Sorry!!!

Sorry for the long break but like everytime I didn’t found enough time to blogg. There is a lot of work to do now and I try to spend every free minute with Baga. Unfortunately we didn’t worked much together the last weeks but we managed to walk a little through the village and country from time to time.
Now the weather is rather boring since about two weeks and it’s hard to take pictures outside. Further Baga always tries to crawl into my lense what makes it more and more difficult to take pictures of her ;-)
One week after my last blogg – as the weather still was fine – I took some pictures of an icelandic horse. It was a nice mare named Síða and I got some very nice shots. After this I visited my parents and spent some nice time with them.
The next two weekends I was rather lazy: only somtimes working on the computer, doing some housework and sleeping on the sofa because I am often very tired from work. From now until end of September I will only work and never have any free minute for me. I hope I’ll find enough time for Baga and me during the weekends.
At the moment I am trying to get accredited for the world championships in Holland but I don’t think that I will manage this.
Today I had planned to take pictures at a tournament but the weather is so variable that I better stay at home. Maybe it looks better tommorrow. But the weather is ok to visit Baga and to clean out the horse-paddock so I did this some hours ago. I also tried to put her the eksem-coat on but I was rather unhappy with it. Not with Baga! She was brilliant! First I was thinking about putting her the halter on but then I decided to try it free on the paddock – and it worked. It was no problem to put the coat over her head (it is like if you put yourself a sweater on) and she stood still until I had found out how to turn it right. But the coat is rather big in my opinion. I’m afraid that she could hurt herself if she is lying on the ground and standing up again or wallowing herself. Further I first had scruple that maybe Íman could try to “undress” Baga because he is playing with everything on the paddock and is biting in everything what is lying in the paddock but I don’t needed to have this scruple because Baga immediately tried to undress herself *argh*. I think she don’t like her coat ;-) Stupidly it could help her in bad insect-times because the insects can not bite her if she is wearing the coat. Now I am thinking about a solution.
After the “fitting” I cleaned the paddock and later I wanted to take some pictures but then Peter arrived and I helped him a little bit in the stable. After it he was working on the fence and I was running over the paddock trying to get some nice pictures. Luckily Baga was so fascinated about Peters work that she was not crawling into my lense ;-)

Working on the ground

Today I took Baga and went to the roundpen again to try to speak in horse-language with her. It worked fine and much better than the first time. After I went to her and told her that she was a very good girl, she followed me immediately! I was very happy about this and am getting more and more brave every day ;-) Peter also worked a little bit with Baga so I could took some pictures of her.

After working with Baga I got one of the Arabian horses "Íman" - the gelding - and should do the same with him because I have a little respect/fear about him and so the normal handling is always difficult for me (cleaning Baga on the paddock in peace, leading Baga out of the paddock without the rest of the horses and so on) because he is always everywhere and not moving any meter if I want to send him away.

So I went with a bad feeling into the roundpen and tried the same like I did with Baga but it was not so easy like with Baga ;-) He immediately started in high gallop/stökk and was running and running and "monta sig" (I can not say this in english) and I was really confused about what to do now. But Peter helped me and told me what to do and suddenly it worked! I did faults like everytime but I noticed that he is also only a horse which is watching me precise and tries to read out of me what to do next. As I stopped - because everything was ok and I always want to end with a good result - I went to him, klappaði hann and suddenly he followed me like Baga did it before. Vááááá, what a great feeling :o))))
Further I worked with him on going backwards because often my problem is, that he is not going backwards if I want this! So I stood in front of him and if he came to near I waved with my arms and jumped up and down (luckily the myndavél was far away) and ... nothing happened. He always only raised his head higher and higher and I stood under him only seing the backside of his head ... the nose was far far away.... and I was going on with jumping and waving my arms like an insane. But anytime luckily he went away backwards - of course only because I went on his nerves :o))) But I was the winner!

Lífið er so spennandi, vinkonurnar mínar!

PS: I will change the colour of the blogg-background today because I read the whole text and got nearly blind. Could you ever read this white on black easily?