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To: CindyDawg
I just got back from the barn - I've washed my hands and taken off my high boots and breeches, but that's about it.

Miss Gracie mare was perfect today. I switched to a slightly longer spur - a 1 1/4" Prince of Wales instead of the 3/4" I was using. Gave her an extra gear! We jumped just about everything in the ring. We have a variety of ability levels in the Wednesday night class, so the jumps were set pretty low and I was ready to dawdle through them . . . then I noticed our trainer strolling around and when she left each combination it was MUCH higher . . . but Gracie rose to the occasion like a bird. She is just such a pretty jumper and so easy to sit.

My dog came to the barn too. She had a wonderful time helping me tack up, and fetching tennis balls for all the kids, and touching noses with my mare . . . they get along great, Shelley seems to think that horses are just big dogs. She sat in her crate while I took my lesson, every time we went by that corner of the ring she would whine softly, "I'm still here, Mom." LOL!

341 posted on 05/05/2004 6:11:58 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: AnAmericanMother; CindyDawg
Hi! - I mowed my back forty today instead of playing with ponies, silly me.... I am a farmer without a tractor.... did it with m'lawn mower...

This is ecurbh helpin' me finish!

All that good lookin' long grass there? - Canary grass. the horses won't eat it :~\

342 posted on 05/05/2004 6:47:30 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (I am HairOfTheDog and I approved this message.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
gotta have pictures :')
343 posted on 05/05/2004 6:53:11 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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