today was really good- I'm back in the horse business for sure now you see! Today the neighbors of Mortin said "Hi are you sarah? will you help us with our horse?" and so I got on, and Mortin says "Just start running and don't stop until she does!" hahahah I felt right at home again! and then, to relax, I went for a ride on the coolest horse ever! Tolgrim- he is a Fjord horse, and knows the Norwegian woods here like Candy knows the Elmwood ones :D I just got on him bareback and let him go wherever. See the woods here are so different from ours- they are completely different vegitation, and almost all of it here is rocky (not to mention covered with ice), to the point where I can't even think of riding off the wood roads unless I am on a Fjord pony. So he took me down this moose trail- like a deer trail but a little bigger lol. It was so neat, because we would get to a place in the trail that looked exactly the same to me (covered in six inches of snow!) and he would stop, stick out his foot, and start pawing. then ice would break all around, revealing a big hole or something, and he would paw until he found the edge of it, and walk around it and continue!
It is so neat, because Tolgrim is the only horse I have ridden here that will do that. It is quite dangerous to ride a regular horse off the trail, because what happens is all the snow melts, collecting in the bottom of a hill or slope or ditch, and it freezes all the way through. then, when the temperature is a little above freezing, the ice at the bottom melts out and runs into the ground, leaving a four inch thick layer of ice over air. then so much snow is on top of it, you can't even see there was ever a ditch there, leaving you with a tiger trap lol. I think Tolgrim can feel it in his feet :D Beth, you would love him! Tolgrim, was by the way, the second horse I was asked to ride by the local farmers today hahahaha
New Years is almost here! I am going to a new years eve party, and then on the second day of January, I go to my new host family! I am going to miss Solvieg and Rolv and Ole, but i think it is going to be fun with my next family too! It is just a bit odd to think of starting everything except school completely over again!
Happy New Years everyone!!!
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YES!
I wish I was with you! How wonderful to be riding different horses over there. Everyone here looks great, I saw Candy and Chelsea a little while ago and I do think Chelsea is now bigger than Candy. They look great. The boys here are getting bigger every month. What fun to ride in the snow, I loved it out in Colorado. Have a happy new year, we miss you.
Beth
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