The First Of Many Blogs!

Hey all this is Jenny Blogging tonight. Well we have at last got a blog, something we have kept thinking about but never setting up, not because we are lazy but because we just haven’t had the time.

 

It has been really wet and wild in our part of Cumbria of late and all the weather affects us at work. It makes extra jobs and makes the normal jobs twice as hard as they would be in the spring or summer. We have already got 3 flooded stables due to the hard rain we have been having and lost a while grazing area, but this is Cumbria so we are used to it! My new horse Saber is going really well and likes his new home at our stables, I think out of everything we have tried his top event is cross country, though he is good at dressage too.

 

The Christmas plans are still only plans, we are thinking of going to Motoko’s fathers home in Kyoto and seeing Muse play live Osaka too while we are there, but like I said they are only plans, as I am not sure we can leave work for a really long time. I am Head Of Yard and a co-owner and my wife Motoko is Head Groom here. I would love t go to Japan for Christmas as I know Motoko would enjoy it, and she has not seen her Farther for months as he works over there.

 

Just got an E-Mail this second from a friend who washes and mends all of the horse’s rugs for our yard, she says she has washed them all and fixed the ripped and damaged ones free of charge and will drop them back tomorrow morning, which I think is a great result!

 

We have a really romantic log fire tonight; firstly as out small cottage which was originally a gate keeper’s cottage has no heating, so our fire heats the house and our hot water with our Rayburn to help it out. I have to say that having no electric lights in bedroom makes an interesting evening. We have small alcoves in the walls we fit candles in and then put a small mesh covers in so they candles can’t fall out. It lights up the bedroom to perfection. We do have a lamp that’s connected to an extension lead we use no and then in bedroom, but extension lead only has two sockets on it and that’s used to TV and ps3 mostly!

 

Motoko is busy cleaning her Kendo things this evening and refolding her clothing she uses for it, she is somewhat a master at it and we book the local scout hall for a sparing match together and Motoko’s Sisters and Motoko’s friend Ritsuko joined in. I have to say that Ritsuko is really good at Kendo herself; I am personally rubbish at it.

 

Me and Motoko has now set up a second Playstaion 3 Network ID for purely online gaming and it’s Cumbrianvixen so if you have a Playstaion 3 feel free to add us if you are polite. Mostly play Uncharted 2 and Metal Gear Solid Online and sometimes Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising.

 

Now I think, it is time for us to start getting ready for bed. We work 5am till 5pm so an early night would really help hehe. I have been filling out the diary for tomorrow, which has what jobs need doing and who’s I will get to do them. It also has the lessons in it and who is teaching who. Motoko is helpful and filled it in… that’s the helpful part, the unhelpful part is that she filled it in, in Japanese. Old habits I guess, I will never fully convert her to English, I have tried and half succeeded lol.

 

Well that’s it for now. Good night all and take care!

 

Jenny and Motoko Carter