The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN

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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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE

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

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I'd make you some deal that if you go on another trail ride I'll take my truck apart, but I don't think I ~want~ to take my truck apart. :~)

[CindyDawg]

:') Don't blame you.

[HairOfTheDog]

Our truck is apparently just a leaky hose... won't be very much... but they closed early so we couldn't pick it up! Sign said they were open till 5:30 but the place was dark at 5:25. We guess he had an important date or something :~)

[CindyDawg]

Well that's good news. Yalls watches probably weren't synchronized and he wanted to get home and watch football or something.

[MissTargets]

Good Morning.

Lots of rain again last night. Things were just starting to dry up. I am busting up an old outdoor fireplace, that is in the pasture and no use to us. The broken block will be a good base for a path way through all that mud in the pasture. At least big enough to get my tractor in the back. Wheel-borrowing the slag was the killer. It was quite hot and humid yesterday.

Biscuit went to the trainers last evening. She is going to be there for 6 weeks. This is the one who broke Jody. The other trainer's (one I posted picture of)barn is too far away.

[cjshapi]

That wheelbarrowing sounds like a killer. I hope your back is okay. Pretty intense work!

[MissTargets]

Hey, what the word on Deuce?

That wheelbarrowing sounds like a killer.

I really, really needed Frog's Bobcat!

[cjshapi]

Deuce is scheduled to be dropped off Thursday for Friday surgery. Dr is getting his new laser installed tomorrow. Not sure how many zappings this mass will take and they do it every other day.

Right now he's hand grazing a lot when I'm done with work and as he's breathing with his neck down this darn thing is making a nasty rattling sound in his throat. Doesn't seem to bother him but it freaks me out!

[MissTargets]

Poor horse. Sure hope he has some relief.

Here is my project.

Finish breaking up this block (started yesterday). All the rain yesterday and the water just lays.

Use the block as a base for a path to the back pasture. This is the fence we put up, so I could spray and reseed the pasture.Not much left here but mud.The tree on the left is dying and has to come down, before it falls on the barn.

Put this slag on top of the block. It is so heavy, you can only haul a little bit at a time.

[cjshapi]

Geeze - you've retired to work your butt off at home!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Good morning:)

I'm so glad you are finally going to get Deuce's problem taken care of:)

MT....looks like hard work, but your land looks very pretty:)

Julia is coming to ride this morning around 10:30. It will be a nice easy ride, pleasure is our goal:) Then I need to do something constructive too...maybe some more book work, maybe not:).

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Thanks for the pics of your project! Sorry you're having to work in the rain! Your land is really pretty. Too bad to lose that tree :~\

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I have to show you all a picture of my crazy dog Grizzly:) If this dog is resting, he is always always up on something, a chair, the tongue of my trailer, I've seen him on my lawn mower, on the seat of Mack's motorcycle, YIKES. I looked out a window just now, and he's laid out on the AC box. Crack's me up.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Good morning, have a nice ride... and hope the something constructive is good too, if you do it :~)

We have more fencing today, if we do it.

We're finally getting rain the last two nights. Poor horses are still out, I think we need to get the stalls put back together.

Waiting now for the pasture to wake back up, it's still brown.

[HairOfTheDog]

Looks like a pretty good spot to lay and survey his domain! :~)

[FrogInABlender]

I really, really needed Frog's Bobcat!

Becky's the one with the Bobcat, so you'll have to take that one up with her, but I've got a tractor with a front-end loader. Well, actually it's my BIL's, but that's even better. I didn't have to buy it but I get to use it. ;o) We've got one too, but the tractor's way to big for me to want to mess with. I'd probably knock the barn down if I tried to use that one.

[FrogInABlender]

Grizzly sounds like a pretty smart dog to me. I wouldn't wanna lay on the ground either. But laying on Mack's motorcycle probably isn't the smartest thing I've ever heard of. If he'd turned it over or scratched it I'm sure he would've been on Mack's $hit list big time.

[MissTargets]

Becky's the one with the Bobcat

Ah! Ok, sorry, thought it was you. I would rent one, but it would get stuck for sure.

Have a good ride, Becky!

[MissTargets]

work your butt off at home!

Yes, and I have lost weight and in better shape now.

[FrogInABlender]

I know what you mean. We've got a real boggy place on our land where a small stream runs through the woods, but it regularly overflows it's banks and floods the whole area and my FIL has stuck 4WD tractors and bulldozers and everything else back there. Last year one of his friends decided to drive his team of horses and wagon back there and got them stuck so bad that they had to unhitch the horses to get them out and then pull the wagon out with the tractor. I don't know what he was thinking, but at that point I wasn't going to ask coz he'd've probably bit my head off. You know how it is when you've done something stupid, you just really don't want people asking you why you did it. But one good thing to come out of all this dry weather we've had this year is that it's dried up enough back there that they could take the bulldozer and dig out a drainage ditch and put a culvert in there so that there's at least ONE place where you can get from one end to the other.