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Posted on 02/24/2006 9:12:25 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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Didja try the boots on him?
Now that is something I would have done had it not been for my husband. I can buy, birth, and flush em, but I can't put one down when they are beyond hope. He has managed to help me there (maybe just to save the cost of a vet bill?) Of course I do have to leave the house when it happens.
It's gorgeous here, in the mid fifties/low sixties for the rest of the week. I think that I might sneak in an extra ride this week. Just because.
No, if I ride him again I'll put the boots on.
Becky
It was a nice evening so I figured why not go out and practice a lunging with Harley. Whew, he was full of it when we started, but after he worked himself all up, he figured out it was the same routine we've always done, and settled right down and worked great. I even did some of the exercises I learned from watching Clinton Anderson, spanking the ground on both sides and in front of the horse with the lunge whip, scratching him between the eyes with the end of it, tossing it up over his back. He tolerated it pretty good, better then I expected especially after are hyped up start on lunging. I'll try to do this every evening between now and when I have my saddle. Here's a few pictures of the exercise. You know it's a real trick IMO, to take pictures and lunge a horse all at the same time:)
The start. You can see his head way up in the air and the rope pulled tight.
Broke to a lope.
Other direction. Big stride:)
Tossing the rope over him. See those little black specks on him.
They're skitters:(, lots of them
Then lunging again. It really wasn't this dark, but it was getting there. He's much more controlled. Lower head, not straining the rope. Being the nice boy that he generally is:)
Becky
Good lunging pictures :~D Good practice to do three things at once! No sense the horse being the only one that's challenged by the activity. :~D
I should start lunging ours a bit, it sure feels like spring today. I have the door standing open.
I actually enjoyed doing that tonight:)
My door stood opened all day. Just closed it when I came in from lunging.
Tomorrow I'm hanging with Jenny, we have some errands to run. But I will do it again tomorrow.
Becky
Nah. She holds it until I'm in the saddle. Maybe it's my weight but it never fails.
I can not each a fish that still has it's head. He just stares at me.
Look. I found us some horse trailers:')http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605122/posts
He just needed to feel his oats. :-)
I can't eat one either:')
He looks great :) Mosquitos?? It's the middle of winter for heaven's sake.
That's exactly what I was thinking, AND, it's not even damp anywhere around. I thought they need puddles to breed in??? Where did they come from? Are they really mosquitos? They were very slow moving, I was just brushing them off with the whip.
Good morning:)
Becky
The mosquitos are probably like the early bees that come out, if you've started to have warm weather. We've started to get warm weather, and a friend of mine got stung by a drunk hornet when she was getting into bed the other night. He was crawling around in the sheets.(And even for a drunkard, he got her a few times.) It really made me think twice about going to bed last night, let me tell you.
Good Morning!
Good lunging pics Becky! Harley looks like he's really doing well. Those skeeters look like the ones I have at my barn. The darned things will carry you off if you're not careful. I sure do dread bug season!
Really warming up here too. Lots of Crocuses popping out.
They can breed in any water collected in anything, like flower pots, coke cans or old tires. If somebody near by has a lot of junk laying around, they could be coming from there. Do you have a birdbath or dog bowl or anything like that outside?
I think it will be a cold day before flooded bus will sell for that much.
It's interesting how things bloom at different times in different parts of the country. Crocuses bloomed in January around here, then the daffodils and Bradford Pears in February and early March. They're all pretty much gone now except for the late blooming ones. It's Redbud trees and forsythia right now.
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