Hestamyndir

New blogg!!!!!

2007-09-05T04:47:00.000Z

Countdown

2007-09-02T05:36:00.001Z

Thank you for the last comments my friends, unfortunately I am not able to write any comments in my own blogg (again). I don't have many news but I can tell you that there came a new horse into Baga's herd on Friday and she has been kicked badly. Baga is not really injured but has some contusions on her chest now. It was very hard to see it because she nearly felt down after the kick and came to me immediately...on three legs :o((( She was trembling all-over and not using her left front-leg. But after some minutes the shock was over and she started to eat with the other horses. I have not seen any more fight after this and I don't know who is the new boss of the herd. We will see in some days... Here you can see one picture of Friday. Unfortunately I can not upload more pictures because this blogg is a bad blogg. Can anybody please lend me a kennitala that I can try blog.is? *grrrrrr*

Iman looking at the new mare.

Baga-News

2007-08-19T12:26:00.000Z

Today I was sitting on Baga again after many many months. You remember that I am at the moment only working from the ground because I think this main work is very important for us both. But I was so curious and felt good so I jumped on her after the ground-work today and was riding her a little bit - only with halter and rope. It was great to see how good it worked!!!

Champions of the stallions

2007-08-13T16:42:00.000Z

Worldchampion of the 5 years old stallions: Fránn frá Vestri-Leirárgörðum (IS)

Worldchampion of the 6 years old stallions: Dalvar frá Auðsholtshjáleigu (IS) (on the picture)

Worldchampion of the 7 years and older stallions: Garri frá Reykjavík (IS)

The pictures of the stallions are also online now here: http://skinfaxa.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6265

A-Finals T2

2007-08-13T13:12:00.000Z

New world champion in T2: Jolly Schrenk with Laxness vom Störtal

Here you can find the pictures of the A-Finals T2: http://skinfaxa.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6165

A-Finals T1

2007-08-13T09:34:00.000Z

My dearest friends, I am very sorry but it was not so easy like I thought to work on a computer during the World Championships so maybe you only found my picture of Dalvar frá Auðsholtshjáleigu on the frontpage of Worldfengur. I will write you a longer story about the WC later but now I have to rush because many many pictures need to be send into internet. I will keep you updated the next days because it surely needs days/weeks to get all my pictures into internet ;-) First I uploaded the pictures of the A-Finals T1 today. New world champion is Stian Pedersen with Jarl frá Miðkrika. All pictures of the A-Finals T1 are on my website: http://skinfaxa.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6040

World Championships for Icelandic Horses

2007-08-06T04:17:00.000Z

In the night of Thursday to Friday we will start our tour to Holland. I got accreditated and Jens has tickets in the Iceland-block :o))) I am very excited and hope that I will find the time at HM to upload the newest pictures and news into my blogg. Are there any favourite horses which you wanted to get pictures of, my friends? I am spennt to see Dalvar frá Auðsholtshjáleigu again and one horse is competing for Holland which is named Roði frá Lágafelli. He is related to Baga and I want to show her pictures of him later ;-)
Read you again on Friday the 10th!

I'm a cowgirl :o)))

2007-07-23T04:16:00.001Z

Sorry!!!

2007-06-30T15:39:00.000Z

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

2007-06-02T18:28:00.001Z

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?

Baga-Pictures

2007-05-26T11:16:00.000Z

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

2007-05-26T06:06:00.000Z

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

2007-05-20T16:20:00.000Z

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

2007-05-06T17:57:00.000Z

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

2007-05-01T10:41:00.000Z

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.

18.04.2007

2007-04-18T16:22:00.000Z

Hæ my friends, it's unbelievable but I am not able to post any comment in my blogg-page. It's the same problem like often with the log-in-page. I click on the link, it starts to work, the page is getting white and stays white for the next 5 or 50 minutes *argh*. Regarding the posted comments:
Sigrún: Takk fyrir að sjá eftir dagbókinni mín. Baga er fjórgangshestur en án tölt í augnablik. First we have to work on more important things before I start tölting Baga. If I am riding Baga again I will ask somebody to take pictures of us for you :o)))
Mona: Gratuliere zum zweiten "Ei"! Ich bin begeistert. Freut mich sehr für euch zwei. Ich wünsche Dir viel Spaß in Dänemark und Deutschland!!!

Like promised I will now write a little bit more about my visit at Baga. On Sunday I arrived there around 10 o'clock and Martina was still working (moka út skit) so I went to have a look at her newborn foal. I saw from afar that the foal was sleeping and wanted to rush to get pictures of it but suddenly I saw Baga - also sleeping on the ground. So I forgot the foal immediately and sneaked into her paddock to take pictures until she was sleeping. I thought she would stand up if she would notice that I am coming but she only blinked into the sun and decided to go on sleeping. I could take lots of pictures of her in this time but later I decided to try to walk beside her. Baga was totally not worried about me and short time ago I was sitting next to her - fondling her neck and mane. Her head went more and more heavier and suddenly her head lay on my leg. Then she awoke again and looked around herself as if she wanted to ask "Where am I, what happened?" She was sooo cute :o))))))
Unfortunately I have no picture of this moment because nobody was near us but the moment was too fine to be shared by others, so it's ok.

Of course I was also looking after the foal as I could break away from Baga. It is a great foal, very happy and full of joy and also curious. First I thought it would not come to me and only stay with its mother but I was wrong. Suddenly it stood in front of me and before I could take a picture it was running away again. But it repeated this many times again so of course I have some usable pictures for you :o)))

Now I will quit for today. Tommorrow I will try to take pictures in a breeding show and on Friday I will go on with this but maybe I will also meet some icelandic-horse-peoples near me to speak about trainers and so on. On Saturday I have to send my car to a workshop and on Sunday I will be at a Firmakeppni near my home to take pictures.

That's my week!

Somebody here?

2007-04-16T17:42:00.000Z

Hæ all! Sorry for the uneven blogging but like many of you know my computer had been broken for long time. Further I sometimes tried to log into the blogg-page but I could not reach it or if I could arrive the frontpage I could not write a new post ;-(

But now I seem to have luck and want to write you a little bit or more show you few pictures. I was not taking so very much horse-pictures in last time because I also needed to do a lot of extra-work and further I had not often enough horses near me who wanted to be photographed. At the moment I am more often taking pictures of soccer than of horses :o)))

On Saturday I visited a stable in my village because I want to get Baga to me now as soon as possible. I miss her much and I think we now need to start to know each other better and this will never work if she lives 150 km away from me and I am only visiting her 1 or 2 times a month. It surely will not be easy to make this step because I am so unkwown in having a horse with me but I think we will manage this.

As I was looking at this one stable in my village I used this chance and took some pictures of two arabian horses who are living there. I only took pictures during they have been ridden but the next time I want to put them into a rapeseed-field (in deutsch: Rapsfeld).

Now I have to go but I try to write very soon what I did on Sunday as I visited Baga.

Attention!!!! New experience....

2007-02-17T16:28:00.000Z

Today I made an experiment with the hooves of my horse Baga because she urgently needed a pedicure (fine ladies need something like this at odd times). It was a new experience for me to work with hooves - and it was a new experience for Baga that I am working with her hooves ;-) But like you can see we had much fun:

Snow Pictures

2007-02-17T07:25:00.000Z

Hæ all. Here you can see some pictures from last weekend. Today I am driving to Baga again and probably I will ride a little bit. Have a nice weekend.

Greifi frá Köldukinn

A son of Fjölnir

Baga frá Lágafelli

Orka

Sorry

2007-02-15T05:58:00.000Z

Sorry girls, I didn't had the time to blogg the last weeks and sometimes I couldn't reach this page by myself because of any errors. Not many things happened but last weekend I was at a stallions-"show" (Hengstkörung) in Neumünster and took some pictures. Unfortunately there were only few icelandic horses. You can find the pictures on www.skinfaxa.net

That's the winner of the icelandic stallions. His name is Harthaknut and he got 8.0 total.

On Sunday after the stallions-show I wanted to drive to Neumünster again but the weather was not good and we have been told by the radio that it's better not to drive norður. So I spent a nice day with Martina and took many horse pictures and we also made a sledge-tour (sleði) with the Shetland Pony Jenny ;-) It was very funny and I still felt my back many days after this fun....

New pictures of my horses

2007-01-27T06:51:00.000Z

Like I told you, I visited Baga last week. Unfortunately the weather was so bad that I only manged to ride some rounds in fet/walk. It was very heavy wind and rain so I didn't took one picture ;-(((

But...sem betur fer... my friends in Iceland are always taking pictures of my horses so I will show you these wonderful ones!

Silfri photographed by Magga!

SSSól photographed by Ransý!

Skvísa photographed by Mona!

This is the big brother of Skvísa. I find him very cute and nice looking. He is for sale and I wish I could...but I can not!

This weekend I am visiting my parents and next weekend I will relax a little bit because in february I will be on the way every weekend. Read you later...

Nothing to blog

2007-01-16T04:39:00.000Z

Hæ all!

Sorry for the late break but there was/is nothing special or spennandi for me to blog. I have not seen one horse until desember and am only working and doing extra work. Hopefully I will manage to visit Baga this weekend to go on with our riding-lessons.

See you, Sabine.

New Year - new website

2006-12-31T09:53:00.000Z

In the last two days I spent all my free time to update my icelandic website www.hestamyndir.com and now I uploaded the new files. Of course are there only few of my pictures but less is sometimes more ;-)

I wish you all a great day and night and hope that you find a good way into the new year.

Merry Christmas / Gleðileg Jól

2006-12-24T10:27:00.000Z

I wish you and your family and all your animals a wonderful christmas-time and -celebration!

Short time before christmas

2006-12-22T05:33:00.000Z

Now the most stress is gone and I only have to go to work today and then we will spend some relaxed days with my sister in law. That's why I sent all my christmas-emails yesterday. I hope nobody got it twice or not. Sorry for everybody who didn't got an email. But I will blogg on 24.12. my christmas-wishes here. Today I only show you two pictures from last year in Iceland to open the winter-season!