I don’t often take apart in challenges, but I was looking forward to Haynet #5photos1day hashtag challenge through Instagram last month. As I’ve wanted to share my ‘day in the life of a dressage dreamer’ for a fair while now. I’ve really wanted to share my day in videos but I’ve always been a little to chicken to do so! I’ll stick with sharing my daily life in photos for now. Sadly the day I picked to share my day wasn’t all that exciting. No horses were worked and it was raining!
My day started off with what I feel are my beautiful gumboots, you see it has been months since we have had any decent amount of rain. The paddocks were horribly brown, dry and dusty. It was such a welcome change to put on my old pair of gumboots and walk through the muddy yards! I literally had to triple check my gumboots for any nasty hidden spiders! It has been THAT long since I’ve needed to wear them!
As I set off with my gumboots, marching out towards the stables to feed the horses their breakfast. I couldn’t help but take a photo of Arnie, who might I add, looks very ‘special’ while munching away on his morning hay! Arnie’s stable is the closest to the feed room, so naturally he is first of the rank to have breakfast. I think he would be a little upset if he didn’t get fed first!
I believe this is honestly the first time I’ve had to pull out any woolen rugs for a long, long time! Dusting them off and checking for spiders is defiantly NOT on my favourite list of things to do ! But at least Arnie is all snug in his rugs hiding inside his stable away from the rain.
I pass my arena on a daily basis while doing the feed rounds to all the horses. Only a few weeks ago it was incredibly dry and dusty while schooling in the arena. I couldn’t help but share a snap of the arena scattered with puddles. It was defiantly safe to say I wasn’t going to use the arena for a few days! But it was a nice welcome change.
I love taking photos on my iPhone, the 7 plus has an amazing camera, not to mention the portrait mode! It really captured a clear beautiful reflection photo of the long side down the arena.
You could say I get a little bored easily, especially when I can’t work any horses due to the weather. I should probably just take it as an easy day around the place, settle in front of the telly with Netflix. But I really enjoy the outdoors and I enjoy taking photos outdoors. I couldn’t resist taking in the scenery while doing the afternoon feed up at one of the front paddocks. Seeing the transformation from dry grass into beautiful rich green grass is amazing.
My day wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t tuck Arnie into bed. Pats, cuddle, treats and a little hay for dessert. No matter if I had a terrible day or even the best day, it always ends with saying goodnight to Arnie. He really is my once in a life time horse.