It doesn't always turn out as planned...

I had a little mishap Saturday...
While cutting potatoes, I also cut some finger.
Suddenly there was a bit of the finger tip lying on the chopping board.
I acted quite irrational, and threw the finger tip bit in the kitchen bin before going out to my husband and telling him what had happened.
We tried to (yes, I know it sounds macabre) locate the finger tip in between everything else that was lying in the garbage, but we couldn't see it. No, it wasn't that big! It was a bit of the fleshy, rounded part on the top...
So if there was nothing to sew on, I concluded that we could just as well bandage up the finger at home.

But I had my dressage lesson booked for Jimmi on Sunday morning.
And I couldn't ride with that finger.

Me was sad.

And Fame and me were to have half an hour session all by ourselves, and continue to train on those flying changes.
The other two lessons we had shared with another rider.
*sigh*

Me was really sad. Like someone-snatched-a-candy-bag-on-a-five-year’s-old – sad.

Well, not much to do.
I sent a message to tell I wouldn’t be able to ride after all.
But then I got a message back where Jimmi suggested he could ride Fame instead.
Now that was a good idea!
I instantly turned a bit happier, even if I really wanted to ride myself that session. But this could get interesting!
So on Sunday morning Fame got to work while I was just standing by, watching.

Jimmi used the time to check out what worked, and what we needed to train more.
When he was finished, we discussed things through.
Jimmi wanted Fame more flexible and active behind, things that I agreed upon. I would also like that.
He also said that she can be a bit strong on the bit sometimes instead of accepting the halfhalt. I agreed on that too.
It is so nice to get feedback from someone else, it is very easy to get “home blind” when you ride the same horse all the time.
I was also relieved that his “map” over Fame wasn’t all that different from mine. Then I feel that we can get to work and not be quite lost on the way.
Jimmi will come back in a month.
He advised us to work on haunches-in/half pass until next time.
We worked with that on Saturday, but as we hadn’t trained much on it on beforehand the result was a bit so-so.
But it is a good exercise to improve both flexibility and hind leg activity.
I am very motivated to get to work, so I really hope that finger won’t bother me too much!

Outside it is getting greener and greener.

I enclose some photos....

Three weeks ago I took the ferry from Oslo over to Copenhagen with my job.

Here we are just going out of Oslo harbour.

If you ever are to visit Oslo, try and come from the sea, by the ferry from Denmark - that is definetely the most beautiful way to arrive.

The ferry is going up the Oslofjord which is rather narrow. You sail close to the islands and the shores, and you are sailing at breakfast time too, so it is nice to sit and sip your coffee and look at the scenery outside the window.

Last weekend (a week ago) I took my daughter downtown Oslo to do some shopping. She has grown a lot and we needed some new spring and summer clothes.

When the temperature goes up and the sun is shining, suddenly there are people everywhere....

And in last week I was out in an area southwest of Oslo, Telemark.
I believe this is a beautiful part of Norway, with narrow valleys and high mountains. They have some apple farms there as well, and the trees were in bloom. Marvellous.

During WWII one of the most spectacular actions by the resistance
was the sabotage of the heavy water production site in Rjukan, Telemark.

This was "Mission Impossible" in reality, but they managed in spite of all odds to destroy the factory, and thereby delay Hitler's atomic bomb project.

If they had not made it, the outcome of the war could have been completely different.

This is worth a blog post on its own, because the real story beats fiction.

I will come back to it another time.