aka Ishtar News
When Anette and I went to work this afternoon, we stumbled upon some festivities going on in our street.
The younger brother of a friend of my brother (it’s complicated, I know…) was getting married, and so the tent was up, and dancers had been hired for the occasion.
I didn’t have the time to stay for […]
Sahara looking beautiful as ever - but who would have thought she’d grow so much during the time that she’s been with us?
Maya starting to become less and less like an indifferent bush horse and more and more like the other mares in the flock
Arwen with the right posture. I wanted a picture of that […]
A lot of people here have been wondering if I’ve let the country, since I have grown so scarce. Well, both Anette and I have been very much present, but our presence has been very much limited to the office, where we have been working long, long, long hours these past few weeks. It’s a […]
In Niger, horses start being ridden at far too young a age, sometimes not more than a year or so. With Maya, we let her run along for the first few weeks, but when she started getting too daring on her own (peeking into people’s gardens on our way out of town and hunting the […]
We took the sisters out to my brother’s big garden, to let them figure out their differences like horses like to do. As a safety precaution however, we tied one side of Sahara’s legs together so that she would be able to do any serious damage to Maya, who was a few sizes too small […]
Today, our horses got a visitor, a two year old filly from the bush who happened to be none other than Sahara’s younger sister. She was destined to our neighbor, but although with her two years she would seem ridable to most people in Niger, she is too frail for any of us. So she’s […]
After two years of blogging about Niger under the alias Ishtar (as I was first called by my little friends in Niger), I have now - finally! - got a space of my own and will from now be blogging under my real name. Which is Esther by the way, or Esta (the official Hausa […]
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