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Pandra the Disney princess while birds are singing all around her 👑

#her ears tho #Icelandic horses #Pandra #*myhorses #isn’t she beautiful? she always is but rn she’s at her darkest with all those light dapples 😍#the winter coat is making its return so she’ll turn brown again soon #also a good colour on her tbh but like this she’s her spottiest

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卓越したボディコントロール　Σ(ﾟДﾟ) ｽｯｹﾞ! Body control of a horse archer

（ Reddit:r/Damnthatsinteresting u/rgatoNacho ）

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people really believe this? that's obviously a human archer

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what do you think

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This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

Those little steppy steps are fascinating, where did you pull that from miss ma’am??

#*myhorses #icelandic horses #lilja van den ulenkamp #hviða frá markarbrú #I certainly didn’t teach her that!#but I know she can do that now!!#lessee how far I can get her with groundwork :D #I’m not sure what this behaviour is #I’m gonna label it under ‘mother instinct’ bc the other horse is her now 15 year old daughter #but she was oddly excited to have Hviða on her side of the paddock

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Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

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Medieval Toy Unearthed in Poland

A 800-year-old horse figurine was found during an excavation conducted as part of the construction of a new fire station in Toruń, a medieval town on the Vistula River in north-central Poland. The small clay horse was glazed and has a hole in its underside. Researchers think a stick may have fit into the hole so that playing children could pretend to make the horse gallop or use it as a puppet.

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Happy (belated) birthday to our spiciest Icelandic Hviða frá Markarbrú, who turns 15 today!

(And with spicy it's more like...She has her own ideas sometimes. Cheerfully walks into people's gardens with Roos just coming along on her back. It's 99% of the time not Roos' idea.)

#hviða frá markarbrú #me and Roos talked about Hvida's progress #it comes down to Hvi only believing something is not great when it physically impacts her #the little rear she does here as a one day old is something she's always done when she just doesn't get or want something #it stems from us being stupid and putting a not confident rider on a young horse #which is fair on Hvida's part #with Roos she's gotten loads better #but sometimes she'll rear still #until a few months back when she did that and she and Roos just toppled over #no serious harm thankfully to either of them but that was the moment Hvida was faced with her own mortality I guess #and hasn't reared again apparently #she's a funny one I'll tell you that #and still very adorable and with a personality all her own #wouldn't want to see a day without her tbh

It’s very much a work in progress still BUT shoutout to the moth that happily hovered around a yet unopened box of white wool and thought “ha, dinner!” and promptly got sprayed with bug spray. NOPE. GO AWAY AND STAY AWAY.

(Had to make space in my van for Hviða to practise walking in, got to use the newly installed holders for a bit. Tomorrow they move back to the van so I can finish painting my wall 🫟 in one of my company colours.) (and then continue taking apart the bad saddles so I can try to make bags out of those 😎)

#adventures in saddle fitting

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#HEEEEEEEEEEE HELLO LITTLE ONE

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Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

For my communications job I can also do a lot of work from my phone, so I set up in the paddock yesterday while writing a plan and enjoying the view and company ♥️

#*myhorses #icelandic horses #I do this job two days in the week and the rest is spent on saddle fitting shenanigans #works really well for me tbh #lots of different things and interactions

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year of the horse

Helping a friend with a new saddle and getting videos and feedback that the horse in question is actually starting to use their back, actually starting to trot better and easier....Yeah. Yeah that's why I do this.

(Obvs I've seen the saddle on the horse as well, you can't throw a saddle on and go "yeah that fits" and let the people pay for it and go home. THAT IS NOT HOW THIS WORKS. You know if a saddle fits bc of a regular check but also a dynamic check. Your horse might not like the filling of the saddle (some prefer softer, some prefer more solid or air), the rider needs to feel how the saddle fits for them, you need to see the both of them IN ACTION to determine whether this is a match or not. THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL. This horse suddenly showed a little more jump in her otherwise flat canter (she's a five-gaited icelandic, canter tends to be harder for them to do properly), transitions into trot were smooth and powerful and taking a few steps backwards showed me a back that could arch into the movement without being hindered by a too narrow channel (which her previous saddle had). Compared to me seeing her even two weeks ago (and leaving a different saddle with the same properties as this one but with a different build for the rider) this was some lovely development to witness. WHICH YOU NEED TO SEE AS A SADDLE FITTER. JUST FYI.) (Can you tell this is from personal experience before I learned to fit saddles?)

Also! Back at school and did three exams (saddle filling, saddle faults and a consult + templating with a client) of which I only failed saddle faults bc I missed some well hidden ones. Compared to last year, I wasn't as stressed, I knew what I was talking about, I communicated well and while there's always still stuff I need to focus on some more, I'm honestly jusrt very glad with my personal progress. I didn't sweat half my body weight off, for one 😅

#adventures in saddle fitting #for the filling exam (where you bring in your own saddle with some gaps in the wool/synthetic filling) I wanted to bring my old saddle in #it's the newest one I have and still STRAIGHT straight in its structure compared to my second hand collection #all I had to do was put it back together and fully fill the panels. Easy peasy. Had already done the prefill and sewing up and all of that.#All I needed was to screw the panels back to the tree. That was all.#And then one of the screws just breaks clean in two bits. One still in the saddle. HA HA #FUN.#Thankfully I could borrow a saddle from a colleague bc I was quietly losing it just three days before that exam hahaaaa #I need to get her something really nice as thanks #Pretty sure some sort of karma influenced the outcome. I dunno. I knew all the theory but the filling itself takes YEARS #also have only filled a saddle with synthetic wool once before so haha #went into it thinking 'it's still strands of stuff. Just take your time and keep feeling what you're doing every step of the way.'#but that in 30 minutes with questions being asked about how long filling lasts and what you should do when a saddle does a thing #on a horse's back #hhhhh #but I answered it all correctly WHILE FILLING and got a lovely compliment about how much I knew at the end I justttttt #ma'am I am blushing into the synthetic wool container rn aaahhhh #anyway just two more exams to go: a re-do of recognising faults and also a full saddle fitting consult #wheeeeeee #I do feel better about those now ngl

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Katie Harris is photographed with her Appaloosa. Harris made most of the horse trappings as well as her own traditional outfits herself, including the bead work. Some of the trappings are passed down from older generations but the girls like to make their own to continue the tradition.

By Erika Larsen

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Katie is Nez Perce, Cayuse, Umatilla and Karuk

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frolicking with mama :)

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