Wordless Wednesday – Keeping Watch
Crochet Ponies
Well here’s one for those of you out there who love to crochet/knit. I stumbled across this today on Facebook and just love the look of these ponies!
Pepperoni Ponies can be simply made from single crochet stitches and look great with a mane and tail on them – I need to learn to crochet! As it says on the site:
“Make Your Own Crochet Pepperoni Ponies!
Change the yarn and hook size, and you get a different pony…”
I had never considered the idea of selling the design of a crochet pattern that related to horses, to bring in funds. But it seems this is indeed possible! And why not?
So food for thought: what product have you designed that relates to horses and could interest others? You may find there is as much value in creating and selling the product as there is in helping others to create it themselves… 🙂
“I pray the gentle hands may guide my feet;I ask for kind commands from voices sweet; At night a stable warm with scented hay, where, safe from every harm, I’ll sleep till day.” – Pony’s prayer
Upcoming Reviews
Hi all!
Just a heads up to look out for reviews of:
- The Orange Slipknot
- Starting the Colt
Author Jan Young has contacted me about reading and reviewing her two novels and as usual – I’m only too happy to oblige! So once I receive copies of these, I’ll get onto them so that reviews can be added to Equus-Blog.
I’ll also post a review of Equine Emergency Rescue by MaryAnne Leighton and Michelle Staples shortly – stay posted!
Horse Welfare Organisation
I’ve seen, heard and read some things that concern me with regards to horse welfare. And sadly at some point(s) I may have been a cause for concern with others as I was learning about horses and owning my first horse!
Students I teach, people I study with or work with and others I meet in varying equine fields inadvertently display forms of ignorance that could negatively affect a horse’s welfare. I’m not saying that I know it all – I never will! But I aspire to keep learning and improving and am rapt to find that there are organisations out there that advocate for horse welfare.
One such example is the World Horse Welfare Organisation that helps raise horse welfare awareness around the world:
There are around 100 million working equines in the developing world that fuel the economies of countries in Africa, Central America and Asia. Working horses lead demanding, exhausting lives made worse by the wounds and injuries they suffer through inadequate shoeing, harnesses and nutrition.
Our practical international training programmes improve horse care and livelihoods in some of the world’s poorest communities, working with horse owners to identify the barriers to better horse care, teach them new skills and help them better feed and tend to their most important asset.
I’m sure working with such an organisation would be both incredibly rewarding and heartbreaking at times. However, if this is an area you’re passionate about, why not link in with this organisation via Facebook, Twitter or the like and keep abreast of what they’re up to and how you can do your part for raising horse welfare awareness.
“When my health and strength are gone-When I’m getting old and feeble, and my long life’s work is done-Don’t sell me to cruel owners, to be slaved to my latest breath…” – Author unknown
Banjo Paterson’s 150th Birthday
I was rapt when searching on Google on February 17th to find that they’d adjusted their trademark logo to fit in with the 150th year since the birth of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, writer of the Man from Snowy River amongst other pieces.
On a side note, the first few lines in this poem have been woven into a tale by Elyne Mitchell – The Colt from Snowy River.
Just thought it worth sharing 🙂
“There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around
That the colt from old Regret had got away,
And had joined the wild bush horses – he was worth a thousand pound” – Banjo Paterson
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