Our new horse, Sylfiden, arrived two days ago. He is a two years old stallion, but he is already taller than his five years old brother Tryggvar. We let the two stallions out in the paddoc yesterday, and after some showing off the horses seemed to be nice and friendly towards each other. Sylfiden is still not broken in and is not really much handled at all, but we put harness on him yesterday, and he behaved all right. So I guess it won't take to long before we can make him pull a road cart. Maybe I'll put a saddle on him too and see if I can ride him. He seems to be a sensible young fellow, so I don't think that he will throw me off.
As you can see I did not dare to let go of the chain when I took the photo below. But Sylfiden behaved well and stood still, which is not bad beeing his first time under harness. Good horse!
Today some friends of mine, the dogs and I spent all day out in the forest. It was a gray but warm day, and after all the rain we had yesterday it was very wet out there. We found a lot of mushrooms and cowberries, but I think we were a little early. Not all the berries were ripe enough and the chanterelles were still rather small. We're planning a new trip in a couple of weeks. But we still gathered quite a bit, had several coffee breaks and ate a lot. The dogs had a great day and was very tired when we came home. I took some photos that you will find in my new album "sopptur". http://my.opera.com/norfrid/albums/show.dml?id=872545
Now that there are only three dogs left in the house, I could take the dogs for a walk in the forest again where they could run as they wanted to. We have had some nice and warm days lately, so there was a lot of mosquitoes there. I wanted to see if I could find some cowberries, but it was not so nice standing still. The mosquitoes bothered both the dogs and me. I picked some berries though and even found some chantarelles to take home.
As there are five dogs here this week, our daily life seem to be both loud and crazy. Jussi's parents hardly have time to rest and the male sheltie is busy guarding his little friend Angel. But fortunately the two males show no signs of wanting to fight, so I'm a bit relieved. My own terrier suffers badly from jealousy, and has even bitten the poor little sheltie puppy, so I really have to think about what I'm doing all the time. Apart from this incident and a lot of barking things are going fine. My plum tree had a lot of fruits this summer, and I eat plums several times a day. Jussi seem to like them too, and has her own way of getting them down.
My terrier Jussi and I had a lot of fun today as we train agility on sundays. Many people don't have a dog, but why not train agility with your hamster? Enjoy!
Et av årets høydepunkter er molteturen til Bagn. I år var det Inger Lise og jeg samt hundene som tok turen og på de nesten fem timene vi trasket rundt i blaute myrer fant vi et par liter hver. Vi var nok litt tidlig ute, for det var nok mer kart enn moden bær. Den ene regnskura fikk vi da vi rastet i ly av en stor stein, men ellers var vi heldige med været selv om det for det meste hang tunge skyer over oss. Innimellom tittet også sola fram og temperaturen var behagelig selv høyt til fjells. Jussi tok på seg oppgaven å vokte sekkene våre mens vi plukket bær. Sheltiene løp og koste seg på myrene og ble skikkelig slitne på slutten av dagen. Vi hadde en kjempefin dag i fin natur og med tanke på at jeg ikke fant ei eneste molte i fjor da jeg tok turen alene var jeg strålende fornøyd med dagens halvfulle spann med finfine bær.
We've spent the day on top of the mountains picking cloudberries. Since it has rained a lot lately it was really hard walking on the moors for nearly five hours. Though we didn't find much we had a lovely day in sun, wind and a little rain.
Det er mengder med blåbær i skogen i sommer, men den er ikke så stor som den var i fjor da det var så tørt så lenge. Prøvde å plukke villbringebær i dag, men burot, brennesle og høysnue gjorde at jeg tok med hundene på en tur i skogen istedet. Hundene hadde det alle tiders, men det begynte selvfølgelig å regne før det vesle spannet mitt var halvfullt. Men det ble da et par glass med syltetøy og bare det slutter og regne blir det nok flere blåbærturer på oss i sommer.
Today we've been out in the forest picking blueberries. It started to rain, of course, but I'll be back out there as soon as possible. The dogs also enjoyed our little trip.
ble solgt i går. Gråtassen har vært her på gården i mer enn femti år og i sin storhetstid var det den alene som gjorde alt arbeidet på gården som kunne gjøres med traktor. Selv etter å ha stått bortgjemt i et hjørne i låven i flere år startet den trofast som om den skulle ha vært i bruk hver dag. Det var nok litt vemodig å kvitte seg med veteranen, men en sambygding som samler på gamle traktorer har kjøpt den. Nå blir den pusset opp og kommer nok til heder og verdighet igjen. Flere har kritisert gubben for å kvitte seg med "arvesølvet", men jeg syns gråtassen fortjener en bedre skjebne enn å støve ned her på gården.
This old tractor was sold yesterday. It was no use for it anymore. The new owner will restore it and that must be a better destiny than standing in a corner in our barn gathering dust.
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