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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I might blanket Harley the night before you go too, just to keep him clean :~D
I don't think real cowboys care about fancy tooled whips, but I can imagine there's a market ~somewhere~ for them ;~D
Well, I saw one priced at Ebay for $3,200.00.
That didn't exactly turn me off to the $ubject; the po$$ibility of earning a little extra income.
That's a remarkable price!
...sure it didn't come with a little private lesson from the dominatrix too?
If it did, they're not tellin'.
Well, I'm still perfecting my skills. I can successfully plait up to 28 (Delay's whip is a 64-plait) and am experimenting with different techniques. I'll definately go the Ebay route first, but considering how cheap the materials are to make a good bullwhip, the possibilities are great.
Sounds like a fun enough hobby, I'm just poking a bit of fun :~D
And away we go. I caught Jake just as he was stepping into canter: 
It's pretty but way out of my price range. I think I paid 5 dollars for mine, in Mexico:') I'm working on some stuff too. My sister and I went to a fair and I saw some really nice western furniture out of junk. There were 3 things I want to try. One was a glass coffee table on a rim and a spoke. Another was one of those billard lights that had been covered in leather and horse shoes attatched. My favorite was a grandfather type clock just out of a square beam with western designs burned in. They had some bar stools with pistols for arm rests but I thought that was overdoing it:')
Oh, I know that. I already got a big ration when I was practicing braiding stuff at work -until they saw what it looked like.
The kangaroo hide leather is the best to use for whips, but I'll be testing out all sorts of different materials. I'm playing with strips of folded duct tape when I get ideas on new plaiting styles.
It's quite addictive.
Have you seen When Harry Met Sally?
No. You aren't going to tell me anything kinky about my coffee table are you?
There's a wagon wheel coffee table in it. And it's not kinky! :~D
Harry: Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours.
Marie: Harry.
Harry: Please, Jess, Marie. Do me a favor, for your own good, put your name in your books right now before they get mixed up and you won't know whose is whose. 'Cause someday, believe it or not, you'll go 15 rounds over who's gonna get this coffee table. This stupid, wagon wheel, Roy Rogers, garage sale COFFEE TABLE.
Jess: I thought you liked it?
Harry: I was being nice....Pause...
Marie: Jess, I promise you, I will ~never~ like that wagon wheel coffee table.
Jesse takes coffee table and throws it in the street....
His leg is slowly filling up. Looks like it will heal up real well.
Just as a point of discussion. There was a horse at the ranch I worked on that got a nasty cut on the inside of an upper back leg. The vet told them to put the horse on the walker twice a day for an hour. It supposedly helped keep the leg from being permenently stiff from so much scar tissue. IOW, from the stretching that the exercise gave it helped spread the wound so that more scar tissue would have to grow for more elastisity....I just thought it interesting that you were advised to stall the horse. Don't you wish vets could get together on what the best treatment is:)
Becky
That's a very good idea:). I've been wondering if I'm even going to bath him at all if it's chilly. That's going to be one of the wait till we're there things to decide.
The more I think about it, I may have put my blanket on him last winter.....I did on him or Rusty one, I can't remember which. But which ever one of them was staying in the arena got the blanket.
Bay sounds like how Belle was with her blanket. The first few times I had to halter her and have someone help, after awhile she didn't even have to be haltered. Just scooped it up over her head on her own when I held it out to her.
My DIL's horse Rowdy has never grown much of a winter coat. Makes Kristy crazy, because he'll stand out in the pasture and shiver. I think that odd, you think he'd grow a coat. She has to not only keep a blanket on him all winter but one of those hoodie slinky type things that zip over his head and neck.
Why would a horse need a winter coat but not grow one??? Genetics??? Or would that be considered something that is wrong with him??? Rocky grows a good winter coat, but sheds it out way way ahead of the other horses, and way before I think he really should. But I've never seen him shiver. and I've never blanketed him, but he has always had a shelter.
Becky
I think it's genetic. Some of the finer bred horses, perhaps thoroughbreds, don't grow so much coat. But that doesn't explain Cyn, who is Arab/Mustang not growing one.
Most of the Arabs I've known have grown pretty thick coats in winter, but many QH's... particularly those Appendix QH's with more TB in them don't so much.
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