The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread

[Scott from the Left Coast]

"Lunches and water"

Nope, not really buyin' it.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

LOL....me either.

Just got back from the ride. Reba did good, but did get tired at the hour and a half mark, so we only went for another 30 minutes. I did take her to the creek to cool off for a while. The shoes helped a bunch.

Off to the Green Corn Festival for a while.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Lunches and water is exactly what I am thinkin' Scott!

We don't take beer on trail rides! It's too thirsty and tiring of a hobby! Just water, honest!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Turned out to be a drop-dead gorgeous day today...hope the ride was as pleasant as the day was.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Just teasing:).

How was your ride? We didn't get home from the Green Corn Festival till 12:30 last night. I'm tired. Going to do house work today and get everything in shape then in the morning get two horses rode. Then try to ride the third one tomorrow evening.

I ran into an old friend that I use to ride with at the festival last night. She sold her horse when she divorced. But is looking for one now so she can ride with her daughter. She is going to come look at Harley. But honestly I don't think he is the horse for her. He's taller then I think she will want, she's shorter then I am, and she was never a very confident rider. Altho he is a very good horse, I don't think she will be comfortable on him. But the horse she use to have was a palamino, so that is why she wants to look at Harley. He would actually be better suited for the daughter, but I don't think the dad will buy her another horse. The one she has now is a bucker, and I don't think the girl will ever be comfortable on him. They would do better to sell that horse and buy Harley for her. The daughter is the one that told her mother she needs to come look at Harley. Her dad is the friend who came up and pulled the shoes off my horses and she was with him. He won't even ride the horse they have for the daughter, but he won't sell it because he knows he's going to loose money. He paid too much for the horse to start with, then sent it to a trainer for 30 days. Since the horse is one that will need an experienced rider he's going to be hard to sell.

THAT sort of thing is kind of a catch 22. I've learned it's better to go ahead and take th lose and get something you like, if your serious about wanting to ride, which I think the daughter would be if she got something she and her parents trusted. If your just looking for a pet tho (which I don't get:), if that's what you want get a dog), then it wouldn't matter what the horse was like. But the kid really needs something to do. She wants to ride, but they won't let her ride the one she has unless someone can be with her all the time. They don't have another horse, so that's why the mother is looking for one, but I don't think she can afford one, and the dad is too tight:). Poor kid.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Pictures of our Green Corn Festival Street dance:

Me in the white shirt, my daugher in the light pants, and my DIL in the red shirt, I don't know the little girl in blue, she was just trying to learn, we were all doing the line dance the Electric Slide:)

The next one is a picture of an older couple that cleared the dance floor. This gentleman really knew how to dance:) They were the cutest couple, they were probably in their 70's

This is my son talking to my daughter while we watched the band. The band was set up on the sidewalk in front of our building, so we had front row seats. That's the drums on the other side of Charlie

The singer of the band.

The carnival in the night.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Slow, slow night. No one is talking anywhere.

Guess I'll go to bed so I can get an early start with the horses tomorrow. Talk to you all tomorrow afternoon.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Hey Becky - looks like a fun night in town!

We've been gone all day, just got home. Tomorrow is the first day since the wedding that there is no company and no where to go!

[2Jedismom]

We kept trying to get over to the festival but never made it...looks like fun!

We did make an enclosed pen for the chickens...now they can't fly out and they're pretty hacked off, I tell ya! LOL

[malakhi]

Charlie looks tired. You'd think he had a baby in the house or something! ;o)

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

They don't like to be locked up if they are use to being free. I've done that before too:)

How much longer till your Americanas start laying? I've had three hens sit on nests so far this summer, and hatched 34 eggs in the incubator. I'm getting some eggs this winter:)

Sat nite was the first time Charlie and Kristy left the baby overnight. He stayed with his other grandmother. She called Kristy at 9:00 that night and said he ate his cereal and took his bottle, she put him in his crib and he went right to sleep. She asked Kristy how she got him so well trained:). He's a very good baby. Charlie had been working hard on getting the new roof on the building. It can be very tireing to do something you don't know how to do. He'd never put a tin roof on before. Took some doing but it looks very good. Did you know Mack bought a building in downtown Bixby??

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

See post #211. I thought your post was from 2J. Shows how awake I am this morning:).

Becky

[2Jedismom]

No! I didn't! What's he gonna do with the new building??

Let's see...the new girls are 10 weeks old...Roy was 19 weeks when she started laying, so I imagine by sometime in August we should have them laying...barring one isn't a rooster! LOL

What a good baby!! Joshua was easy like that...

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

He's going to lease it. One part is for a retail shop of any sort, back when the building was built in the 70's it was a dress shop. New Beginnings Baptist church used it for awhile last year till they got their new building up. Then there are 8 office spaces down the center of it. And then there is a doctors;s office there too, Dr. Russel has been there since the building was built. It needed some renovations and that is what Mack has been doing the last two weeks. The building is directly across from the park, it faces the fire station, and then the Dollar Stor is on the other side. I can't remember the street names. There is a committe working to bring downtown Bixby back to life. With the new community center facilities and Scotts down there now, I think it may happen. So hopefully this was a good investment ~fingers crossing:)~

Becky

[2Jedismom]

Neat! I'll have to drive down there and check it out!

[malakhi]

Well that explains why he looks tired in that picture!

How've you been?

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Fine. Riding horses all the time:). Just got in from riding one that I'm getting paid to ride for someone else. Getting a drink then I'll be off to ride Harley. Will probably stay in the arena with him. Time to get him going on the barrels, and it's getting hot.

I had blood work done on Rusty, he still has some sweating and respiration trouble. He is better but I'm tired of worrying about it. Hopefully, this will tell me something, and it will be something that can be fixed or something that is not a real problem. I will get the results this afternoon.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Just got in from riding Harley:), feels so good to accomplish your goal. choctawsquaw is coming this evening and I will ride Rusty, so all three will be rode today.

I am also excited because I figured out why I was having problems with my second barrel. I always knew I (not the horse) was doing something wrong, and I figured out today, by accident that I was going into the turn at the wrong angle. Isn't it funny that you can learn more from trial and error then by someone telling you and telling you. I have always admitted to being a slow learner:). The problem is that I hope it doesn't confuse Rusty too much when change what I have been doing with him. Luckily I just started Harley, so I don't have to undo anything with him.

I figured it out by finally stopping to analyze how I do the first barrel. My first barrels have always been great. But I've had trouble on the second and even with Rusty the same problem was starting to happen on the third. So today, I could tell it was going to happen with Harley too. I thought what do I do differnt on the first vs. the other two, and lo and behold it was so obvious, I don't know why I didn't see it before.

I don't know if I can explain it, but on the first barrel I approached it at an angle, and rather then straight into the turn. I've always heard barrel racers holler at some one running to move the horse over going to the second. Well I did, but just not enough so the horses body was positioned straight, perpendicular, with the barrel. Now if you move thm over just a little more they will be angled, and they really don't start the sharp turn till their on the back side of the barrel. Make sense?

I can't wait till this evening to try it on Rusty. We'll probably have to work at it slowly at first. Harley moves over real easy with leg pressure so he did it great.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

I think I get the barrel post! - Are you saying that now you veer inside a little on the run, so that you have less of the barrel to get around when you get there?

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Yes!! All those words and you said it in a nutshell. Oh well, It makes a big, big difference.

Sooo...since you get it, does that make sense??? I've been wondering if it is really "right"? Or if that will cause me to loose time. I don't think so tho, because they do move over but they are going forward too...the turn is soooooo much smoother that I think it has to be right, and if you think of the mechanics is has to be easier on the horse. I just know that is how I've always done the first and it's always been my best barrel.

Becky