Tom has settled well at the new grazing and is such a pleasure to be around. Unfortunately, his three paddock mates are moving on this weekend, so he will be going in with the Land Owners horses. This is good as they will be moving to better grazing. He has already been in with the 'girls' and there were no issues. Two of them are Kaimanawa's and extremely pretty looking girls.
Riding has not featured much so far as it is too wet and the track around the paddocks has been taped off. It is just so muddy down there that I cannot get my 4x4 through any more. He is getting his feet done this weekend so my plan is to start try to ride three time a week and bring his fitness up slowly, ready for the show season. He has a bit of diahorea at the moment, so I will be investigating a toxin bindert.
FLOAT
It is so nearly ready, just need a floor, the breaks done and ply on the ramp. The most exciting news is hubby and brother-in-law are planning to set up a small business building horse floats for hire/lease and to sell. They will use my one as a template, as it is nice and big. Brother-in-law is a very talented Engineer/Tool maker and has some great ideas. They are going to lease a building and set-up a workshop.
Me, I have been busy learning the Truck business and doing lots of driving. Me doing this is a great benefit to our business as we no longer have to get relief drivers to cover illness. I'm loving the driving and have so far got my Forklift operating Certificate and Dangerous Goods endorsement. I can now sucessfully load and unload the truck and do deliveries into stores. Found out very quickly how hard a job it is. Opening and closing 14 meters of curtains sure takes it out of you. I am now driving two days a week. We are preparing for the big Foodstuffs move starting in October where it looks like we will be double-shifting the truck as there is so much freight to move to Palmerston North. Lots of dollars to be made!!
