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Little sister being in the spotlight but look at HER with her little flowercrown!

So, there was a Charity Photoshooting at a local dog boutique and IDK look at Holly with the flowers! LITTLE FAIRY PRINCESS! 🥰😭

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Behold! A wet beast and her ghost husband.

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Every time i come back from the barn and my boyfriend dares say i reek of horse, i get deeply offended, even though i most definitely reek of horse

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A glam shooting! 👁👅👁

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So, we let these two have some run time together to see how it goes and turns out, it goes great!

Madam turns on her mom-mode and maakes sure nothing gets too wild, while hubby gladly oblidges.

What good little gongers these two can be, when they want to. 😉

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frolicking with mama :)

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"Hur-Dur!"

Well, who won 10/10 in being an annoying lil' butt again today?

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I just find this a very soothing picture, so I'mma share it with you. Hope it soothes your hurts too. <3

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Imagine sitting on this thing

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So, fellow iceland horse owning individuals, ain't it funny just how different icelandics that are bred on mainland Europe are from those born on Iceland?

Like, my horse and her horseband (hehe, I'm punny) are prime examples. She is austrian bred, he is imported from Iceland and of course there is that unfortunate summer excema thing, but also just in the way their, idk, brain chemistry works. Sure, they are two very different personalities too, but is it just me or is there just an actual obvious difference between the imported and the mainland bred icelandics?

Like, she is super friendly and outgoing, loves human attention and to have fun with human friends, knows exactly what a treat is and adores munching away on them every chance, she will watch you when tied and wait for you to do something fun with her while she also couldn't care less about shit going on like farm vehicles and such - him on the other hand will stand like a taxidermy once tied and if you offer him a treat, he will very slowly take it, like ohhhkay, he has no appreciation for vehicles and generally is more quiet and withdrawn, waiting for you to do a thing with him or not, really. Also ridden she will have a very annoying tendacy to try to know what you want and get that done and not listen, because obviously she knows and has her own ideas that she WILL suggest, whereas he will just wait until you tell him what to do, no idea was had in this head.

And like, I really am not sure what is just their personalities (I mean, not gonna lie this mare is an annoying little freak, but hey, she's my little freak) and what is that funny thing that I kinda noticed with many mainland vs. island bred icelandics.

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The five gaits of the Icelandic horse (x)

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The Fly.

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So, can we talk about how smart this one actually is? After our hack she is always allowed to choose some forest forage as I trust she knows what she would like to eat. Lately she has been very adamant on eating these tall weed things with the little white blossoms she is standing in.

I got curious and as it turns out in medival times they were used as antiseptic as well as they have expectorant use and with her lungs unfortunately still on a long recovery road, how smart of her to choose these! Animals do know a thing or two for sure.

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While Lilja's being brought back into training, I'm taking lessons with Fjara to teach her to use those damn hind muscles to not trip and fall constantly. My dad's fallen off her three times due to tripping and he's not quite capable of helping Fjara get that posture back in the right place.

So here I am, risking my life (don't know her quite well enough under the saddle and I am not a courageous person)and limbs (I've got about 6 bruises on my legs now due to Fjara casually scraping past trees with my leg) to get miss ma'am back into proper shape and see if my dad gets the courage to ride her a bit again.

We've been working on leadership with groundwork, we're working on fixing that very lateral tölt (she's making quite a lot of progress already!), asking her for trot (did short bursts of trot today) and canter because last time I got one jump and she went straight into something resembling pace. Today I got:

a buck when I gave her the cue for canter

more pace

then three strides of canter before a very lateral tölt

a decent tölt, followed by a sort of scramble only a five gaited horse can manage

and then all of a sudden things clicked, Fjara went 'oh!', I learned what going very fast really means, and we cantered properly.

It's so funny, this horse is so fast in (re)developing her skills. With Lilja it's never gone this smooth, and it kind of makes me realise what a huge difference between training these two horses have had.

Also, extremely different personalities.

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She would like to point out this flower.

Also cough still there and been quite a loser in lessons lately. Same old. Same old. You would think after 20+ years you know how to pilot a 5-gear vegan dirtbike.

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His nickname at the ranch is "Fight Club" 😭 🙄

Like, buddy, bring some of that fight to the squirrels how about. Though, it's interesting - I've seen this same thing before in other Hollywood Dunnit line horses: high emotional intelligence/ connection with people + big emotional responses to other horses or "threats".

Basically, big feelings all the time. Which makes him so fun to work with because he gets stuff figured out really fast, but also he's dramatic af about everything.

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Managed two months without coughing. Horses in the barn start coughing again. Cough is back. I would be so happy if we just could get rid of that stupid cough for good. DX

Least she's cute, I guess. 😅