were happy to - Thinka and Penny were happy to pose for me in a little photo shoot. Tomorrow the wether forecast is talking about more rain....

"Come on Penny, do lite this!"

A little breake - Penny is so hairy it is impossible to see what she looks like uinderneat all the coat.

Ickie

Just some new photos of Ickie - He'll be 5 years this year. Today I brought him with me to Elisabeth and Mikal - Mikal had to put on some new shoes. He was a bit exited about seeing the colts - and I had to take some new photos. Is this the best stallion in Norway?? I'm so looking forwards to hear wath the judges think of him march 8 we will know!!

Maia and Thinka

This fall Maia started taking riding classes. After we got Thinka we bring here allong and Maia ride her. Thinka is so inkredible nice and calm with her. So calm that Maia can ride her all by herselfe.
I sat up on her a bit yesterday - and then she was nothing but calm - trotting and jumping because she wanted to walk in front of the other horses. No doubt that se sees the different between adult and young riders.

She is sooking wet in theese photos - and her tummy is growing a lot theese days. During a break yesterday we coud see the foal moving arround - I'm affraid we have to give her a break from the riding soon. Dont know how I'm gonna get mye 5 year old to understand that thoug.

The kavaletti fence is a huge sucsess - only walking over it - but Maia is so proud - she had to make shore I got it with the camera.
There are 6 pupils in Maia's group. All the same age as here. She is the only one that rides all by her selfe - an off course - mommy is soo proud:)
Look at that tummy!! I believe she is due in march - I'm so looking forwards to see what's inside. One thing is for shore - it is an active foal - I seldom se that much activity as in her.

Jens Peder whom I bougt her from told me that Thinka is a nice driving horse. Itried it out a couple of days ago - an yes - I have another driving horse as well. Rigth now I'm playing with the thougt of putting her together with Ickie in front of a waggon. I sooo want to drive two hoses at once.

- Mona -