Nelson A&P: 5 of 5

Well, last post from Nelson A&P 2011! Finally! I'm really not in
the right sort of mood to make a decent post today. Let's just say I
found out something yesterday that really destroyed my summer holidays.
Long story short it is near impossible for me to get a real horse now
to ride. Though mum told me yesterday she was thinking about swapping
her harness pony for a 14hh riding pony gelding...it confused me a bit,
why would you swap a horse for a horse when we could get Pandora for
nothing from her boss?! But, if she wants to do that, I'm not
complaining...the mini's will be gone soon, we have our last show
before christmas next weekend, then wee Magic will be going in foal
(exciting!!!) and mum's mini will quite possibly be doing the same. No
mini's means grass can grow for big horse!
Enough of my whining, here is Moutere Valley's Moonshine, or Moonie I
think they call her. She is Magic's sister, same mother. I was quite
annoyed when I saw her pictures as a foal, she is pinto, the next foal
out of Dusty (Magic's mother) after Magic and she is pinto!! They both
have pinto sires, yet Magic is just black, not a speck of white.....oh
welll, I love her all the same :)

Sorry about the bad photography there!!! I did not think to go round the other side where the sun would be on her!!!

And now I need to go check the
mail...and lunge the horses!! I'll leave you with one thing, if you
have not seen the movie Secretariat, do! It's fantastic!! I loved it!!!

Nelson A&P: 4 of 5

Sorry, I didn't manage to get on the computer during the weekend, so
here is the pictures I promised of the jumpers. Watching the jumping at
the shows would probably have to be one of my favourite parts!! The
types of horses range so much, and so does the tack. But anyway, here
goes, the jumpers of Nelson A&P!!

Can you tell I liked this horse??!!

This one reminded me a bit of Millie, and it was just an awesome horse!! Look at the bone on it!

No computer editing done on this pic, isn't it awesome!!

T'was a very pretty horse!!

And tomorrow I will post some pics of Moonshine, Magic's sister :)

Nelson A&P: 3 of 5

I think it was this one that was my brother's favourite one, so he ended up with lots or pictures orf this horse!! haha!

Imagine riding one of them!! They were
not overly tall, they are just big, like, solid big! And imagine the
power you'd feel, it would be quite a nice ride though if you got a
nice one, it'd be like riding a rocking horse! I love clydeys, not
overly sure why, but I fid them so fascinating, their feathers, their
colour everything!!
Well, yea, I don't really have much to say today...tomorrow I will post
the few pictures I took of the jumpers warming up.

Nelson A&P: 2 of 5

Carts this time!! I got my little brother to take these pictures for
mum, as she is right into her harness and stuff so I thought she would
probably want some more pictures to add to her collection!!

Such a bad way of leaving them!! I sure hope they don't store them this way!

This one is a hearse cart!

The Hearse again.

This is an interesting one, I am guessing this is how they transported logs??

This was a lovely gig!

When
we were doing our harness classes, there was about 3 photographers come
up to take pictures of us. Mum told me we made it into one of the
Nelson newspapers, she hasn't actually got a copy of the
picture/article yet though...and there is bound to be another we are
in.

Tomorrow, clydesdales!!! :)

Nelson A&P: 1 of 4 (or 5!!)

Didn't think much of this horse other than it's colour was so cool!!!

ba ha haa!! Love this pic!!! The position of the horse, the kids face, LOL!

Pixie the nutter horse!!! This is the pic I showed yesterday.

This is Moutere Valleys Moonshine, Magic's sister!

Wee Magic in the jumping. She is a hopeless jumper over hay bales!! She barely lifts her legs, just skims over the top!

Many more pics to come!! Clydesdales, and the carts they had there,
unfortunately those were not hooked up to any horses, just on display.
I took a few of the jumpers, not jumping though, because the course was
on the other side of the big truck (that the judges were in) to what we
were on, so was hidden from us really!!
Last exam tomorrow!!! WOOOO!! Then I need to get my butt into gear and
ask if I can use the paddock behind the house...you all know why by
now!! haha!

Nelson A&P

Just a quick note that I will get pics up from the show in the next few
days....just went to load a few on, and because we are on dial up here
it took forever, then it said they were loaded and so I clicked 'Done'
and bam, no pics!! grr, so sorry, no pics from the show today.
I will say that it went alright, no sashes in the Minature ring, but
mum got champion Harness and Magic 3rd out of 3 in EVERYTHING because
she is just a lazy little toad that would NOT trot properly but canter
whenever I tried to get her trotting properly. She better behave better
at the next show (yes, that would be a threat!! haha!).
So anyway, thought I woud share this, thought it was rather funny, as
these are the ponies I have so far as well, the same 3 OF models and 1
CM!! haha!
http://chestnuthillstudio.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/dun-purchases/#respond

But, because every post needs a photo,
here's one I just randomly clicked on, no doubt it will show up again
in the next post with the other pics!! And look at that! It's Pizie, the nutter horse with her new owner!!

The $100 Pony

Meet our newest mini, called Penny Pony by her previous owner, unnamed
as yet with us!! Any suggestions?? I spent about an hour brushing her
today to get most of that yucky winter fluff out, which, I must say,
makes her look way better than she did yesterday (when these pics were
taken). Unfortunately someone hogged off her mane and it is starting to
grow back, making her neck look funny. But she is a real sweetie, she
reminds me of Magic, turning her head to 'nibble' when I was brushing
her, seeing what the lunge rope tasted like, not sure it's a good thing
we have another Magic!!!
She is a rescue pony of sorts, from Arapawa Island out in the sounds,
the lady we got her off found her advertised in the paper to give away,
long story short, she saved her from potentially being dog food and
then rehomed her (to us!!). She isn't in the best of condition, but
being down the road in knee high grass should do her some good!!
I
actually can't be bothered writing much more! I'm in one of those 'do I
have to?' kind of moods, started all day really when I was told by
Ruff's (have I posted about him? I don't think I have, tomorrow's
post!!!) owner that she'd ring me back this afternoon and come pick me
up to go for a ride, that was 10 o'clock this morning, it is now 8 pm
and I have not heard zilch from her. Oh well, I guess I can't complain
too much, I do get to ride, what I need to do to get up the courage to
go and ask the neighbour if I can borrow part of the hill paddock just
behind my house so that I can get Pandora and break her in. Then I can
ride whenever I want!! Yayyy!

I hate dark horses

They are just so darn hard to take decent pictures of!!! The sun (and
well, any light) reflects off them, and it's usually in all the wrong
places!!! But anyway, here is the latest guy I have managed to finish!!
He is nameless at the moment, so any ideas are most welcome!! and any
opinions/critique is welcome too (especially on his eyes, I'm not sure
about them, they seem to stand out too much to me).

I'm not sure which pic to use out of the one above and the one below...

Sorry about the cruddy pics!!

Done and dusted

well, after sitting around unfinished for well over a month he probably
almost did need a dusting!! And I have a strange little feeling this
guy is the first CM of mine I have shared as I have finished it...oops!
And pretty bad pics today, lets just say at 6pm with the stupid weather
trying to rain, the lighting isn't the best! So I had to use the flash,
so better pics tomorrow, maybe..I have my first exam tomorrow, maths,
oh joy!

Wordless Wednesday

On a friday...yup! I really don't have much to talk about today. We
have finished school for the year (well, the little ones are still
going, right up until almost christmas), they call it 'Study Leave' but
finishing on Wednesday with my first exam on Monday, it's not much of a
study leave really.
But the days are warming up, today is pretty hot, which also means I
get to ride alot more!!! And maybe finally convince mum to get me that
horse! Still need to figure out how I am going to ask the neighbour if
I can use the paddock behind my house...
In modelly news, I have this wee guy I have been working on on and off
for awhile now...he's getting closer to what I want. I think I will
just put another layer or so on the other side(which seems to have
fallen behind somehow!) and then darken up his legs, then he'll just
need all his acrylic details.