This weekend at the farm we have a mother/daughter combo staying with us as a part of the bed and breakfast business that Arno runs in the autumn and spring. The mother is really nice and the kid is 10 (just - they came up here to celebrate the 10th bday)and constantly wants to be down at the barn "helping me" with barn work... in other words watches me doing my daily chores and then quizzes me on why i do each thing... highly entertaining for me, although i dont think she quite gets sarcasm just yet... oh well!
Im very excited that my calendary/board type thing in the barn tells me that there are just six days before my mum arrives in the big apple! i think Arno is etting quite excited about having mum here too... i think he is looking forward to having a 'horsey' person around to share horsey tales with!
anyways im still having fun although the other day i didnt end up having any muffins because Tom the Farrier said he was running late... Arno was also very sad about this because he also likes the muffins, so the very next day he came down to the barn and gave me box of cookies! te he he. SO the weather is getting quite chilly at this time of year, last night it got down to about 33F which is almost 0.5C in our terms. anywhos, fun times.
k, im guna cruise but hope you are all having funsicles, be safe and be happy! xoxoxox
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Retratos...
Ok so here go some of the photos of the last couple of weeks... i will quite possibly post some more really random photos v.soon but heres the 'photo fix' for now. xoxoxoxoxo
Me having fun on the jet ski... not that you can really see that... i just think its a cool pic
Liz, Marieke and Me at the Matt Mays and El Torpedo/Brian Byrne concert
Marieke and I trying to climb onto the stage before the concert.
Niagara Falls
American Falls (which is about 50m from Niagara Falls... but on the American side of the Niagara.)
Me pondering life on Levi
Iryna and I at the Hen night in NYC
Iana and I at the Hen night
Me having fun on the jet ski... not that you can really see that... i just think its a cool pic
Liz, Marieke and Me at the Matt Mays and El Torpedo/Brian Byrne concert
Marieke and I trying to climb onto the stage before the concert.
Niagara Falls
American Falls (which is about 50m from Niagara Falls... but on the American side of the Niagara.)
Me pondering life on Levi
Iryna and I at the Hen night in NYC
Iana and I at the Hen night
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Just a lil' bit moody... te he he
Ok, well i wrote this about an hour and a half ago and since then the internet has redeemed itself and come back to life... needless to say im in a much better mood after the discovery! ...
Wednesday 27th September 06
8:03pm
Well just as my laptop problems are solved, the internet breaks down… FABULOUS. (excuse the sarcasm)… other technology problems happening this week also include a broken microwave, my mp3 player having a hissy anytime I touch it and also this laptop occasionally deciding to shutdown at random intervals and also choosing not to respond to keys being pressed whilst typing so I am pretty much slamming every key as I type to ensure that whole words come out rather than just random letters… so im having fun. (sorry im in a sarcastic mood… as if you didn’t notice already). Today was a pretty average day for me down at the barn, to give you some idea of what an ‘average’ day is for me, it involves rolling out of bed at 7:55am and being in the barn by 8am, haying the horses, haying paddocks, conjuring up an abundance of medicated grain for the breakfast of four sickly horses we have in the barn (all with leg injuries), graining the other ’normal’ horses and throwing several of them out into various paddocks. Then I muck out stalls and clean up the barn area and do random odd jobs like cleaning troughs or buckets or cleaning tack…. Today however, I gave Olga’s mother a riding lesson (she had never been on a horse before) and then headed up to the house for lunch. After lunch I drove the big tractor (which is HUGE fun) around our ‘top ring’ and picked up random stuff like standards (things that hold jumps up) and poops and anything else in the ring, so that Arno can drag it “tomorrow” (which actually means next week sometime.) Anywhos after that had some fun and painted jump poles. After several fights with many paint cans, I eventually came up with two decently painted red and white jump poles and one decently painted, multi coloured, me! I then brought all of the horses in from the paddocks and put them in their clean stalls so that they could spend the night making them disgusting again, and hayed and grained the appropriate horses. I then put on a trusty pair of surgical gloves and began ‘playing vet’ and tended to the leg injuries of my four legged friends, by scrubbing and cleaning sores, inserting my hand into a rather large wound on one particular ‘patient’ (no further details are necessary) and giving injections etc etc… all that fun and disgusting stuff. I then headed up to the house for dinner and burnt my finger with some rather hot oil, discovered that there was no internet, swore and cursed at the computer a little and finally came to my room to write about my day due to the serious lack of other things to do. Wow…. Im in a good mood! K, well I think its about time I went and did something productive and put myself in a better frame of mind… Tom the farrier comes tomorrow (which means yummy, yummy muffins for Dani… no im serious, he brings the most delicious ‘corn muffins’ – which are just frickn normal muffins as far as I can tell - with him every time he visits!) so im hoping I will have happier stories tell of tomorrow… like muffins… mmmmm muffins. Anyways I will stop rambling on about random food items and let you all get back to your normal lives…. Adios! xoxoxo
Wednesday 27th September 06
8:03pm
Well just as my laptop problems are solved, the internet breaks down… FABULOUS. (excuse the sarcasm)… other technology problems happening this week also include a broken microwave, my mp3 player having a hissy anytime I touch it and also this laptop occasionally deciding to shutdown at random intervals and also choosing not to respond to keys being pressed whilst typing so I am pretty much slamming every key as I type to ensure that whole words come out rather than just random letters… so im having fun. (sorry im in a sarcastic mood… as if you didn’t notice already). Today was a pretty average day for me down at the barn, to give you some idea of what an ‘average’ day is for me, it involves rolling out of bed at 7:55am and being in the barn by 8am, haying the horses, haying paddocks, conjuring up an abundance of medicated grain for the breakfast of four sickly horses we have in the barn (all with leg injuries), graining the other ’normal’ horses and throwing several of them out into various paddocks. Then I muck out stalls and clean up the barn area and do random odd jobs like cleaning troughs or buckets or cleaning tack…. Today however, I gave Olga’s mother a riding lesson (she had never been on a horse before) and then headed up to the house for lunch. After lunch I drove the big tractor (which is HUGE fun) around our ‘top ring’ and picked up random stuff like standards (things that hold jumps up) and poops and anything else in the ring, so that Arno can drag it “tomorrow” (which actually means next week sometime.) Anywhos after that had some fun and painted jump poles. After several fights with many paint cans, I eventually came up with two decently painted red and white jump poles and one decently painted, multi coloured, me! I then brought all of the horses in from the paddocks and put them in their clean stalls so that they could spend the night making them disgusting again, and hayed and grained the appropriate horses. I then put on a trusty pair of surgical gloves and began ‘playing vet’ and tended to the leg injuries of my four legged friends, by scrubbing and cleaning sores, inserting my hand into a rather large wound on one particular ‘patient’ (no further details are necessary) and giving injections etc etc… all that fun and disgusting stuff. I then headed up to the house for dinner and burnt my finger with some rather hot oil, discovered that there was no internet, swore and cursed at the computer a little and finally came to my room to write about my day due to the serious lack of other things to do. Wow…. Im in a good mood! K, well I think its about time I went and did something productive and put myself in a better frame of mind… Tom the farrier comes tomorrow (which means yummy, yummy muffins for Dani… no im serious, he brings the most delicious ‘corn muffins’ – which are just frickn normal muffins as far as I can tell - with him every time he visits!) so im hoping I will have happier stories tell of tomorrow… like muffins… mmmmm muffins. Anyways I will stop rambling on about random food items and let you all get back to your normal lives…. Adios! xoxoxo
Monday, September 25, 2006
Im back (online)... and i have news!
Well what amazing couple of weeks i have had. Many of you have been emailing and threatening to do nasty things to me unless i updated the blog so here goes... (hope you are up for some reading!) So i last left you with about a week left o camp. The last wekof camp dragged on like was never going to end but it did... (surprisingly enough) and by the saturday afternoon, the property lookd like a ghost town... the dorms were finally (earily) empty and there were counsellors wandering around aimlessly, looking like lost little souls. so Saturday night after all the campers had gone, Marika had a party at her house which was also a going away party for her departure to Germany for one year. After Sunday most of the counsellors left the property for home which pretty much just left me and the kitchen staff from the specific group of summer camp staff.
I guess here is a good a time as any to mention the news that i promised from the last blog! Some of you have already heard the news, but I will be in the US for a further 4 months until late January or early February. I'm quite excited about the extended stay however i will be missing all of you at home but i can assure you that i think of you all everyday and i will definately be coming home after the 4 months is up!! This means that i will be missing out on chrissy at home and stuff like that but imquite excited for a white christmas and New Years Eve in New York City!
Anyways, so n the last couple of weeks, camp has officially closed down for the year, Arno (my boss) got married, which ment i got to spend a night in New York City and partied HARD for Olga's hen night. that was lots and lots of fun!
Ive also been on a one week trip to Canada and stayed with Marieke in a town called Guelph... its a really cool little town built soley around the University of Guelph. Whilst there, we got up to all sorts of shiznat. We went to a concert for a band called "Matts Mays & El Torpedo" and opening for them, was another Canadian ripper, Brian Byrne. Over the summer i have grown to love these two bands and i was so unbelievably lucky to be able to see both of them perform on the same night, one after the other! Anyways, so after the concert we were invited back stage and the bands bought us free rounds of drinks and we were all invited back to the after party which was huge fun and very entertaining to say the least! I also got to go to Niagara Falls and do all the tourist-y things available there. Unfortunately the week came to a halt rather quickly and i had to jump on a coach and make my way back to New York via Toronto, Buffalo, Syracuse and onto NYC (just incase anyone cares! lol).
So for about a week i have been working down in barn on my own and doing my horsely duties each day. I know ome of you would shudder at the thought of being alone for starters, and on top of that, double shudders for BARN WORK (which, yes, does involve shovelling shit for a portion of my day, each day)... but its actually lots of fun! im having some of my friends from NYC and Canada come and visit me periodically so i dont go any more insane whihc will be welcome break im sure. One last piece of news: MY MUM IS COMING TO VISIT ME! YAY! yes its true, my mum is coming to stay with me at the farm for two weeks starting in early October! we are sure to have lots and lots of fun!
oki think thats about it from me for the moment... i will be posting regularly now that my blogging dilema is solved (my laptop broke... MAJORLY and now its healthy again!). Sorry for the big gap in posts but i can assure you that i wont take that long in between blogs again... assuming everything goes to plan! photos ar sure to be up within the next few days!
ok, missing you all like crazy... keep the emails coming, i love hearing about everything from everyone! hope everyone is safe and having fun.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
I guess here is a good a time as any to mention the news that i promised from the last blog! Some of you have already heard the news, but I will be in the US for a further 4 months until late January or early February. I'm quite excited about the extended stay however i will be missing all of you at home but i can assure you that i think of you all everyday and i will definately be coming home after the 4 months is up!! This means that i will be missing out on chrissy at home and stuff like that but imquite excited for a white christmas and New Years Eve in New York City!
Anyways, so n the last couple of weeks, camp has officially closed down for the year, Arno (my boss) got married, which ment i got to spend a night in New York City and partied HARD for Olga's hen night. that was lots and lots of fun!
Ive also been on a one week trip to Canada and stayed with Marieke in a town called Guelph... its a really cool little town built soley around the University of Guelph. Whilst there, we got up to all sorts of shiznat. We went to a concert for a band called "Matts Mays & El Torpedo" and opening for them, was another Canadian ripper, Brian Byrne. Over the summer i have grown to love these two bands and i was so unbelievably lucky to be able to see both of them perform on the same night, one after the other! Anyways, so after the concert we were invited back stage and the bands bought us free rounds of drinks and we were all invited back to the after party which was huge fun and very entertaining to say the least! I also got to go to Niagara Falls and do all the tourist-y things available there. Unfortunately the week came to a halt rather quickly and i had to jump on a coach and make my way back to New York via Toronto, Buffalo, Syracuse and onto NYC (just incase anyone cares! lol).
So for about a week i have been working down in barn on my own and doing my horsely duties each day. I know ome of you would shudder at the thought of being alone for starters, and on top of that, double shudders for BARN WORK (which, yes, does involve shovelling shit for a portion of my day, each day)... but its actually lots of fun! im having some of my friends from NYC and Canada come and visit me periodically so i dont go any more insane whihc will be welcome break im sure. One last piece of news: MY MUM IS COMING TO VISIT ME! YAY! yes its true, my mum is coming to stay with me at the farm for two weeks starting in early October! we are sure to have lots and lots of fun!
oki think thats about it from me for the moment... i will be posting regularly now that my blogging dilema is solved (my laptop broke... MAJORLY and now its healthy again!). Sorry for the big gap in posts but i can assure you that i wont take that long in between blogs again... assuming everything goes to plan! photos ar sure to be up within the next few days!
ok, missing you all like crazy... keep the emails coming, i love hearing about everything from everyone! hope everyone is safe and having fun.
xoxoxoxoxoxo
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