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. :~)
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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.
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New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
It sounds like a great find. A little soap and neatsfoot oil will fix all the moldy stuff. This is a good test for your camera. You can take pictures of the odd stuff and we can try to identify them. And you can’t beat padlocks when working out of a barn.
The lady came out to see BamBam and really liked her attitude and build, loved her color. Also liked Dusty Rose. However, she wants a dead broke guaranteed trail horse. I told her BamBam has not been on trail, although Bob can take her out and put miles on her. And that Dusty Rose has been on trail, a lot - but that she has a perverse sense of humor. So - she’s still looking and thinking. I think part of it is she doesn’t like the price a whole lot.
As for the trunk, go have a brass plate made with your initials on it, and screw it down over the painted initials!
I had to change my lesson date - choir practice changed nights and it was just like the domino theory - and now I'm riding with the big guys, the older teenagers who are competing in three-day. A couple of them laughed when I rode into the ring on Gracie, because my trainer uses her for beginners, she's so dead quiet.
They changed their tune after we started jumping though. One girl actually said she couldn't believe it was Gracie . . . 'her ears went up and her eyes lit up, and she said, "COOP!"' I told her we have a special arrangement, she'll gallop for me . . . .
I had to trim my morning glories today, they grow so think and long they start hanging in the gate way so low you can't hardly get thru. I took a picture before I trimmed the outside edge of the arbor. They are so thick above you could stand under it in the rain and not get rained on. Notice the arch of dead leaves, that's from earlier trimmings. I trim them about once a week. See how close they are to the top of the gate.
And this is how the fence looks.
Becky
I have to laugh at the arbor gate, my husband is 6'6" and he would have to CRAWL through there!
Those morning glories disappear completely for winter, right? That’s just one summer’s growth?
Your garden looks beautiful! I just went out and took some flower pictures too - post in a minute!
My husband is about 6’3”, and he has to bend double. Every year that I have planted MG’s like this by end of summer I think they have just gotten to dense and I don’t like them. But my whole family does, Mack included and they don’t mind the ducking:).
I lost some of my impatien’s last week when it got so hot even tho I was watering every day. I finally just weed wacked them down. The rain today should help everything.
Becky
Yeah, the first freeze kills them completely. They have to be started every year from seed. They need lots of sun, and heat. You should only water them when they absolutely need it and fertilize very very little to get the most blooms. These have just in the last week really been putting out a lot of blooms. Todays look pretty bedraggled because of the rain.
Becky
They appear to want to bloom next door more than here :~)
My whiskey barrel I chopped back about two weeks ago, and it's almost recovered to what it was. It was so gorgeous when ecurbh's parents were here, then it collapsed in the rain. A good haircut and it's blooming again.
No such thing as a guaranteed horse. Even Dusty Rose who I would put a baby on and not worry will try to unseat an adult who wants to cowboy her or shy out from under someone if she gets bored.
You garden and yard is so beautiful, it looks restful too like it’s beckoning me to sit down with a book and a glass of ice tea.
Those are the strangest petunias I’ve ever seen. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them grow more than a foot tall,longer maybe if they are hanging. Sure are pretty though.
They’ve been sending up plant like they’re on steroids, but I wasn’t sure they were ever going to bloom!
I am just furious - I’ve lost two rhododendrons and an oak leaf hydrangea, I watered them every day I could (we’re on alternate day watering here, and only in the early morning until 10 a.m.) but we went on vacation for a week and that finished them off! I don’t have sprinklers here because we live in a hole, and ordinarily everything here is a little soggy with all the water off the hills around us and the rather damp little brook that flows through our side yard. But not THIS summer. I am most annoyed.
Here's a few more pictures of some of mine. This coleus I think looks pretty good. It really attracts lots of hummingbirds too. I think this is something that does better in containers too. The ones in the garden are small and scraggly.
The MG's from outside the fence.
And my crazy redbud tree that is not shaped like any other redbud tree I see around. I'm just not sure what to do with this thing, but it doesn't have a very nice shape, and I can't reach any more to prune the top.
Becky
Thanks Duchess. I do enjoy sitting there in the morning drinking my coffee.
Becky
I’m so sorry. It’s so heart breaking to loose a plant that is not suppose to die off. I lost both my dogwood trees last year, and one of them was 3 years old:(. I guess the drought we had last year has moved your way.
Becky
I love the morning glories... I should plant them on my fence, block the view of the store at least all summer :~)
But if you really want something retrieved, speak to Shelley. We had a funny happening today. I took the dogs down to the river, and a fellow with a yellow Lab showed us a place you could actually get down to the water and have a flat place for the dogs to climb out (the banks are steep hereabouts). He was throwing a tennis ball into the river for his Lab, a big powerful boy that probably goes 90 pounds or so. Both my dogs were going nuts wanting to retrieve, I didn't dare let little Ruby go into strong moving water because she's still a splasher, but I let Shelley go at his invitation, although his dog had a ten yard head start. She's such a little thing, but she's a smart little marker, and she figured out in her head the speed at which the tennis ball was floating downstream and headed for the place it would be when she got there. Meanwhile the big strong dog kept swimming straight for the ball, so he described a slow curve while she did a straight line and beat him to the ball. She SNATCHED it, spun around in her own length, and went motoring back by him to the bank. He DID look shocked, he thought he had her beat.
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