We finally had some rain yesterday.
Hair, very cool pictures of the volcano and the beach. I hope Bruce's folks are enjoying themselves.
Happy Birthday (yesterday) Beaker!
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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Well, we’re up late... we just heard something really strange outside. I thought it was high tensile wires snapping... twang twing twang twing twang twing twang twing.
We ran out and couldn’t figure out where it came from. Horses all fine... nothing in any of the fences. I guess it was our neighbor doing something odd again. He’s out there doing ~something~.
Happy Birthday Beaker!!!
Boy, ol’ Bay-man looks great in the video! I’ll bet you’re right about him feeling his oats the next time you ride. You’ll probably feel like you’re riding a pogo stick the first few miles until he gets the edge off.
We finally had some rain yesterday.
Hair, very cool pictures of the volcano and the beach. I hope Bruce's folks are enjoying themselves.
Happy Birthday (yesterday) Beaker!
Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger about not being able to see things at work. I can’t see any of the pictures on Hair’s HH server because our Surf Control think’s it’s a “Weapons” site, I guess because of the Knives for Soldiers thing. LOL! And most of the video links don’t work for me either. Occasionally one of them will work because the server wasn’t quick enough to catch the fact that it was a streaming video link until after the fact, so I get to watch it once, but after that I’m out of luck.
She was riding Bob, the horse she showed a few years ago. She won the adult barrels. Her time was better than the girl's who won the revolving trophy.
Your videos were nice and I really liked the trail ride pictures on your site.
Amy really looks like she knows what she’s doing in those barrel racing pictures. I can just see me trying to do something like that. I’d look like Wyle Coyote riding his rocket. I’d be hanging onto the horn with my heels flapping in the breeze behind the horse’s butt. LOL! Those horses are seriesly fast! ;o)
I’m down at Jenny’s this morning, so was able to see your video’s.
Hair: Bay does feel good:)...good luck.
Frog, great video’s. I love the coloring of the roans with the dark heads. That is just so unusual, just don’t see it often. I wouldn’t have thought gaited horse would run all out like that:)
Becky
Looks like a very nice run:) I think it’s great when kids win in adult levels:). Adults seem to take competition too serious and this kind of puts it in a less serious light:)
Becky
Good morning all!
If this rain (!) stops today, I’ll work Bay again, with a line and more manners :~)
Great action shots MT!
that is really odd. Shooting arrows?? Manufacturing something under cover of darkness?? Did you see this morning what it might have been??
We just went on to the city’s server a few weeks ago. Massive amount of stuff blocked. I clicked on a news link a few weeks ago from FR and it was disallowed “porn”. A newspaper, for heaven’s sake.
BASTIGES!!
No clue what it was... I really thought something was hopelessly tangled in a fence. But maybe he was flapping some kind of sheet metal. It was an odd noise to hear in the dark with no clues.
Oh, Bob's seriously fast. He's like Hair's Pony. He's got SEVERAL gears above that speed. It's scary to watch him sometimes, just thinking about being on him if he decided to cut loose like that. Talk about blowing your hat off!
He's got a left front shoe off right now though. I guess it was so dry for so long and then it started raining and his feet just started cracking around the nails. He had like one nail holding on one side of his foot so I went ahead and cut the clenches and pulled it off before he could lose it, but the hoof wall was already so busted that I doubt that the farrier will have anything to nail to on that side. I'll probably just have him leave him barefoot for a cycle and let them grow back out. And it's not like I don't have a bunch of other horses that need riding anyways. I can keep him trimmed up every other week or so so that it grows out right. And who knows, if he does well, I might leave him that way. Grace is doing real well being barefoot, but it took her a year of bi-weekly trimmings to get that way. That's why I was kinda skeptical when you said that your friend was trying her horse out barefoot. Probably unless she commits to trimming him differently and either using boots or not riding him very much on rough terrain until he grows the right kind of foot she's probably not going to have very much success. There are very few horses that can go straight from shoes to barefoot without having to grow out a whole new foot first.
I told her that, because I believe it to be true, that the horse would take awhile to get use to being barefoot after being shod. I think she is going to have him shod just on the front. It’s about the money with her...she doesn’t even shoe on a regular basis. She doesn’t call the farrier till the horse loses a shoe. I’ve seen her go 11 weeks or more between shoeings. I’ve tired talking to her about it, but she just won’t spend the money.
Becky
Yeah, some of my riding buddies talk about their shoes “staying on for 12 weeks”, like that’s a good thing. Yeah, it’s good that they have a good enough foot for the nails to hold that long, but it sure as hell ain’t good to leave them on that long before a reset. AAARRRRRRGGGHHH!!!It kinda makes me crazy.
Before, the spring just kind of came rushing out of a small cave at the foot of a hill, then flowed out into a small lake before becoming a small creek at the far end. But 3 or 4 years ago they added this...
The waterfall is entirely man made (using real stones) and powered by some huge pumps, hidden who knows where, that recirculate water up out of the lake. It's got to be 20 or 25 feet high and is just lovely. All the local high school kids come down here to have their prom pictures made in front of it. In addition to the waterfall, they've added a small steam locomotive that circles the park and the downtown area, a carousel, and a small roller coaster, and it can all be ridden as much as you want for a small daily fee. I didn't have time to get pictures of them on my lunch break, but I did take a few more...
I know this is kinda hard to see because the noon sun was really bright and the shadows pretty deep, but this is a carving of a Native American dancer that was carved into the trunk of a large tree that used to stand near the lake.
I assume that the tree died and I thought that this was a really cool thing to do with the remaining trunk. I would guess that the trunk is at least 3-4 feet thick and 20 to 30 feet tall. To get a sense of scale, the fence around it is 4' high. This area has a long Native American heritage and there are festivals held here to celebrate it so I guess that's why they did it. You can also see a larger-than-life bronze statue of a Native American woman and child near the waterfall in the previous picture. But anyways, I thought y'all might enjoy the pictures and the back-story.
They've put a fountain in the lake and have a Dancing Fountain show, set to music and lights, every evening in the summer months...
Here's some store fronts and apartments that have been developed on one of the streets leading into the park. It kind of reminds me of some of the old wrought iron balconies that you find in the French Quarter in New Orleans...
So there's my lunch break. I hope you enjoyed it and my tale wasn't too long.
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