South of the border down Tragana way

Saturday was a very long day for all of us, and George was pretty tired on Sunday. Here he is relaxing in an organic olive grove with beautiful cyprus trees behind him. But he does look tired.

The photo above (blogs always put photos in the wrong order) shows George on Tuesday after three days of R and R. He looks his usual jolly self.

He has started to play with Bling and has been eating loads of barley and corn. So I shod his front feet today.(Tuesday) Usually George doesnt wear shoes, because shoeing horses is not good for them, if you can possibly manage without.

Now that George will have to be on the road constantly, and on hard stoney ground, there is no way round it for him. Because my back hurts if I do too many feet at once I only did the front feet today. I didn`t do a bad job on one foot (featured above) The less said about the other the better. Also managed to hit my hand pretty hard when the shoe I was shaping leapt in the air and landed on my hand. Bling rushed to lick up drops of blood.

Bling was in enthusiastic attendance when I was trimming George`s feet too. Bits of hoof which are trimmed off are her favourite treat. I am afraid if anything happens to us in the mountains Bling will eat us.

Tomorrow will do the hind feet.

Should set off on Thursday.

We went for a short ride today and George seemed glad to get out and about.

He`s certainly recovered from the journey, which took more out of him than last time.

But that was 6 years ago when he was a much younger horse..