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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.
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Sorry to hear about your momma. Praying for you and your family. I haven't figured out the details yet about if we soul sleep or what for awhile but I like FIABs thought.:')
I don't even remember the last time I got to ride.
Today when I was picking Winnie up from the vets I asked the vet if I could give Winnie ace every day, to keep her from bouncing around the stall. He said, "you could but let me give her a longer acting tranquilizer so you don't have to give her shots every day. It'll take it a couple of days to kick in but once it does the effect lasts 30 days." I almost crapped my pants, a tranquilizer that lasts 30 days??? No wonder so many people get cheated on nutty horses. Unscrupulous horse sellers probably buy that stuff by the caseload.
I've heard of anti depressants with a long life but not a tranquilizer. Huh.
Good morning
Becky
Good morning!
Need coffee! It's pouring out, and it has that 'all day rain' look about it. We had thought about going on some kind of drive, like up to the Skagit Tulip Festival, but I think it'd be a miserable day for it.
The tulip farms are quite a sight though:
Wow, that is really neat:)
We are thinking of going on the bike to Muskogee to Honor Heights Park to see the azaela's. They should be in full bloom now.
Becky
Is that like a farm that sells the blubs?
Becky
Is that quite a ride to get there? Skagit Valley is about 3 hours from here, through and past Seattle, so it's a big decision if we were to go. I think it'd be best to wait for a day in a year that it isn't raining during the bloom ;~D
Yeah - they're growing the bulbs to sell next year, the ones that are selling cut flowers never let them get to that point.
What I like is when there is a whole field of one color, like red, and out there in the middle is one white one. Heh...
Heh - actually, it looks like there is one yellow one in that purple field above ;~D
Muskogee is only about an hour, probably less on the motorcycle with Mack driving:)
Becky
Heh..sure does. Around here if you see a dozen in one spot it's something. Hard to picture what that looks like live.
Becky
Honor Heights Park, and some spots of mass planted tulips. Nothing like those fields, but still a lot more then what you normally see around here. But they may be done now for this year.
Becky
More of the same all around for miles ;~D It's pretty neat. You can drive by whole fields of one vivid color on the left, another color on the right ;~D
I think you're a couple weeks ahead of us to have azaleas now. Most of our azaleas and rhododendrons will bloom in a few weeks to a month.
It is going to be nice and sunny here in NE Ohio and I plan on riding today with a woman from the barn. We tried to go out yesterday and never got beyond the outdoor arena. Waylon was spooking at the least little thing and I didn't trust him on the trails. It was his first time outside riding all yr. Hopefully today will be better and I can fit in a trail ride
That's news to me too!
Consider yesterday your shakedown cruise. Sometimes it takes them a couple of those ;~D
Is he young?
I guess it's just not something they advertise, with good reason.
You know, every time I've gotten a prepurchase exam, I've asked for bloodwork to check for drugs. I guess it never occured to me that the drugs could be nearly 30 days in the system.
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