Update

Right now I am on my lunch break!!! I am spending the entire week on an audio conference with Manila, supporting their trainer who is doing her first induction for us. I am surprised at just how exhausting it is. The phone picks up every sound and I have to really strain to hear what is being said. Also, because I can’t see what is going on I have to work extra hard at catching everything. I hope I don’t have to do this again in a hurry!!!

The other downside is that the AC is from 9am to 6pm so I am leaving work in the dark. Yesterday was my first day and I was REALLY thrilled to get home and find that the girls had managed to keep their legs crossed for an extra hour and a half!! Although Brina frogmarched me straight to the front door. Poor girl was busting!!!!

The horses were funny. Tai gave me a toe tapping, looking at the watch lecture about how tardiness in waitresses is UNACCEPTABLE!!!! Whereas Spyke was almost hyperventilating at the thought that the waitress might have forgotten his dinner. LOL. The boys are currently known as Raspberry and Bluebell due to the lovely, fashion victim (according to Tina) colours of their rugs. He he.

The weather is pretty revolting at the moment too, it doesn’t get much above 13 degrees, which is pretty cold for Auckland. It means that I have turned Spyke out too. It was just proving way too hard to ride so he is now on his winter break. I am sooo glad I didn’t clip.

I had a busy weekend being quite domesticated. I cleaned the car inside and out which was a BIG job!!! It took me a good two hours but I even managed to wax it. However, I still failed my warrant. Grrrr. I have perished brake hoses so it is off into hospital tomorrow for a little op. Surprisingly, the tyres passed!!!! They have done 100,000kms!!! GOOD tyres!!!!

I also got the dogs out again in the weekend. We snuck back up to the forest on the Sunday and it was really busy up there. I think everyone goes on Sunday as they know there won’t be any logging.

A friend came over for dinner on Sunday which gave me the opportunity to try out a couple of new recipes. We had Carbonara (which was really, really rich) and moccachino (sp?) self saucing pudding (which will need refining). I suspect this blog could become quite foodie over the winter.

This weekend Spyke is getting his teeth done….YAY!!!!! Hopefully this will make a difference to his ability to flex at the poll next season. Oh and it happens to mean that I am cooking another meal as the kind vet that is sedating him is doing it in return for a meal. :-)

Hi

Once again, it has been a while since I updated…..sorry. It feels like not much has been happening and yet I feel really busy.

I have been dog walking in the Botanic Gardens with Gill (and Storm), Tracy and Tracy’s mum (with Mindy). It was a very wet day but it was lovely to get out and the dogs really enjoyed it.

I haven’t ridden much as the shorter evenings make it very, very difficult, especially as Spyke tends to be a bit of a klutz when it gets darker. I had two competitions lined up to end the season on but didn’t manage to do either. The first was a show hunter day with the riding club, it was postponed as it was just too windy. The second was a dressage day and was to be our very first novice outing but unfortunately the truck I borrow was making some pretty scary grindy noises so we had to scratch from the competition. I was a bit gutted as Spyke had been going really well the night before.

It is quite cold now. The horses are in their winter woollies and Spyke is possibly getting clipped this weekend. The dogs are quite enjoying the colder weather and actually, so am I (although I’m pretty sure I won’t be saying that in a few months).