Milva & Linafina

My new sadle arrived yesterday and I love it!! Parelli sure makes good quality sadles!
I haven´t tried it yet though cause Milva was all wet when I came to the stable today.
Horsesitting is going well so far. Sunny is getting extra food every day and I´m taking care of Tinka´s mudfever.
Milva got mudfever as well. She never had it before. I tried with Salisylsyra creme but after talking to my german and danish friends I´m gonna buy Lebertransalbe in one of the danish pharmacies on Friday and try that one instead. Not sure what it would be called in swedish but lots of people say that was the only thing that helped their horses.
If you ask 10 different horsepeople about mudfever you get 10 different questions.

Naked Liberty by Carolyn Resnick

My dear veterinarian friend from back home tipsed me a long time ago about Carolyn Resnick.
Being in the Parelli fever I was just not ready to look outside the box I guess.
Anyway, now I started to follow  Carolyn´s blog http://www.carolynresnickblog.com/ and ordered her book. I really like the way she thinks - not that I´m looking someone else to follow. I still think it´s better to go my own way but it´s always good to get some inspiration!

"Above and beyond the big organizations of trainers like Pat Parelli, Monty Roberts and others, and the proliferation of their 'certified' students, Carolyn Resnick is a lifetime horsewoman and one of the finest, most talented and best horse trainers I have ever experienced. Her work is exceptional, elegant, quiet, without ego, sincerely from the heart, wisdom based, totally devoid of coercion, compassionate and extremely effective and efficient. Carolyn does not want people to be devoted to her. She wants them devoted to the horse. Additionally, Carolyn is a gifted and effective teacher."

Franklin Levinson http://www.wayofthehorse.org/index.php

The Last Wishes of Alexander the Great

The last wishes of Alexander the Great:

On his death bed, Alexander summoned his generals and told them his three
ultimate wishes:

1. The best doctors should carry his coffin;
2. The wealth he has accumulated (money, gold, precious stones) should
be scattered along the procession to the cemetery, and
3. His hands should be let loose, hanging outside the coffin for all to
see.
...
One of his generals who was surprised by these unusual requests asked
Alexander to explain.

Here is what Alexander the Great had to say:

1. I want the best doctors to carry my coffin to demonstrate that, in the
face of death, even the best doctors in the world have no power to heal
2. I want the road to be covered with my treasure so that everybody sees
that material wealth acquired on earth, stays on earth
3. I want my hands to swing in the wind, so that people understand that
we come to this world empty handed and we leave this world empty handed
after the most precious treasure of all is exhausted, and that is TIME.

TIME is our most precious treasure because it is LIMITED. We can produce more wealth, but we cannot produce more time.
When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

Our time is our life.

Higher Level Horse Person

One of the hallmarks of a fine and higher level horse person is their willingness and openness to hear the opinions and experience the work of other professionals. No BHS certification makes anyone the final word on horsemanship. A Parelli or Monty Roberts certificate doesn't make that person the all knowing expert about horses. It is unfortunate that so many allow their egos to explode simply because they have received some sort of certificate and passed some tests. Truly the greatest horse people are the most humble, most open and least likely to want to be known as experts. The horse is the only expert I know of in this arena. (Franklin Levinson)

A Day At The Racecourt

Fun day at the race track down in Malmö with a fellow boarder who owns a racehorse.

Summer

Mini trail ride alone at home. No one else was at the stable this evening so Milva and I explored by ourselves.

Parked Pony

Well behaved pony, waiting for me to finish whatever I was doing.
Online this morning with lots of canter transitions and change of direction with flying leadchanges.
The Natural Performer is packed and ready to ship and my new sadle is on it´s way and should be here by monday or tuesday :)