Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 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, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.
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.
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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
By letting them go at your place, they have mom and aunt to teach them now and later they can take care of mom and aunt. My ferals have formed a really tight bond (like a lion pride?) and seem to watch over each other. And they do hunt in a pack like behavior with two or three staulking the same thing.
Hey where did you and ecurbh play backgammon at. Charlie is teaching me and the site we found he said is not good.
Not sure they're the best, but it worked :~)
I’d love it if they would stick around here. I’ll worry about them if they don’t stay tame enough to come in at night, or when it’s cold, but I’ll make up as many bed in the barn as I can so they’re at least safe and dry in there.
Thanks, he is trying to figure out how to get us into a game . How are all you doing.
At least you already have a yahoo login, right?
I’m fine here, cleaned barn and paddock and I’m in the middle of mowing, taking a break. I’m tired... it’s going to be a struggle to finish.
We’re having a garage sale this weekend, we think!
I think they’d be perfectly happy in the barn or under the house. If they come in at night, they will become too accustomed to dogs and people and that might get them hurt.
Oh my, a garage sale!!! Sounds like a lot of work.
We played on the Nabisco web site. But Charlie said it’s not good because of something I can’t remember. He’s trying to figure out the yahoo place now.
I’m down at the building (Duh!:) waiting on a friend who is suppose to come and visit. Nothing else much going on, other then the kids and I are planning a camping trip to the lake the weekend after labor day. I went yesterday and reserved our spot. Looking forward to that.
I always liked playng Backgammon, but I haven’t really played since college.
Kari has hooked me on playing dominos on Tuesday nights with she and her husband and another couple. It sure has been fun, but I guess we’ve officially become Old Farts! ;o)
Congratulations to all the horse show winners and participants. They look great.
Y'all sure are quiet. We didn't get to ride yesterday because we've gotten over 4 inches of rain since Sat. Hallelujah, we needed it. Yesterday afternoon after the sun shined all day the dirt spots were already dry!
Good morning :) It is quiet here isn’t it? We could use some rain here too but none in the forecast. We will probably see snow before we see rain. Have a great day.
LOL...I was thinking that last week at the bowling meeting. It appears bowling is for the middle aged:)
We played a lot of dominos, spades, and hearts in the winter time with friends.
Speaking of rain....Frog, AMA, did you all get some of all that Katrina dumped?
I’ve thought of you all every morning when I’m watching the news.
We got fairly well soaked — no serious downpours that lasted for any period of time, which was good, just a long soft soaking rain. Which is exactly what we needed!
Well good. I thought all of Georgia was underwater.
It reminds me of when we were in Scotland -- so long as you had a hat, the rain wasn't heavy enough to stop you from walking outside or doing stuff in the yard -- just a "Scotch mist". There would be occasional showers with big drops that were annoying, but no thunder so you just found a friendly tree to stand under until the heavy shower stopped.
And I think it’s Fay, not Katrina (Gustav is Katrina II), but I know what you meant!
It was a rather fine mist wasn't it, which is kinda strange for us. We tend to get more "Frog Stranglers", where it just comes down in buckets, rather than mists. But it was kind of deceiving, because even though the drops were real fine, it was still putting down a LOT of water per hour. On my way to work I kept on thinking I could run my wipers on intermittant, but I couldn't, and sometimes I even had to run them on high.
I've been on vacation (at home) yesterday and today, so that's why I've been kinda scarce. Yesterday I spent most of the day in front of the computer tweaking on my house plan. I finally got to the point where I thought I had it right and took it to a designer, but once I got the prints back I just didn't like it. It was a Country style house that was wanted to be a Craftsman style house and wasn't doing a real good job of either. So I was on the internet at 1 in the morning on Wednesday, combing through examples of Craftsman house plans and printing various ones that had details that I like and pretty much getting more familiar with the architecture of the style. I think I've finally got it in my head now and I'm going to try to get back to the designer with the modified plan this afternoon, so we'll see if I like it any better this go-around.
I'm also having a load of crusher-run gravel delivered this morning for the barn. My nephew was going to do it for me, but the gravel yard closes before he gets off work, and they're not open on weekends, and I just couldn't ask him to take off work just to bring me a load of gravel for my barn. This'll work out better for both of us because the truck that's coming today will haul 3 times more gravel than my nephew's truck. It's not the gravel that's expensive, it's the hauling!
Oh, yeah that’s right:)
Hey - share your house plans with us, we’d love to see them!
I’ve been scarce because I’ve been busy elsewhere, I guess... either dealing with the phone guy over my dead fax line, or dealing with kittens, or trying to convince my A-Rab horse that the plastic trash bags the neighbor had up on some poles across the pasture were not put there to kill him. It was really funny yesterday, because he wouldn’t go in the pasture at all, and he wouldn’t let the mares out there either till I walked him over there and showed him it was OK.
Then the neighbor ended up taking them down... she had no idea such a thing would be frightening to an old A-Rab horse. ;~)
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