The planning for the summer holidays is getting more complicated, as the girls are determining their own holidays now. For starters Mary, Piet and Beau drove out on a Friday night, arriving early morning. One of the key concerns was to find a companion for Beau, as the village pony Image, his friend for the last few summers, passed away last winter. When Beau was let out of the trailer another horse was walking around the parking in the village. As we couldn't do anything we let this horse follow us to the garden. in the evening the owner, a former butcher who has several horses scattered across the fields in the valley, turned up and we agreed that the horse, Quinaille, could stay. After a few days they were used to each other, and spend the day together. At night Beau stays in the stable (he is a city horse after all) and his friend remains outside.
The first week was spend in recovery mode, after a very hectic period with a renovation of our bathroom, the broken leg of Paula, a major clean-up of our apartment in Utrecht, and many other things. We did very little; a bit of work around the house and garden, some cycling and lots of reading. We really needed this! After a week Piet went back to work, planning to return a few days later with Dorien.
Beau and Quinaille happily eating our grass
Mary is training Quinaille
Collecting horse shit
Mary arriving in Le Mollard
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