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Posted on 04/26/2004 12:06:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Free Republic has a lot of horse people that have found each other on other threads…. And since we all like to talk horses, how about a thread where it is not off-topic, but is THE topic?
A few of us thought it would be interesting and informative to have a chat thread where we can share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. We may not ~always~ have a lot of activity, but when we do, it will be fun. I will put a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!
I will also develop a ping list for horse threads that are of interest. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.
I am hoping this thread will be a fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.
Good morning! Today we will put up the Bush banner in the pasture and I would like to mow. I think it's going to be a nice day.... may make time for a ride... :~D
I haven't switched to the daily wormer. I looked at it as expensive since the bucket of it is expensive, but I haven't read to see how long that would hold me. Worming with the pastes every two months just doesn't seem that hard or expensive to me.
That is such a sad story! You know... if you got one now, you no longer have to ask for permission! :~D
That sounds like my kinda church ;~D
How was jumping last night?
Don't tell AAM but you know you can only jump so many fences:') After awhile I just had a really nice trail ride:')
Got boring did it? Very good!
HEAR THE LATEST stay tuned to WABC all day.....
We have all been gearing up for this event for a long time....as the Big Apple shines with all the attention of the GOP convention. Our coverage kicks into high gear on Sunday, when WABC will broadcast live from our suite overlooking 7th avenue and Madison Square Garden at the Southgate Towers hotel.
Steve Malzberg broadcasts live 9am to 1pm (with live news coverage of the protest march)
Monica Crowley broadcasts live 1pm to 5pm (continued live coverage of the march)
Curtis Sliwa broadcasts live from 5pm to 7pm (With Ron Kuby from the protest rally)
Then, stay with WABC for convention week, as we broadcast John Gambling's show live from Radio Row, at Madison Square Garden in the heart of the action,10am to Noon. Rush Limbaugh will be all over it, and then WABC's Sean Hannity will be live from radio row 3-6pm.
Mark Levin will cover all the action, and Laura Ingraham will be here too....6pm to 10pm, with live ABC News Coverage from the Convention Floor and all the speeches. WABC news will cover all the action, morning-noon-and-night, including any problems around the convention protest rallies. You gotta love this!
It's a great time for New York City, and WABC will be all over it. Stay tuned......
So we went out and raked up the last of the fallen apples in the back forty so we could turn the horses back to the woods, which we did, and we also took advantage of this cool misty morning to burn a pile that's been sitting all summer because it's been too dry to light it.
It's lush in the back forty...
Now to go get the posts to put up our neat Bush Cheney pasture banner in time for the convention!
I told JJ it was raining cats and dogs and of course any 4 y/o going to take that literally. Yall have any idea where this saying came from?
Are you in the city?
Gidget likes the shade of it best of all...
Bay and the pony consider the message...
This is from the road going by outside the front fence! It actually looks bigger and more visible in person.... the lens shrinks it.
I think it really is supposed to mean there are cats and dogs everywhere, rather than just that it is raining hard, but we have confused it over time.
The French describe a hard rain by saying it is "raining ropes" Which visually, makes a lot more sense!
Have you done any lurking on this thread? I just went thru what you are going thru now with farriers. You have my sympathy. I tried the barefoot thing, but it didn't work for me, too many rocks. I went back to my old farrier who had shoed for me for 7 years, but got rather bad about not returning calls. We had a talk:), and he understands where I'm coming from. But even if he doesn't return calls he at least shoes good, so I've made up my mind, and told him, I'll just call every hour till I get hold of him. Won't count him getting messages, or returning calls:)
He's currently a little too much horse for an inexperienced rider, but he wants to learn and I think regular working will turn him.
99% of the horses out there would be good horses with REGULAR work. But get that across to horse owners and I'll send you a cigar:) And of course what I mean by regular is not once a month.
Becky
Your banner looks good. So does the background:), so does your back forty:)
I won't even take a picture of my back "forty". Working my pasture is this winters project. It got in really bad shape because I didn't keep up with the rocks and dead fall. This summer I bent two blades on the mower, so I had to quit mowing back there till I get the rocks and deadfall cleaned up That's winter time work.
Becky
Thanks! All the scrubby low trees that are behind Bay in the second back forty pic is the stuff the brush cutter is going to take out, leaving all the big trees. Might be able to get more grass there in time.
Have you ever heard from the brush cutter?
Becky
No.... we should expect to hear or see him this week maybe. I don't know if his schedule was delayed by all the rainy days or not.
about 40's blocks away! it is very quiet here!
But NY is a very unusual place in the 70's I lived on 100 st and on block 99 was SRO's and one would know not to walk on that block.
I would enter off of B'way through 99 to West End ave and than walk down my block it was that broken up!
Gidget a Republican. The pony and Bay Independents. (they haven't made up their minds yet:')
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