So saturday the 26th of May I ended up trimming 5 ponies, so that's 5 hours of very physical labour, especially since the ponies are so small.  When I trim Gib's hooves, I just place his hoof on a hoofstand and I can trim away. I don't have a hoofstand small enough for Shetland ponies, so I squat down, and use my knee as a hoofstand. Not only is ( Read more... )

Good thing its friday.... I'm completely exhausted. Not that I can sleep in tomorrow morning either, promised to go trim the hooves of 4 ponies (16 hooves all in all). Then I will not only be brain-dead, but physically a wreck as well. Aah, looking forward to sunday......

Did manage to finish the letter to the vet though, very pleased with it, a ( Read more... )

The car has been found..... in Lahti (about 100 km from Helsinki). The police said its "päällisin puolin kunnossa" i.e. it looks okay from the outside.  My dad would have bought a second-hand cottage car if it wouldn't have been found, and we'd already been offered a Lada Samara '96 for 1000 euros :)

Okay..... my summer plans.....

I start working for Perstorp on the 1st of June (until the end of August). so before the 1st my thesis should be corrected by my professor. We're reading through it together him commenting on things he finds unclear plus my rather awful Swedish. (Since I've never actually had Swedish in school my grammar and ( Read more... )

Minimalia,  our  older Jack Russel, turns 11 today. Hooray!

And another one of my friends had a baby last night..... It all started at the beginning of December, when my friends here in Finland had a sweet baby girl called Chloe. Then on New Years Eve, my Australian friend had a girl, Charlotte, followed by another Charlotte just 3 days later, born ( Read more... )

So the eve of Vappu is approaching. And I'm sitting here at the chemistry lab, waiting 'till five o'clock so I can head off to the stable. Slightly disappointed that I have no plans, and annoyed by the fact that I have to avoid the whole city center when driving home from the stable in the evening. My Taiwanese friend here at the lab invited me to ( Read more... )

Hmph, just wrote an entry and lost it while doing other things at the same time. In a nutshell I was saying I was tired, that I was annoyed with myself but that I'd still been lucky though I'd been unlucky. Okay, the tired part: the thesis is taking longer to correct than I expected. Trying to be really productive while at the same time going to a ( Read more... )

It's super super windy outside...... and now I have to leave the chemistry lab. Been fixing the references for my master's thesis all day, and will probably spend a good part of Easter doing so. The numbering is all wrong, since I've added bits and pieces at different dates. But yes, should leave now, to celebrate my sister's birthday ( Read more... )

So spring is finally here! My friend who rode Gib last weekend said she saw a butterfly while out riding. For me though a sure sign of the end of winter is the change in the motorway speed limits (from 100 km/h to 120). This happened on tuesday, and it's always equally exhilarating ( Read more... )

I had such an eventful weekend! After sleeping in on saturday morning- last week was absolutely exhausting- I showered, ate breakfast and just did stuff around the house 'till one. Then I went to visit an old classmate Amitav's 3 month old daughter. She's a really cute quite small baby with blue eyes and brown hair, at least for the time being. Got ( Read more... )