18 October 2010

From their Auntie P.....

"Hulloo!

How are you doing without your boys? .....

Anyhoo... the loons are doing fine. Malachy and Likely follow me around like a pair of big dogs and are just eager beavers to look and learn... I confess I have not laughed out loud so much for a long time.

Charlot is... well I feel he is not quite sure what he is doing here but is giving it a go. I almost get the feeling that he wants company other than the Hobbits (sorry but my big lad Spike is grey and 17.1 and is about to be renamed Gandalf...), I digress, ... he is ok but either missing what he knows up at yours or not quite sure what to make of me. It'll be interesting to see how he and Spike get on when they meet.

I feel Charlot needs a confident leader to follow - if he sniffs so much as a thought of uncertainty then he loses all faith and goes into panic mode... very like my Spike...

I do truly believe our horses find us to teach us the lessons we need to learn at that moment of our lives (if we choose to listen!!!) ... Spike and Charlot make me step up to the plate and be worth trusting and following... which is making me believe more in myself ... at the moment I do it as that is what THEY need... but hopefully soon as that is WHO I AM!!! Horses are mirrors of our souls eh?

Auntie H came up today for a bit of Hobbit therapy... the weather was foul so we took them into steading 3 and had a play with picking up feet, being tied up at the wall and then walking around with something over your back, flapping at your legs etc. None of the 3 batted an eyelid when the folded rug was on them but the looks on their faces when they saw it on another was priceless!

If we are happy and secure - THEY are happy and secure.

Charlot I think feels he has to step up and show the little'uns how brave he can be and not to be scared at new things - but they in turn show him that people are actually not at all half bad.

I took a couple of bits of video today when taking down an electric fence... (See below)

Some pics of the play in the steading (I SWEAR I will never rug them - I just want them used to things moving and flapping around them and it was all I had to hand -honest Frances!)

Auntie P"

I couldn't want for better, could I? Damn, crying again.... Look at his happy little face!