Hello everyone, sorry it has been a while since blogging. I am 9 weeks pregant and have been spending far too much time with my head down the toilet! I am not worried though, I have been sick during all my pregnancies and the good news is that it goes away after the first 12 weeks.
Melody and Laudie have been sold to lovely homes and I have bought 2 new mares, Nita and Belle. They are both black, beautiful and bought for us to breed from this year. They have great bloodlines and Nita has a fantastic competition history. Tess is also being put in foal, she is going to End House Stud in May, along with Belle. Nita needs to put on some condition first, so will probably be going to the same stud when we collect the other 2 (who hopefully will be scanned in foal by then).
The kids are getting very enthusiastic about the horses now that it is getting drier and lighter. They had their first jumping lesson at the weekend and were very good. I will attach some pictures to this blog. Finn is coming on really well and is hacking now in busy traffic all by himself! I was getting sick of his long mane, so hogged it with a pair of scissors at the weekend! It is a bit bobbly but I still think he looks handsome.
I am hoping to take Ellie jumping on Friday night to do 65cm, 75cm and 85cm classes and possibly going jumping on Sunday day time to do 95cm and 105cm trailblazer classes (although not decided which horse to take yet).
My short-term plan at the moment is to advertise Ellie and Finn in the next month (they are both ready for sale). I will replace them with either one selling horse and another broodmare or 2 selling horses. Being pregnant, I will have to avoid youngsters or nut cases! Not that I make a habit of buying nut-cases, I hasten to add!
We have finished collecting woodchip now and have collected loads of huge silage bags from the family farm to lay down as a retaining/weed membrane. We are now just waiting for the JCB to level the ground and shift the woodchip.
