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!

[CindyDawg]

He had an oak dining chest too. I offered him 50 but he wanted 75. He knows where I live (a neighbor) if it doesn't sell. Duchess this may set me back another week or two. I didn't touch the mad money though:')

[Mr. Brightside]

my husband figured out going on the 4mph average that I rode 2500 miles 3 years in a row.

Interesting. I will have to figure out the same thing.

I don't know how many miles I ride, but I can tell you that the ferrier came over last weekend and could not even trim my horses.

He said, "I have never seen one person wear the hoofs off of THREE horses in the winter." (Most of us in Michigan take shoes off in the winter)

[CindyDawg]

I was thinking a light cedar color and on that on that side that drops down a horse silhouette maybe

[HairOfTheDog]

Don't do that. I opened up to Cyn dead? :')

Heh... sorry... she looks even more dead in this one, with her teeth showin'...

She's just pining for the fjords... :~D

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

LOL, good for you. So you can ride that much without shoes? That's great. Were I am we have lots and lots of sand stone rock. There was no way to ride barefoot. Not only did it slow them done, it just wore them off too short. My farrier always complained because he had to put a new set of shoes on my horse every 6 weeks. I never got a reset out of them.

I truly don't know if I could do that now, even if my horse could:). LOL.

Becky

[CindyDawg]

Oh my gosh, she does! I would have freaked if I saw one of mine down like that.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I'm wondering if I missed it somewhere, what breed do you ride?

We sure like pictures here:)

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

LOL, so comfortable:)

Becky

[Duchess47]

I like that table. How are you going to refinish it?

[Duchess47]

Well, I wouldn't have been able to resist it either. I'm the queen of the thrift shops here. My kitchen is covered in copper on every spare inch. I always find something I can't live without.

[Beaker]

LOL! She looks like an ex-horse in that pic! :-D When she sleeps, she really sleeps!

[HairOfTheDog]

All that's missin' are the flies and the scavengers...

[Duchess47]

"She's just pining for the fjords... "

No, she just feels really, really safe at your house :)

[Mr. Brightside]

I have an arab and two TBs. (Plus a Shetland Pony my daughter rides)

I also ride my neighbor's horses when they let me.

[CindyDawg]

I'm going to strip it down and then varnish it maybe in a light cedar. I don't want it too dark though because the tiles are reddish/brown and we are going to paint the walls a light mellon color. I've never tried wood burning so I'm thinking about a stencil I can remove if I don't like of maybe a horses head on the drop leaf. I was looking at those silly legs. What do you think about "hoofs" ? (grin)

[Duchess47]

I think it's called tole painting, or something like that, where you paint stencils, etc. on wood furniture. Done in a light finish, with bright primary colors in the stencil would really look nice I think.

Bob just told me one of our goats died this afternoon. This has been a *itch of a month so far, one of the lovebirds died, then my cat, and now a goat. I rather hope this is the last of the trend. He said when he told me that things come in threes. :(

[HairOfTheDog]

SOrry! It has been a bad month. - what killed the goat?

[CindyDawg]

They seem to, don't they. What happened to the other two?

Well, I never made it out to the stables. I ride tomorrow so I'm ok though. I called my instructor because I wanted to ask her about a problem and she told me she got thrown from one of her horses and banged her ribs up. What's with ribs lately? I feel like I need to buy me a vest:') So far , I have been partial to hips though!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

So do you board them, or do you have your own place?

I have a Palomino/Quarter, Harley, and I hope to do competitive trail riding on him. I got to compete on him one time last year, and he will be very good at it once I get the saddle problems fixed.

Becky

[Duchess47]

We don't have a clue - it doesn't have any marks or injuries and there is no sign of bloat. And the other goat and the llama seem just fine.