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Posted on 03/21/2005 7:18:04 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Sitting here listening to James Taylor while I work... thinking maybe we should go ahead and get tickets to that concert.
Let's see if there are really good seats at a good price. Now that we've seen that venue you can evaluate whether there are seats available that would be remarkably better than last time... if there aren't, we can wait for another tour, or Jimmy.
Just did a quick search, and it came up with section 204, row P... right in the middle, maybe only a few rows closer than last time. And it is about $50 per. Hmmmm.
I like the one of Cyn in the hole:), she has lots of personality.
Becky
let's wait then, really. I loved the concert, but this does seem it would be an exact repeat of last year, some arena and everything.
She does... I don't know what possessed her to go through there... there's a bunch of logs and tangly frap and that's about it. It's the hole I'd like to clean up so we can use it as an obstacle... maybe I don't need to clean it up first, I'll let Cyn make a path ;~D
Inservice me????:')
Have you been barefoot on tile? Mine hurt after I clean house all day without shoes.
No riding for me today. I finally caught what everyone else has been down with. I feel like crap.
Do yall think horses see color?
HOTD, what did you plant and did you seed or sprig? How did you get it to come up so fast?
It's a playground mix overseeded in our thin battered grass that took a beating all winter.... with lots of starter fertilizer ;~D.
It really took longer than it should have to germinate, because I seeded a couple weeks before it was warm enough. It just needs to stay wet all the time, and should have at least 50 degree temps at night... We aren't quite there yet, but it is doing well, I think!
How do you get rid of the anthills? We have HUGE ones on our property and they freak me out
People I know burn or spray them, but I've seen them disrupted and die just from digging them up and spreading them around. In pastures, anthills are good... they eat fly larvae out of horse droppings. I have several around the pasture... and between frequent spreading of droppings, so that it dries before flies can lay eggs in it, and, I think, my anthills, I don't have very many flies at all :~D
I think they're fascinating... thousands of ants, who are all busy doing something all the time. They have little freeways they use, and it's all quite civilized :~D
Good morning
Becky
Around here they don't die. They just move on to the next neighbors yard:')
I was thinking about you monday when I had a lesson. Before speeding up my trainer had me have my horse go both directions at a walk first. She said she needed to see stuff with both eyes. It worked too. We were going north by some field activity and she was mellow. When we went south the same scene put her on alert and then she was ok. Funny huh?
It sounds like you handled that well. I want to experience as much as I can at the barn with Waylon before I take him down to the cabin in June. He has been so much better after changing his bit.
That's good. I was just thinking if he could check out the environment around the cabin first, he might be more relaxed.
It took me a minute to figure out what you meant. My version is "'splain pleez". ;o)
I guess I used "pull" in 2 different contexts, sorry 'bout that.
When I said "Pull them at a walk", I just meant to make him walk them instead of rushing up. They always feel like they're pulling something when they do that, and I guess they are, gravity.
By "Pull him down", I meant that make him "downshift" from a canter to a walk.
A "Rack" is a gait a Racking Horse does, similar to a Running Walk that a TWH does.
A "Dawg Walk" is that draggy, slow, "dead lice falling off of him" walk that's just one notch above a dead stop.
It all sounds kinda redundant now that I read it. I should think more before I type. :o)
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