Baga-Pictures

Jenny don't wanted to be on the picture but I managed to get this one :o)))))
And then Jenny was allowed to try my camera ;-)

Camera back

Yesterday I got my camera back again!!! I tested her immediately and took one picture on our balcony of the Iceland Poppy (Islandmohn) which is growing there ;-) I hope that I can take some pictures of Baga today because I will show my neighbour Jenny how to handle Baga. Jens and me will be at the Baltic Sea from tommorrow until Thursday and I am rather nervous to leave Baga alone soooo long ;-) But Jenny is a fine girl and also owned horses before so she knows what to do and will always keep me informed. Jens and me will celebrate a little bit because we became engaged 8 years before (on 30.05.) at the same place where we will be on Wednesday. Further we both need to realax a little bit because we are/were hard working and it's better to have some time without telephone and computer. Only reading books, looking TV, eating and walking at the beach!
But I hope I will find many emails of you, my friends, in my mailbox if I arrive at home on Thursday ;-)

News

Two weeks has passed and now I have to inform you short how it works with Baga in her new home. I think Baga is feeling fine and she managed to be the boss of the herd now. She is still with some fighting-wounds but nothing dangerous. Sometimes the horses are standing very peaceful together but it's possible that suddenly one of the horses starts a new attack. But Baga is not impressed about something like that and is only showing her ass and then everything is finished. Only sometimes if she is in the right mood she wants a revenge and then she is hunting the other horses over the paddock ;-) Nevertheless Baga always can sleep in peace - also lying on the ground. Then the arabian horses are taking care about her. Although Baga is very dominant with the horses I don't have big problems to work or walk with her. One day she was in fear because of a small creek (nothing to speak of) but I could manage that she was not running away and I got her back to her paddock without accidents ;-)

Yesterday we learned something about groundwork and it worked very fine. Now I am very excited about the next lesson.

Unfortunately my camera is still in repair but now I got the quotation and gave the order for the repair. I hope that I will get my camera soon back and that she will work fine for a long time!!! So today I tried to take some pictures of Baga with my mobile phone (they are black and white because the colours were so strange) but everybody who knows Baga (or everybody who knows curious icelandic horses) will understand that this wasn't easy! Her nose was everywhere ;-)

Home Sweet Home

Today we went to Handeloh to get Baga and to bring her home to me. I was very nervous because Baga never liked to go into a horse-trailer and I was not sure how calm she would be during the two hours drive. But everything worked fine!!!
Baga didn't made any trouble because of the trailer - she only was thinking and sniffing a little bit and then she followed me into it!!! She also was very calm during the drive. She was so silent as if she wasn't on the trailer ;-)
As we arrived home on the Fire Lake Ranch, Baga first got the possibility to check the district. She seemed not to be nervous or similar and started to eat grass immediately! So bit by bit we gave the two mares on the same paddock. Nothing happened. The mares looked at each other and went on eating ;-) Some time ago we decided to put the gelding also on the same paddock because everything was very peaceful - but not longer! He attacked Baga immediately and they fighted together a short time. Then he went away to his mares and also started to eat grass. But the discussion was not over! He came again and again but Baga didn't left her position. If he came, she immediately showed him her ass and moved it ;-) Then he went away from her more often and the time between the attacks became longer.

Baga has a little bite-wound now on her throat but it's nothing bad and the gelding has small wounds on his front-legs. Both horses got an ointment (ísl. = smyrsl) on their wounds and the rest of the time was it nearly peaceful. All 4 horses will stay on this paddock this night and tommorrow Baga and one mare will stay there and the two other horses will go to another paddock with more grass.
I also cleaned Baga a little bit and got much of her winter-coat out of her. Then she got some body lotion on her neck (where the skin is hard and dry) and I plied her with "insect spray". She didn't liked it very much but she was not running away (or I should say she didn't moved very fast so that I could follow her with the spray) but I was a little bit unhappy about the spray and need to find out in the next days how to work with it better.
The owner of the stable/ranch has free time tommorrow and he will be with the horses nearly the whole day. Unfortunately I have to work and to sort out some things like bringing my camera to the post-office and buying some horse-food but after that (and after cooking some meal) I will go to Baga IMMEDIATELY!!!

I need to emphasize (taka fram) that Baga acted today exemplary/ideal!!! She was so cool and so good to handle and also Peter (the owner of the arabs and the stable) likes her much! No fight came from Baga's side, she is fine if the other horses also act fine. I also had fear about her because the other horses are very big (about 1,67 m) but I think Baga is able to tackle this.

I'll keep you informed how everything works.

Gott kvöld og góða nótt!

Mayday and May Day

About two weeks ago I told you what I was planning to do the next days. Now I want to tell you what actually happened ;-)

I really was taking some pictures at the breeding show on 19.04. and it worked fine. Only my camera decided to make trouble again and so I stopped without taking pictures of the riding-horses. But here you can see a picture of a mare in the confirmation assessment (byggingardómur). Her name is Dagrún von Hof Osterkamp and she is daughter of Leikur frá Lækjarbotnum and Fífa frá Herríðarhóli. Because of the trouble which my camera made I decided not to take more pictures of the breeding show on Friday and went to a village near my home to visit some iceland-horse-friends and to meet my new riding instructor. I hope we will do fine together but I am sure about this ;-)

Few days after the breeding show I was taking pictures at a firmakeppni on the same farm where the breeding-show was. It was great weather and I got my first sunburn. It was no problem to take about 1400 pictures and I was glad that my camera was fine again!!! See attached a picture of my friend Claudiii with her horse Órion frá Tréstöðum in skeið.

I didn't brought my car into the workshop because my mechanic was too busy :o(( Now we will try it again this Saturday. My poor car is running and running, I think I made about 10.000 km in 6 months... Here you can see a picture taken by me out of the window during driving on the highway very early in the morning. On Friday I drove to the North Sea to visit my parents who spent their holidays there. My father is unfortunately rather sick and the air is much more fresh on the North Sea so they decided to try these holidays to get him more healthy. On Sunday I drove back but made a stop at the farm where Baga lives because they had an event there. Unfortunately I have not many pictures because my camera decided after 60 pictures that she wants to die *grrrr*. Helvíti ljósmyndavél!!!!! I tried it again and again but she always had the same error... Now I have to buy a new one. Great that I am such a rich bitch that I can buy a new camera almost immediately for soooo less money (Attention: irony!!!). I am checking if a repair would be worth to be done but I am afraid that not. Why does she need to broke down one week before Baga is coming to me??? I want pictures of her with her new friends - 3 arabian horses!!! And pictures of Baga in a rape-seed-field....Baga in summer-coat...further Sigrún wants pictures of Baga and me :o)))

But now I stop grumbling because I want to sit outside in the sun and clean all my horse-stuff which I took with me on Sunday. In 5 days we will pick-up Baga and drive her home to me. But I am already getting nightmares because I know that she hates horsetrailers...please keep your fingers crossed that everything will work fine, that Baga will find friends in the 3 arabian horses and that no-body and no-horse will get hurt.