FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 12

[HairOfTheDog]

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - (very out of date) Who's Who *pics*

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!

[HairOfTheDog]

Pretty cats. I’ve always liked the color of Siamese’s body’s.

They're like buckskin horses :~)

[FrogInABlender]

Yeah, I remember you mentioning that over on HH. Is he neutered or can you get close enough to tell?

[HairOfTheDog]

I don’t even really know it’s a he.

I just think she/he’s someone’s pet because he doesn’t run away with the same fear the wild ones do, he’s just skittish. He stops and looks when I call “kitty kitty”.

Now that it’s getting to where it’s warm enough to sit on the porch and wait awhile, I might be able to get close. They all disappear during the day, because the dogs are in and out and around.

[HaveFaith]

He looks like a mitted Ragdoll, except the hair is not as long. They are really docile cats.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Our freezing rain has turned to snow.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Shivery. Hard to believe you had 70s earlier in the week.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

It was nearly 70 yesterday morning!

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

Weird! Your grass isn’t fooled yet, I see... not even starting to turn green yet.

We’re havin’ rain today... but I won’t complain.

[FrogInABlender]

So here's some weekend trailride pics. We went to the Pine Torch trailhead of the Bankhead Forest Horse Camp. It's one of the places that we ride fairly often and kinda take for granted, but it really is pretty when you stop and look.

This is just right around the bend from those big stair steps I've shown y'all before...

We went exploring a couple of new "hollers" this time. This type of cliff shelter/waterfall are at the end of just about all of them. This one looks a lot like the one we poked around in last weekend. You can see the little waterfall just to the left of that old dead snag sticking up in the middle of the picture..

And this was a different one. We had to park the horses up on top because it was too steep to get them down into. It was just about too steep for us too!

This was a double-decker waterfall, one of two that were in this cove.

You can see Shirley and Doc at the top and the other waterfall lower down on the right...

Kari at the bottom of the waterfall shown in the previous picture. She looks like she's standing right under it but she was probably 20 or 25 feet in front. It had a pool at it's base so she was standing on top of a boulder farther down and I was standing on a boulder farther down still...

And here's some links to some a couple of video clips I took while we were in there...

Pine Torch Trail Waterfalls 1

Pine Torch Trail Waterfalls 2

[FrogInABlender]

Our freezing rain has turned to snow.

Good! I'd rather have snow any day than freezing rain! Looks like the horses are doing the smart thing and staying in, all nice and dry.

[FrogInABlender]

Your grass isn’t fooled yet, I see... not even starting to turn green yet.

Bermuda grass doesn't even think about greening up until the nighttime temps stay above 60 for a pretty good while. We've got a lot of it around here too.

[HairOfTheDog]

I love your cliffs! I really do! Very cool, thanks!

I have to admit something though... when I first saw the pictures of Kari I thought she didn’t have any pants on! It’s just the color of them breeches I think! ~ducking~

[HairOfTheDog]

Ah - it’s pickier than our grass then. Ours is green, but stays dormant till the night-time temps stay above 50 or so.

[HairOfTheDog]

Just as I was taking this picture Barkley made a huge sigh, and burned more calories than he's burned all morning ;~)

[FrogInABlender]

Yeah, they do look a bit flesh-toned in the pictures don’t they. They were more orange-looking in person.

[FrogInABlender]

LOL!! But I’m sure it was a contented sigh.

That dog really fell into a cushy job when he showed up at your place!

[HairOfTheDog]

It was the one where she’s climbing down that I first thought it: “She’s not wearing any pants!” ;~)

She’s gonna flame me ain’t she? :~) I don’t know her well enough to give her a hard time.

[HairOfTheDog]

He’s got it pretty good I think. It was a little rocky till he and Gidget sorted things out, but I think he’s very well at home now.

[FrogInABlender]

It’d be a little rough on the old Be-hind riding without no pants. He11, I can’t even stand to ride in shorts, but I’ve seen other people do it. My legs get galled bad enough in the summertime WITH long pants on so I shutter to think what would happen otherwise.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, yeah - not to mention the stirrup leathers tend to pinch... ;~)