zaterdag 10 juli 2010

a long long time ago, I can still remember....

Yes, I know. Apart from Harm's curious message (miles? euro? litre?) nothing really happend on this blog.

That has a reason. Lots happend outside of this blog!

Where to start?

1. The heat in Holland. OMFG! I'm used to a lot, and I can handle a lot. But having almost 3 weeks of 30 degrees is getting enoying! If I could, I would swim all day.
But.. then the horses would be to warm and I think that's sad! So during the weekend's I'm mostly at the farm washing them.
Other bad things about these temperatures are flies...


Tweet has a bigger problem with flies... so we have a bigger solution.

An horse burka! :D

Today Harm and I made a sprinkler system in the field so they can choose what to do.

2. Then we have soccer and the world champignonship! We are doing amazing and end up in the finals... how did we get there? I haven't seen a decent match and yes, I watched them all.
Last time we watched at my parent's place. My mom had a lot of fun with my 'beessie'.. an stuffed animal you can buy at the Albert Heijn....





3. The horses have been in Wassenaar for almost 2 months. Although I like the stables there I really had it. Going there everyday, not deciding how long they stay outside, not being able to go there in the evening. Things that start to irritate me after a while. All that made us come back to Leidschendam before they were done here. The problem now? We don't have any grass.. but since it hasn't rained for 3 weeks it's not so different with fields that had grass..


4. My Iphone broke down... and that joke cost me 275 euro.. AUW! The charger systeem broke and apparantly you can not use your warranty for that. Well, at least I have an Iphone back now.


5. Yeah! We/I received a package from Canada, stuffed with dippies and BENEFIT! Life is goooooood! Thanks ladies!


6. You know what else is awesome? WE HAVE BENEFIT IN THE HAGUE! I went there last sunday, offcourse it's not as big as in Calgary, but the essentials are there :D

7. Right now.. an huge amount of bad weather is coming up..


All the positives a big negatives for me. Yes, it's good for the ground/grass/trees/flowers that we get rain... It's not so good for me. I'm always afraid the lighting is going to strike at the farm..
Also..
http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2289869/knmi-waarschuwt-extreem-weer.html
http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2289566/hete-dag-afgesloten-met-fikse-onweersbuien.html
I'd rather had a normal evening with rain...

8. 6 weeks ago, for the first time in 10 years... I fell of Tweety... we jumped. Or actually. I jumped. Tweety stopped right in front of the jump. Haha, it was funny though. I was wearing my safety cloting so it was oke.

I probably missed a lot of things.. thing is. I cannot really concentrate now because of the thunder and lightning..

zondag 4 juli 2010

24 liter 39 euro 292 miles
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dinsdag 11 mei 2010

Ten on Tuesday

1. Yes, I am aware of the fact I didn't do a ten on tuesday for a while.. We are extremely busy lately! In a month I have lots more time! Why are we so busy?

2. We moved my grandma last weekend after a couple of weeks of preperations. She still lived in Zoetermeer and had to do everything herself. She is almost 91 now so that wasn't that easy anymore. Now she lives in a home for old people in Leidschendam. A 5 minute drive from our home. Her breakfast, lunch and dinner comes to her room, same with the coffee and tea! So she had company for 6 times a day.

3. The kidsfarm where the horses stand needs to move. Because my work is building on a different part of the terrain and closing ponds etc. they are making a new pond.. in the middle of our farm. We have gotten a beautiful new land but we still need to make everything there. That's lots of work.

4. Since the constructors are digging allready we needed to move the horses somewhere else for a while.. They are in Wassenaar now.. a 30 minute walk from the beach! That's really awesome. We went there for 2 times last week.
pics? here they come!!






As you can see... Harm surprised us with a visite while we were on the beach! Don't I have the best boyfriend in the world?

5. last sunday it was mothersday. We didn't do that much with it this year. My parents ate at our place and after dinner we went to grandma. Just a relaxed sunday!

6. Harm bought a new car!! The stearing wheel is on the 'wrong' side but except that it's an awesome car!



7. What the **** is dinner? Since the horses are in Wassenaar I come home at 21:45 and I'm not hungry anymore. I know it's really bad to skip a meal, so I just eat a little bit.

8. I'm sad... My favorite Lush is being discontinued! Yummy yummy yummy... I'm going to miss it!

9. I want to go shopping! And next month I will go shopping! I just need it!

10. Why is my radio channel changing by itself? Bluh!!!!

dinsdag 6 april 2010

Ten on Tuesday

1. Let me start by saying that I looooovvvveee this sunshine. It's 18 degrees here now and sunny. Let the spring begin!

2. I just got home from a 2,5 hour ride on Mo. Together with Tweety and a friend we went to the Vlietlanden. A recreational park. With this weather we had lots of fun. Mo was busy and I have the blisters to prove that. Haha. She is not a lazy Irish Cob like most of them. I'm still sure I found my dream horse.

3. Harm got home from NY today. I haven't seen him jet cause he had to go working right away. I guess he had fun and... I survived sleeping alone for 4 nights! But I'm really happy I'm going to see him in about 45 minutes :D

4. Easter has come and go. I celebrated it at my parents place were my brother and his wife and kids came to. We had an awesome brunch. It was jammie!! Haha.

5. I had a nice surprise for Harm when he got back, he hasn't seen it jet and to be honest neither did I.... What could it be?

6. I really enjoy reading Kara's blog everyday. It's something I look forward to at the end of the day. Keep up the good work!

7. Don't you just like having a 5 day weekend? I took friday off, monday we were off anyway because of easter and I took today off to... Now 2 days of work and the weekend can start again. Next week i'm going back to my 5 day working week.

8. Time flies by! It's allready 4 months since we left from Canada. It feels like a couple of weeks.

9. I enjoy collecting cooking books... I really do. But that's a problem... It makes paying attention for what I eat pretty difficult.

10... I should start taking english lessons again....

dinsdag 30 maart 2010

Ten on Tuesday

1. Lots has happend lately. So this must me an easy blog to write. Lets start!

2. My mom turned 60 on march 17th. It was an awesome party and we had lots of fun. We were with 13 woman in different ages. My best friend Ingrid joined my mom and me to. I really liked that since the rest is way older than I am.

Food!

With Jade and Sterre

Speech!

Right is mine, left is Ingrids


3. Lots of baby goats are born. We have 9 healthy baby's and we still expect 1 or 2. Now we have to wait for the sheep to give birth.

I will make more pictures soon, cause we have some black and white and tricolor to!

4. I'm sick. Yes we know the obvious but I have an ear infection now. Wow that hurts! I feel really sorry for Jade and Barry cause they had them lots when they were young. Auch!

5. Last weekend I took a friend of mine to a show with Irish Cob stallions. She found it on the internet and we just went there. It was fun! We saw some possible boyfriends for Mo and I bought some cleaning stuff for white horses.

6. Harm is going to New York this weekend. I'm sooooo jealous! Why is he going and not me!!

7. I love having long weekends. Because all the free days coming up I took some extra days off. That makes me having 5 day weekends. Isn't that awesome!

8. I have a suprise for Harm when he comes back from NY.... You'll see the result soon!

9. We had a lovely rainbow last friday. It was soooo pretty! You got to love nature when you see that.


10. I have silly horses. I love them to death!

dinsdag 16 maart 2010

Ten on Tuesday

1. Like I told a couple of times before, they are going to build extremely close to my office. Want to see how close?
It makes a lot of ennoying sounds and I hear the building hurting... there are coming scary sounds from the walls and ceiling.



2. We have baby's! No not Harm and me but on the farm! Goats, lots and lots of goats.Or ar least 5. And we are expecting a lot more. They are soooo cute! You never want them to get bigger.


3. I love watching houses for sale on the internet. Dream how our life could be and how our house is going to look like. Tonight I talked on the phone with my mom for over an hour just about houses on the internet.
I want a bath, 3 rooms at least and something to sit outside. I would like a place where to put my bike and christmas stuff...

4. Sometimes my work is so funny. Althought it's a hard world with a lot of really bad things. Clients make funny situations to. You have to laugh sometimes!

5. I need to iron.. Bad time. But every evening I find a reason not to. I promise, tomorrow I'm going to iron.. I think.

6. My mom is getting 60 in about 1.5 hours! She doesn't look a day over 40.... don't you think so?

7. Why do our cats like to eat everything I eat? I think they are spoiled to the bone.

8. Harm is seriously thinking about selling the MR2.. Although I have 1 really bad memory about that car (someone allready found a weel somewhere in England?) I still love it and it sort of hurts thinking about selling it. But I have to accept it. It's Harm's car.

9. Since a couple of weeks I'm washing my hair in the morning. And allthough I'm not a morning person, I like it!
I get up waaaaaay to early, get showered, get dressed, eat, watch TV, do my make-up and dry my hair. And then I still have lots of time left to get to work..

10. It's so much fun to watch Jon & Kate plus 8. When they say: 'I know we are never going to break up'... are you sure? Cause I heard something else..

dinsdag 9 maart 2010

Ten on Tuesday

1. Strange, strange country. We had sun al week and weekend... and then you wake up on monday morning. And yes.... there is snow.. again. Thank god it's gone allready and the sun has returned. I still don't trust the weather.

2. Tessa asked me what kind of tattoo I want to get.
Well. I made a rough version. But something like this.. only the lines. Simpel but beautiful. One has more hairs than the other, just like Mo and Tweet.


3. We had a visitor at work a couple of minutes ago...




4. Last weekend I started to put stones in our garden. We have a small part in front of our house that we don't really use. The last owners before our family left some stones behind, and I'm putting them on the ground.. I show a picture here when I'm done.

5. Cause it was such a nice weather last weekend I took some pictures from the horse with my camera.

One dirty and tired horse (she went on a long ride)

One hairy horse

One horse that doesn't know what he should think of my camera.

And one tiny horse.

6. They are building a new building at the place I work.. That's all nice and stuff. But! they are removing all the trees now, and that makes a lot of noise. That's going to be fun when they actually start building in the summer. I think I don't even hear my phone by then.

7. I love it when Eddy sleeps against me at night. He snuggels in on my pillow against my nek and purrs real hard. So cute.

8. Everytime I look at Vicky I'm suprised at how small she is. She has a lot of hairs but is almost half the size Stiggy is. She is almost 2 now... and a real girl. Haha.


9. I'm hungry... should have a lunchbreak soon I guess. Haha.

10. Last week the new covers for my phone arrived at our place. I have a cover for pretty much every outfit I have. Haha.