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| Black Pepper |
Oj, det här blir 1000:e inlägget. Ofta snor jag bara ihop något lite snabbt, några bilder från någon av de senaste dagarna, eller vad som hänt nyligen men den här gången väljer jag att se tillbaka. Vad har egentligen hänt sedan jag började blogga?
Jag inser att det måste vara ungefär fyra år sedan jag på allvar började fundera på det som jag bloggar om. Det var då jag började att riktigt seriöst fundera på hur jag skulle kunna få in mera hästar i mitt liv och exakt hur jag skulle gå tillväga. Så här kommer en kort resumé av höjdpunkter, vad som inte gått som tänkt och reflektioner:
..och tja, det är nog ungefär var vi är. Det har hänt så mycket annat; vi har testat TREC, fälttävlan, hoppning, påbörjat inkörning, tolkat, pink ride, haft besök och blivit omskrivna några gånger…. Jag må ha fullt upp med familjen men över åren har det i alla fall hänt lite.
Vissa gånger har det så klart varit tungt; att förlora Percys föl förra året var en sådan händelse liksom att ibland känna
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| Percy hadn’t been in Sweden for many days when I took this picture |
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att man inte räcker till, att man inte hinner med. Förvisso har jag inga höga förväntningar på oss, men ibland har det gått väl under vad jag önskat; särskilt när barnen blivit sjuka, det har varit resor med jobbet för någon av oss eller bara allt möjligt annat som har varit tvunget att gå före. Tyvärr har det absolut jobbigaste varit resorna för hästarna till Sverige och Skatteverket. Båda dessa två saker har orsakt enormt stresspåslag, irritation och frustration även om det löst sig i slutet.
Jag har dessutom lärt mig många nya saker, fått inblick i sådant som jag inte hade tänkt på. Det här med design och reklam var nya områden för mig. Fotografering har det blivit mycket mer av, både bakom kamerna men även som modell ibland. För att inte tala om allt som kommer med att driva eget företag och alla härliga människor jag har träffat genom att jag gjort det.
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| Tea & Isac 2013 |
Generellt kan man säga att allt tar mycket mer tid och jobb än vad jag trodde. Men, det är inte mycket som är bättre än att komma upp till stallet och känna tröttheten rinna av, energin fyllas på och glädjas över det hjärtliga mottagandet. Mina Rockysar har verkligen överträffat alla mina förväntningar!
Nu blickar jag framåt; mina drömmar är långifrån slut än. Närmast hoppas jag att min egna bok om Rockyn kommer ut (provtryck är på väg) och så drömmer jag om att utöka och om en egen gård… Vi får se vad som slår in och vad som får tänkas om. Det är itne omöjligt att det blir 2000 inlägg om allt går som jag vill.
1000: posts
Wow, this is post number 1000. Often I only write something fast, something about what happened recently or new pictures but this time I chose to look back. What have happened since I started to blog?
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| Ullekalvs Embla |
I realize it is about 4 years ago since I started to think seriously about the topic for this blog. How could I get more horse in my life? I got the plan figured out in details. Here is a short resume´:
· I first meet the breed Summer 2011. It wasn’t easy to understand were to travel to meet them in Europe. Every place seemed far away and hard to reach. I made a very nice visit to Toril in Germany but today I know easier ways to travel instead of driving the car so far.
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- Kentucky September 2011. I had planned and planned and I had prepared. If I would find a couple of horses that I liked I would be able to bring them home.. The trip together with Margareta was a hit and every year around The Internationals I want to go back, to the place, the people and the horses….
- December 2011. Pepper and Percy arrived after a long trip. The first Rockys in Sweden. There had been many late evenings to get everything ready for their arrival. Suddenly I had my own stable again. I broke Percy during the spring, certified her and covered her with Pepper. We also got a page in the magazine Ridsport.
- August 2012. Bunny arrived pregnant with Tea.
- Ullekalvs Antea (Tea was born April 14 2013 and became the first Rocky foal born in Sweden. Ullekalvs Embla was born later the same year, the first, born and breed Rocky in Sweden. And about a week after Embla’s arrival I gave
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| Percy & I at Falsterbo 2014 |
birth to my own son David. (My husband wasn’t totally happy while I slept in the car to be able to watch over Percy before her delivery. Luckily I only had to do that one night.) At the end of the year Embla moved to her new owner Linda.
- The time moved quickly and I thought I should get two foals 2014 as well. But Percy lost her foals only weeks before her due day. A terrible day. A perfect foal except he wasn’t alive. Both Percy and I moved on rather quickly but that day was hard. It was even worse as it was Calinkas birthday. That is already a very special day to me because of the circumstances around her birth. But to cheer us up I decided the same day that Percy and I should go to Falsterbo as we had an invitation. We had never been away anywhere, never had a lesson and she wasn’t trained much. But I knew her so I started to look for a saddleseat suit from US. Somehow we managed to go to Falsterbo and show. She behaved as a pro and we got 5:th out of 7 horses in the first International competition for gaited horses others than Icelandics. I were more than happy! I never thought that I would show at Falsterbo, my first International competition and one of my first competitions at all.
- Bunny instead got a beautiful daughter – Ullekalvs Esmerée
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| Percy & I. Trying my new saddelseat attire. |
…and that is about were we are today. We have tried so many other things as well, TREC, cross country, jumping, driving, skiing with the horses, pink ride, visitors and some articles in magazines, showing at Östgötahäst… I have a lot to do caring for my family but over the years I have been able to do some “special” things with my horses as well.
Sometimes it has been heavy; to loose Percy’s foal was one such event. It is now and then the feeling of not being enough, that there is a lack of time and engagement. I don’t think that I have high demands on what I want to do with my horses but sometimes my expectations seems to sink like a stone; the kids get sick, my husband travels in work or something else that seems to make it impossible to do anything else than feeding the horses as fast as possible. One of the most hard things has been the tax administration and to get the horses to Sweden. Both things has caused a lot of stress, irritation and frustration even if it all went well in the end.
And I have learned a lot of new things, things I never had thought about before. Design and advertisement for example. I didn’t take as much photos either or spend as much time in-front of it as I have. Not to mention everything that comes with running our own business or all interesting and nice people that I have meet by doing so.
It has all taken more time and work as I thought. But I have never regretted it and there are few things that cheers me up more than visiting the horses. My tiredness goes away, I get new energy only by their way of greeting me. My Rockys really has been better than my expectations!
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| Ullekalvs Esmerée |
Now I am looking forwards; my dreams continues. My book about the breed is soon ready to relise and I would love to have more horses and my own farm… The future is going to show what happens. I might hit 2000 post if it all goes as I want!
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| Centre of attention. They just love to cuddle and get attention! (Percy, Calinka, Mira & Tea) |
OK, nu är papprena insända till RMHA inför registrering av fölen så att jag sedan kan fixa svenska pass åt dem. De här är bilderna som RMHA fick med, inte helt lätt att fota när alla hästar var i hagen (kunde just den dagen inte plocka in dem pga målning av stallet).
OK, now the paperwork for the registration of the foals is sent in to RMHA. When they get back I can get Swedish passports for them. This is the pictures that I sent in with the applications. Not the best but it wasn’t easy to photo with all horses in the pasture. (Couldn’t bring them indoors as the stable was painted that day).
