The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[cjshapi]

Thanks!

Show is at Harlansburg, the WP Quarter Horse Assn grounds. It’s an Inter County all breed show and should attract some very nice horses. Hopefully the show photographer will get some nice shots of Deuce. Am not bothering with a camera because I’ll be lucky to be coherent by the time his class is over.

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL!

(silly cat!)

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Good morning:),

cj: good luck at the show, are you riding Deuce or someone else? Enjoyed the poem:)

I took some pictures of the baby birds trying to get back in the nest last night. They all three made it:) One time tho before I knew what was going on, two of them over shot and came in the house and had to sit and rest a while before finding their way back out. We had birds flying all over:), mom and dad were trying to lead them back out. Once they made it, I had to shut Bink in till they were all safely in the nest. It took over an hour, I guess getting back in requires some tricky flying:) Anyway, here they are taking a rest, funnily enough by a wooden seagull I have hanging in my dining room.

This is to show you sort of where the nest is in relation to the door. Hard to see but there is one of the babies sitting on the shutter of the window. The next is in the eaves above the door, they have to swoop down around the header board, then back up, and the nest is very very close to the ceiling, so the space to get in is very narrow.

He spent alot of time sitting there and the other two on the roof above him, because the murderer was trying to get out. The parents were fluttering around chirping and fussing at him thru the glass door. It's very hard to get a picture of the birds while they are doing that. I finally had to go in the house to get Bink away from the door, then everyone made it in safely for the night. They have already took off this morning, but waited till he was in the house. they are pretty smart.

While I was trying to get a picture of the birds I took some of my garden. Here are my impatiens when I planted them less then a month ago.

Last night.

Echinasia.

And my morning glories.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Great bird report :~) drama and comedy :~)

Your flowers look pretty too... I’m not impressed with my impatiens.... They haven’t grown a lot since I planted them. Been pretty cold nights though.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good luck at the show... sorry Whitey is sore. What happened, do you know?

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Probably just the cold holding them back. I miracle grow once a week. A friend of mine who gardens was here this weekend, and she commented that all my stuff was huge:), she plants her stuff then it’s on it’s own to make it or not. So I guess the miracle grow does help a lot.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

We’ve been miracle growing too...

It’s 37 right now.

[cjshapi]

Great pics!

Taking Deuce. Trainer will be showing him but am hoping it goes so well there is some miracle and he has me show a class too.

[cjshapi]

I suspect it happened back in March. He was trying to kick out at mom’s old guy, who can get pretty cranky and chase the others when it’s time to come in. I saw Whitey plant his front feet to kick out with the hind and his right front twisted sort of funny at the shoulder because of the mud.

He was sore for a few days after that but it quickly disappeared after 3 days on bute. All of a sudden last week he was sore again. Bute seemed to help but in the middle of a very easy work he really just sort of lost it on that shoulder. He’s very lame now and on stall rest. Dropping him off at the trainer so he and the vet and farrier can get to the bottom of it. I suspect it’s going to just be long stall rest.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, if it’s findable, I bet they’ll find it :~\

[cjshapi]

I’m sure. I just feel badly for Whitey. Am sure he could care less about the show but there’s not much he enjoys more than going out to graze. He’s about the kindest horse you’d ever meet.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Oh man, it’s still winter there:) No wonder they are not growing.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Well, Julia is suppose to be here at 9...we are trying to miss the heat. Harley is saddled and standing tied, and doing the pacing, and looks like he could just generally throw a fit out there. Not sure what all this is about, but he’s liable to get to stand there the whole day...Obviously needs to learnsome patience.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Maybe Harley’s just excited to get going! :~) I’m always excited when Bay is pacing and dancing on the tie while we’re hitching up. It means he feels really GOOOOOD. :~)

Yeah - it’s been a cool spring. Going to be sunny today, we’re going up to the beach house to help Dad with the weedwacker.

Have a good ride, and a good day, if I’m gone when you get back.

[FrogInABlender]

I loved the story Duchess! I really hope Heaven is like that!

[FrogInABlender]

I hate to hear about Whitey missing the show, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed that Deuce does really well.

[FrogInABlender]

I can’t believe that those birds just fly in the house like that! I’ll bet it’s a hoot when they’re zooming around like that. I really miss having mine around this year.

Your garden’s looking great! It’s amazing how fast stuff grows once it starts getting warm consistantly. I’ve got lots of impatients this year too. It’s really hard to go wrong with them.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

We had so many birds in the house I turned the ceiling fan off:)...

Well, I don’t think Harley was acting like that because he was excited to go....I have no clue what his problem was, but it got so bad, that I decided to lunge him first..and the brat broke in two...he was bucking all over the place, I jerked him down, started him again and he started bucking again....I ran him backwards all the way across the arena and started him lunging again and he decided to be good. I then thought to check my tack, but everything was fine. So I tied him up (Julia had to wait on me, she was fine with that). He stood quietly for a few minutes, so I bridled him up, lunged again both directions. He was fine, got and took off, and he did great the whole ride. When we got back, he was standing so quietly, like he should, I figured leaving him would just be counter productive, so I let him off.

I can’t ride tomorrow, but he is going to be tied. If he acts fine, I’ll turn him right back out, but if he acts silly he will stand there till he doesn’t...

We ran into what appeared to be a stray dog, a blue heeler, that followed us home. I tried chasing it off but it kept coming back and Julia said she would take it. He seemed a really nice sweet dog. When we got back here she tried to back out of taking him, but I got him in her trailer and didn’t give her much choice. I told her if he stayed here I’d call the pound immediately, I don’t want another dog, especially a heeler, so she took him.

It’s so funny, she was like, are you going to ride that horse....I was like well yeah, what else can I do, he can’t be let to get by with that sort of behavior. She said, She wouldn’t get on him, she’d be putting an ad in the paper and selling him. She could never have gotten on him again...LOL...I hate to tell her, but any horse can act up at any time, you just have to deal with it...

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

Well, I know that y'all aren't here right now, but I'm going to go ahead and post pictures from this weekend's ride anyways so you can look at them later.

This is the group as we were heading out from the barn. There was well over 50 I guess. Quite a few of them were already over the hill...

A good bit of the ride was like this, just riding around the edge of cotton fields...

But some of it was through the woods and along creek banks so that was nice since it was pretty darned hot...

Here's a pic of H.L.'s barn. I LOVE it. The stalls and such are in the big center section and there's tractor and equipment storage in the smaller section to the left. The overhang to the right is the run-in area for all the stalls...

Here's another view showing the equipment storage side better. He keeps his smaller equipment like the lawnmower, the Gator and stuff like that in those smaller bays. That's his house next to the barn. His two daughter's houses are farther on up the driveway. He also has a grandson who nas a house down below the barn. I started to tell him that he could just adopt me and build me a house right there too! ;o)
This is looking in the south end of the barn. Notice the big roll-up door. I thought that was really handy. There was one on either end and when they were open there was the nicest breeze blowing through there. Of course in the wintertime you could close them and keep it warmer...

6 stalls to the right of the door...

The shop just inside the door to the left...

Just beyone the shop area was the wash area with the white walls and a storage room next to it, the stairs to the loft and then the kitchen area...

This was taken at the north end of the barn looking back the way I came. You can see the hay storage up above the stalls...

This was just the other side showing the loft storage. He had all this old antique stuff hanging on the wall that was kinda cool looking...

And here's just some pics of some of the cute little minis that he had. Isn't that mane incredible?!...

Oh, and one of the cute little goat that was in with the minis...

And this was a little filly he had that had broken it's leg shortly after it was born. It seems to be doing fine in that cast and is of course spoiled rotten from all the handling. You can see the run-in area of the stalls better in this pic too...

And while I'm posting, here's a pic I took on Sunday of this cute little team of ponies that was pulled up at the Chevron station by my house. I see mule-drawn wagons all the time, but this is the first team of horses that I'd seen in a while. They weren't exactly ponies, but they weren't really full-sized either. They may have been 14 hands...

[FrogInABlender]

Sounds like Harley was just pitching a temper tantrum and you showed him that that kinda sh!t don’t fly so he straighten up. Good Job! That’s funny about Julia saying she wouldn’t get on him. She needs a robot instead of a horse coz real horses are gonna do that sometimes!