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Posted on 03/21/2005 7:18:04 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we 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. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.
I always have 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 also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and Becky pings everyone most mornings. Let Becky (Paynoattentionmanbehindthecurtain) and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. 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.
So... like the previous threads, this is intended as 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.
Previous threads:
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
Wow! Sounds really pretty. I'm still just in the getting started stage with mine. I love messing around with plants. I mostly container garden, but I put in one small bed this year and plan to do another. You'll have to post some pictures of yours when it gets up and going good.
I'm pretty excited about the way it looks even now, but am wondering if when all this stuff gets going if it's not going to be too much. Well nothing tried is nothing gained, I can always pull stuff out.
I actually left 3 things off the list:
dusty miller
candytuft
and something I don't know the name of:)
We are working on the camera situation. The new battery did not fix the camera, so into the shop it's going to have to go.
Becky
I love a crowded garden. Visible dirt means it isn't done yet!
I always thought till recently that you needed to space plants according to what they say on the tag. That if you crowed them they wouldn't grow. It finally dawned on me, how crowded you see some of the pots of flowers in the nurserys.
I've wonder now, what the spacing directions is for??
I've tried to watch my color scheme too, to make sure I don't have stuff that clashes right next to each other. It's going to be a wait and see thing now on how well it works:) But that's kind of the fun of gardening.
I really need to get out there and ride a horse. It kind of clouded up tho and is rather cool. I'm hoping it warms up a bit this afternoon.
Becky
I need to get moving too, but first agenda item is stall cleaning, not riding. :~\
Good morning,
I love your list of flowers (although you know I'm still dealing with winter) I'm anxious to see pictures of them when they are all blooming.
Yes, I was lucky! Also we had a first-timer with us and we had promised her it was going to be the 'easy' trail, then we got off on the worst by mistake, but she was a champ. I mean there were rock walls a foot high the horses had to scramble up, 'rolling stones' underfoot --- it was great.
Pay No Attention, your garden sounds terrific. I have made a water garden since we're so dry here. A washtub with old twisty cedar roots arranged around it, they make the best curvy, wind-twisted looking things...a dipper hung beside it, it's a kind of 'spring in the desert' theme.
Yeah this talk about cleaners has made me feel sane. Kind of! By the way, when I got here I was used to calling them Hoovers. I had a Dyson Hoover! : )
Do you talk to your vaccum when it goes wrong too??? Or am I really an oddball! : D
To Beaker, no they are not our cows, wish they were.....I love to hear them at all hours and hope to get me a herd some day.
This is the kind I remember my dad tying.
I'm not sure how to answer that!
The first horse is the kind of tack Cav was talking about. Of course, the guy's uniform is the wrong color. ;o) The leather lead was just kinda tucked up under the tree at the front so it could be grabbed and would pull out in a hurry. That saddle is similar to the one Cav always rode in, but his was basically a rawhide covered wooden tree with fenders and rigging attached. Looked to be the most uncomfortable thing in the world, but he swore it sat better than his regular western saddle. He used to do reinactments, so it was an authentic reproduction of what they used to ride back then. I don't see how they could ever stand it. Maybe that's where the term "hard ass" came from. ;o)
It depends on if you consider cursing to be talking.
My dad was in the Cavalry his first tour in the Army - he trained the Army mules and the Polo Ponies at Ft. Robinson. He got out and taught riding at a Military Academy in Virginia for about a year, then reenlisted at the start of WWII.
You can probably guess he was a difficult task master teaching me to ride :) and to care for a horse and tack.
I wouldn't call what I say "talking":)
Becky
My son is sitting here reading your post about the saddle. He said a friend of his said those saddles were really not that uncomfortable to ride in, but he wouldn't want to ride a bad horse in it, because the stirrups swing so free.
Becky
How cool! I'll bet he could ride like the dickens.
Speaking of the Army and the Cavalry, did you ever see that Don Johnson movie about the last days of the Cavalry, when they were disposing of the horses and they told them to take the horses out and shoot them and this group of soldiers wouldn't do it and basically went AWOL and took off cross country for Canada with the whole string? I can't remember the name of it, but it was really good. I'll have to see if I can find out what I was.
As soldiers they were taught to fight for honor. As men they were willing to die for it.
In a desperate race against time, five cavalry officers fight for honor and risk their lives to save four hundred horses destined for destruction.
As the earth-pounding power of new tank forces takes over the army, the men and horses of the US cavalry have become an expensive inconvenience. Colonel Stuart's (Rod Steiger) replacement has been ordered to execute the five hundred horses under his command. Lt. Marshall Buxton (Craig Sheffer) and Sgt. John Libby (Don Johnson) are ordered to escort them to slaughter, but rebel in horror after witnessing the massacre of the first hundred. Buxton, Libby and their men escape with the surviving four hundred, facing at best court martial, at worst, death at the hands of their fellow officers. Colonel Stuart's daughter (Gabrielle Anwar) is a young journalist, determined to tell their story to the world, but time is running out. In their flight across the country, the horses are beginning to drop from exhaustion and the Army is gaining on them. As Buxton and Libby face a final assault at the Canadian border, they must, in the end, be prepared to die for what they believe.
And the horses gave their lives just as willingly as the Cavalrymen that rode them.
After the battle of Shiloh, General Grant was touring one area of heavy fighting. He made a comment that one could step across the battlefield on the corpses of horses and mules with touching the ground.
"Without touching the ground"
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