...springtime....

...and the land needs attention...

...the top 2 fields are done, but the final one - the 'pony paddock', the one that gets the maximum hoof-fall needs some serious harrowing,  and this is the weekend to do it, because the grass is growing fast.

My neighbours land, Boob-tube Lisa's, was being farmed last night, through the night.  Tractors with their lights on working all night in the dark.  It reminded me that time - like land - can wait for no man.  I need to get out in the Landy at the weekend myself and see to my paddock, with Placebo playing to keep me in rhythm.

You'll see from the photos with Min modeling the deep hoof-shaped ruts, there's lots of hard divots from rampaging Trakehners - I will work this to the extreme, re-seed and make this a perfect surface for growing healthy grass.


As you can see Tom and Henry are very proud of their grazing.

.... Coco, get off my land!  

..it's in the air, it's everywhere...

Spring.

Tom & Henry are quite excited about the warmer, longer days.  More grass, more freedom, less udder cream.  They express their joy in one particular way - rampage!

 

Now you'll notice with a few of these shots, I am quite close, at one point I was diving for the fence to safety, and have broken the land speed record for fastest 100 metre sprint in wellies - through thick mud!

 

anyway, I risked life an limb to get these, so you don't have to.

 

enjoy.

 

 

 

 

...no shoes were lost during the filming of this sequence.

 

I make no apologies for the number of photos, Trakehners at liberty, that can't be beaten in my view.

...spring is coming...

..the birds are singing, and the boys are happy x

The days are getting longer, and the grass is growing.  All change at WW.   I'm waiting for the land to dry out before I can keep Tom and Henry out 24/7, which is what they like. 

As you can see from the photos, my pasture is going to need a lot of work to get looking and growing beautifully again.

There's still lots of mud about for rolling fun, and the horses are enjoying every moment.  Tom is losing his winter coat now, and though I keep repeating a cautionary note to him and say it still might snow, he's having none of it!

Henry doesn't care either way, as you'd expect.