...it's summertime...

...and a relaxed attitude is key..

Here at WW we've been taking things easy and spending quality time together.  Just the close proximity of the boys, calms and relaxes me.  They are my medicine.  I love them so much.

..so, todays post is dedicated to nice pictures of Tom and Henry, what more could anyone need?

summertime...

oh, them ponies...

it's been quiet around here, too hot to ride often, and lots to do around the place.  hedgerimming to name but one.

Tom & Henry are both very well, looking good and eating lots of grass.  their diets seem to be working and Tom's girth is much easier to do-up now - which is a scientific measurement of weight-loss.

the fields are still green, and very soon harvest time will bring out all the huge farm machinery.  and tractors will converge in our lane, and work all night too.

..what happened to May!!...?

...it's June already!...
what happens to all the time?

...well, Tom and Henry are getting out and about, they're a picture of gleaming health and getting fitter (and faster). 

We're doing lots of trotting on fields and farmers tracks (not roads to minimise concussion), and transitions because it's fittening.

...after my vet told me Tom could lose some weight, and the painful stab to the heart I felt at letting him get this way because I love him so much had abated (some), his girth is already easier to get done up.   Soon, I'll need to go back to the smaller one!!    

Yey us!!! ....and doubled-up small-holed haynets!!!

...the paddocks are green and flourishing, the hedgerow I just planted is growing fast and they love to prune the tips of the growing shoots.  

...so, in short, all good here..

...aw, them 'orses....

...for the love of Tom & Henry...

...more photo-journal stuff, and how Tom really is slimming down for the beach, and nearly a year after his accident, where he had 37 stitches in his shoulder, he's recovered just fine xxx

...easter...

...a bank holiday to remember...

....amazing weather, great riding.  Exclusive access to open fields - recently tilled, soft and perfect surface for hooves.

The floor of the woods covered in a blanket of bluebells...Tom being a great horse as usual, Henry being Henry (as usual).

Fittening trotting and transitional work.

...then Monday....a day off in the pasture...