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!
Farah is fine - stocking up in the rear, which she always does. She has to be hand walked a bit every day, left to herself she doesn’t move far from water and/or food. We feed her on the opposite side of her paddock from her water but that’s only 24ft -
The problem is I know how she feels, a week before I delivered I didn’t want to move either :()
Okay, I’m ready for spring now. I know this is only March but we have had enough winter here in the West.
WOW! Good job on getting the pics while driving! I can just see the headlines now if you’d had an accident...”Woman causes massive pileup while trying to take pictures out her car window. Cameras to be banned in automobiles from now on.” ;o) And...um...about the Dead Camel Mountains...do I really want to know why they called them that?
I’m glad you found that pic. I tried to by searching Rose’s posts but I had to just keep scrolling back and it just took too long. Is there some better way to search?
I found that one because I had saved it for some reason... It wasn’t even the best picture of the spare tire, I don’t think, not sure why I saved it, but I remembered seeing it in my stuff!
LOL - well, ‘cause they found a dead camel there.
The army used camels here for awhile, although this particular camel (according to Nevada Place Names) was a camel used for carrying salt to the Comstock mines.
Me either.
Took these this afternoon.
LOL! Well, I thought they may have looked like a dead camel or something, you just never know. After all, they named the Grand Tetons that because they looked like giant boobs.
:-) Yes, they did! And the Virgin Islands ...
Pretty pictures and pretty horses.
Hal took my Faith and the black filly to get shod today.
The 23 mo. old filly, Sassy, that had never been shod, stood and acted like she’d been doing it forever. He had to tie one of Faith’s legs up and let her hop till she got tired so she wouldn’t kick him. He couldn’t believe Sassy was as young as she was. Said she had great manners, easy going, and was gona be a BIG horse.
Very nice! You sure got one nice clean Spotted Horse there. Most of them seem to like to look like they’ve just rolled in a hog wallow. Did you just bathe him or something?
Bet they didn't call 'em that after the Spanish left there! ;o)
Well that’s great about Sassy. Sounds like Hal’s done a good job training her while he’s been trimming her.
Yeah, it’s hard to keep Daisy clean and she doesn’t have near that much white on her.
Did you get your trimming done?
Hal got the water run to both barns and covered up today before it rains. Will be nice. Only thing he cut was the phone line and he already had them come out and patch it.
That tack shop lady, Kim, said she was talking to you about your saddle. I emailed her and told her I gave you her name and address.
I trimmed Tennessee this evening. Now that it’s staying light longer I can do one or two in an evening after I get home from work.
That’s great about getting water to the barn. You won’t know how to act now that you have power and water both.
Yeah, the tack shop lady e-mailed me this morning, asking me what I wanted for that saddle. I told her $550 if she paid the shipping. I haven’t heard back from her yet. I hope she takes it. It’s just collecting dust at my house.
I’m tempted to swap out the stirrups on it with the ones on my Timberline but I’m afraid that she’d notice that they were different from what they were in the picture I sent her. They’re both those nice wide endurance stirrups, but the leather wrapped around the ones on the Amish saddle is sewn on there with a machine and is all nice and smooth. The leather on the Timberline saddle is laced on and that lacing is just some place else to catch mud. I’ve also got stirrup-straight hangers on the Amish saddle. I may take those off too if I sell it.
I had hoped the new treeless saddle would be here by this weekend but I guess it’ll be sometime next week. Selling the Amish saddle will at least help make up for part of what I spent on that. It’ll be interesting to see how it sits.
Wow - I dont think she’ll last until the first of April. Has she waxed up at all on her bag. She sure looks like the baby has dropped.
Those are great pictures. I especially like the first one.
:) Nah, they didn’t use that much imagination here. Names like Dead Horse Canyon (they found a skeleton of a saddled dead horse) Silver City (discovered silver) Gold Hill (discovered Gold) - names pretty much tell you the history of the place. I imagine that the Buckskin Range was named that because a herd of wild horses all buckskin roamed there.
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