The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE

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[HairOfTheDog]

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - Who's Who *pics*

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 MissTargets will now be pinging everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets 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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I'm going to bury and lose him:)

Here's a few pictures since it's been slow here on horse stuff.

Hyacinth.

and the fern.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, it at least looks like spring where you are!

We're starting to think like it's spring here... I want to fence our main front yard off from the dogs and traffic again to overseed. It just gets worn to dirt in winter. Looking forward to doing that.

And I think I'll untarp the trailer soon and take it down to be checked out, brakes and bearings and such... And the blue truck too.

Horse-wise, Bay is shedding copious quantities, which is always a huge relief to me, but I wouldn't put myself or my gear near him right now! He's a MESS.

[RebaJ]

Where are all the horse pictures? Here are some from the LSR rescue. Blondie Bucket Heavenly Trey

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

That's so funny that your's are shedding so much. Rocky is just sort of getting started, and Harley hasn't shed at all.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

It has been awful slow in here lately, hasn't it:)

I know you can't ever really tell from pictures and even foals can be deceiving about how they will look when they mature, but Bucket, poor thing, looks like he could have some confirmation problems.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

When Bay rolled the other day, he changed the color of the ground, he shed so much hair.

And then, the interesting part is, birds swarmed in to gather up the hair... they're all nesting :~D

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

When Charlie lived here he had a great big gray, and you could always find the place he rolled because the ground would be white with hair:)

I've seen birds nests around that have horse hair in them:) That is so cool:)

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

I've got a birdnest that made ENTIRELY of horse mane hair. It's really cool. I was riding at this friend of a friend's place and I had parked by a little tree and I found it on the ground at the foot of the tree. It was so cute coz it was maybe 3" in diameter and about an inch deep. The guy who lived there had a couple of palominos, so the nest was made of blonde and white hairs. The little bird must've pulled them off the fence where the horses had been sticking their heads through the barbed wire to graze and pulling their manes out.

[Duchess47]

Has anyone heard if everyone in Texas is okay? Fires sound pretty bad.

[CindyDawg]

LOL. I thought it was just me seeing that!. It reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Fire and Ice.

[CindyDawg]

Got a link? I've been news deprieved today.

[CindyDawg]

Blondie looks like Sarah Lee. Do yall sell them or just find them homes?

[CindyDawg]

1250

[Duchess47]

I'm sorry, yes I do have a link.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/15/wildfires.ap/index.html

We're hearing 11 people dead, 10,000 cattle and horses and 840,000 acres burned.

[CindyDawg]

Ok,thanks. I'm going to check it out. I have our Texas news channel on

[CindyDawg]

It sounds like they got that storm wind. Ok, it's on the news now.

[HairOfTheDog]

Been watching these awful fires too, but I ~think~ all our Texas saddle club folk are well south of there... Right?

[CindyDawg]

Yeah, it's in the panhandle. Tuffy the closest. Then Reba

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm thinking tuffy is in the SE quadrant of the state, right?

I know you're down at the south tip, where's Reba?

[CindyDawg]

Tuffy is in Fort Worth. (Southeast) Reba is in Waco (about 100 miles south of Tuffy. Go east and you will find dandelion(?). Square Barb is west of San Antonio ,lemondrop is norteast of Houston and I'm way down here all by myself. I have no idea where the doc is calling home now:')