Its been a while since I updated the blog. We have just been so busy trying to get jobs done before the winter weather started to kick in.

Anyway we failed misrabley as we are already on our second winter storm of the season and we still have loads of jobs to do.

We now have two extra horses to care for. My new paint mare (Jill) and the new lesson pony (Princess).

They did not come without their problems. Jill arrived and because we have one gelding here she immediately came into season and pestered him until he was mounting her.So I had to move her in with my two ponies, who are both girls.

Then the new lease pony arrived. She started by being scared of every one especially Jill who was a bit of a bully with her as she was the only horse newer than she was.

So Jill had to move back in with the big horses, but by this time she had settled down a lot and was not pestering the gelding with her tarty attentions.

Now two weeks later Princess has gone from being scared of everyone to being boss of the pony field.

Meanwhile we have had two goodly sized storms for which we were very ill prepared.

We have a snow blower that we bought second hand but come the first snow storm it wouldn't work.

we had to dig out our driveway. It took us 5 hours to get it clear enough to get the car out to go and get some snow blower supplies. After changing the plugs putting in stabelizer and new gas it still wouldn't go.

We have since taken it to the menders and it is now working. Yay!!!

I have also done a lot of mucking out sas we have had the horses in a few night due to the storms.

We are working on clearing out a large shed in the pony field to give them a shelter. Just one of the jobs we had hoped to complete before the winter storms.

If we can get it done it will mean less nights where the ponies have to come into the barn.

Apparantly we are in for a winter like the good old days - yippee