This is Ronny who we collected this morning from his foster mum Lily-Ann. She has five young children so he is very good with kids. He is from the GSPCA who found him in a bog drain so his breeding is unknown, but he looks a lot like a Parson Russell Terrier. He is about a year old and very well behaved, plus fairly laid back for his type and age. He even managed to fall asleep in the car on the way home, which is not an easy thing to do on the road from Tuam to Headford (lots of sharp bends).
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Sully's tack arrived yesterday in a large box from the online store, so Freya had her first ride today. She enjoyed herself apart from a small argument when she wanted me to ride Sully and I had to point out I would squish him. She had a go at a few short trots, reining back and hopping up a small step. Sully was very well behaved and leads very well, especially considering the neighbour's mare was flirting with him from the field opposite. He is a bit green in standing tied up and feet handling, so I have a few things to work on with him. With the long spell of good weather we've been having, we decided to get on and move the old muck heap whilst it was nicely dried out. This was piled up in front of what will be the horse shelter, right in the way of where I want to put the surface down for their yard area. Unfortunately it wasn't a simple muck heap but was full of plastic, bones and other debris that we had to remove as we dug it out. Still we did it over a period of three days and its great to see it gone. As you can see Brian has already started to take down the wall to make a second entrance to the shelter. The concrete wall will also go and the concreted area behind it will be included in the yard area.
This may seem like a minor thing, but it isn't to us! Ever since we arrived we have been relying on the original loo, which was pretty much knackered including a fairly alarming wobble. We also discovered (too late) that the loo's cistern was connected to the old rusty water tank in the shed rather than the main incoming water supply, so we have been flushing it with a bucket of water.
We bought a new loo a while ago but have been holding off on installing it until we have removed at least the bulk of the thatch as we didn't want to risk ruining the new one (which will be staying in the same corner and becoming the utility room loo eventually). We installed it (temporarily) yesterday and it feels like a real luxury to have a proper loo again. Freya's new pony (and Trigger's new friend) arrived this afternoon. He is just what I originally wanted - Dinky from Parshalls Farm, only male and without the biting (sorry Dinky!). He's such a chilled out chap, he hasn't made a fuss about anything since he arrived. I will be introducing him to Trigger tommorrow morning, but I'm sure they will get on brilliantly. He's already been introduced to swede and Fast Fibre (which he approved of) and having cream on a bite (which he wasn't so sure about).
Sully is a rescue pony from Hungry Horse Outside, you can read his story on their facebook page here. Now the hay has been cut my parents and I took the chance for a walk around our fields with the map from our deeds, and discovered we had a few extra fields we didn't know about. We knew the four individual ones dotted about, as we have been using those. There is the one behind the house, the flat one on the corner I am planning on schooling in, the long thin one we are hoping to use as an allotment-type area (where we have put the muck heap and compost heap) and the small one Trigger is currently in. Then there is the three good ones that had been rented to a neighbour which were where most of the hay was cut from. We had only seen those from the road up to this point. What we found though was behind those three there was a well-kept field that couldn't be cut due to exposed bedrock, followed by another small field that had obviously been rented recently and was also cut. Finally, and unexpectedly, there were a further four small fields around the edge of the turlough. These have obviously not been touched in years, but they are quite pretty and also don't have anything poisonous growing and could be very useful for horse grazing at times to avoid spring grass problems.
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