FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 12

[FrogInABlender]

And I've got one more. This one reminded me of Davey Jones from Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest, with all his tentacles on his face...

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh yeah! It even has a nose and a mouth... someone ought to carve some eyes in it!

[HairOfTheDog]

“Grinding holes” you mean that people made to grind grains or ??? in? How cool! And are those stalagmites, or stalagtites in the other picture?

[FrogInABlender]

I’m assuming that’s what they were, to grind grains or nuts or something. And yeah, those are stalagmites and stalactites and the ones at the very back are whatever you call the ones that have met in the middle.

[BladeRider]

Yep, Blade deserves to be bragged on a bit. He was a very good boy. I was pleased with Bob too.

The brothers did us proud, must be their good upbringing and training. They have been exposed to a lot and we have given them a lot of time and patience to explore those scary things like horse eating rocks or horse eating sofa's

[FrogInABlender]

Heh, who’da thought you’d find horse-eating sofas out in the middle of nowhere?!

[BladeRider]

Heh, who’da thought you’d find horse-eating sofas out in the middle of nowhere?!

Or VW skeletons, or bathtubs, or washing machines, or wading pools, or so many other thigns we have seen!

[BladeRider]

He still will bite anything he can get his teeth on if he gets a chance.

Including his brothers nose!

[HaveFaith]

Frog and Shirley had been there 8-10 years ago, but the rest of us had never been. It’s less than an hour from home except for Bladerider, more like 2.

[FrogInABlender]

Well, it was more like 2 years ago since I’d been, because I took Hope when I first got her back from the trainers, but it definitely won’t be that long before I go back...except for maybe the beehive. ;o)

[BladeRider]

It’s less than an hour from home except for Bladerider, more like 2.

More like 3. It is 125 miles, give or take. It takes me 1 hour 45 minute to get to Moulton.

Did you ride today?

[HaveFaith]

Landslide: It was the fact that Soldier stopped on the wild run up the hill from the bees. Faith had no where to go and she was standing on a steep slope with her front feet under her chin. I could feel her sliding backwards and hear rocks sliding into the ravine below. Hence the screaming and moaning. I forgot about the bees till I got out of that slide. Hal finally had to get off and lead Soldier to get him out of her way so she could come up. She's such a good horse, too! She was very good all day and it was the first time she had been away from home since the end of April when she got cut and sewn up. I was proud of her. Good girl! Brag, brag, brag!

I thought this picture was neat. The rocks were huge and they made a tunnel when they fell.

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[HaveFaith]

Hal & I rode with Cook, Coan, and a grandson for 3 hours. Maybe I got that one right. It was a pretty tame (almost boring) ride compared to the recent escapades we've had.
Biggest excitement was Hal spurring Soldier and actually making him mind. He did a pretty good job.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

OH MY!!!!

What a story...so glad no one was hurt seriously.

Pictures are great tho:)

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I remember this place now....you’ve posted pictures of that ladder before.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Incredible pictures...thanks:)!!!

[BladeRider]

Hal finally had to get off and lead Soldier to get him out of her way

And I believe he ran with him all the way up the hill until he realized the bees were still after him.

[FrogInABlender]

I liked that rock tunnel picture too. It’s in good focus and the colors are cool.

[FrogInABlender]

...Biggest excitement was Hal spurring Soldier and actually making him mind...

Good deal! He had gotten into a bad habit of backing up into another horse whenever Hal tried to make him go somewhere he didn't want to go. He had figured out that when he did that, Hal would give in and quit, so it's good that Hal's found a way to deal with it. It was also good that Hal figured out that he could make him go backwards to where he wanted him to go if Soldier wouldn't go forwards. Soldier didn't quite know what to do about that. He'd start his backing up routine and Hal would say "You wanna go backwards, FINE! Let's go!" and Soldier still wound up where he didn't want to go. It was kinda funny. Hopefully he'll give that little trick up now that he's found out it's not going to work anymore.

[Duchess47]

I think that’s one of the reasons I enjoy your pictures so much.