The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[HairOfTheDog]

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - (very out of date) Who's Who *pics*

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!

[Duchess47]

Brrrr. Makes me colder just looking at it.

[Duchess47]

Not here - my fern finally gave up the ghost this fall. I think just way too dry here for it.

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I wasn't sure any of them would make it... We'll see if Frog's sends up any new fronds this spring. :~)

[HairOfTheDog]

At least your mud can go back to being mud instead of those nasty looking pointy things. I don't know which is worse.

I know which is worse! The frozen pointy stuff might be cleaner, but they really hurt walking on it.

[CindyDawg]

Still in the 40's here. Mud slug everywhere. Doesn't it feel colder now? Did you hear about the illegal alien that died of hypothermia around Falfurias?

[CindyDawg]

Yea. I have a working camera now. It holds 304 pics. Remember how you said you shop when the weather is bad? Yesterday I took some wood letters back to Walmart. I had thought about painting and putting them up at my business but they were too flimsy. I got my money back. Since I was there I asked if I could exchange the camera card that they sold my husband. She told me to take it to cameras. The girl refused to exchange it without a receipt. She told me she couldn't. I told her with ID, sure she could but it became obvious arguing wasn't going to get me anywhere with her so I just bought a new one. I went back to customer service and stood in line again. After I got my money I went thru the register to pay for a few things I had picked up. As I went outside, I reached in my pocket for my cap. It was gone. The last time I saw it was at the register. I looked down at my bag and there it was. I thought "oh no, she didn't" There it was on the receipt though. She had scanned a material tag inside of it. So there I went to customer service again for the 3rd time. What you want to bet that I flag out?:')

[squarebarb]

No, I didn't hear that, that's terrible. Falfurrias would be around Wharton? South of Houston?

In the 40's here too. Not so muddy here because it is so rocky here in the hill country, but everybody's tracking in yellow clay.

Rain coming. I have to go down to the repair place to load up my repaired utility cart in the horse trailer and then brint it home and unload and then load hay and throw it. Erk, will the work never end.

[squarebarb]

But that's a pretty sky!

Y'all are getting snow but we will get rain down here. It's coming in from the Pacific.

[FrogInABlender]

What, she charged you for your OWN cap?!

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

The pansies were still alive before this hit. They were starting to bloom again from the last snow fall.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Mine didn't make it. It gave up the ghost during the summer drought, even tho I was watering..but then nothing much made it in my garden this past summer.

Becky

[FrogInABlender]

They'll perk back up when the ice gets off of them. They never cease to amaze me with the way they can be do that. Mine have finally started to look pretty decent with all this 60 & 70* weather we've been having here lately. They should really be nice and thick by spring. But there for the longest time they looked just plain scraggly. I guess I planted them too late and they didn't get a good start before it got really cold.

[FrogInABlender]

Have you ever used Preen in your flower beds? It keeps weeds from coming up.

[CindyDawg]

No it is a little north of Edinberg/McAllen. It was a girl in her 20's

[CindyDawg]

Yeah. Good thing I was holding my coat:')

[FrogInABlender]

Doesn't that just take the cake. When you NEED them to be able to scan something, it won't scan, and you have to stand there forever while they send somebody to get one that will. Sheesh!

[Duchess47]

I think Murphy's Law was written with Walmart in mind. I always go in with the thought that whatever can go wrong will go wrong :)

[CindyDawg]

What do you do? I hate running "errands" at 10 different places or going to the mall. Walmart is about it. I did get a Fingerhut catalog today though:')

[MissTargets]

Good Morning.

We are planning another trip to Home Depot this morning, to buy the things needed to finished up the wall behind the fireplace. The cold weather has arrived and it's time to burn wood. I am having a contractor come Monday and redo my shower, so I need to get some fixtures and a vanity also.

You all have a great weekend.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good morning and Happy Saturday everyone! It's going to get above forty today I think :~)

If it's as dry and sunny as they say, I may take horse blankets off and lunge a couple of horses... maybe let them run naked on the grass. It's been a long cold snap.