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
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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!
Oh... my... god. As much as I wanted to look away, the need to stare won over.
It has managed to give me a fairly big case of the willies.
I’m so very sorry. Please assure your neighbor she has a lot of good company at the Rainbow Bridge.
I’m so very sorry about the mare. How sad.
There’s a place in north eastern Oregon - or maybe it’s south eastern Washington - I don’t remember - called Horse Heaven Hills. Looks like it, too. Rolling hills and green grasslands.
I’d like to think that that’s where she is now. She’ll be missed.
Ah - well, it’s never good to have car issues. Hope it’s good now.
Wow! Sounds like you dodged a bullet. I’m glad the guy found it before you had an accident. But at least it sounds like you knew what you were looking at and talking about. That always helps when dealing with mechanics.
Horse Heaven Hills. Sounds like just what I picture the bridge like, and a beautiful name.
Wow. Thank God for a good mechanic before the car caused a fatal accident with you in it.
Saturday, I teamed up with about 10 others who were going on a slow ride. There were two girls on ponies and they had to keep trotting to keep up. This was not working out well, so I got ahead of them. We stopped for lunch were everyone met up. The kids went on with another group and 5 of us went on another trail. Two ladies were really cool, but another couple thought it great fun to canter up hills. I was getting a little irritated at having to trot so much, but that is what happens when you ride with people you don't know. We rode 4 hours on Saturday. I decided I was not going out on Sunday and left in the morning. The whole group was going out as one unit and I didn't feel like riding with 50 horses.
The food was great and sure nice not to have to cook all weekend. I met a lot of nice people and other then the hard riding, had a good time. I didn't take many pictures, as my camera is too big to tote around. Just a few from camp.
One side of the camp where I was parked. The blue Chevy is the older couple's. The other rigs beside mine were people from a OHC Chapter that I am going to join. There were a lot of other rigs across from us and all around the camp. Quite a large crowd.
The picket line. Jody is behind the sorrel Walking horse. The gray is an Arabian, but all the others are Walkers.
Hard rides build character, right? ;~)
Sounds like a fun time, I love riding with just ecurbh because we’re so compatible, but group rides once in awhile are always interesting for a change!
What’s keeping you looking for another horse other than Jody?
I like their picket setup. I’m always a little unsettled about what to do with the water bucket. Bay doesn’t particularly like it floating in space like that. I usually try to hang it from the near tree, but that doesn’t always work!
Today's project was to move these hay racks:
Inside (notice someone peed already on our nice dry clean floor!
Which the horses found very interesting :~)
Glad to have that done. We've always gotten by with just throwing it over the wall. Feeding from the ground, for all it's virtues, though, is too expensive now. When hay didn't cost much more than bedding, I didn't care if they wasted it. But it's really expensive now, and I'm tired of them using it to pee in. It'll be nice, we can just throw it over the wall into the racks.
We did have to cross a small bridge and I was worried she would not go, but I really don't think she had time to think about it and walked right over.
Maybe next spring, I will think about another horse, but with winter coming, I would rather wait. That is, unless I find something before. Amy has some people who are very interested in Biscuit, so she might be sold.
You guys have really done a lot of work on the barn. It looks good and the idea of the hay racks will work out very well.
Poor little Alison broke her wrist in gymnastics on Friday. It really didn't bother her until today, so Amy took her to the ER. Tomorrow, she has to get a cast put on.
It sounds like a fun weekend but a little bit more riding than would be fun - it starts sounding like work. Glad you are home safe and sound.
If our horses wasted any of their hay or peed on it, it would be their dinner they were wasting.
I'm sorry to hear about Alison, poor baby. That has got to hurt something fierce.
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