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Posted on 06/19/2006 8:46:45 AM PDT 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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This is Tiff's trailer. It has one divider, and we've usually travelled together with Bay in the front alone because he's the biggest, and two diagonally in the back. She's fit four in there before. I think it weighs more empty than mine does full :~D
That is possible. Mabe they will do that for breeding purposes, if nothing else.
Hey that sounds perfect, and just about what I was thinking.
I'm sorry about the flight times being so inconvienent for you all. That wasn't done on purpose.
I was thinking just riding a bit at your house on Thurs and visiting that first day and getting over the plane ride would be the best thing too. Your calendar looks great and works for me.
Becky
I'm really excited about all this, and still having trouble processing that this is really going to happen:) Big adventure for me, never been away from home this long, and plane ride by myself, and getting to ride on those beautiful trails. Still has a dream quality to me:)
Becky
Here are some pictures of the ride
Headed out
Creekbed
Breaktime
Controlled burn site
"Please Mom, no more!"
Very nice pictures:)
The first thing I noticed was the horses tail in the first picture. Wow:), if a horse doesn't have a tail like that naturally, no amount of conditioner, wrapping, etc, will get it...very pretty:)
The terrain there reminds me alot of here.
Becky
Oh and you should try brushing that tail! It takes FOREVER! People would kill for that tail and we do nothing but brush it ocassionally.
OK :~) That's our plan then, until we think of a better one!
That is some tail, isn't it!
Doesn't ~look~ like a hard ride, you're taking breaks in half the pictures :~) (ducking)
I thought about:).
Tails like that naturally, don't require much care.
Becky
Well, it is good to have a plan, but it's also good to be flexible.
One of Macks favorite sayings is about plans that don't work out just right, "Adjust, adapt, and overcome" he always tells me:). I tend to stress when things aren't "planned" and the plan changes...after 32 years tho, I'm alot better at adjusting, adapting, and overcomeing:)
Becky
Thanks for all the nice compliments about Alison. She is doing so well for her first year, I am amazed. Our County fair starts next week and she is really excited. She is too young to be in 4-H, but will show in the leadline class.
We went to the gun club yesterday and I sold all my reloading components. One of the guys there gave Alison a clip board, with a score sheet on it and she was "keeping score". It was so funny watching her looking like she really was.
My mom was very spontaneous, my dad likes a well-thought-out plan, so I'm kindof a conflicted blend of the two :~D
It's good to have a plan or we won't remember to keep moving and we'll run out of time. :~)
~chuckling~
Well I have learned over the years, the spontaneous plans usually turn out to be the most fun. But on a deal like this we need a bit of a plan, but you know if we decide to not keep moving, that's OK:). It is vacation after all. I don't want it to be work for any of us:)
Becky
That is what I tell my husband, just go with the flow! He get so frustrated and grumpy when things do not go as planned. I try to roll with the punches as much as I can. You will laugh at the mishaps later on so why not laugh in the face of them at the time.
Kids are so much fun:)
Becky
The more you plan, the more chances of things going haywire. You need a basic simple agenda, THEN go with the flow:) My basic plan is Go to WA, on the 12th come home on the 18th...:)
Becky
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