Back on track

Very well, after some of the most stressful weeks I can ever remember, the project is back on track, with some adjustments but no essential changes. TomBoy is still with us, despite the trainer advice to change him for a more experienced horse. While training him in time proved impossible, also with the help of a trainer, he is finally improving both in his general attitude and in accepting the various props of the cart horse business. He is not scared of the cart any more, and he is less spooky and flighty by far in general.
Kaylee proved tha she can draw both our carts alone, but Tom is now helping her, drawing in a curious "double tandem configuration" (horse-horse-cart-cart) that is not elegant, and is about as long as the Eurostar, but that will at least get us (all 6 of us) on the way in the scheduled time. As I said,it ain't pretty,but it is an incredibly practical way to put TomBoy muscles to work without him being yet bodily attached to a cart, and this gives us time and freedom to keep training him without so much pressure.

As for the other preparations they have almost come to their incredibly busy and squalid conclusion: the house is almost emptied of all that made it our home, almost all our furniture and beautiful things have gone into hiding at a friend's place, all our camping bags and packs and tarps and sacks are standing in the ways everywhere waiting fo the big day, that is now really really close, and dust is everywhere,asalways when you move house. A trial packaging some weeks ago proved that we will indeed be able to load all of out travelling home on our two small carts, thanks to all kind of adaptions and a inordinate number of metal hooks.

I keep trying to take pictures of the kitchen box: one of these days I may even manage!