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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST 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. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.
I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!
I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will now be pinging everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.
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. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.
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
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
It was more fun two years ago when we got snow on Christmas day .. and enough in Alvin to make a 5 foot snowman. THAT was once in a lifetime. The cool thing was, it NEVER snows in Alvin (south of Houston). My husbands step-mother was dying of cancer and had very little time left. We all went down there Christmas day .. with 4-6 inches of snow on the ground, and built her a snowman tall enough to look in her bedroom window at her!
We took digital pics and brought them inside to show her etc. She died on Jan 8 about 2 weeks later.
Wow, that was a cool last gift to her! Very thoughtful.
Yeah, we told her that God was showing off, sending her all that snow on her last Christmas on earth. That was almost the last day that she was lucid. She was pretty out of it her last week. BTW she was only 48 .. breast cancer.
This winter I'm sure sorry I ever watched "The Day After Tomorrow". I keep expecting an ice age in the next 24 hours and it's a long way to Mexico from here :)
To all:
Texas gal, What a wonderful last gift to your mother! She was young. My sympathies.
Yes, I am being careful. I am going down to the corral with a propane camp stove to boil the water down there, and start pouring hot water uphill.
I am taking my cell phone. If I were to fall and break something I don't think anybody could get to me.
The poor birds are famished. I put out the last of the seed. Sam cat wants so bad to get out but I know he would get one. I told him just wait, just give them a chance to eat!
Looks like OK is going to get hammered. They say it should be better here by tomorrow. I guess if I went down the mountain to town to the feed store and got a load of hay it would weight the truck and maybe I could get back up the hill.
A few bird pictures. A nuthatch.
And finally, a picture of a hairy woodpecker. FYI, they look almost exactly like a downey but are much bigger.
Becky
Becky those are great pictures :~) I'm so glad you have that camera. That's the next camera we get, I think!
We keep both suet and seeds out, and I never see woodpeckers come to either here, they only go for the dead trees, or trees that have bugs in them.
Well, it's keeping me entertained:)
I've got a whole series of pictures loading now of a squirrel trying to get seed out of the feeders
Becky
Waiting for those :~)
Hey - there he is! He looks great! He's very camouflaged in the patchy mud and snow. (He looks like he could almost step over that field fence though, if there was something on the other side he wanted!)
Becky
Oh, he is looking good:)
Becky
Wow, that's young. I'll be that age in July of this year. It's amazing how much younger that sounds than it did when I was 20. I guess "Old" is always defined as about 20 years older than you currently are. ;o)
Cool picture! It's almost like those "Ponies in the Snow" paintings. He almost blends into the background of the snow and the mud with his spots on the white.
She was my husband's step-mom. His dad had already lost a wife to cancer and he had married MUCH younger, then Glenda got cancer .. It almost killed HIM. He's just now coming out of his shell and starting to live life again.
Ya know, Bec, you not only take nice pics, you know the names of all these little feathered friends .. Bravo!
He/She is almost camoflaged in that pic! LOL
Great minds .. lol
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