Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT 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, usually about our horses, sometimes about our dogs, gardens and other stuff we do. :~)
I have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will ping everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list.
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.
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
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11
New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!
Those are great photos. I got a kick out of the alien on the horse. :-)
~chuckling at aliens on horseback.
I wonder what Bay would have thought of that balloon?
Uncle Sam is about to step in it ;~)
The Arab Horse group were all in arab costumes with alien masks on. There were fourteen balloons aloft to start the parade - Bay would have been very nervous :)
I’ve told you before that Dick, my landlord, rode Bay in a parade once. Bay didn’t like the float that was behind them and he did the whole parade backwards :~)
Yeah, and I ain't from Tennessee either! Harumph! The very IDEA! ;o)
LOL - backwards. That would have been a sight to see.
Heh... I didn’t even notice that!
It’s probably because you’ve got them funny walkin’ horses, people assume ;~D
Dick got tired of him spinning around so he said - fine... go backwards then. ;~)
That sounds like what Bob would do.
If he had made the misjudgment of bringing Bay to a parade in the first place. :~)
Cool pictures Duchess! The slide show was nice too.
Tuffy sure is looking buff. And Janelle really has lost a lot of weight. She looks GOOD! I didn’t realize that was a deer skin they had on him until you said something. I thought it was an old piece of burlap or something. Cool! He looks like an Indian pony for sure now!
In Bay’s defense, it did have a big moving thing on it with waving arms that was moving it’s head back and forth, and it was evidently firing confetti out of a cannon of some kind.
Heh, I didn't see that either and had to go back and look. It's a wonder he didn't slip and bust his butt!
Hair - yeh, I can't see Bob taking Bay to a parade :)
I marvel every year at what the horses put up with in the parade - canons, people running, things breathing fire, etc.
Yeah, that sounds like that would be a bit much for most any horse! You gotta wonder about the mental stability of the person who thought it’d be fun to put a float like that in the parade line-up right behind a mounted group!
Well, I gotta go. MIL’s cooking chicken stew for lunch so I gotta go get me some before it gets gone. Then I gotta trim 6 sets of horse feet after that, but I probably won’t get that far before my back gives out. Talk to y’all tomorrow!
Ah - well, have a good day!
We’re watching tornado chasers on TV at the moment... :~)
I’ll be sure to correct your being from Tn too:). I noticed that too after the second reading. I have no clue where that came from.
I just got home from Sun.’s errands. It’s a beautiful day, not sure what I’ll do, but something productive:)
Becky
Wow, that must have been quite a large parade. Lots of bands, horses, aliens, Indians, Pony Express etc. I would have loved to seen that. Thanks for the link, it was very interesting. I lol’ed at “Ashley Bootie from the Bunny Ranch”!
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