Well the Treasure hunt madness has truly been underway this month. We finished the A.E.C hunt earlier in the month, and have been hard at it with Top Barn. The main aim is the miles. Daisy and I have until Friday to compete 7' miles. We found the required list of 10 Treasure Items early on so as with a lot of Top Barners we are going for the full 50. Which is creating Treasure Hunt Madness Syndrome. The main symptoms of this are riding up pointless dead end tracks just to get a picture of a Level Crossing for instance, or yelling out random words like MAGPIE, even though you are miles away from your Horse.
Yesterday was a fine example of this madness! Having problems getting a plane picture that doesn't look like a dot on screen, I was excited to find my home town was holding an air show complete with Fly By. Only 5 miles from the Farm surely I would get my shot. Having found out the Fly By was scheduled for 2pm, with military precision I made sure Daisy and I were positioned in the middle of open Farmland with a 360 view of the skies. Not known for my ability to sit still, after 15 minutes I was bored. We turned for home, me riding like some idiot looking behind or straight up to the sky. Every distant motorbike sounded like an old plane so I pulled up again (outside my as yet un- spotted Celebrities House) , in the hope of a 2 for 1. Not a thing. Reluctantly I set off home, only slightly cheered up by finally catching the pesky magpie on the drive.
Having deposited Daisy back on the Track I was in the Tack Room when I heard the unmistakable drone of old planes. There they were, right over my head. An hour late! I leapt into my truck, gunned it up the drive like Michael Schumacher, round the Tracks, leaping out to roll under 3 electric fences and got my shot.
When I got home the OH had got this from the Kitchen Window!!
Meanwhile I have also managed to get Agility entries in for both ponies, despite a major fight with the grass in my Playpen. It will NOT stop growing. And neither will the Ragwort on the Summer Grazing. This is the worst field for it and last year Jo and I uprooted thousands of the evil weeds. And still they are back in their thousands like some unstoppable green army. We are back to lifting around a hundred plants each day. Thank you to the inventor of the Ragfork for making the job easier. I swear when the Earth is dying and has become as barren as Mars, Ragwort will still cover the entire planet!
All that hoping for a nice sunny May hasn't really worked. Yes it's warmed up a bit and some days have been sunny.......but it's still rained way too much. So please can we hope a bit harder!!
Will report back in a couple of weeks and let you know if my Celeb stalking paid off x
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