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Why waste money on expensive training aids when all you need is a headcollar, a lungerope, a bunch of friends and about 60 cm powder snow ;)

It’s cold here now, big surprise! It’s cold in Norway! Haha well, it’s cold!! We’ve had temperatures between -7 and -25 C every day since Christmas. And even colder some days, and at night. We try to make the most of it but I have to admit that the horses have had a few too many days off this past month.

Today the temperature was around -13 C and the suns… Continue

Knock down a fence
Kill your instructor
Get out of jumping a fence
All this in today’s episode of ”TSSP learning to jump”

Saturday the pony had her first jumping lesson. We’ve jumped lots of times before but this was the
first lesson with an instructor. Astri (who rides the pony a few times a week) was there to capture all this on camera! This whole blog is in fact inspired by her. Enjoy!

First one out, how to knock down a fence:

A few steps before takeoff decide you don’… Continue

Well, this picture says it all.

The Pony (who looks really small in this picture) finally got the beat right in the trot and I could ask her for more, and more and more until she understood what I was asking and stretched her little legs out as far as she could. Oh I love that pony so much!!

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It’s now been almost two weeks without my beloved Linda. It feels like years. I miss her so so much and ever time I’m in the fields I automatically look for her. But she’s not there. And she never will be again. I miss her!

My reason for getting up in the morning, now that Linda is gone, has to be the Pony. She’s doing remarkably well in everything I throw her into and I couldn’t be more proud of her. It feels OK to be back in the stables and back on a horse and when we are out riding I can clo… Continue

This is hard for me to write, No doubt about it. I’m walking around in an insomniatic sate with tears in my eyes and a huge lump in my stomach. I didn’t know it was possible to cry as much as I have been these last few days.

I have received many words of comfort and many hugs, and even tho I do appreciate i… Continue