Breakfast for Two!

Good morning waitress!  We should like your finest table for two for breakfast please!  Hehe Dragon has gone out riding and we fancy a relaxed Sunday morning snack….

Now then waitress we shall try your starter… or shall we be posh and call it an amuse bouche? Whatever….

Mmmmm banana peel our favourite…. Hey Mini who can make the best face?

Yep ME!

Before we start I must have a cooling drink, they temperatures are roasting for a Shetland pony, I still have my tummy fluff just in case so it’s a tad hot in my undercarriage region…..

Right off we go, follow the waitress, whatdya mean we get the first floor table?  Hmmmm

Hey Mini come on….. Oh ok you think the atmosphere is a little stuffy in this restaurant so you gotta spread some dust….

OK onwards, goodness me waitress this table is miles away!

Where’s breakfast?  I see no food and it looks like that customer has jumped the queue!

Ah that’s better…. Quick best eat quick before Dragon gets back….

A lovely relaxing Sunday brunch, yum!

Looks like the waiting staff have gone on strike in the heat!

Roller's Philosophical Friday: Friendship

Dearest Friends!  We have reached 40,000 views, wow!

We Muleteers are so happy to have had so many of our lovely friends visit us over the last 18 months.  All that we hope is that we have just occasionally made you smile?  Have you laughed?  Have you nodded?  Have you cried? (hopefully not too much....!)  We hope you have just occasionally left our page feeling that little bit better for having visited :-)

Us Muleteers were having a little chat about our little blog (ok when it's The Mini turn to post the blogs are not so little...) and how much we have grown to love it.  From small beginnings of sharing a few pictures and letting our Granny in on our antics we have enjoyed hearing from friends all over the world.  We love it when you say hi, we love to hear what you're all up to and we love to read the blogs that some of you have too.  The best part of all is realising that there are friends all over the world that experience the same things as us, have different experiences, live in far away places and share some of who they are and what they're up to - we love this and want to say thank you for making our day that little bit happier!  To learn that there are others around the world who share our thoughts and enjoy the beauty of nature, long ears, short ears, two legs and four is just great :-)

So here's to a lovely sunny weekend for you all!

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Grass Tinted Spectacles

Hey everyone, today I am mostly seeing the world through grass tinted spectacles....mmmmm green! 

I have been having problems with those pesky flies on my eyes, they kept trying to drink my mule tears, nasty things don’t they know my eyes are not their drinking fountain?! 

So FH kept bathing and wiping and fussing (don’t tell anyone but I like it when she fusses with my eyes, I love having my face stroked when no ones looking, must keep up my fierce exterior though) and despaired. 


Then she found this fly mask, made some alterations for my mulificent ears and here I am!  She even picked the one with a green grass tint, excellent.
 

I am a big fan of my fly mask, The Mini is pleased because he reckons I’ve ‘copied’ his fashion trend – whatever!  Even Roller has been having a mask on when the flies are really bad, I honestly thought he had enough hair for the job, seems he needs to grow a bit more hair – heaven forbid.

There is definitely an advantage of this fly mask thingy (in addition to the obvious).  It makes all my world seem green and lovely and gives me shade.... a perfect eye mask for a little snooze.

What better way to spend the day than having a little bite to eat and than a lie down?  Nope, FH I am not getting up.... you can either put that thing down and sit with me or go away... I'm happy in my green haze thanks (she obeyed and stroked this Queen Dreamer).

Stay cool Muleteers and remember your sunglasses!

 

 

 

An English Country Garden

Hot, hot, hot!  The sun is shining the birds are tweeting and we Muleteers have been busy with a very English pastime... gardening!

Our version of gardening is.... well eating...  We have been tasting all the lovely morsels and gazing longlingly at those on the other side of the fence.  Care to join us for a wander through our wildlife meadow?





So... How many sweet kinds of flowers grow in an English Country Garden?

We'll tell you now of some we know...... here goes!

Yarrow is tasty and grows everywhere - yum!

Then there's Cat's Ear

That got Catanian's ear.... she likes gardening too.

This is Selfheal.  A plant that used to be taken to soothe sore throats and other such ailments.

I wonder if it soothes itchy feet?

Then there's Red Clover.  Good for the ground but we're not that keen on eating it... pretty though!

Some lovely Red Campion which made The Mini's ears prick up - his favourite to eat!

Then there's Sheep's Sorrel and our favourite grass 'Yorkshire Fog', so pretty when it blows in the breeze and so tasty too!

Dragon heard rumour of the grass and trotted to see where it all was....

Hmmm seems that someone ate it all in here!  Who would that be Dragon??

Then there is the plantain which is starting to look a little tired, it has finished it's busy seeding and thinks it's time for a rest....

Catanian agrees!  Trust Queen Cat to find the shady spot.... all that's missing is someone to fan her with palm leaves and feed her fresh shrimp... hmmmm!

Gosh all that gardening is messy business... time for a bath...

... and a little lie down!

Hope you've had a nice sunny weekend friends, we're exhausted with all that gardening (eating hehe).  Have a good week :-) xxx

Roller's Philosophical Friday: Gossip

Greetings my dearest Muleteers!  May it never be said that we don't gossip.... occasionally we like to discuss the latest celebrity ponies in the Pony Times or who in the neighbourhood needs to lose a few pounds... but I keep trying to remind everyone that gossip is not always good.  I spend much of my day pondering life and find the odd gossip requirement of many human beings rather odd.  Why are they always soooo interested in what everyone else is doing?  At least be interested in something good like the weather or food or talk about the meaning of life?  If they spent more time thinking about themselves and how they live their lives we all might be better off I reckon.

I have found a little saying that I rather like, although we might not stop gossiping entirely we will try to remember this one!

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.  
Eleanor Roosevelt

Here's to big ideas and plenty of pony snoozing at the weekend, sending you snuffles to brighten your day!

Time to Start Shaving....

Greetings Wooferteers!  FH has started to make noises about my beard... she says it’s nearly time for me to start shaving like a big boy (I think she’s joking?).  I does keep reminded her I is a pups and that I am growing my beard in order to store food in for the lean minutes that she don’t feed me..... honestly I only get four meals a day and snacks, you humans is mean on the foody front.   No wonder I has to take matters in to my own paws some days!  I have developed a taste for milk cartons, snails, wood, sheep poop, pony poop, grass (if it’s good enough for the biggest dogs in the family I thought it’d be ok for me, it’s pretty tricky to eat though?) and well, ermmm anything really, the more FH tells me not to eat something the more I think she’s trying to hide it’s hidden nutritional delights! Always worth the taste test.

So there we have it, I have been growing my beard to keep me warm, store food and look distinguished (that's what MH says so it must be true?).  I have even developed some impressive ‘cheek mice’ as MH likes to call them, I reckon he is proper jealous, FH has banned him from having any, I feel well special!

I have decided though that I might stop there with my hairiness, I have discovered that to run fast I need to stay smooth in all other dimensions so I am willing my beardy fur to stay on my face and legs only... I know I look a little errrm different with my patchy coat but hey if it works? 

I have learnt what my legs are for now.... zooooommmm, blink and you will indeed miss me.  I can outpace my cloth dog easy (although his brakes are better than mine so he still gets the ball most times) and I terrify FH whenever possible with my speedy ‘beep beep’ fly pasts when she is deep in thought on our walks (hopefully she is thinking about MY next meal).

Super speedy lurcher pups!

Got it this time, haha, you won't catch me Cloth Dog!

One last important thing to report my friends.  I have been working on the posing.  My Cloth Dog is the expert at this.  He does the ‘hang dog look’ good, the ‘aren’t I handsome look’, the ‘oh my god I’m starved’ look and finally the ‘someone tell the puppy to leave me alone’ look (he doesn’t mean it, I’m sure of this).

Handsome!

Handsomer?  I'll keep trying!

Do you think I got my, ‘aren’t I handsome with this beard’ look down?  Shame I got some food on my nose.... oh well, waste not want not....

Beep, beep, zoooooom...... catch ya later fans.... or maybe not unless you can run as quick as me :-)

 

 

 

Save The Best 'Til Last

Sunday evening had come and I had watched everyone else have their fun....

I was starting to wonder if my fly shield was making me the invisible mule?

I had tried neighbraying, I had hung around the yard a lot, I had rolled around in my most becoming fashion and had finally resorted to sulking.

When was it going to be MY turn?

Every time I asked FH she kept saying, don't worry I haven't forgotten you, wait until later.... wait until the flies have stopped buzzing and it's not quite so hot.   She promised that I would have the nicest time of all...







Dragon had gone out not once but twice.  She had not been on best behaviour on one occasion, hmmm well if you want a good mule you should look no further than my handsomeness - hint, hint!

Roller had been pampered and had a bath (I did too but that's not the point), he had also escaped like the slightly naughty pony he is.  Someone had left the fence unelectrified so he took firm advantage,  I however am perfect and would not think of doing such a thing....  see FH, pick me!

So there I was, late Sunday, everyone had been and gone, gone home for dinner, off to drink tea and eat cake.... looks like I missed my weekend fun :-(

But wait what's this?  My shield of steel has been removed and I'm all dressed up with somewhere to go!

Off we went for a lovely evening potter.  We walked to the moor gate and looked at the view, checked out the new arrival sheep and I had a spot of moorland delicacy grass.

FH said it had been a busy weekend but she couldn't let it end without the perfect walk with her perfect mini mule.  Oh yes, I like the sound of that.  FH reminisced that not too long ago I would not have been up here with her.  Apparently I would've thought this was all too exciting or scary (probably true) and tried to get loose which would not be the done thing in such a big open space.  No such problems anymore.

It's always important to sample the local delicacies when you travel.  I took this advice and snacked a while as FH sat and looked at the view.  

So eventually we had to go home as it was starting to get late.  I decided to try to pick some flowers for FH.  There was a 'little' problem though.  They were very tasty.  Mmmm I really like the taste of these flowers.  Just one little taste.  Oops I guess she doesn't want my chewed flowers.  Oh well.

So there we have it.  Maybe the best things do come to those who wait?  I sure had fun.  Hope your weekend was a good one too!