The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT

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[HairOfTheDog]

I meant the horse :~D

[CindyDawg]

Night:')

[tuffydoodle]

Your trees look alot more fall-like than mine do. We are still very green here, except for the grass. It's been dead since June. We did get some rain yesterday.

Have ya'll seen this? www.horsetv.com.

I've already contacted my satellite provider to see if I can get it. I'm waiting for a reply.

[Beaker]

I think that horse tv is part of the RFDTV channel. Rural-something-something TV. I can never remember the name. I love all the horse stuff that they have on there. And I get tickled pink when I can catch a dressge freestyle program. I always sit there wishing that I could ride like that. :-)

[tuffydoodle]

I get RFDTV, it's different from HorseTV.

[CindyDawg]

I'm going to call my cable company today to see if I can get both.

[FrogInABlender]

I'm gonna guess you'd get him through some touchier places than a stranger would, because you raised him....you build trust and confidence in the other. I obsess on that alot lately, as I contemplate having to start over with trust in a new horse someday. I don't wanna!

You know, you might wanna think about buying a weanling as your new horse for that very reason. While Bay is still active enough for you to ride, you could be training the young one up the way you'd want him trained. With you being able to work from home and spend more time with him than the average person, plus having the knowledge that you have, you should have an extrordinarily well behaved horse by the time it's ready for him to be broke to ride, whether by you or someone else. Like you say, the trust issue would already be resolved.

[FrogInABlender]

Wow Becky, Y'all do have some really nice color! It's not near that pretty here and I don't know if we'll get any color or not. It's been so dry that I'm afraid that all the leaves will just fall off.

[HairOfTheDog]

It's a thought! It sure would be fun to do all the training on my own (though I'd probably send him out for backing, like you did) but I hadn't thought I'd want to replace Bay with a really green horse.

And really, we're maxed out here... we don't really have room for another till we get our own place.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I bought a horse yesterday for JP for Christmas:)

I'm pretty excited about getting it. I've been shopping for a rocking horse for about a month now. The only place I found one around here was at Toys R Us. It was an alright one but the frame didn't seem real sturdy and the horse was all plastic and not real exciting. It was like $84 Mack got on the internet and found this one but it was $130 dollars. I know a girl that works at Wal Mart. I had asked her about them a few weeks ago (she works in toys), and she said she hadn't seen any. Yesterday when we went in there we ran into her and she told me that 5 rocking horses had just come in on the truck. Hadn't even been unloaded yet. I asked her if she knew the brand and the price. She looked it up and it was a Radio Flyer for $99, I told her to go get me one off the truck:) This one has real heavy yarn mane and tail and just looks like a happier pony then the other one, and it looks real sturdy too. Now just holding off till Christmas.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Good morning! I always wanted one of those when I was a kid!

Have you started your story yet? The NaNoWriMo cultists on the HH thread are already talkin' word counts :~D

[MissTargets]

Late start here......Good morning.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

LOL...No. Being as computer illiterate as I am, I can't figure out how to/where I'm suppose to be writing it at, and how to do the word count.

I think you're suppose to do it somewhere else then transfer it????

I've lost interest in trying anyway. We have so much going on around here right now that I wouldn't have time. I don't even think I'm going to the CTR this weekend. This time of year plus with working on the house....I just don't want to take a whole weekend off, especially since Mack's work has slowed down. I think I'm just going to start fresh next spring...but this could all change tomorrow or today for that matter:)

I had a rocking horse when I was a kid. They were not nearly as neat as these, not realistic at all, just a shape cut out of wood, all square painted red witha black saddle. But I loved that thing, I'd ride it for hours. Charlie had one like the one I found at Toys r Us. Some big teenage kid got on it and bent the frame and it was never the same, Pissed me off royaly. I'm hoping there is a weight limit in the directions.

I guess the stores like Walmart only get them in around the holidays. I was really glad to get a hold of this one. I was throwing around ordering the one on the internet, it was just more then I wanted to spend. So was this, but not quite so bad. I imagine after some time and the new wears off it will land up back at my house so all the grandkids I have can get use out of it. Charlie's house is rather small and can only take so many big toys:)

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't know a thing about NaNo, but they are using MS Word to write it on, because Word will count words. I don't think they really transfer it, merely report their word counts somewhere.

It's good to have some of cool toys at Grandma's house, would be a good thing to leave at your place! But you can't ride it.

Understood about the CTR, I've given up on much riding till spring, though we have agreed to ride here at home ~once in awhile~ when we get a nice weekend day.

[FrogInABlender]

...I hadn't thought I'd want to replace Bay with a really green horse...

Well, there's a difference between a green horse that you don't know and one that you raised. Hopefully Bay's got at least 4 or 5 more good years in him and if you spent the time with the young horse that I think you would, he wouldn't be green at all by the time that Bay retired. I know what you mean about the space issue, but it's nothing that another lean-to on the barn and some more hay wouldn't solve. And now I won't nag you any more about it. ;o)

[FrogInABlender]

BamBam looks like she's doing great! I always love your pictures. The sky and the mountains are just mesmerizing. The costumes are really cute too.

I only had 1 trick-or-treater last night and it was my nephew's little boy. He was dressed up in a hand made clown costume that his mother made and he was adorable. I was really impressed with her workmanship. She could easily make a living sewing if she wanted to.

[HairOfTheDog]

It's worth thinking about....

Heck, we thought we ~might~ breed Cyn some year when we were in our own place, so that ecurbh could see it all and we could raise one, but that will be some years off still.

[FrogInABlender]

Well the thing about breeding Cyn is that you'd lose the use of her for at least a year and then you couldn't ride together and that would suck. Buying a nice weanling would give you a head start, especially if you got one from somebody who likes to imprint. I think that's why Cyn is as calm-natured as she is. I gathered that she was handled a LOT as a baby.

[HairOfTheDog]

She was handled too much... she was bottle fed, which gives her that pushyness we curse at her for ;~D But it's a trusting pushyness LOL...

But between the handling and the way she was wired, her temperament is great. If we could reproduce her temperament, it'd make for a worthwhile project. The only thing that makes me reluctant if it were a prospective horse for ~me~, is that I really like a big horse, and it's not good to try to breed for size with a small mare. But a big Polish Arab of Bay's basic type... maybe.

It'd certainly be a bonus for a green horse to get to follow his momma on trail, by then she and ecurbh would be our seasoned leaders. :~D

[HairOfTheDog]

It sure is nasty out.... it couldn't possibly get wetter. Even Bay, who usually goes out to pasture rather than finish his breakfast hay, is still in the barn. The mares seem content still inside.... When Bay finally goes out, if he does, I'll go push them out, but it sure is miserable out there and they don't seem to be in a hurry.