Frodo Has A New Trick!

We've been having a very busy week with some rather epic efforts in terms of activity.  Today Margaret came an extra day to help us get a head start on some of the jobs we want to get done before our course in a month's time....so spring cleaning has commenced!  Tidying up the back of the barn, which will transform it from store area into classroom/teaching area.  All the rubber mats that were down in the winter to help us navigate through the mud have to be extracted, dried and cleaned off.  Margaret's done an impressive job with sorting these out.  The mats are quite heavy even when they are dry and mud-free so the easiest way of moving them is in the link box of the little tractor.  After having a break for lunch, we came out to find Frodo standing in the link box on the back of the tractor and he seemed to rather enjoy playing with the mats that were in it!

We've been able to start cleaning up the tack room as well so we've managed to achieve quite a lot today.

We've also managed to find a buyer for our Strada saddle this week.  A lady posted on the Strada forum searching for the exact size and type of saddle that we had been donated.  After email exchanges with information and photos, the lovely lady has agreed to buy it and has enabled us to raise £500 for the ponies.  The only slight difficulty was that it needed to be sent to France - the buyer has been happy to cover the courier cost too.  After some initally scary quotes of over £500(!!) for shipping, making us worry that we'd lose the sale (!!) we found a much more reasonably priced courier and the saddle will be going off to it's new home tomorrow.  We hope Charlotte and her pony have many happy hours together riding with their new saddle!  A huge thank you to Jenny for helping with the epic task of packing it up...we never seem to have a box big enough so end up having to merge boxes together.

Topsy's continuing to enjoy her walks out and has seen all manner of traffic, trailers, dogs and walkers and is doing brilliantly.  The boys are enjoying lots of time playing together.  This evening they were galloping circuits around the field before dinner!  Last week Faye came out of the barn to find Frodo fast asleep on the mats in the yard - they're really nice and warm in the sunshine.  He was so asleep he didn't even wake up when she went across the yard and his front legs were moving - he was dreaming...obviously about running!  It didn't make a good photo though...he was so asleep he looked dead in the photo!  We should have taken a video but he'd have almost certainly have woken up if we'd gone to get the right camera!

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